Security and Privacy in Communication Networks: 5th International ICST Conference, SecureComm 2009, Athens, Greece, September 14-18, 2009, Revised ... and Telecommunications Engineering)

SecureComm 2009, the 5th International ICST Conference on Security and P- vacyinCommunicationNetworks,washeldinAthens,Greece,September14–17, 2009.SecureCommwasorganizedbytheInstituteforComputerSciences,Social- Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (ICST). The General Chair of the conference was Peng Liu from the Pennsylvania State University, USA. The conference received 76 submissions (one withdrawn) and each subm- sion received at least three reviews, with some papers receiving as many as ?ve reviews. The ?rst phase of the review process (April 7 to May 27) generated 290 reviews overall or about 3.8 reviews per submission. In the second phase (May 28 to June 12), a two-week online discussion was initiated ensuring consensus for each accepted paper. The review process was challenging and we are deeply gratefultothecommitteemembersandtheexternalreviewersfortheiroutsta- ing work. The Program Committee consisted of 64 academics and professionals well known in their corresponding area of expertise. After meticulous deliberation, the Program Committee, which was chaired by Yan Chen from Northwestern University, USA and Tassos Dimitriou from Athens Information Technology,Greece, selected 19 full papers and 7 short ones for presentation in the academic track and inclusion in this volume. This gives the acceptance rates of 25.3% for the full papers and 34.7% for all papers.