Workshop on NextG Networks Cryptography and Security

NextG-Sec is a technical workshop dedicated to exploring the cryptography and security challenges in next-generation wireless systems, including 5G, 6G, and future IoT ecosystems. The workshop serves as a platform for academic researchers, industry professionals, and policy stakeholders to discuss emerging threats and design resilient, scalable, and privacy-preserving solutions.

As wireless networks evolve to support low-latency, high-throughput, and distributed services at scale, they demand innovative approaches to cryptographic protocol design, secure infrastructure deployment, AI-driven threat detection, and post-quantum preparedness.

NextG-Sec welcomes contributions on topics including, but not limited to:

• Cryptographic protocols for NextG networks
• Post-quantum secure designs
• Security and privacy in Open RAN architectures
• Agentic-AI and LLM-based approaches to NextG defense
• Formal verification and model-based analysis
• Intrusion detection and adversarial resilience
• Secure beamforming and physical-layer techniques
• Trustworthy AI/ML for network security
• Testbeds and experimental security frameworks

• Full Papers: Up to 18 pages (excluding references and appendices), LNCS format
• Short Papers: Up to 9 pages (including references), LNCS format
• Talk Proposals: Non-anonymous proposals highlighting original research ideas or position statements

All accepted papers will be published in formal proceedings, and selected talk proposals will be featured in the technical program.

The workshop will feature:

• Research paper presentations
• Keynote talks by domain experts
• Panel discussions on emerging challenges
• Contributed talks and invited industry sessions

Chairs

• Imtiaz Karim, University of Texas at Dallas
• Moti Yung, Google / Columbia University

Program Committee (tentative)

• Elisa Bertino, Purdue University
• Syed Rafiul Hussain, Penn State
• Attila A. Yavuz, University of South Florida
• Rouzbeh Behnia, University of South Florida
• Yongdae Kim, KAIST

Additional members from academia and industry will be added.

For inquiries, please reach out to:
secnextg@gmail.com