Message from the workshop chairs

As the organizing committee, it is our pleasure to present the proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Data Security and PrivAcy in wireless Networks (D-SPAN), held on June 25, 2012, in San Francisco, California, USA. The goal of this one-day workshop, organized in conjunction with the 13th IEEE WoWMoM 2012, is to exchange cutting-edge ideas for securing the next-generation wireless networks, systems and applications. The scope of D-SPAN includes a wide variety of topics, including security and privacy of data collection, transmission, storage, publishing, and sharing in wireless networks broadly defined such as cellular and mobile ad hoc networks (MANET), vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET), cognitive and sensor networks to applying data analytics techniques to address security and privacy challenges in these networks. D-SPAN provides a forum for academic and industry researchers to present research ideas that build bridges across three communities: wireless networks and databases, and security.