Blockchain Technology and Applications for pervasive systems
摘要截稿:
全文截稿: 2024-06-30
影响因子: 2.816
期刊难度:
CCF分类: C类
中科院JCR分区:
• 大类 : 计算机科学 - 3区
• 小类 : 计算机:信息系统 - 3区
• 小类 : 工程:电子与电气 - 3区
• 小类 : 电信学 - 3区
Overview
This Special Issue will comprise papers presented at the 5th Workshop on Blockchain theory and ApplicatIoNs, BRAIN 2024, held in conjunction with IEEE Percom 2024 and will be opened to further original contributions. A blockchain protocol is employed to implement a tamper-free distributed ledger that stores transactions created by the nodes of a P2P network and agreed upon through a distributed consensus algorithm, avoiding the need for a central authority. Blockchain technology has a great potential to radically change our socio-economical systems by guaranteeing secure transactions between untrusted entities, reducing their cost, and simplifying many processes. Such technology is going to be exploited in many areas like IoT, social networking, health care, electronic voting, and so on. In particular, blockchain provides an innovative solution to address challenges in pervasive environments, e.g. distributed computing, smart devices, and device-to-device coordination, in terms of decentralization, data privacy, and network security, while pervasive environments offer elasticity and scalability characteristics to improve the efficiency of blockchain operations.
Topic areas of interest of this special issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
System engineering with IoT and blockchain
Digital Identity management on blockchain
Distributed supply chains
Blockchain-based mobile edge computing systems
Blockchain for Medicine and Healthcare
Blockchain for trustworthiness in 5G and 6G Networks
Blockchain for peer-to-peer energy management
Blockchain-enabled distributed social platforms
Blockchain-based access control
Smart Contracts and dApp software engineering aspects
P2P communication protocols for blockchain
Privacy enhancing techniques for blockchain
GDPR compliance for blockchain-based applications
Inter-ledger protocols
Cryptocurrencies
Guest editors:
Laura Ricci, PhDUniversity of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Damiano Di Francesco Maesa, PhDUniversity of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Nishanth Sastry, PhDUniversity of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom
Manuscript submission information:
The journal's submission platform (Editorial Manager®) will be open for submissions to this Special Issue from May 30th, 2024. Please refer to the Guide for Authors to prepare your manuscript and select the article type of “VSI: Blockchain for pervasive systems” when submitting your manuscript online. Both the Guide for Authors and the submission portal could be found on the Journal Homepage: Computer Communications | Journal | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier.
Timeline:
Submission Open Date *30/05/2024
Final Manuscript Submission Deadline *30/06/2024
Editorial Acceptance Deadline *30/12/2024