Call for Papers

 
1st International Workshop on Blockchain in IoT
as part of the program of the

IEEE International Conference on Global Communications (GLOBECOM 2018)
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

December 09, 2018
https://sites.google.com/site/bciot18


Aims and Scope 
    Billions of smart devices will be available in digital world due the advancement of the Internet of Things (IoT). However, it also would create serious security, privacy, and connectivity service provisioning and data storage challenges. The current centralized architecture models in IoT systems will struggle to scale up to meet the demands of future IoT systems.  To solve these issues, the decentralized and consensus-driven Blockchain and the combination of cryptographic processes behind it can offer an intriguing alternative. 
    This workshop open a forum to present the recent research work related to blockchain based applications in all types of IoT domains, e.g. smart home, smart cities, smart grid, e-health, logistics etc. Moreover, research on other aspects inherently present in blockchain based systems, like smart contracts, threat and attack models, and incentive mechanisms are also invited in the workshop. 
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 

	
Blockchain based identity management and access control systems 
	
Applications of blockchain in IoT 
	
Smart home and blockchain 
	
Smart cities and blockchain 
	
Smart grid and blockchain 
	
E-health and blockchain 
	
Smart contracts for IoT 
	
Infrastructure for IoT blockchain applications 
	
Blockchain based security frameworks for IoT 
	
Anonymity and privacy solutions for blockchain based applications 
	
Distributed trust models and trust engine 
	
Incentive mechanisms 
	
Threat and attack models 
Important Dates

	
Paper submission deadline    : July 14, 2018 (Firm Deadline)
	
Paper acceptance                   : August 15, 2018
	
Camera-Ready                       : September 15, 2018
Submission
Full papers are to be submitted electronically using the Edas server.
EDAS link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=25043&track=91822
Submission guidelines are available in the conference web page.

Publication
Accepted and presented technical papers will be published in the IEEE GLOBECOM 2018 Conference Proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore®.