AIBIBN 2022 : Special Issue: Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain for IoT B5G Networking

Dear Colleagues,

IoT development offers a smart high-level concept for integrating physical and cyber objects. In the coming decade, there will be hundreds of billions of IoT connections. It is inevitable that the IoT will find applications in all walks of our lives, spanning energy management, healthcare, transportation, and fin-tech, to name a few. Nonetheless, the intrinsic uncoordinated frequency band and the ever-growing IoT market may pose various critical challenges in public safety, cybersecurity, and data privacy. Hence, beyond 5G (B5G) technologies will need to tackle a broad range of new requirements. In particular, this Special Issue (SI) solicits works targeting beyond 5G networking, focusing on research addressing artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain, and the integration of both. The large amount of data that will be collected by IoT devices will be sent to the cloud, with ample room for data analytics and AI techniques. On the other hand, security aspects (integrity, confidentiality, reliability) shall be considered from the early design stages, and not as late patches, and blockchain has loomed as an enabling technology that might be considered.

Authors of selected papers from the ICC'21 Workshop towards Standardized Secured IoT B5G Networking - Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain will be invited to send extended versions of their papers; however, other original submissions are also welcome and will be considered for publication in this Special Issue.

Keywords:

B5G
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Blockchain
Fog/Cloud computing

Dr. Ramón Agüero
Dr. Ayman Radwan
Dr. Kim-Fung Tsang
Guest Editors