blockchain_ml_iot 2021 : Blockchain and Machine Learning for IoT: Security and Privacy Challenges

This Special Issue invites researchers to contribute with original contributions, case studies, and reviews that address all new challenges due to the use of IoT in synergy with blockchain systems and/or machine learning techniques.

The topics relevant for this Special Issue include (but are not limited to):

• Security and privacy in blockchain technology for IoT;
• Intelligent systems for fraud detection and forensics in blockchain environments;
• Innovative architectures and protocols for safe blockchain application in IoT;
• Blockchain and trust management;
• Blockchain-based solutions for IoT security;
• Novel machine learning and data science methods for IoT security;
• Generative adversarial networks (GAN) in IoT security;
• Architectures and protocols for scalable, secure, robust, and privacy enhancing IoT;
• Privacy preservation in IoT;
• Vulnerability analysis, threat modeling, and risk assessment in IoT;
• Intrusion detection for IoT;
• Novel security architectures, protocols, or applications for IoT.