Data Security and Privacy in Blockchain and the IoT
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Computer Science & Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 June 2025 | Viewed by 1523
Special Issue Editors
Interests: blockchain; Internet of things; cyber–physical systems; data security and privacy
Interests: Internet of things; blockchain; big data analytics
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Interests: big data; blockchain; database
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The global big data market is experiencing tremendous growth, driven by advancements in the IoT, cloud computing, and AI technologies; however, the development of big data techniques is hindered by growing data security and privacy concerns. Blockchain, which emerged as a novel distributed consensus scheme, allows transactions and any other data to be securely stored and verified without the need for any centralized and trusted authority. Due to its unique characteristics, blockchain technology has become a popular choice for many application areas, such as e-government, healthcare, social network, finance, supply chain management, and smart manufacturing.
This Special Issue provides a platform for researchers, academics, and industry professionals to present their research work on data security and privacy in blockchain and the IoT. This Special Issue aims to address the challenges and issues of using blockchain and IoT technologies to design decentralized applications and services in various domains.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Data security challenges and solutions in decentralized and IoT applications.
- Data privacy protection in blockchain systems.
- Access control in decentralized applications for the IoT.
- Blockchain-driven decentralized services and applications.
- Novel architectures of blockchain-based decentralized services.
- Detecting malicious smart contracts in decentralized applications.
- Cloud/edge/fog/big data management protocols by using blockchain.
- Distributed consensus mechanisms.
- Security and privacy issues with blockchain for the IoT.
- Software tools, platforms, and frameworks for decentralized applications and services.
- Improving data transparency using blockchain technology.
Dr. Zhe Peng
Dr. Hong-Ning Dai
Dr. Yu Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- data security
- privacy protection
- blockchain
- IoT
- decentralized applications
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