Cloud Computing and Blockchain Technology

Dear Colleagues,

Cloud computing and blockchain technology have seen significant developments in recent years. As a broad range of configurable services, cloud computing has the advantages of pay-as-you-go options, ubiquitous access, high flexibility, low cost, etc., and an increasing number of cloud platforms are currently being constructed for various purposes. Meanwhile, however, the characteristics of centralization and virtualization are causing complex security issues, and reliability, trustworthiness, and controllability are the main obstacles to cloud computing. As a distributed ledger, blockchains have the characteristics of decentralization and tamper resistance and are widely used in the fields of certificate storage and traceability. Furthermore, these features are helpful for solving security issues related to cloud computing. For instance, using blockchain to build an infrastructure for cloud computing can realize decentralization, which can not only enhance reliability, trustworthiness, and controllability but also be conducive to promoting fair transactions in cloud services. However, developing or deploying a blockchain can be quite expensive. Fortunately, cloud computing can help to lower the cost of the development and deployment of blockchain and further expedite blockchain popularization and development.

Currently, integrating cloud computing and blockchain technology faces many problems. This Special Issue (SI) invites authors to present research achievements in new theories and methods of cloud computing, blockchain technology, and their integration.

The topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• New architectures for cloud services and data trading;
• New applications in cloud computing, blockchain technology, and their integration;
• Efficient consensus algorithms for blockchain-based cloud computing and applications;
• Security and privacy issues in the process of cloud computing and blockchain technology integration;
• Technologies and theories for cloud computing and blockchain integration.

Prof. Dr. Xuanxia Yao
Guest Editor

Dr. Zhitao Guan
Co-Guest Editor

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