Special Issue "Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain in the Internet of Things: Opportunities, Challenges and Solutions"
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Internet of Things".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2021) | Viewed by 12622
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Interests: blockchain; IoT; edge computing; data analysis and privacy
Interests: behavior and cognitive informatics; big data; intelligence computing; blockchain; cyber security
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Interests: information security and privacy; signal and image processing; data analytics and machine intelligence; IoT; blockchain
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, Internet of Things (IoT) has been experiencing exponential growth enabled by the fast-popularized sensors, diverse IoT systems, and massive volume of corresponding heterogeneous IoT data. These unique characteristics pose great challenges to coordinate the distributed IoT devices and handle the increasingly massive volume of data. Although cloud computing has superior performances conducting IoT data analytics and potentially solves some of the issues, to a certain extent, the centralized structure is subject to privacy leakage, single point failure, low-efficient communication, etc. Blockchain, as an emerging decentralized technology, brings several advantageous features like data immutability and non-tempering, which make the mitigation of existing limitations possible. However, integrating blockchain and IoT leads to additional issues, for example, maintaining reliable blockchain systems for IoT systems, anomaly detection, privacy leakage, and poor scalability. Motivated by this, it is essential to devise smart blockchain systems for IoT by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI). The current prosperity of AI in various real-world scenarios incentivizes the joint efforts of AI and blockchain to eliminate the existing issues of IoT.
In this Special Issue, we aim to gather state-of-art advances in AI and blockchain for IoT. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- New architectures and designs of smart blockchain for IoT
- AI-enhanced edge computing in blockchain for IoT
- Privacy and security countermeasures in smart blockchain for IoT
- Scalable blockchain enabled by AI for IoT
- Intelligent incentive mechanisms in blockchain for IoT
- AI and blockchain empowered big data analytics for IoT
- Anomaly detection and attack defense using AI and blockchain for IoT
- Smart blockchain-driven IoT applications
Dr. Longxiang Gao
Prof. Dr. Qun Jin
Prof. Dr. Lu Liu
Prof. Dr. Marco Romano
Prof. Dr. Yong Xiang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- Artificial intelligence (AI)
- Blockchain
- Privacy and security
- Reliability
- Scalability
- Big data analytics
- Cloud computing/edge computing
- Incentive mechanism
- Anomaly detection