Previously unpublished contributions in Blockchain derived by experimental and theoretical communication, networking and analytics techniques for the Smart CPS are solicited including (but not limited to):

• Scalable and Parallel Blockcians in Smart CPS

• Blockchain for Security and Trust in Smart City applications

• IoT frameworks for Blockchain in smart CPS

• Consensus and Trust building with Blockchain in smart CPS

• Scalability issues for Blockchain in smart CPS

• Applications of big data analytics for Blockchain in smart CPS

• Software-defined networking for Blockchain-based CPS

• Standardization paradigms for Blockchains in smart CPS

• Edge/cloud platform for Blockchain in smart CPS

• Edge –as-a-service for Blockchain-based CPS

• Blockchain-enabled smart energy CPS and smart grid

• Applications of Blockchain in e-health environment and medical diagnostics

• Case Studies and real-world testbeds of Blockchains in smart CPS

• Distributed consensus algorithms for Blockchain in smart CPSs

• Secure communication architectures for smart city applications

• Increasing resilience and scalability in smart city-based cyber-physical paradigms

• Self-healing and optimization techniques for the communication infrastructure

• Machine learning for Trust and Resilience in smart CPS

• Trust management between various devices in smart CPS

• Fraud and theft detection in smart CPS using Blockchain

• Dr. Ehsan Toreini, Department of Computer Science, Durham University, UK. (Email: ehsan.toreini@durham.ac.uk)

• Dr. Devki Nandan Jha, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK. (Email: devki.jha@eng.ox.ac.uk)

• Dr. Umit Demirbaga, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, UK. (Email: ud220@cam.ac.uk)

The BlockCPS workshop invites authors to submit original and unpublished work. Papers should not exceed 6 pages (+2 for additional fee), using IEEE format. Additional pages might be purchased upon the approval of the proceedings chair.

• Submission Link at easychair

• Submission requires the willingness of at least one of the authors to register for an early full and non-student fee and present the paper.

• All papers submitted to this workshop will peer-reviewed and proceedings will be published by IEEE and made available online via the IEEE Digital Library.

For further submission guideline: see IEEE/ACM UCC 2022 webpage at https://ucc-conference.org

For detailed Program: https://ucc-conference.org/programme

The workshop will be held in an online mode. The zoom link is provided below.

Join Zoom Meeting:

https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/j/92545421102?pwd=YVErNmRlUFFjWWFmWTNIR09iTUZ0QT09

Meeting ID: 925 4542 1102

Passcode: 240949

Online Presentation Guidelines:

Each author should prepare a 15 minute presentation to present and/or attend remotely. It is compulsory for one of the authors of each paper to present the paper online and be available to answer the questions related to the paper.

It is also requested to send a recorded video to me on gagangeet.s.aujla@durham.ac.uk as a backup in case connectivity issues arise.

Details of Accepted and Registered Papers:

• Meghna Rai, Bhawna Khosla, Yash Dhawan, Himanshi Kharotia, Neeraj Kumar and Ajay Bandi. CLEAR: An Efficient Traffic Sign Recognition Technique for Cyber-Physical Transportation Systems.

[09:00am - 09:15am] Pacific Standard Time

• Prakhar Consul, Ishan Budhiraja, Rajat Chaudhary and Deepak Garg. FLBCPS: Federated Learning based Secured Computation Offloading in Blockchain-Assisted Cyber-Physical Systems.

[09:30am - 09:45am] Pacific Standard Time

• Sohaib Bin Altaf Khattak, Moustafa M. Nasralla, Mohamed Marey, Maged Abdullah Esmail and Nikumani Choudhury. Performance Evaluation of WLAN Access Points Selection Metrics for Fingerprinting based localization.

[10:00am - 10:15am] Pacific Standard Time

• Conor Mullaney, Adnan Aijaz, Nathan Sealey and Ben Holden. Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading meets IOTA: Toward a Scalable, Low-Cost, and Efficient Trading System.

[10:30am - 10:45am] Pacific Standard Time

• Ahmad A Alsharidah, Masoud Barati, Giacomo Bergami and Rajiv Ranjan. Cloud Auto-scaling Auditing Approach using Blockchain.

[11:00am - 11:15am] Pacific Standard Time

• Prof. Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK

• Prof. Albert Y. Zomaya, Univeristy of Sydney, Australia

• Prof. Rajiv Ranjan, Newcastle Univeristy, UK

• Prof. Neeraj Kumar, Thapar Univeristy, India

• Prof. Salil Kanhere, University of New South Wales, Australia

• Prof. Harpreet Singh Dhillon, Virginia Tech, USA

• Prof. Amir H Gandomi, UTS, Australia

• Prof. Radu Prodan, University of Klagenfurt, Austria

• Prof. Valentina Balas, Univeristy of Arad, Romania

• Dr. Wanqing Tu, Durham University, UK

• Dr. Syed Hassan Ahmed, WMA Wireless, USA

• Dr. Amitabh Trehan, Durham University, UK

• Dr. Kuljeet Kaur, University of Quebec, Canada

• Dr. Gabriele Gianini, Università degli Studi di of Milano, Italy