5th International Workshop on
Blockchain for Secure Software-defined Networking in Smart Communities
5th International Workshop on
Blockchain for Secure Software-defined Networking in Smart Communities
in conjunction with
IEEE Global Communications Conference
(IEEE Globecom 2024)
December 8 - 12, Cape Town, South Africa
The digital age is empowering users to adopt Internet-of-Things (IoT) in smart communities. The connected hardware devices generate and exchange data to enable fast communication among heterogeneous devices. The data is transported to the network through advanced wireless communication technologies and communicated among various domains such as a device to device, a device to cloud, or device to gateway. Software-defined networking (SDN) comes to the aid of IoT as a centralized approach that can provide flexible network topologies, and also maintain data consistency and interoperability among heterogeneous IoT devices with the help of automation. Although SDN technology performs resilient and reliable connections in the heterogeneous environment based on secure communication protocols designed by the network programmers, but it is still susceptible to security vulnerabilities and devastating attacks. Nowadays, Blockchain, often linked to the financial service industry due to the concept of its underlying inception, i.e, bitcoin. But, it is a wrong conception to confine blockchain to only one vertical. Contrary to popular opinion, blockchain can be closely associated with security and thereon can transverse across all smart communities. Under this umbrella, one possibility is the blockchain for Secure SDN, and large-scale network enterprises are already investing and exploring this opportunity.
Addressing the need for a secure network architecture that adapts to the diverse requirement of smart communities, this workshop aims to serve as a platform for researchers from academia and industry, to submit the new developments, related to the usage of blockchain for Secure SDN.
The workshop will be help in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC) - during 9 - 13 June, 2024 in Denver, CO, USA. All accepted workshop papers will be included in the proceedings published by IEEE and made available online via the IEEE Digital Library.
Topics of Interest
Previously unpublished contributions in Blockchain derived by experimental and theoretical communication, networking and analytics techniques for the Secure Software-defined Networking in Smart Communities are solicited including (but not limited to):
Security and privacy for innovative service delivery models.
Lightweight Cryptography in wireless sensors nodes for SDN security.
Quantum Cryptography in heterogeneous IoT devices for SDN security.
Blockchain for secure device-to-device communication in SDN.
Authentication, authorization, and access control for SDN security.
Blockchain for anomaly detection in smart communities.
Blockchain for secure integration of IoT and fog devices for SDN.
Intrusion detection and prevention system for SDN security.
Heterogeneous blockchain models and trustworthy architectures.
Blockchain for secure data storage and computing model in SDN.
Testbed and experimental components tailored to specific BlockSecSDN.
Blockchain for secure transaction management using SDN.
Deduplication architectures for blockchain-enabled cloud storage.
Blockchain for security and privacy standardization for SDN.
Dependable control plane optimization for BlockSecSDN in Smart Communities.
General Co-Chairs
Dr. Gagangeet Singh Aujla, Department of Computer Science, Durham University, UK. (Email: gagangeet.s.aujla@durham.ac.uk)
Prof. (Dr.) Neeraj Kumar, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Thapar University, India. (Email: neeraj.kumar@thapar.edu)
Prof. (Dr.) Harpreet Singh Dhillon, Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech, USA. (Email: hdhillon@vt.edu)
Dr. Anish Jindal, Department of Computer Science, Durham University, UK. (Email: anish.jindal@durham.ac.uk)
Publicity Chairs
Dr. Umit Demirbaga, Bartin University, Turkiye.
Dr. Vikasdeep Singh Mann , CGC Jhanjeri, India.
Dr. Ranbir Singh Batth, Western Sydney University, Australia.
Dr. Maninderpal Singh, Southern Methodist University, USA.
Dr. Amritpal Singh, Durham University, UK.
Paper Submission
The BlockSecSDN 2024 workshop invites authors to submit original and unpublished work. Papers should not exceed 6 pages single-spaced double-column, using IEEE format. Additional pages might be purchased upon the approval of the proceedings chair.
Submission Link at EDAS
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 ICC webpage at https://globecom2024.ieee-globecom.org/call-papers#Submission%20Guidelines
Important Dates
Papers Submission Deadline: August 5, 2024
Notification of Acceptance: September 01, 2024
Deadline for Camera-ready Papers: October 01, 2024
Deadline for Author Registration: October 01, 2024
Workshop date (tentative): TBA
Technical Program Committee
Prof. Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK
Prof. Albert Y. Zomaya, Univeristy of Sydney, Australia
Prof. Rajiv Ranjan, Newcastle Univeristy, UK
Prof. Salil Kanhere, University of New South Wales, Australia
Prof. Amir H Gandomi, UTS, Australia
Prof. Radu Prodan, University of Klagenfurt, Austria.
Prof. Tasos Dagiuklas, London South Bank University, UK
Prof. Valentina Balas, Univeristy of Arad, Romania
Dr. Luca Foschini, University of Bolognia, Italy
Dr. Wanqing Tu, Durham University, UK
Dr. Syed Hassan Ahmed, WMA Wireless, USA
Dr. Ehsan Toreini, University of Essex, UK
Dr. Amitabh Trehan, Durham University, UK
Dr. Kuljeet Kaur, University of Quebec, Canada
Dr. Gabriele Gianini, Università degli Studi di of Milano, Italy
Dr. Masoud Barati, Carleton University, Canada
Dr. Davit Marikyan, University of Bristol, UK
Dr. Pushpinder Kaur Chouhan, BT, UK.
Dr. Ali Kashif Bashir, Manchester Metropolitian University, UK
Dr. Roopak Sinha, Auckland University of Technology, Newzealand
Workshop Program
TBA
Past Workshops
BlockSecSDN Series
1st Workshop of “BlockSecSDN: Blockchain for Secure Software-defined Networking in Smart Communities”, Full-day workshop in conjunction with IEEE Infocom, June 2020, Toronto, Canada. (https://infocom2020.ieee-infocom.org/workshop-blockchain-secure-software-defined-networking-smart-communities)
2nd Workshop of “BlockSecSDN: Blockchain for Secure Software-defined Networking in Smart Communities”, Full-day workshop in conjunction with IEEE ICC, May 2022, Seoul, South Korea. (https://icc2022.ieee-icc.org/program/workshops/ws-21-workshop-blocksecsdn-blockchain-secure-software-defined-networking-smart)
3rd Workshop of “BlockSecSDN: Blockchain for Secure Software-defined Networking in Smart Communities”, Full-day workshop in conjunction with IEEE ICC, June 2023, Rome, Italy. (https://icc2023.ieee-icc.org/workshop/ws-11-workshop-blocksecsdn-blockchain-secure-software-defined-networking-smart-communities)
4th Workshop of “BlockSecSDN: Blockchain for Secure Software-defined Networking in Smart Communities”, Full-day workshop in conjunction with IEEE ICC, June 2024, Denver, CO, USA. (https://icc2024.ieee-icc.org/workshop/ws-20-blocksecsdn-blockchain-secure-software-defined-networking-smart-communities)
SecSDN Series
1st Workshop of “SDN5GSC: Software-defined Networking for 5G Architecture in Smart Communities”, Half-day workshop in conjunction with IEEE Globecom at Abu Dhabi, 9th Dec 2018. (https://globecom2018.ieee-globecom.org/workshop/ws-21-sdn5gsc-software-defined-networking-5g-architecture-smart-communities)
2nd Workshop of “SecSDN: Secure and Dependable Software Defined Networking for Sustainable Smart Communities”, Full-day workshop in conjunction with IEEE ICC, 24 May 2019, Shanghai, China. (https://icc2019.ieee-icc.org/workshop/w27-secsdn-secure-and-dependable-software-defined-networking-sustainable-smart-communities)
3rd Workshop of “SecSDN: Secure and Dependable Software Defined Networking for Sustainable Smart Communities”, Full-day workshop in conjunction with IEEE ICC at Ireland, July 2020. (https://icc2020.ieee-icc.org/workshop/ws-06-secsdn-secure-and-dependable-software-defined-networking-sustainable-smart)
4th Workshop of “SecSDN: Secure and Dependable Software Defined Networking for Sustainable Smart Communities”, Half-day workshop in conjunction with IEEE Globecom, December 2020. (https://globecom2020.ieee-globecom.org/workshop/ws-19-workshop-secure-and-dependable-software-defined-networking-sustainable-smart)
BlockCPS Series
1st International Workshop on Blockchain for Smart Cyber-Physical Systems (Adhering to Security, Trust and Integrity) in conjunction with 14th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (IEEE/ACM UCC 2021), December 6 - 8, Leicester, UK (https://sites.google.com/view/blockcps2021)
2nd International Workshop on Blockchain for Smart Cyber-Physical Systems (Adhering to Security, Trust and Integrity) in conjunction with 15th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (IEEE/ACM UCC 2022), December 6 - 9, Vancouver, Washington, USA (https://sites.google.com/view/blockcps2022)
3rd International Workshop on Blockchain for Smart Cyber-Physical Systems (Adhering to Security, Trust and Integrity) in conjunction with IEEE UCC 2024 at Sharjah, UAE, Dec 2024. (https://sites.google.com/view/blockcps2024/). [OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS]
EdgeAI Series
1st International Workshop on Edge AI for Distributed Systems and Networks 25th International Conference on Distributed Computing & Networking (ICDCN 2024) - during 4 - 7 January, 2024 in Madras, India. (https://sites.google.com/view/edgeai-dsn2024/)