3^rd Workshop on Blockchain theoRy and ApplicatIoNs

BRAIN 2022

in conjunction with PERCOM 2022

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NEWS

Due to a restructuring of the workshop program into a full day online only format, the notification of accepted papers has been moved to the 19th of January

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Due to the high number of requests, the deadline for the workshop has been extended by two weeks. The new firm deadline for paper submissions is the 28th of November

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Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to

ACM's journal on Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice

https://dl.acm.org/journal/dlt

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A blockchain protocol is employed to implement a tamper-free distributed ledger that stores transactions created by the nodes of a P2P network and agreed upon through a distributed consensus algorithm, avoiding the need for a central authority.

Blockchain technology has a great potential to radically change our socio-economical systems by guaranteeing secure transactions between untrusted entities, reducing their cost, and simplifying many processes. Such technology is going to be exploited in many areas like IoT, social networking, health care, electronic voting, and so on. In particular, blockchain provides an innovative solution to address challenges in pervasive environments, e.g. distributed computing, smart devices, and device-to-device coordination, in terms of decentralization, data privacy, and network security, while pervasive environments offer elasticity and scalability characteristics to improve the efficiency of blockchain operations.

Even if many applications are already leveraging the disruptive potentials of this technology, further research and development are required for several challenging aspects like scalability, efficiency, privacy and support of complex queries, both from a theoretical and practical point of view.

This workshop aims to provide a venue for researchers from both academy and industry to present and discuss important topics on blockchain technology. The workshop’s goal is to present results on both theoretical and more applicative open challenges, as well as to provide a venue to showcase the current state of existing proposals.

All workshop papers are limited to no more than 6 pages in IEEE format aligned with the IEEE-Percom main conference guidelines.

All submissions will undergo a double-blind review process. As a result, authors must make a good faith effort to anonymize their submissions.

The workshop will follow the main conference indications in being a hybrid physical/virtual event. The boundary between the two modalities will be defined based on the pandemic conditions worldwide.

Accepted workshop papers will be included in the IEEE Percom 2022 proceedings and will appear in the IEEE Explore Library.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to ACM's journal on Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice (https://dl.acm.org/journal/dlt).

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• • • Blockchain Fundamentals

      • Distributed consensus Algorithms

      • Permissioned vs permissionless paradigms

      • Scalability issues

      • P2P communication protocols

      • Inter-ledger protocols

      • Smart contracts automatic verification

      • layer-2 payment protocols, lightning networks

      • legal Aspect (smart contract, utility and security tokens, ICO, ...)

    • Blockchain for pervasive computing

      • System engineering with IoT and blockchain

      • Digital identity Management on blockchain

      • Distributed supply chains

      • Blockchain-based mobile edge computing systems

      • Blockchain for Medicine and Healthcare

      • Blockchain for trustworthiness in 5G and 6G Networks

      • Blockchain for peer-to-peer energy management

      • Blockchain-enabled distributed social platforms

      • Blockchain-based access control

      • Smart Contracts and dApp software engineering aspects

      • Cryptocurrencies

Important Dates

• • Paper Submission Deadline: 14th of November 2021 28th of November 2021 (firm)

  • Notification of Acceptance: 5th of January 2022 19th of January 2022

  • Camera Ready: 5th of February 2022

  • Registration: same as main conference regular papers

  • Workshop: 21st of March 2022