CHISTERA SHIELD

SHIELD: Reliable Distributed Learning and Smart Contract assisted Digital Ecosystems 

Project Description:

Smart contracts (SC) are transforming how we can enhance automated public services and how the services are executed and controlled in digital ecosystems. Distributed artificial intelligence (DAI) is a new AI paradigm that uses distributed device computing resources to improve data privacy. It is natural to combine SC and DAI to address challenging research issues, including data privacy, security, and network scalability, thus fostering efficient and responsible actions for reliable digital transformation ecosystems in smart cities and novel energy management models. Although promising, there is no high-level reference framework for designing novel SC/DAI-driven solutions and benchmarking testbeds for essential use cases and scaling their implementation internationally. The SHIELD project will offer a new SC/DAI-driven holistic, security, and privacy service architecture and apply it to important use cases in blockchain network ecosystems and smart city/smart energy case studies. SHIELD focuses on public digital services in smart cities using SC/DAI-driven control and operates over edge and global networks. The framework would incorporate robust security measures and privacy-enhancing capabilities in accordance with the sixth-generation (6G) network standards. Exploiting the unique features and research advances on SC/DAI, SHIELD will enable the training, execution, and automated control of e-services with decentralized, contract-based, and secure natures. The framework will enable new models and methods to minimize energy consumption and fraud losses, optimize computing resources and accidental exceptions, and enhance personalization and environmental awareness for micro/macro-digital transformation systems. SHIELD will bring together an international consortium of researchers from the EU and Asia to implement the framework in their lab and testbed facilities. Furthermore, the work carried out in SHIELD will serve as a steppingstone towards large-scale applications, regulations, and governance smart services in 6G with a vision of a new fully digital transformation society.

Duration:

3 years (starting date 01.09.2025)

Funding:

CHIST-ERA (topic: Smart Contracts for Digital Transformation Ecosystems).
https://www.chistera.eu/projects-call-2023 

Partner: 

• (Coordinator) Pham Viet Quoc, from Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)

• Nguyen Van-Linh, from National Chung-Cheng University (Taiwan, China)

• Özkasap Öznur, from Koc University (Turkey)

Research Team:

• Dr. Eva Lagunas (SnT) – PI

• Dr Vu Ha Nguyen (SnT) – VPI

• To be hired - PhD Student