Scope

Blockchain, an emerging disruptive technology, has drawn enormous attention in diverse application fields in the past few years due to its features such as decentralization, immutability, anonymity, and security. However, the development of blockchain technology has also experienced some challenges, including malicious behavior, poor scalability, inefficiency, low latency, etc. Artificial intelligence (AI) is an emerging paradigm in which entities and systems, that can bring new opportunities in overcoming the challenges of blockchains, spawning a new direction named Intelligent Blockchain. However, the researches on intelligent, scalable, and efficient blockchain still are in its infancy state with many problems to be solved. The sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks target to support diverse vertical applications by connecting heterogeneous devices and machines with ultra-large capacity, ultra-low latency, ultra-small distance communications, and high-precision communications. Despite all these advantages, there are still major challenges to be addressed, including network privacy and security vulnerabilities, decentralization, transparency, risks of data interoperability, etc. The combination of 6G and blockchain brings opportunities in overcoming the above challenges. Once blockchain technology becomes more scalable, secure and intelligent in the future, it will spark more blue-sky thinking and innovative ideas that can improve the future networking and communications to another level with a strong security guarantee.

Topics

The goal of this full-day workshop is to bring together researchers and experts from academia, industry, and governmental agencies to discuss and promote the research and development needed to overcome the major challenges that pertain to this cutting-edge research direction. The scope of this workshop includes but not limited to the following topics.

• AI empowered Blockchain for 6G Networking and Communications

• Blockchain empowered Intelligence 6G Networks

• AI-enabled Scalable and Efficient Blockchains for 6G Networks

• AI-enabled Cloud-Edge-End Computing Orchestration in Intelligent Blockchain

• AI-enabled Incentive Mechanisms in Blockchains for 6G Networks

• Scalable and Secure Operation and Maintenance of Blockchain Systems for Future Networking and Communications

• Intelligent Quality Assurance of Smart Contracts for Future Networking and Communications

• Data Analytics to Identify Malicious Behaviors on Blockchains for Future Networking and Communications

• New Architectures for Intelligent, Scalable and Secure and Blockchain for 6G Networks

• Blockchain-driven Intelligent Applications for 6G Networks

• Implementation/Testbed/Deployment Intelligent Blockchain for Future Networking and Communications

Paper Submission

The workshop will feature 2 keynote speeches given by world leading researchers in the field. The workshop accepts only original and previously unpublished papers. All submissions must be formatted in standard IEEE camera-ready format (double column, 10pt font). The maximum number of printed pages is six, including figures without incurring additional page charges.

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: March 15, 2022 (extended)

Notification of paper acceptance: April 7, 2022

Camera-ready paper submissions: April 21, 2022

Workshop Organizing Committee

Steering Committee

• Tony Quek, Pillar of Information Systems Technology and Design, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore

• Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, Department of Information Systems and Cyber Security, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA

• Song Guo, Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

• Dusit Niyato, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

• Tao Jiang, Research Center of 6G Mobile Communications and School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Organizing Chair

• Yueyue Dai, Research Center of 6G Mobile Communications and School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

• Xiaowen Chu, Data Science and Analytics Thrust, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Guangzhou, China

• Ruidong Li, Institute of Science and Engineering, Kanazawa University, Japan

• Zehui Xiong, Pillar of Information Systems Technology and Design, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore

• Jiawen Kang, School of Automation, Guangdong University of Technology, China

Technical Program Chair

• Yanyu Cheng, Alibaba-NTU Singapore Joint Research Institute, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

• Lei Zhang, School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, UK

• Kun Wang, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Publicity Chair

• Yang Zhang, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China

• Jiangtian Nie, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

• Xumin Huang, Guangdong University of Technology, China

• Chaoqun You, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore

• Weiting Zhang, Beijing Jiaotong University, China

Submission Web Page

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=block6g

Program

10 July 2022 （Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/99122816236?pwd=QmVFTlA0M0x5QmJ3M3Q3QUpZaUlTdz09

Meeting ID: 991 2281 6236 Passcode: 6Fub3a）

• 22:30 -22:35 GMT+8 Welcome and Logistics

• 22:35 - 22:50 GMT+8

Title：A Blockchain-based Profiling System for Exploring Human Factors in Cloud-Edge-End Orchestration

Authors: Minghao Li，Wei Cai

• 22:50 - 23:05 GMT+8

Title：Stealthy Clustering of Ethereum Transactions Using Time Leakage from Fixed Nodes

Authors: Congcong Yu, Chengpu Jiang, Chen Yang, Meng Shen, Liehuang Zhu and Zheng Che

• 23:05 - 23:20 GMT+8

Title：Local Model Quality Control Method Based on Credit Mortgage for Enterprise Credit Evaluation

Authors: Xiaohuan Li, Fan Chen, Jin Ye, Qian Chen and Chunhai Li

• 23:20 - 23:35 GMT+8

Title：A Distributed Energy Trading Framework with secure and effective Consensus Protocol

Authors: Jin Ye, Jiahua Liang and Xiaohuan Li