BRAINS 2020 special issue: Blockchain research and applications for innovative networks and services
Abdelkader Lahmadi, E. Bertin, Ruidong Li · International Journal of Network Management · 2021
Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) have the potential to disrupt all the industrial domains which involve coordination among autonomous resources.This include finance and payments (e.g., Facebook Diem), but also networks (e.g., power grids or telecom networks), computing (e.g., brokering of edge resources), IoT (e.g., supply chain or industry 4.0), or service platforms (e.g., identity management).The purpose of this special issue is to explore the research challenges in Blockchain technologies while highlighting their promising capabilities in providing reliable and secure applications and services.BRAINS conference series is dedicated to these new advances that could make the world of networks and services more secure, while enabling new distributed business models.Among the top ranked papers presented at 2020 international conference BRAINS, four of them are selected and the extended versions of those papers went under extensive reviews and discussions.These four papers were finally selected for publication in this special issue.The authors of these papers were given the time to update their papers based on the review comments and suggestions provided.The selected papers address topics that play a central role in making blockchain a trustworthy and efficient technology by presenting novel theoretical and/or experimentation results.