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                                                            CALL FOR
ARTICLES – Internet of Things Magazine 2020



*                                              Special Issue
on Blockchain-enabled Industrial Internet of Things:*

*                                                                 Advances,
Applications, and Challenges*



https://www.comsoc.org/publications/magazines/ieee-internet-things-magazine/cfp/blockchain-enabled-industrial-internet



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*Importance of Topic:*



From the perspective of blockchain employment across the wide range of
Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) use-cases (*e.g.*, in

the food industry, cybersecurity, voting, music, real estate, healthcare,
insurance, supply chain and logistics, energy and smart grid,

apparel, textile, and fashion industry, among others), there exist numerous
operational and technical challenges that stand-in

the way of achieving absolute IIoT decentralization using blockchain, given
the vast diversity of the IIoT application space.

Such technical challenges include but are not limited to risks and regulatory
issues as well as other associated factors related to

processing, storage, communications, and availability.  Additionally,
issues of security, privacy, trust, and scalability must be considered.



*Scope of Special Issue and Call For Articles (CFA):*



The IEEE Internet of Things Magazine is soliciting high-quality manuscripts
that:



*a*) describe in-depth and/or breadth real-world blockchain-based
multi-disciplinary IIoT deployments.

*b*) present actual experiences in resolving contextual blockchain-related
challenges

*c*) develop and share best practices, vision realizations and lessons
learned in this integrated environment

*d*) establish guiding principles for technical, operational and business
successes.



Articles should be general, independent of technical or business specialty,
and intended to an audience consisting of all members

of the IoT community. Topics may include, but are not limited to:



   - Providing insights into the exploitation of Blockchain as a provably
   lightweight, secure and consensus distributed security

solution for current IIoT applications with the objective of resolving
centralization problems.

   - Giving practitioners a preview of what to expect in terms of
   challenges associated with using blockchain-based services

(*e.g.* sharing, network monitoring, security, content distribution,
provenance, etc)  in IIoT environments and providing

them with information on how to efficiently resolve them.

   - Discussions, exchanges of ideas and insights for both industry
   practitioners and academic researchers into the design

and development of complexity-minimal Consensus and Blockchain-based
distributed protocols in IIoT

   - Lessons-learned from best practices in blockchain-augmented IIoT
   deployments in different environments such as:
      - Augmenting blockchain-enabled IIoT with artificial intelligence for
      the purpose of intelligent decision making.
      - Assessing, comparing and understanding the performance of
      blockchain-enabled IIoT deployments with the

objective of early identifying possible vulnerabilities/breaches to avoid
unwanted/unexpected chaotic incidents.

   - Trading-off and understanding the difference between Public, Private
      and Consortium/Federated/Permissioned

blockchain.

   - Tutorials on:
      - Human-computer interaction in IIoT blockchain-aware application
      development.
      - Data structuring, storage and management and security techniques
      for blockchain-enabled IIoT.
      - Decentralized database deployments for blockchain-enabled IIoT
      - Identity management for interconnecting things in IIoT;
      - Distributed software-defined networking control in
      blockchain-enabled IIoT;
      - Integration of blockchain in fog, edge and cellular networks for
      efficient, effective and reliable IIoT communications;
   - Leveraging the blockchain-enabled IIoT for social networking,
   decentralized autonomous organizations, energy, smart grid,

logistics, transportation, supply chain, monetization, e-business,
notarization, e-government, healthcare, commerce, insurance,

finance, banking, education, learning, crowdsourcing, and crowdsensing
applications.





*Important Dates:*



All submissions have to be prepared according to the Guide for Authors
<https://www.comsoc.org/publications/magazines/ieee-internet-things-magazine/author-guidelines>
and
must be submitted via the Manuscript Central
<https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/iotmag>.



*Manuscript Submission Due:  November 30, 2019.*


Manuscript Submission Due: 30 November 2019
Revision Notification Due: 15 January 2020
Acceptance Notification Due: 15 February 2020
Final Manuscript Due: 31 March 2020
Guest Editorial/Columns Due: 10 April 2020

Expected Publication of the Special Issue: June 2020*.*



*Guest Editors:*

Maurice J. Khabbaz, Notre-Dame University of Louaize, Lebanon

Sohail Jabbar, National Textile University, Pakistan

Mohamed Abdallah, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar

Octavia A. Dobre, Memorial University, Canada

Pin-Han Ho, University of Waterloo, Canada

Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, Instituto Nacional de Telecomunicações, Brazil


Dr. Mohamed Abdallah
Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Programs

Division of Information and Computing Technology

College of Science and Engineering

Hamad Bin Khalifa University
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