Introduction

BRAINS 2021 will address the challenges and issues raised in the design of future networks in all their dimensions, offering to its attendees a variety of state-of-the-art sessions, including technical presentations, keynotes, demonstrations and panel discussions. 

The conference aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from all over the world to explore the opportunities and cross-disciplinary challenges of blockchains and Distributed ledger technologies for industry, academia, governments and enterprises. With this vision, the conference will look beyond the current state of the art and promote the advances of these disruptive technologies. The single-track structure of the conference guarantees appropriate presentation of the technical papers and demos.

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Committee

General Co-Chairs

Andreas Veneris
(University of Toronto, Canada)

Abdelkader Lahmadi
(University of Lorraine, France)

TPC Co-Chairs

Tesnim Abdellatif
(EDF, France)

William Knottenbelt
(Imperial College, UK)

Publicity Co-Chairs

Claudio J. Tessone
(University of Zurich, Switzerland)

Ruidong Li
(National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan)

Call for paper

Important date

2021-03-31
Draft paper submission deadline

Submission Topics

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

Fundamentals of Blockchain and DLT:

Theoretical contributions on Blockchain and DLT
Distributed consensus and fault tolerance solutions, including domain-specific consensus (e.g., for networking)
Tradeoffs between decentralization, scalability, performance and security
Protocols and algorithms

Decentralized Apps, Smart contracts and chain code:

Development languages and tooling
Security, Privacy, Attacks, Forensics
Transaction Monitoring and Analysis
Token Economy
Distributed Trust
Collaboration between on-chain and off-chain code
Oracles, DeFi, NFT dapps and protocols

Application and service cases of DLT and Smart-Contracts:

Finance and payments
IoT and cyber physical systems
Smart grids and Industry 4.0
Networking, Edge and Cloud Technologies
5G Technologies, Telecom Process and Operation
Supply chain management
V2X, connected and autonomous vehicles
Services or Resources Marketplaces
Blockchain as a service
Blockchain-defined networking

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Important Date

  • Conference Date

    Sep 27

    2021

    to

    Sep 30

    2021

  • Mar 31 2021

    Draft paper submission deadline

  • Sep 30 2021

    Registration deadline

Sponsored By
ACM SIGAPP French Chapter De Nouvelles Architectures Pour Les Communications - DNAC IEEE Communications Society
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