Introduction

The emergence and popularity of blockchain techniques will significantly change the way of digital and networking systems’ operation and management. In the meantime, the application of blockchain will exhibit a variety of complicated problems and new requirements, which brings new open issues and challenges for research communities.

IEEE Blockchain-2024 is held in Copenhagen, Denmark, August 19-22, 2024. The goal of this conference is to promote community-wide discussion for identifying advanced applications, technologies and theories for blockchain. We seek submissions of papers that invent novel techniques, investigate new applications, introduce advanced methodologies, propose promising research directions and discuss approaches for unsolved issues.

As a promising technique to achieve decentralized consensus, blockchain has been successfully applied into digital currency, e.g., bitcoin, for serving as a public ledger for transactions. Its secure design for supporting a distributed computing system with high fault tolerance is attracting wide attention all over the world. Blockchain has a great potential to create new foundations for our socio-economic systems by efficiently establishing trust among people and machines, reducing cost, and increasing utilization of resources. On one hand, blockchain will play an important role for secure decentralization in such emerging fields as Internet of Things, Cyber Physical Systems, edge computing, social networking, crowdsourcing and next generation wireless communications, and even more other fields. On the other hand, its advance should be further evolved in terms of scalability, security, privacy, efficiency, flexibility, availability, real decentralization and high dependability.

Following the great success of IEEE Blockchain 2023, held in Ocean Flower Island, China, IEEE Blockchain 2022, held in Espoo, Finland, IEEE Blockchain 2021, held in Melbourne, Australia, IEEE Blockchain 2020, held in Rhodes Island, Greece, IEEE Blockchain 2019, held in Atlanta, USA, IEEE Blockchain 2018, held in Halifax, Canada, the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2024) will provide a high-profile, leading-edge forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners to present latest advances and innovations in key theories, infrastructure, schemes, and significant applications for the blockchain, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future.

Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:


-Theories of blockchain and distributed ledger technology
-New blockchain architecture
-Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms
-Security, privacy and trust of blockchain and distributed ledger
-Cross-chain and off-chain technology
-Attacks and vulnerabilities of blockchain
-Blockchain scalability and performance optimization
-Simulation and performance evaluation techniques
-Smart contract and chain code
-Applications and services based on blockchain
-Protocols and algorithms based on blockchain
-Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT)
-Blockchain in cyber physical systems
-Blockchain in social networking
-Blockchain in supply chain management
-Blockchain in agriculture
-Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles
-Blockchain in crowdsourcing and crowdsensing
-Blockchain in edge and cloud computing
-Blockchain in next generation communications and networks
-Blockchain and Cryptocurrency
-Blockchain and artificial intelligence
-Blockchain and game theory
-Blockchain and industry 4.0
-Redactable blockchain


Paper Submission Guidelines
Blockchain-2024 regular papers should be submitted through the EDAS system (https://edas.info/N32142) with PDF format. Each paper is limited to 8 pages for regular papers and 6 pages for workshop papers in IEEE Computer Society proceedings format (or up to 2 extra pages with page over length charge if it is accepted), including tables, figures, references and appendices. All papers need to be submitted electronically through the corresponding websites with PDF format. All submissions should be anonymous. No author name or affiliation (including acknowledgement) can be included in the paper. Submissions violating these rules will be rejected without being reviewed.


Organizing Committee

General Chairs
Yan Zhang, Oslo University, Norway
Reza Malekian, Malmö University, Sweden
Rongxing Lu, University of New Brunswick, Canada

Program Chairs
Xiaokang Zhou, Shiga University, Japan
Dusit Niyato, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Muttukrishnan Rajarajan, City University of London, UK

Program Vice-Chairs
Junlong Zhou, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China
Haipeng Cai, Washington State University, USA

Workshop Chairs
Gaurav Choudhary, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Jinguang Han, Southeast University, China

Publicity Chairs
Ömer Melih Gül, Bahcesehir University, Turkey
Youyang Qu, Data61 CSIRO, Australia
Constantinos Kolias, University of Idaho, USA

Publication Chair
Nguyen Van Huynh, Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom

Web Chairs
Jiawei Wang, The University of Warwick, UK
Wei-Yang Chiu, Technical Univeristy of Denmark,

Steering Committee
Laurence T. Yang, Hainan University, China
Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan