ACM 6G-ABS 2021
1st International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain Technologies for Smart cities with 6G


Oct 25, 2021-Oct 29, 2021, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Call for Papers
The aim of this workshop is to bring together practitioners and researchers from both academia and industry in order to have a forum for discussion and technical presentations on the recent advances in theories, architectures, protocols, and techniques that tackle challenges of smart cities with a focus on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain technologies for smart cities with Beyond 5G and 6G mobile wireless networks. Authors are invited to submit previously unpublished papers to this session. Topics include, but are not limited to:

Machine, Deep, Federated, and Transfer Learning for Smart Cities powered with Beyond 5G/6G
Secure SDN, Network Slicing, and Edge Computing for Smart Cities with Beyond 5G/6G
AI enabled zero-touch networks for Smart cities with Beyond 5G/6G
Blockchain/Smart Contracts for Smart Cities with Beyond 5G/6G
Edge AI for Smart Cities with Beyond 5G/6G
AI powered Dynamic Resource Allocation Techniques with Beyond 5G/6G
Smart urban mobility and intelligent transportation systems using AI and Blockchain
Data-driven intelligent smart cities with Beyond 5G/6G
Decentralized AI for Smart Cities with Beyond 5G/6G
Smart Cities architectures and protocol designs
Quality of Service (QoS) issues such as Dynamic Resource Allocation, Spectrum Allocation, Energy
Efficiency for smart cities
Enabling trust mechanisms for Smart Cities with blockchain-enabled smart contracts
Optimization Techniques (e.g. Haris Hawk, search and rescue etc.) for Smart Cities with Beyond 5G/6G
Data Integrity for Smart Cities with Beyond 5G/6G
Authentication, auditing, and accountability for Smart Cities
Novel designs of smart systems such as smart homes, smart e-health services, smart transportation systems based on AI, Blockchain, and Beyond 5G/6G
Crowd behavior capturing and modeling and crowd management for smart cities using AI
Privacy-Enhancing Cryptographic algorithms for Smart Cities
Secure Federation and Orchestration of Edge Devices for Smart Cities
Network Traffic Offloading Mechanisms for smart cities using AI, Blockchain, Machine Learning
Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: May 21, 2021
Acceptance Notification: July 01, 2021
Camera-ready Paper Deadline: July 31, 2021
Workshop Date: October 25 – 29, 2021 (Particular 1-day will be announced soon)

Organizing Committee

Workshop Chairs
Kapal Dev, Munster Technological University, Ireland
Vijay K. Shah, Virginia Tech, USA
Jeffrey H. Reed, Virginia Tech, USA

Publicity Chairs
Michele Polese, Northeastern University, USA
Ali Taleb Zadeh Kasgari, Virginia Tech, USA

Technical Program Committee
Atul Pandey, Vodafone Chair Mobile Communications Systems, TU Dresden, Germany
Danda B. Rawat, Howard University, USA
Duminda Wijesekera, George Mason University, USA
Harpreet Dhillon, Virginia Tech, USA
Harun Siljak, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Francesco Restuccia, Northeastern University, USA
Kaiwen Zhang, École de technologie supérieure, Canada
Maurizio Magarini Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Mingzhe Chen, Princeton University, USA
Rohit Verma, University of Cambridge, UK
Sachin Shetty, Old Dominion University, USA
Sunder Ali Khowaja, University of Sindh, Pakistan