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CALL FOR PAPERS - BRAINS 2020
2nd Conference on Blockchain Research & Applications
for Innovative Networks and Services (BRAINS 2020)
28-30 September 2020 // Paris, France

https://brains.dnac.org/call-for-papers/

Technically sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Communications Society
In cooperation with ACM SIGAPP

All accepted and presented papers will be published in IEEE Xplore Digital Library.

Paper submission deadline extended to March 31st, 2020


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Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) have the potential to
disrupt any domain involving coordination among autonomous resources. This
include finance and payments (e.g., Facebook Libra), 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). BRAINS conference is dedicated to these new advances that could
make the world of networks and services more secure, while enabling new
distributed business models.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited, the following:

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
- Oracle

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
- Connected and autonomous vehicles
- Services or Resources Marketplaces
- Blockchain as a service
- Blockchain-defined networking

PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently under
review in any other conference or journal and has not been previously published.
All submissions should be written in English with maximum of eight (8) printed
pages (in Two-Column IEEE Conference Format), including text, figures and
references.

Papers should be submitted through EDAS at: https://edas.info/N26780

Best papers will be considered for fast-track publication in the Annals of
Telecommunications (Springer, ISI-indexed).

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission: 31 March 2020 (Extended)
Notification of Acceptance: 15 May 2020
Camera Ready: 07 June 2020

GENERAL CHAIR
Emmanuel Bertin (Orange Labs, France)

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS
Abdelkader Lahmadi (University of Lorraine, France)
Ruidong Li (NICT, Japan)
Cyril Cassagnes (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)


Contact Email: brains20-chairs@edas.info