CFP IEEE Communications Standards Magazine: “Standards for Major Internet Disruptors: Blockchain, Intents, and Related Paradigms”
This Feature Topic welcomes technical papers as well as vision articles from industry, academia, and SDOs, addressing major issues concerned with evolving standardization processes and underlying technologies in the context of Blockchain, Intent-based networking, and related paradigms. In particular, this issue seeks submissions on a variety of topics including but not limited to:
Blockchain and its role in the future IP standards
Internet standards incorporating Blockchain
Blockchain as a disruptor for the Internet
Intent-based protocols as enabler for Blockchain
Blockchain-enabled features and protocols
Decentralized Identity solutions
Blockchain communication reference architecture
Security, privacy and identity issues related to Blockchain communications
Role of network standards for Cryptocurrencies and other Blockchain based
applications
Interplay between Blockchain and network softwarization and virtualization standards
Intent-based networking standards
Disruptors in performance of data/control/management plane standardization
Performance attributes, and analysis of Blockchain-based networks
Blockchain as disruptors in context of SDN/NFV performance
Guest Editors:
Hesham ElBakoury (Futurewei Technologies Inc, USA)
Mohammad Asad Rehman Chaudhry (Soptimizer, Canada)
Walter Cerroni (University of Bologna, Italy)
Haiwu He (iExec, China, France)
Abbie Barbir (Aetna, USA)
Important Dates:
Manuscript Submission: January 15, 2018
Decision Notification: May 1 2018
Final Manuscripts Due: June 15, 2018
Feature Topic Publication Date: Sept 2018
Submission Link: http://www.comsoc.org/comstandardsmag/cfp/standards-major-internet-disruptors-blockchain-intents-and-related-paradigms
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