6G and Blockchain for Advanced Future Applications
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Internet of Things".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 February 2023) | Viewed by 1751
Special Issue Editors
Interests: blockchain technologies; distributed systems; optical wireless communications; network modeling; machine learning; and signal processing
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Interests: RIS communications; channel modeling and characteristics analysis; 6G key technologies
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Interests: distributed consensus; distributed systems; blockchain/distributed ledger technology (DLT); connected autonomous systems; Internet of Things (IoT)
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Interests: industrial Internet of Things; federated learning; edge intelligence; deterministic networking
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
6G and blockchains are envisioned to play essential and significant roles in developing future advanced applications, such as the metaverse, Web 3.0, artificial intelligence (AI), vehicle-to-everything (V2X), unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), extended reality (XR), etc. Aiming to provide enhanced quality of service with massive IoT connectivity, 6G is ultra-reliable and presents extremely low latency. Blockchains not only allow virtual assets to be circulated and traded with high immutability, security, and transparency, but also preserve data integrity and user privacy among untrusted network entities as a decentralized database. However, this technology remains underexplored in many areas, including how these state-of-the-arts can be applied to various scenarios for a better quality of experience (QoE) and what can be accomplished through deep integration of these technologies. Thus, novel methods, algorithms, and mechanisms for 6G and blockchains are urgently needed to facilitate diverse tasks.
This Special Issue seeks high-quality works based on 6G and/or blockchains that discuss novel ideas, theories, frameworks, solutions, and testbeds for the promotion of advanced future applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- 6G for the future IoT;
- 6G-empowered MEC collaboration;
- Machine learning for 6G;
- 6G for UAV/V2X networking;
- Web3 over 6G networks;
- 6G-spurred metaverse and XR;
- Blockchain-enhanced decentralized IoT;
- Blockchain for wireless networking;
- Blockchain-based metaverse ecosystem;
- Blockchain-as-a-service for Web3;
- Blockchain-empowered distributed AI;
- New architectures for 6G/blockchain;
- Energy-efficient and low-carbon solutions for 6G/blockchain applications;
- Market structures and pricing policies in 6G/blockchain applications;
- Proof-of-concept 6G/blockchain-enhanced applications: experimental prototyping and testbeds.
Dr. Xintong Ling
Dr. Hao Jiang
Dr. Lei Zhang
Dr. Weiting Zhang
Dr. Jiawen Kang
Guest Editors
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