2021 - WORKSHOP ON TOWARDS STANDARDIZED SECURED IOT B5G NETWORKING - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND BLOCKCHAIN (AB-SIOT)

We are happy to announce the organization of the first edition of the IEEE ICC workshop: Towards Standardized Secured IoT B5G networking - Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain (AB-SIoT). This workshop will solicit original work targeting beyond 5G (B5G) networking, focusing on research work addressing Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Blockchain, and the integration of both. To add to the practicality of the presented work and have a more interesting fruitful discussion, the workshop will include an interactive session, where experimental testbeds and practical showcases can be demonstrated. The scope of the workshop is detailed below.
5G and massive Internet of Things (IoT) are finally here. While 5G networks will serve as the broadband backbones, IoT will bombard killer applications with the inclusion of smart sensors. The essence of smart city development typically starts from the aggregation of slower data rate through LPWAN, before being sent via 5G/B5G to the server for analysis. There will be ample room for data analytics and new challenges need to be tackled. Will the data be secured during transmission? Will the data be securely recorded? How do we provide confidentiality, integrity and availability in the IoT world? The IoT world is rather new, do we have any best practices and standards on the smart sensors? It seems not quite the case at this point. When there are not sufficient regulations in the smart sensor realm, in what way should we provide the required security level agreements? What is the meaning of service level in the B5G-IoT new era? There is much room for our exploration.
Research has already started on beyond 5G (B5G), which will shape future networking, especially towards 2030. Many research funding tools are targeting ideas for B5G, towards 2030 and after. For instance, in Europe, there is EU H2020 ICT-52-2020 Smart Connectivity beyond 5G.
The amazing IoT development offers a smart high-level concept for integrating physical and cyber objects. In the coming decade, there will be hundreds of billions of IoT connections. It is inevitable that IoT will find applications in all walks of our lives, spanning energy management, healthcare, transportation, and fin-tech, to name a few. Nonetheless, the intrinsic uncoordinated frequency band and the ever-growing IoT market may pose various critical challenges on public safety, cybersecurity and data privacy. To facilitate IoT best practices, various international and industrial standards should be brought to the scene. These include, but are not limited to, IEEE P2668*, IEEE 1451 family, ISO 27k family, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), etc.