Blockchain 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain

The emergence and popularity of blockchain techniques will significantly change the way of digital and networking systems’ operation and management. In the meantime, the application of blockchain will exhibit a variety of complicated problems and new requirements, which brings more open issues and challenges for research communities.
IEEE Blockchain-2019 will be held on July 14 - July 17, 2019, in Atlanta, USA. The goal of this conference is to promote community-wide discussion identifying the advanced applications, technologies and theories for blockchain. We seek submissions of papers that invent novel techniques, investigate new applications, introduce advanced methodologies, propose promising research directions and discuss approaches for unsolved issues.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Theories of blockchain and distributed ledger technology
Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms
Security, privacy and trust of blockchain and distributed ledger technology
Decentralization, scalability, and security tradeoff
Performance analysis and optimization
Simulation and performance evaluation techniques
Smart contract and chain code
Applications and services with blockchain and distributed ledger technology
Protocols and algorithms based on blockchain
Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT)
Blockchain in cyber physical systems
Blockchain in social networking
Blockchain in supply chain management
Blockchain in agriculture
Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles
Blockchain in crowdsourcing and crowdsensing
ŸBlockchain in mobile cellular networks
Blockchain in edge and cloud computing