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Prof. Chin-Ling Chen
Email: clc@mail.cyut.edu.tw
Affiliation: Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taichung, Taiwan
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Research Interests: blockchain, cryptography, authentication, network security, computer security, privacy, web service, M-Commerce, wireless sensor network, medical safety service
Assoc. Prof. Yu-Chih Wei
Email: vickrey@mail.ntut.edu.tw
Affiliation: Department of Information and Finance Management, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan
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Research Interests: fintech security, AI security, supervisory technology, internet of things (IoT) security, health informatics security, information security risk assessment
Dr. Abel C. H. Chen
Email: chchen.scholar@gmail.com
Affiliation: Information & Communications Security Laboratory, Chunghwa Telecom Laboratories, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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Research Interests: post-quantum cryptography, quantum computing, deep learning and machine learning, intelligent transportation systems
Prof. Hsing-Chung Chen
Email: cdma2000@asia.edu.tw
Affiliation: Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Asia University, Taichung, Taiwan
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Research Interests: information and communication security, blockchain technology, IoT security, artificial intelligence of things (AIoT), medical and bio-information image processing, AI and soft computing, applied cryptography
Summary
The rapid integration of blockchain and the Internet of Things (IoT) is reshaping distributed system architectures by enabling decentralized trust, secure data exchange, and autonomous device coordination. As large-scale IoT deployments continue to expand across industrial, urban, and enterprise environments, ensuring scalability, data integrity, privacy preservation, and system resilience becomes increasingly critical.
This Special Issue aims to collect high-quality research advancing secure, scalable, and trustworthy blockchain–IoT architectures. The focus is on engineering-oriented system design grounded in solid theoretical foundations, addressing challenges such as lightweight consensus for resource-constrained IoT devices, secure device identity management, trusted data provenance, decentralized access control, and efficient on-chain/off-chain integration mechanisms.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
· Blockchain-enabled IoT security frameworks
· Lightweight consensus mechanisms for IoT environments
· Decentralized identity (DID) and access control for IoT
· Scalable blockchain architectures for massive IoT networks
· Edge–blockchain collaborative computing models
· Secure firmware updates and device lifecycle management
· Post-quantum cryptography (PQC)–based blockchain systems
· Module-lattice-based key encapsulation and signature schemes
· Stateless hash-based digital signatures for blockchain integration
· Performance evaluation and security analysis of blockchain–IoT systems
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Keywords
artificial intelligence, internet of things (IoT), blockchain, cybersecurity, PQC-based blockchain, blockchain for securing AI, real world assets (RWA) security, module-lattice-based key-encapsulation, module-lattice-based digital signature, stateless hash-based digital signature
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