Guest editors
Ali Kashif Bashir, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, [email protected] Omair Shafiq, Carleton University, Canada, [email protected] Muhammad Faseeh Qureshi, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea, [email protected] Shafiq, Guangzhou University, China, [email protected]
Blockchain is a disruptive technology with decentralized architecture widely adopted across various sectors for its potential advantages. It provides secure, transparent, and verifiable transactions with the proof of rights and ownership.
Blockchain offers the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) a variety of opportunities to support and transform healthcare services to end-users with improved trust, security, and privacy by transferring centralized medical systems into decentralized digital identity and information management systems. As IoMT continues to integrate medical devices, healthcare organizations can utilize these services to empower the growth of the medical sector with valuable data sources.
However, with exponential growth of the medical data come possible security and privacy threats, especially with the development of future generation computing systems. To effectively maintain data accountability and audit, private blockchain solutions can be implemented, but existing blockchain-assisted IoMT systems have significant drawbacks such as scalability, inadequate ledger storage facilities and a need for increased processing power.
Topics
To explore this subject, this issue will focus on advances in blockchain for IoMT.
We seek original high-quality research articles on blockchain-assisted advanced security models, and methodologies that investigate and propose improved performance, scalability, and storage for the IoMT environment.
Issues we wish to explore in this issue include but are not limited to:
Important dates
Submissions: 19th May 2021Author Notification: 23th July 2021Revised Papers Due: 30th October 2021Final decisions: 1st January 2022Publication: approx. mid-2022
Submissions
Submissions should be original papers and should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere.
Extended versions of papers from relevant conferences and workshops are invited as long as the additional contribution is substantial (at least 30% of new content).
Authors should follow the formatting and submission instructions for Personal and Ubiquitous Computing at https://www.springer.com/journal/779.
For more information visit the Springer Nature Information for journal Article Authors pages at https://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/journal-author
During the first submission step in Editorial Manager select Original article as the article type. In further steps, you should confirm that your submission belongs to this special issue by choosing the special issue title from the drop-down menu.
All papers will be peer-reviewed.