Dear colleagues,

I am serving as Guest Editor of the Special Issue “Blockchain for
Trustworthy Internet of Things” of the
open access journal /Sensors/ (IF 3.275, CiteScore 5.0).
Given the depth of your expertise in this field, I would like to
cordially invite you to contribute a full research article or a
comprehensive review to this Special Issue. You are welcome to
distribute this news to your research team members. A holiday season
discount of 600 CHF on the article processing charge will be applied if
your paper is submitted during 20–31 December 2020.

For more information about this issue, including submission
instructions, please visit the Special Issue website:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/Blockchain_Trustworthy_IoT

The particular topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Blockchain for trust management of IoT systems;
- Blockchain for trusted service computing for IoT systems;
- Blockchain for trusted edge/cloud computing for IoT systems;
- Blockchain for trusted software-defined networks for IoT systems;
- Blockchain for trusted network-slicing mechanisms for IoT systems;
- Blockchain for big data in trustworthy IoT systems;
- Blockchain-based solutions for the security, privacy, and trust of IoT systems;
- Trustworthy machine learning/deep learning approaches for blockchain-enabled IoT systems;
- Blockchain-based trustworthy IoT applications;
- Platform development for blockchain-enabled, trustworthy IoT systems;
- Smart contracts for blockchain-enabled trust management in IoT systems;
- Scalability and fault tolerance mechanisms for blockchain-enabled IoT systems;
- Distributed consensus algorithms for blockchain-enabled trustworthy IoT systems;
- Empirical studies, benchmarking, and industrial best practices for blockchain-enabled IoT systems.

We also encourage authors to submit a short abstract or tentative title
in advance, either via the above link or by sending it to the Special
Issue editor (Janetta.li@mdpi.com). /Sensors/ is a fully open access
journal. All submissions are peer reviewed, and accepted papers will be
published immediately. Submitted papers should not be under
consideration for publication elsewhere. The article processing charge
is currently 2000 CHF for each accepted paper. Please note that for
papers submitted after 31 December 2020, an APC of 2200 CHF will apply.

We hope that you will be able to accept this invitation and look forward
to your reply.

Kind regards,
Guest Editor
Prof./Dr. Henry Dai