Blockchain and artificial intelligence for network security

Diogo Menezes Ferrazani Mattos, Francine Krief, Sandra Julieta Rueda
2020 Annales des télécommunications  
Blockchain is a disruptive technology that enables the development of reliable applications, without the need for trust between network peers. Blockchain technology creates global and immutable repositories that guarantee non-repudiation and accountability of stored information. Besides, the explosion in the generation and availability of data on computer networks raises the challenge of processing and managing large amounts of data with ever lower latencies. As a consequence, artificial
more » ... gence and machine learning techniques experience significant improvements and emerge as enabling technologies for the next-generation networks. This special edition is dedicated to these new technologies that shape the world to have more reliable computer networks while enabling new distributed and knowledge-driven security applications and services. This issue's papers cover a wide range of topics, such as new cryptographic models applied to healthcare, intelligent threat-detection systems, and new consensus mechanisms for the blockchain. After a thorough reviewing process, in which at least two experts have evaluated every paper, six papers have been accepted for this special issue. Reviewers' comments were helpful and productive first to select the most meaningful contributions as well as to improve the content, quality, and presentation of the accepted papers. Hereafter, we provide a summary of each paper in this special issue.
doi:10.1007/s12243-020-00754-7 fatcat:t3ikdhi7wjbcdhuhbsgoflh7fe