Introduction

Blockchain has already shown its great success in serving as the fundamental technique behind many cryptocurrencies. Its promising capability of decentralized consensus also attracts a wide realm of real-world applications such as international banking, electronic voting, supply-chain management, media communications, and food safety traceability. Meanwhile, with the advancement of 4G/5G mobile communication techniques, more and more data are being generated by mobile phones, wireless sensors, and IoT devices. Mobile decentralized applications (DApps) usually involve many untrusted parties. How to use blockchain to build trust, reduce the operational cost, and accelerate mobile transactions brings many new open issues and challenges for both research communities and industry.

The International Workshop on Blockchain and Mobile Applications is an international forum that aims to bring together researchers and industry practitioners to foster the advancement of blockchain technique and its applications in mobile environments. The workshop solicits original research contributions or novel blockchain applications and experiments. Topics of interest include but not limited to:

• Blockchain protocol design
• Blockchain and 5G mobile networks
• Blockchain and artificial intelligence
• Blockchain and big data
• Blockchain and distributed storage
• Blockchain and edge computing
• Blockchain for FinTech applications
• Blockchain for IoT applications
• Cryptocurrencies for mobile applications
• Decentralized App development
• Decentralized consensus protocols
• Distributed ledger
• Efficiency and scalability of Blockchain
• Hyperledger and its applications
• Security and threat modelling
• Smart contracts
• Token Economy

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All papers need to be submitted electronically in PDF format through EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=blockapp2019). Papers must be formatted for 8.5x11-inch paper. The length of the paper must be no more than 6 pages in the IEEE double-column format (10-pt font), including references and everything. Papers should neither have been published elsewhere nor being currently under review by another conference or journal. The reviews will be single blind. At least one of the authors of every accepted paper must register and present the paper at the workshop. Accepted papers will be published in the combined IEEE MDM 2019 proceedings and will be submitted to IEEE Xplore.

General Chairs:

James LEI, ASTRI, HKSAR, China

Chonggang WANG, InterDigital, USA

Program Co-Chairs:

Xiaowen CHU, Hong Kong Baptist University, HKSAR, China

Bin XIAO, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HKSAR, China

Jiang XIAO, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Technical Program Committee:

Bin CAO, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

Hanhua CHEN, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Shaojing FU, National University of Defense Technology, China

Bingsheng HE, National University of Singapore, Singapore

He LI, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan

Wei LI, The University of Sydney, Australia

Hao LIU, Business Intelligence Lab, Baidu Research, China

Chengnian LONG, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China

Xiapu LUO, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HKSAR, China

Khaled SALAH, Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates

Wenhai SUN, Purdue University, USA

Hong WAN, Purdue University, USA

Cong WANG, City University of Hong Kong, HKSAR, China

Honggang WANG, University of Massachusetts, USA

Yi WANG, Southern University of Science and Technology, China

Kaishun WU, Shenzhen University, China

Qingjun XIAO, Southeast University, China

Jianliang XU, Hong Kong Baptist University, HKSAR, China

Yuedong XU, Fudan University, China

Shucheng YU, Fudan University, China

Lan ZHANG, University of Science and Technology of China, China

Yiming ZHANG, National University of Defense Technology, China

Jiaqi ZHENG, Nanjing University, China