Submission Deadline Extended to 28 March 2025
W5: 6th International Workshop on Decentralized Technologies and Applications for IoT (D’IoT) 2025
Co-Organizer: Ali Hassan Sodhro, Kristianstad University, Sweden
Co-Organizer: Sandeep Pirbhulal, Norsk Regnesentral/Norwegian Computing Center, Norway
Co-Organizer: Muhammad Muzammal, Northumbria University, United Kingdom.
Abstract: The D’IoT workshop 2025 will focus on technology advancements and applications of the decentralized technologies aka blockchain for IoT and big data. The submissions are expected in areas such as Theories and applications of Big Data Analytics for IoT, Decentralized applications for Healthcare informatics under IoT, privacy preserving visualization techniques for data from IoT devices, security and privacy in IoT using decentralized techniques, next generation decentralized applications for IoT, Decentralized IoT applications in Smart cities, Decentralized applications for FoG and Edge computing driven IoT, Visions on Decentralized Trustless Systems for IoT, and others. The workshop is concerned with inter-disciplinary and cross-domain studies spanning a variety of areas in computer science including enriched IoT data management on Blockchain, mobile computing, information extraction and retrieval, and security, as well as other disciplines such as management information science.
Workshop Program:
Opening – 9:00-10.30
Session Chair: Ali Hassan Sodhro, Kristianstad University, Sweden
9.00-9.10
Welcome and Introduction of D_IoT——-10 minutes (Ali Hassan Sodhro).
9.10-9.50
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Josef Noll, University of Oslo (UiO), Oslo, Norway
Title: Fog and Edge AI, increasing Resilience and Reliability of the Electrical Grid.
Bio: Josef Noll is Professor at the University of Oslo (UiO) and Secretary General of the Basic Internet Foundation. He leads the cross-cutting theme “Digital Global Health” at the Centre for Global Health at UiO, having the focus on Health Equity, Digital Inclusion and Societal Empowerment. Other areas of expertise include communication, societal security, and especially digitalization based on free access to information for all.
His vision of ‘Internet Lite for all’ addresses directly the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Three SDG targets, energy (7.1, 7.2), access (9.C) and information (16.10) are seen as catalysts for health (SDG 3), education (SDG 4), empowerment (SDG 5) and decent work (SDG 8).
Josef Noll was previously Senior Advisor and group leader at Telenor R&I where his group developed 3G/UMTS. He has also worked at the European Space Agency and SIEMENS.
Session 1: Block Chain for Decentralized IoT Systems
9.50-10:10
1. Blockchain and IoT in Healthcare: A Systematic Analysis of Security and Privacy Challenges.
10:00-10.20
2. Hyperledger Fabric-Based Decentralized Role-Based Access Control for Sustainable and Resilient Industrial IoT Networks 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11.00-12.30
Session Chair: Sandeep Pirbhulal, Norwegian Computing Center, Oslo, Norway
Session 2: Data-Driven Approaches for Decentralized IoT Applications
11:00-11.20
3. Deep Learning-Driven Optimal Beam Prediction for Drone Connectivity via Flying-RIS and Base Station.
11.20-11.40
4. A Federated Multi-Task Learning Framework with Dual Attention Mechanisms for Smart Buildings.
11.40-12:00
5. A TinyML Approach for the Classification of Bean Crop Diseases.
12:00-12.20
6. Enhancing Communication-Efficient Federated Learning for Human Activity Recognition Through Knowledge Distillation.
12.20-12.40
7. Providing Edge to Cloud Continuum with Adaptive Model Selection and Operational Score.
12:40-13:40 Lunch Break
13.40-15.30
Session Chair: Ali Hassan Sodhro and Sandeep Pirbhulal
Session 3: Energy-efficiency, Trust and Security for Decentralized IoT Systems
13:40-14.00
8. Scalable Energy-Efficiency Optimization in MEC-Enabled IIoT: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Perspective.
14.00-14.20
9. Throughput Evaluation in Actual User Distribution for Adaptive C-RAN with Crowdsourced Radio Unit.
14.20-14.40
12. Decentralized IoT-Edge Computing: An LSTM-based Federated Learning Framework for Personalized Task Failure Prediction
14.40-15.00
10. FedTrust: Modelling Adaptive Trust-Risk for IoT-enabled Federated Decentralized Systems (Online)
15.00-15.20
11. Machine Learning-Powered Malware Detection in Encrypted IoT Traffic (Online)
15.20-15.30
Concluding Remarks: Ali Hassan Sodhro and Sadeep Pirbhulal
Co-Organizer’s Bios:
Ali Hassan Sodhro:
Dr. Ali Hassan Sodhro, currently working as a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at Department of Computer Science, Kristianstad University, Sweden since 2021. He has more than 15 years of academic experience at international level in different countries for example, Sweden, France, Italy, China, and Pakistan. Dr. Ali served as a Lecturer in Department of Computer and System Science, Mid-Sweden University, Östersund (2021) and visiting Lecturer in Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden (2020-2021).
Dr. Sodhro worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden (2020-2021), and Computer and Information Science Department, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden (2018-2020). He was recipient of the prestigious Erasmus Mundus’s award as the Postdoctoral Research Fellow at DISP LAB University Lumiere Lyon2, France under SMARTLINK Project (2017-2018). He served as an Assistant Professor (2016-2017) and Lecturer (2009-2016) in Electrical Engineering Department, Sukkur IBA University (SIBAU), Sukkur, Sindh Pakistan.
He obtained his PhD in Computer Applications Technology from Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (SIAT, CAS), Shenzhen, China, and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), Beijing China (2016), and both his M.E (Communication Systems and Networks), and B.E (Telecommunication Engineering) from Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, Sindh, Pakistan in 2011 and 2008, respectively.
Dr. Sodhro is a highly cited researcher (google scholar citations: 4700, h-index: 38, i-10 index: 69) and featured in the list of world’s top 2% Global Scientists published by Stanford University for five consecutive years (2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, and 2020) due to his outstanding research contribution in the smart and wearable healthcare, Edge Computing, IoT, 5G and Security.
Dr. Sodhro is the recipient of several international awards such as,
• Winner of Obada Prize: Young Distinguished Researcher, 2022 (Obada-Prize is an international award, supported by the Natural Sciences Publishing (NSP) and African Academy of Sciences, and initiated as a recognition of his excellence Professor Abdel-Shafy Obada. The Obada Prize recognizes and encourages innovative and interdisciplinary research that cuts across traditional boundaries and paradigms).
• Visiting Scientists: Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) President’s International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI) 2019/2020, China, 2020-2023.
• Erasmus Mundus’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow Award: for SMARTLINK (South-East-West Mobility for Advanced Research, Learning, Innovation, Network and Knowledge) Project, Decision, and Information Systems for Production Systems (DISP) LAB, University Lumiere Lyon 2, Lyon, Bron-69500, France, 2017-2018
Dr. Sodhro is passionate and conducts research in emerging areas such as Internet of Things (IoT), wearable and smart healthcare, Wireless Body Sensor Networks, Green and Battery-aware ICT, Multimedia Transmission, Big Data Analytics, Edge AI, physical layer security for 5G and 6G technologies.
He has published 100+ research articles in top-notch journals (i.e., IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII), IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation System (T-ITS), IEEE IoT-J, IEEE Sensors Journal), and conference proceedings i.e., IEEE ICC 2020, IEEE 99th VTC 2023, IEEE 100th VTC 2024).
Dr. Sodhro is currently (2023-2027) serving an active working group member of the two European Cooperation in Science and Technology (e-COST) actions (CA22168- Physical layer security for trustworthy and resilient 6G systems (6G-PHYSEC), and CA22104:Behavioral Next Generation in Wireless Networks for Cyber Security (BEiNGWISE) on emerging and timely topics such as, and previously served as an MC Substitute and working group member in various other e-COST actions (CA16116-Wearable Robots, Augmentation, Assistance or Substitution of Human Motor Function, and CA16226-Indoor living space improvement: Smart Habitat for the Elderly) from 2019-2021
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He has supervised 10 Master, 30 bachelor’s and co-supervised 3-PhD theses.
Dr. Sodhro is serving as an Associate Editor of highly reputable journals i.e., IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation System (T-ITS), IET Communications, IET Electronics Letters, Telecommunications System Journal, and Technical Editor of Computer Communication, Elsevier. Also, he served as a Guest Editor of several special issues in various top-notch journals such as, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII), Sensors MDPI, Electronics MDPI.
Since, last four years (2019-2024), he is the Organizing Chair of the Workshop on Decentralized Technologies and Applications for IoT (D’IoT) in conjunction with the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC).
Sandeep Pirbhulal:
Dr. Sandeep Pirbhulal received his Ph.D. degree in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (SIAT-UCAS), China (2014-2018). He has also received a PhD degree equivalence from the University of Beira Interior (UBI), Covilha, Portugal, in October 2020. In addition, he did his Master’s Degree in Telecommunication and Networks (2012-2014), and Bachelor’s Degree in Telecommunication Engineering (2007-2011) from Karachi Institutes of Economics and Technology (KIET), and Mehran University of Engineering and Technology (MUET), Pakistan, respectively. He is currently working as a senior research scientist at Norwegian Computing Center, Norway. Moreover, he served as a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science, KIET, Pakistan, from 2013 to 2014. He was also a research scholar at SIAT-UCAS China (2018-2019), and UBI Portugal (2019-2020), NTNU Norway (2020-2021).
Dr. Pirbhulal has vast experience of 7-8 years in Academia & Research. His current research focuses on critical infrastructure security, tele-healthcare, network security, information security, privacy, and security for WSNs, wireless body sensor networks (WSNs), and Internet of Things. He has published more than 85 scientific articles (including peer-reviewed journals and international conferences) with 2002 citations on Google scholar, an H-index of 25, and an i-index of 41 comprising IEEE Transactions, Elsevier’s JCR Q1 other high impact factor venues. He has reviewed more than 100 papers in the reputed peer-reviewed journal such as IEEE Access, IEEE JBHI, IEEE transactions etc. He is an editorial board member of MDPI Signals Journal (since 2020). Since, three years (2019-2021), he is the Organizing Chair of the Workshop on Decentralized Technologies and Applications for IoT (D’IoT) in conjunction with the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC). He also serves as a TPC member of several conferences, seminars, and workshops at the national and international levels. Global Research Recognition: Dr. Sandeep Pirbhulal has achieved an outstanding achievement globally by featuring in Stanford University’s Top 2% Global Scientists List 2020 and 2021 due to my noteworthy research contributions in IoT, informatics, data privacy, cybersecurity, communication, and networks.
Muhammad Muzammal:
Dr. Muhammad Muzammal is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. He was an AI consultant with the Ministry of Education, UAE and a faculty member at Bahria University, Pakistan. He was also a Visiting Associate Professor under CAS President’s International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI) at the Centre of Big Mobile Intelligence, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shenzhen, and the Vice Director of the Guangdong Provincial Research and Development Centre of Blockchain and Distributed IoT Security, Guangdong, China. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Leicester, U.K, in 2012. His research interests are in large scale data mining, including algorithm design and mobility data mining. Recently, he is interested in block-chain technology with a focus on decentralized systems and mining.
To submit a paper, please visit: https://vtc2025s-rr-wks.trackchair.com/track/2362