MASTEAM talks - Dr Jordi Herrera - Blockchain technology: a possible IoT enabler

The Master's degree in Applied Telecommunications and Engineering Management (MASTEAM) organizes a weekly series of activities (talks, technical visits, discussion pannels) that complement the academic activities with real-world experiences from companies, research centres and institutions in the main topics of the master: Internet of Things. Smart Cities, Network Security, 5G mobile communications, Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Radio (SDR), cloud computing, augmented reality and audiovisual services, among others. 

This week's activity will be a talk from Dr Jordi Herrera (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona UAB).

March 8, 17:30h (duration 1h), Building C4, Classroom 021B, EETAC, Campus Castelldefels UPC. How to arrive.

Title: Blockchain technology: a possible IoT enabler.

Abstract: Blockchain technology has emerged as a new paradigm for dealing with distributed systems in which users/nodes do not have a trust relationship. The first application of blockchain technology appeared in 2009 as the Bitcoin mechanism to keep track of the cryptocurrency transactions and avoid double-spending. Since then, other extensions of this technology have been proposed. This talk will provide the basic concepts to understand blockchain technology analyzing which cryptographic tools and consensus mechanism are used in those systems. We also analyze its main properties and we envisage which are the benefits and challenges that blockchain could provide to IoT environments.

Bio: Jordi Jordi Herrera-Joancomartí is associate professor at Department of Information and Communications Engineering in the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). He finished a graduate in Mathematics at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and he received his Ph.D. degree from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. His research interests include topics in the field of privacy, computer security and cryptography with special dedication to blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies. He coauthored over 100 research papers in both national and international publications and he has participated as invited speaker in various conferences. He has been general chair and program chair in different security related conferences and editor of several volumes of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science. He has acted as a Principal Investigator in national and international projects and he reviews projects for the European Commission as well as for the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Education.

More: http://www.deic.uab.cat/~jherrera/