Blockchains in 6G (ePub)

Dr. Diego R. Lopez joined Telefónica in 2011 as a Senior Technology Expert and is currently in charge of the Technology Exploration activities within the GCTIO Unit. Before joining Telefónica he spent some years in the academic sector, dedicated to research on network services, and was appointed member of the High-Level Expert Group on Scientific Data Infrastructures by the European Commission. Diego is currently focused on applied research in network infrastructures, with a special emphasis on virtualization, data-driven management, new architectures, and security. Diego acted as chair of the ETSI ISG on Permissioned Distributed Ledgers from its start until the end of its second term, and is currently chair of ETSI ISG ZSM on network service automation, and of the Network Operator Council ETSI ISG on network function virtualization.

Dr. Chonggang Wang is currently a Principal Engineer with InterDigital Communications. He has more than 20 years of experience in the fields of wireless communications, networking, and computing, including research, development, and standardization. His current research interests include future wireless systems, blockchain and distributed ledger technologies, decentralized and pervasive intelligence, and quantum internet. He participates in industry standardization activities with ETSI, IETF/IRTF, 3GPP, oneM2M, and IEEE. He is Vice Chair of ETIS ISG on Permissioned Distributed Ledgers (PDL) and a member of NextG Alliance Research Council. He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Internet of Things Journal and is currently the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Network - The Magazine of Global Internetworking. He is a Fellow of the IEEE for his contributions to internet of things enabling technologies.