Guest Editorial Introduction to the Special Section on Blockchain in Future Networks and Vertical Industries

The articles in this special section focus on blockchain deployment future networks and vertical industries. Blockchain has been successfully applied into a number of sectors, including finance, energy, logistics supply chains, due to its ability creating tamper-proof digital ledger transactions the resulting novel trust mechanisms. Future will be heterogeneous, connecting together satellite, 5G, Internet, marine networks, so on; security management is major issue such kind integrated converged networks. technology promising solution achieve desired level e.g., reliable network data collection evaluation. However, application industries heterogeneous still infancy. Many challenging issues need resolved before can deployed real-world networking environments.