Telecom SIG Reading List

White Papers

• Blockchain @ Telco: How blockchain can impact the telecommunications industryand its relevance to the C-Suite
• Reimagining telecommunications with blockchains
• The Time Is Now For Blockchain Enabled-Cloud Delivered Network Security
• The Blockchain-enabled Future of Telecommunications

POC

https://www.colt.net/resources/colt-and-pccw-global-demonstrate-speedy-payment-settlements-using-blockchain-technology/

https://inform.tmforum.org/internet-of-everything/2018/02/action-week-telecom-industry-need-blockchain/

Telecom Blockchain Consortium

ETSI  Industry Specification Group on Permissioned Distributed Ledger (ISG PDL) https://www.etsi.org/committee?id=1473

https://newsroom.sprint.com/softbank-sprint-far-eastone-and-tbcasoft-launch-blockchain-consortium-for-telecom-carriers.htm

https://www.zain.com/en/press/ZAIN_blockchain/

https://inform.tmforum.org/catalyst/2018/06/37513/

Articles

https://news.itu.int/blockchain-telecom-business-support-systems/

https://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/news/450423763/Cisco-says-blockchain-ledger-technology-has-networking-role

https://www.lightreading.com/blockchain/colt-ramps-its-blockchain-efforts-explores-sdn-federation-use-case/d/d-id/745782

Patents

Cryptographically managing telecommunications settlement

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20170078493

Research papers

[1] Blockchain-based Decentralized Applications for Multi Administrative Domain Networking.

https://intrig.dca.fee.unicamp.br/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Blockchain-MD-Networking-IEEE-Commag-Standards-Sep-2018-preprint.pdf

[2] Blockchain-Based Decentralised Cloud/Fog Solutions: Challenges, Opportunities and Standards

[3] Smart Contract Negotiation in Cloud Computing

[4] VeidBlock: Verifiable Identity using Blockchain and Ledger in a Software Defined Network