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The convergence of mobile edge computing (MEC) and blockchain is transforming the current computing services in mobile networks, by offering task offloading solutions with security enhancement empowered by blockchain mining. Nevertheless,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-30 Dinh C. Nguyen , Ming Ding , Pubudu N. Pathirana , Aruna Seneviratne , Jun Li , H. Vincent Poor

Blockchain protocols are inherently limited in transaction throughput and latency. Recent efforts to address performance and scale blockchains have focused on off-chain payment channels. While such channels can achieve low latency and high…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Joshua Lind , Ittay Eyal , Peter Pietzuch , Emin Gün Sirer

Machine Learning systems rely on data for training, input and ongoing feedback and validation. Data in the field can come from varied sources, often anonymous or unknown to the ultimate users of the data. Whenever data is sourced and used,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Iain Barclay , Alun Preece , Ian Taylor , Dinesh Verma

As an append-only distributed database, blockchain is utilized in a vast variety of applications including the cryptocurrency and Internet-of-Things (IoT). The existing blockchain solutions show downsides in communication and storage…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Yahya Hassanzadeh-Nazarabadi , Alptekin Küpçü , Öznur Özkasap

Topos is an open interoperability protocol designed to reduce as much as possible trust assumptions by replacing them with cryptographic constructions and decentralization while exhibiting massive scalability. The protocol does not make use…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Théo Gauthier , Sébastien Dan , Monir Hadji , Antonella Del Pozzo , Yackolley Amoussou-Guenou

With the proliferation of intelligent healthcare systems, patients' Personal Health Records (PHR) generated by the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) in real-time play a vital role in disease diagnosis. The integration of emerging blockchain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Yongyang Lv , Xiaohong Li , Kui Chen , Zhe Hou , Guangdong Bai , Ruitao Feng

Blockchain has been widely deployed in various sectors, such as finance, education, and public services. Since blockchain runs as an immutable distributed ledger, it has decentralized mechanisms with persistency, anonymity, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Qian Wei , Bingzhe Li , Wanli Chang , Zhiping Jia , Zhaoyan Shen , Zili Shao

Autonomous AI agents present transformative opportunities and significant governance challenges. Existing frameworks, such as the EU AI Act and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, fall short of addressing the complexities of these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Tomer Jordi Chaffer , Charles von Goins , Bayo Okusanya , Dontrail Cotlage , Justin Goldston

Cryptocurrency can be understood as a digital asset transacted among participants in the crypto economy. Every cryptocurrency must have an associated Blockchain. Blockchain is a Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) which supports…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Carlos Alberto Durigan Junior , Fernando Jose Barbin Laurindo

Modern society functions on trust. The onchain economy, however, is built on the founding principles of trustless peer-to-peer interactions in an adversarial environment without a centralised body of trust and needs a verifiable system to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Himanshu Udupi , Ashutosh Sahoo , Akshay S. P. , Gurukiran S. , Parag Paul , Petrus C. Martens

Blockchain based federated learning is a distributed learning scheme that allows model training without participants sharing their local data sets, where the blockchain components eliminate the need for a trusted central server compared to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Huiyu Wu , Diego Klabjan

The emerging Internet of Things (IoT) is facing significant scalability and security challenges. On the one hand, IoT devices are "weak" and need external assistance. Edge computing provides a promising direction addressing the deficiency…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Jianli Pan , Jianyu Wang , Austin Hester , Ismail Alqerm , Yuanni Liu , Ying Zhao

In this white paper, we propose a blockchain-based system, named AME, which is a decentralized infrastructure and application platform with enhanced security and self-management properties. The AME blockchain technology aims to increase the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Lanny Z. N. Yuan , Huaibing Jian , Peng Liu , Pengxin Zhu , ShanYang Fu

Researchers all over the world are employing a variety of analysis approaches in attempt to provide a safer and faster solution for sharing resources via a Multi-access Edge Computing system. Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) is a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Zain Khaliq , Ahmed Refaey Hussein

The proposed paper presents a literature review regarding the status of integrating the dynamic blockchain technology in the educational field. Blockchain is a relatively new technology and the same is its implementation in education. The…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Cristina Turcu , Cornel Turcu , Iuliana Chiuchisan

An increasing number of distributed platforms combine Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) with blockchains. Indeed, many hail the combination of TEEs and blockchains a good "marriage": TEEs bring confidential computing to the blockchain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Annika Wilde , Tim Niklas Gruel , Claudio Soriente , Ghassan Karame

Banking as an essential service can be hard to access in remote, rural regions where the network connectivity is intermittent. Although micro-banking has been made possible by SMS or USSD messages in some places, their security flaws and…

Blockchain has been promoted as a remedy for coordination in fragmented, multi-stakeholder ecosystems, yet many projects stall at pilot stage. Using a design-science approach, we develop the Hybrid Cooperative (HC), a digitally native…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Henrik Axelsen , Jan Damsgaard

In recent years, the healthcare sector's transition to digital platforms has intensified concerns over data security, privacy, and scalability. Blockchain technology offers a decentralized, secure, and immutable solution to these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Reza Javan , Mehrzad Mohammadi , Mohammad Beheshti-Atashgah , Mohammad Reza Aref

With the innovation of distributed ledger technology (DLT), often known as blockchain technology, there has been significant growth of digital tokens in the form of cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, and central bank digital currencies. As the…