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In earlier work, we showed that it is possible to achieve $O(\log N)$ streaming delay with high probability in a peer-to-peer network, where each peer has as little as four neighbors, while achieving any arbitrary fraction of the maximum…

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Many spreading processes in our real-life can be considered as a complex contagion, and the linear threshold (LT) model is often applied as a very representative model for this mechanism. Despite its intensive usage, the LT model suffers…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-08-18 Yijun Ran , Xiaomin Deng , Xiaomeng Wang , Tao Jia

High availability of data is responsible for the current trends in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). However, high-grade datasets are reluctantly shared between actors because of lacking trust and fear of losing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Philipp Lüthi , Thibault Gagnaux , Marcel Gygli

Percolation theory has been largely used in the study of structural properties of complex networks such as the robustness, with remarkable results. Nevertheless, a purely topological description is not sufficient for a correct…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Luca Dall'Asta

This paper addresses the problem of online network topology inference for expanding graphs from a stream of spatiotemporal signals. Online algorithms for dynamic graph learning are crucial in delay-sensitive applications or when changes in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Samuel Rey , Bishwadeep Das , Elvin Isufi

We show that the standard discrete update rule of transformer layers can be naturally interpreted as a forward Euler discretization of a continuous dynamical system. Our Transformer Flow Approximation Theorem demonstrates that, under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Jacob Fein-Ashley

Blockchain offers a decentralized, immutable, transparent system of records. It offers a peer-to-peer network of nodes with no centralised governing entity making it unhackable and therefore, more secure than the traditional paper-based or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Harsh Jot Singh , Abdelhakim Senhaji Hafid

The growth potential of a crypto(currency) project can be measured by the use cases spurred by the underlying technology. However, these projects are usually distributed, with a weak feedback schemes. Hence, a metric that is widely used as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Maurantonio Caprolu , Roberto Di Pietro , Flavio Lombardi , Elia Onofri

We study two random processes on an $n$-vertex graph inspired by the internal diffusion limited aggregation (IDLA) model. In both processes $n$ particles start from an arbitrary but fixed origin. Each particle performs a simple random walk…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Nicolas Rivera , Alexandre Stauffer , Thomas Sauerwald , John Sylvester

Note that the serial structure of blockchain has many essential pitfalls, thus a data network structure and its DAG-based blockchain are introduced to resolve the blockchain pitfalls. From such a network perspective, analysis of the…

Performance · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Xing-Shuo Song , Quan-Lin Li , Yan-Xia Chang , Chi Zhang

Blockchain has been regarded as a promising technology for Internet of Things (IoT), since it provides significant solutions for decentralized network which can address trust and security concerns, high maintenance cost problem, etc. The…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Bin Cao , Yixin Li , Lei Zhang , Long Zhang , Shahid Mumtaz , Zhenyu Zhou , Mugen Peng

The Internet of Things (IoT) and Distributed ledger technology (DLT) have significantly changed our daily lives. Due to their distributed operational environment and naturally decentralized applications, the convergence of these two…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Rongxin Xu , Qiujun Lan , Shiva Raj Pokhrel , Gang Li

We introduce a model for decentralized networks with collaborating peers. The model is based on the stable matching theory which is applied to systems with a global ranking utility function. We consider the dynamics of peers searching for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Anh-Tuan Gai , Fabien Mathieu , Julien Reynier , Fabien De Montgolfier

Modelling fluid turbulence using a `skeleton' of coherent structures has traditionally progressed by focusing on a few canonical laboratory experiments such as pipe flow and Taylor-Couette flow. We here consider the stratified inclined…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-14 Adrien Lefauve , Yui Hin Marvil Cheung , Xianyang Jiang , Miles M. P. Couchman

The success of blockchains has sparked interest in large-scale deployments of Byzantine fault tolerant (BFT) consensus protocols over wide area networks. A central feature of such networks is variable communication bandwidth across nodes…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Lei Yang , Seo Jin Park , Mohammad Alizadeh , Sreeram Kannan , David Tse

Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs) are playing a major role in building security and trust in Internet of Things (IoT) systems. However, IoT deployments with a large number of devices, such as in environment monitoring applications,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Lam D. Nguyen , Israel Leyva-Mayorga , Petar Popovski

Threshold cryptography is a powerful and well-known technique with many applications to systems relying on distributed trust. It has recently emerged also as a solution to challenges in blockchain: frontrunning prevention, managing wallet…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Mariarosaria Barbaraci , Noah Schmid , Orestis Alpos , Michael Senn , Christian Cachin

We consider a stochastic model of Internet congestion control, introduced by Massouli\'{e} and Roberts [Telecommunication Systems 15 (2000) 185--201], that represents the randomly varying number of flows in a network where bandwidth is…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-03-03 H. Christian Gromoll , Ruth J. Williams

Blockchain is a technology uniquely suited to support massive number of transactions and smart contracts within the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem, thanks to the decentralized accounting mechanism. In a blockchain network, the states of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Pietro Danzi , Anders Ellersgaard Kalør , Čedomir Stefanović , Petar Popovski

This work introduces a novel approach for the governance of a blockchain containing social constructs and technical viability for widescale applications for the next generation of distributed ledgers. Functional requirements for this new…

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