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Blockchain has been considered as an important technique to enable secure management of virtual network functions and network slices. To understand such capabilities of a blockchain, e.g. transaction confirmation time, demands a thorough…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Befekadu G. Gebraselase , Bjarne E. Helvik , Yuming Jiang

Blockchain as an emerging technology has transformed many traditional and conventional ecosystems and business models. Publication review system is one of the interesting subjects for transformation. The conventional models of publication…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Omid Fatahi Valilai

Blockchains are still perceived chiefly as a new technology. But each blockchain is also a community and a social experiment, built around social consensus. Here I discuss three examples showing how collective intelligence can help, threat…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-07-13 Andrea Baronchelli

Since Facebook officially changed its name to Metaverse in Oct. 2021, the metaverse has become a new norm of social networks and three-dimensional (3D) virtual worlds. The metaverse aims to bring 3D immersive and personalized experiences to…

The internet of things (IoT) and other emerging ubiquitous technologies are supporting the rapid spread of smart systems, which has underlined the need for safe, open, and decentralized data storage solutions. With its inherent…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Naseem Alsadi , Syed Zaidi , Mankaran Rooprai , Stephen A. Gadsden , John Yawney

Spectrum sharing has long been considered as method to improve spectrum resource utilization. Centralized geolocation database approach has been accepted globally for commercial applications. Recently blockchain has been considered as a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Chen Sun , Shuo Wang

Blockchain has been increasingly used as a software component to enable decentralisation in software architecture for a variety of applications. Blockchain governance has received considerable attention to ensure the safe and appropriate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Yue Liu , Qinghua Lu , Liming Zhu , Hye-Young Paik , Mark Staples

In the current legal environment, it is essential to prioritize the protection and reliability of data to promote trust and effectiveness. This study examines how blockchain technology in the form of blockLAW can be applicable to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Bishwo Prakash Pokharel , Naresh Kshetri

We argue that the principal application for blockchain technology will not be in the financial sector, but rather in maintaining decentralized human governance, from archives to transparent policies encoded in the blockchain in the form of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Jarrad Hope , Peter Ludlow

The Bitcoin Network is a sophisticated accounting system that allows its underlying cryptocurrency to be trusted even in the absence of a reliable financial authority. Given its undeniable success, the technology, generally referred to as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Giulio Caldarelli

Electronic invoicing is another area where blockchain technology is being used. Additionally, it has the power to alter how payments are made, invoices are issued, and transactions are validated. Using a blockchain-based invoicing system…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Nikhil Sontakke , Shivansh Rastogi , Sejal Utekar , Shriraj Sonawane

Blockchain technology, originally popularized by cryptocurrencies, has been proposed as an infrastructure technology with applications in many areas of business management. Blockchains provide an immutable record of transactions, which…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Joerg Evermann , Henry Kim

"Code is law" refers to the idea that, with the advent of digital technology, code has progressively established itself as the predominant way to regulate the behavior of Internet users. Yet, while computer code can enforce rules more…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Primavera De Filippi , Samer Hassan

Blockchain technology has become a thriving topic in the last years, making possible to transform old-fashioned operations to more fast, secured, and cheap approaches. In this study we explore the potential of blockchain for biometrics,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Oscar Delgado-Mohatar , Julian Fierrez , Ruben Tolosana , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez

The primary purpose of this paper is to provide a design of a blockchain-based system, which produces a verifiable record of achievements. Such a system has a wide range of potential benefits for students, employers and higher education…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Bakri Awaji , Ellis Solaiman , Lindsay Marshall

The sixth generation (6G) network must provide performance superior to previous generations in order to meet the requirements of emerging services and applications, such as multi-gigabit transmission rate, even higher reliability, sub 1…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Hao Xu , Paulo Valente Klaine , Oluwakayode Onireti , Bin Cao , Muhammad Imran , Lei Zhang

Blockchain (BC), the technology behind the Bitcoin crypto-currency system, is considered to be both alluring and critical for ensuring enhanced security and (in some implementations, non-traceable) privacy for diverse applications in many…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-14 Mahdi H. Miraz , Maaruf Ali

The philosophy of blockchain technology is concerned, among other things, with blockchain ontology, how it might be characterised, how it is being created, implemented, and adopted, how it operates in the world, and how it evolves over…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Renato P. dos Santos

Blockchain is widely applied in logistics, finance, and agriculture. As single blockchain users grow, scalability becomes crucial. However, existing works lack a comprehensive summary of blockchain scalability. They focus on single chains…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Baochao Chen , Liyuan Ma , Hao Xu , Juncheng Ma , Dengcheng Hu , Xiulong Liu , Jie Wu , Jianrong Wang , Keqiu Li

Emerging technologies, such as Blockchain and the Internet of Things (IoT), have had an immense role in propelling the agricultural industry towards the fourth agricultural revolution. Blockchain and IoT can greatly improve the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-12-08 David Cuellar , Zechariah Johnson