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Blockchains rely on a consensus among participants to achieve decentralization and security. However, reaching consensus in an online, digital world where identities are not tied to physical users is a challenging problem. Proof-of-work…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Hjalmar Turesson , Henry M. Kim , Marek Laskowski , Alexandra Roatis

This paper introduces Proof of Team Sprint (PoTS), a novel consensus algorithm designed to address the significant energy inefficiencies inherent in traditional Proof of Work (PoW) systems. PoTS shifts the consensus mechanism from an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Naoki Yonezawa

Facilitated by mobile edge computing, client-edge-cloud hierarchical federated learning (HFL) enables communication-efficient model training in a widespread area but also incurs additional security and privacy challenges from intermediate…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Shengyang Li , Qin Hu , Zhilin Wang

Proof-of-Work (PoW) is a popular consensus protocol used by Bitcoin since its inception. PoW has the well-known flaw of assigning all the reward to the single miner (or pool) that inserts the new block. This has the consequence of making…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Danilo Bazzanella , Andrea Gangemi

Energy shortfall and electricity load shedding are the main problems for developing countries. The main causes are lack of management in the energy sector and the use of non-renewable energy sources. The improved energy management and use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Muhammad Shoaib Farooq , Azeen Ahmed Hayat

The security and decentralization of Proof-of-Work (PoW) have been well-tested in existing blockchain systems. However, its tremendous energy waste has raised concerns about sustainability. Proof-of-Useful-Work (PoUW) aims to redirect the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Weihang Cao , Mustafa Doger , Sennur Ulukus

Blockchain has widely been adopted to design accountable federated learning frameworks; however, the existing frameworks do not scale for distributed model training over multiple independent blockchain networks. For storing the pre-trained…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Sarthak Chakraborty , Sandip Chakraborty

Proof-of-Work (PoW) consensus mechanism is popular among current blockchain systems, which leads to an increasing concern about the tremendous waste of energy due to massive meaningless computation. To address this issue, we propose a novel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Canhui Chen , Zerui Cheng , Shutong Qu , Zhixuan Fang

Proof-of-Work (PoW) consensus is traditionally analyzed under the assumption that all miners incur similar costs per unit of computational effort. In reality, costs vary due to factors such as regional electricity cost differences and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Yogev Bar-On , Ilan Komargodski , Omri Weinstein

Although proof of work (PoW) consensus dominates the current blockchain-based systems mostly, it has always been criticized for the uneconomic brute-force calculation. As alternatives, energy-conservation and energy-recycling mechanisms…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Shengling Wang , Lina Shi , Hongwei Shi , Yifang Zhang , Qin Hu , Xiuzhen Cheng

Federated machine learning (FL) allows to collectively train models on sensitive data as only the clients' models and not their training data need to be shared. However, despite the attention that research on FL has drawn, the concept still…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Timon Rückel , Johannes Sedlmeir , Peter Hofmann

Ensemble learning combines results from multiple machine learning models in order to provide a better and optimised predictive model with reduced bias, variance and improved predictions. However, in federated learning it is not feasible to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Ali Raza , Kim Phuc Tran , Ludovic Koehl , Shujun Li

Federated Learning (FL) has recently arisen as a revolutionary approach to collaborative training Machine Learning models. According to this novel framework, multiple participants train a global model collaboratively, coordinating with a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Sameera K. M. , Serena Nicolazzo , Marco Arazzi , Antonino Nocera , Rafidha Rehiman K. A. , Vinod P , Mauro Conti

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that allows multiple decentralized clients to collaboratively learn a common model without sharing local data. Although local data is not exposed directly, privacy concerns…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Tongxin Yin , Xuwei Tan , Xueru Zhang , Mohammad Mahdi Khalili , Mingyan Liu

Bitcoin mining is a wasteful and resource-intensive process. To add a block of transactions to the blockchain, miners spend a considerable amount of energy. The Bitcoin protocol, named 'proof of work' (PoW), resembles a lottery and the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Andrei Lihu , Jincheng Du , Igor Barjaktarevic , Patrick Gerzanics , Mark Harvilla

A blockchain is a decentralized ledger where all transactions are recorded. For having a reliable blockchain and double-spending prevention, we need a decentralized consensus and agreement on a blockchain. Bitcoin uses proof-of-work (PoW).…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Siamak Solat

While centralized servers pose a risk of being a single point of failure, decentralized approaches like blockchain offer a compelling solution by implementing a consensus mechanism among multiple entities. Merging distributed computing with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Ji Liu , Chunlu Chen , Yu Li , Lin Sun , Yulun Song , Jingbo Zhou , Bo Jing , Dejing Dou

Message exchange among vehicles plays an important role in ensuring road safety. Emergency message dissemination is usually carried out by broadcasting. However, high vehicle density and mobility usually lead to challenges in message…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Ferheen Ayaz , Zhengguo Sheng , Daxin Tian , Yong Liang Guan

Popular distributed ledger technology (DLT) systems using proof-of-work (PoW) for Sybil attack resistance have extreme energy requirements, drawing stern criticism from academia, businesses, and the media. DLT systems building on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Moritz Platt , Johannes Sedlmeir , Daniel Platt , Paolo Tasca , Jiahua Xu , Nikhil Vadgama , Juan Ignacio Ibañez

Motivated by the explosive computing capabilities at end user equipments, as well as the growing privacy concerns over sharing sensitive raw data, a new machine learning paradigm, named federated learning (FL) has emerged. By training…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Chuan Ma , Jun Li , Ming Ding , Long Shi , Taotao Wang , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor