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Off-grid networks are recently emerging as a solution to connect the unconnected or provide alternative services to networks of possibly untrusted participants. The systems currently used, however, exhibit limitations due to their…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Harris Niavis , Nikolaos Papadis , Leandros Tassiulas

Blockchain is a type of decentralized distributed database. Unlike traditional relational database management systems, it does not require management or maintenance by a third party. All data management and update processes are open and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Jiaqi Huang , Yuanzheng Niu , Xiaoqi Li , Zongwei Li

Increasing the transactional throughput of decentralized blockchains in a secure manner has been the holy grail of blockchain research for most of the past decade. This paper introduces a scheme for scaling blockchains while retaining…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-27 John Adler , Mikerah Quintyne-Collins

The Internet of Things (IoT) is experiencing explosive growth and has gained extensive attention from academia and industry in recent years. Most of the existing IoT infrastructures are centralized, in which the presence of a cloud server…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Yannan Li , Willy Susilo , Guomin Yang , Yong Yu , Dongxi Liu , Mohsen Guizani

The convergence of blockchain and the Internet of Things (IoT) enables secure, decentralised, and verifiable data exchange across distributed smart environments. However, traditional blockchain frameworks suffer from inherent scalability…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Hasan Mahmud Rhidoy , Mahdi H. Miraz , Iftekhar Salam

Blockchain technology offers a promising foundation for modernizing E-Voting systems by enhancing transparency, decentralization, and security. Yet, real-world adoption remains limited due to persistent challenges such as scalability…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Kiana Kiashemshaki , Elvis Nnaemeka Chukwuani , Mohammad Jalili Torkamani , Negin Mahmoudi

Blockchain technology ensures secure and trustworthy data flow between multiple participants on the chain, but interoperability of on-chain and off-chain data has always been a difficult problem that needs to be solved. To solve the problem…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Xueying Zeng , Youquan Xian , Chunpei Li , Zhengdong Hu , Aoxiang Zhou , Peng Liu

Distributed Computing in Blockchain Technology (BCT) hinges on a trust assumption among independent nodes. Without a third-party interface or what is known as a Blockchain Oracle, it can not interact with the external world. This Oracle…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Fahad Rahman , Chafiq Titouna , Farid Nait-Abdesselam

There appears to be an insatiable desire for spawning new bespoke blockchains to harness the functionality provided by blockchain technologies, resulting in a constant stream of blockchain start-up companies entering the market with their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Sandra Johnson , Peter Robinson , John Brainard

The rise of fast communication media both at the core and at the edge has resulted in unprecedented numbers of sophisticated and intelligent wireless IoT devices. Tactile Internet has enabled the interaction between humans and machines…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-09-28 Ismaeel Al Ridhawi , Moayad Aloqaily , Yaser Jararweh

Ethereum is an open-source, public, blockchain-based distributed computing platform and operating system featuring smart contract functionality. In this paper, we proposed an Ethereum based eletronic voting (e-voting) protocol, Ques-Chain,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Qixuan Zhang , Bowen Xu , Haotian Jing , Zeyu Zheng

A blockchain-based framework for distributed agile software testing life cycle is an innovative approach that uses blockchain technology to optimize the software testing process. Previously, various methods were employed to address…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Muhammad Shoaib Farooq , Fatima Ahmed

One fundamental limitation of blockchain-based smart contracts is that they execute in a closed environment. Thus, they only have access to data and functionality that is already on the blockchain, or is fed into the blockchain. Any…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Shayan Eskandari , Mehdi Salehi , Wanyun Catherine Gu , Jeremy Clark

This paper outlines why and how blockchain can digitally support and evolve the governance of collaborative project deliveries, such as integrated project deliveries (IPDs), to provide the foundation for novel and disruptive forms of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Jens J. Hunhevicz , Pierre-Antoine Brasey , Marcella M. M. Bonanomi , Daniel M. Hall , Martin Fischer

Interoperability is a significant challenge in blockchain technology, hindering seamless data and service sharing across diverse blockchain networks. This study introduces Automated Gateways as a novel framework leveraging smart contracts…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Koosha Esmaeilzadeh Khorasani , Sara Rouhani , Rui Pan , Vahid Pourheidari

The limitation with smart contracts is that they cannot access external data which might be required to control the execution of business logic. Oracles can be used to provide external data to smart contracts. An oracle is an interface that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Abdeljalil Beniiche

Secure and scalable data sharing is essential for collaborative clinical decision making. Conventional clinical data efforts are often siloed, however, which creates barriers to efficient information exchange and impedes effective treatment…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Peng Zhang , Jules White , Douglas C. Schmidt , Gunther Lenz , S. Trent Rosenbloom

Enabling blockchain technology into IoT can help to achieve a proper distributed consensus based IoT system that overcomes disadvantages of today's centralized infrastructures, such as, among others, high cloud server maintenance costs,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Gokhan Sagirlar , John D. Sheehan , Emanuele Ragnoli

Blockchain technology, introduced in 2008, has revolutionized data storage and transfer across sectors such as finance, healthcare, intelligent transportation, and the metaverse. However, the proliferation of blockchain systems has led to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Zhihong Deng , Chunming Tang , Taotao Li , Parhat Abla , Qi Chen , Wei Liang , Debiao He

The blockchain is a distributed technology which allows establishing trust among unreliable users who interact and perform transactions with each other. While blockchain technology has been mainly used for crypto-currency, it has emerged as…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Hajar Moudoud , Soumaya Cherkaoui , Lyes Khoukhi