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Critical servers can be secured against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks using proof of work (PoW) systems assisted by an Artificial Intelligence (AI) that learns contextual network request patterns. In this work, we introduce…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Trisha Chakraborty , Shaswata Mitra , Sudip Mittal

Proof-of-Work (PoW) is a fundamental method in decentralized digital networks for establishing consensus on a shared ledger. By requiring network participants to solve a mathematical puzzle, PoW maintains network integrity. However, PoW has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Chong Guan

Proof-of-work (PoW) is an algorithmic tool used to secure networks by imposing a computational cost on participating devices. Unfortunately, traditional PoW schemes require that correct devices perform computational work perpetually, even…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Diksha Gupta , Jared Saia , Maxwell Young

We revisit the longstanding open problem of implementing Nakamoto's proof-of-work (PoW) consensus based on a real-world computational task $T(x)$ (as opposed to artificial random hashing), in a truly permissionless setting where the miner…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Ilan Komargodski , Omri Weinstein

PAI Coin's Proof-of-Work (PoW) consensus mechanism utilizes the double SHA-256 hashing protocol-- the same mechanism used by Bitcoin Core. This compatibility with classic Bitcoin-style mining provides low barrier to entry for PAI Coin…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Mark Harvilla , Jincheng Du

The protocol for cryptocurrencies can be divided into three parts, namely consensus, wallet, and networking overlay. The aim of the consensus part is to bring trustless rational peer-to-peer nodes to an agreement to the current status of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Sangjun Park , Haeung Choi , Heung-No Lee

Proof-of-work(PoW) is an algorithmic tool used to secure networks by imposing a computational cost on participating devices. Unfortunately, traditional PoW schemes require that correct devices perform significant computational work in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Diksha Gupta , Jared Saia , Maxwell Young

Proof-of-Work (PoW) systems face critical challenges, including excessive energy consumption and the centralization of mining power among entities with expensive hardware. Static mining pools exacerbate these issues by reducing competition…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Rizwanul Haque , SM Tareq Aziz , Tahrim Hossain , Faisal Haque Bappy , Muhammad Nur Yanhaona , Tariqul Islam

Proof of work (PoW), the most popular consensus mechanism for Blockchain, requires ridiculously large amounts of energy but without any useful outcome beyond determining accounting rights among miners. To tackle the drawback of PoW, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Xidi Qu , Shengling Wang , Qin Hu , Xiuzhen Cheng

Artificial Intelligence brings innovations into the society. However, bias and unethical exist in many algorithms that make the applications less trustworthy. Threats hunting algorithms based on machine learning have shown great advantage…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Shuangbao Paul Wang , Paul Mullin

The increasing reliance on AI-driven 5G/6G network infrastructures for mission-critical services highlights the need for reliability and resilience against sophisticated cyber-physical threats. These networks are highly exposed to novel…

Lightweight authentication is essential for resource-constrained Internet-of-Things (IoT). Implementable with low resource and operable with low power, Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) have the potential as hardware primitives for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yu Zhuang , Gaoxiang Li

In today's society, where Artificial Intelligence (AI) has gained a vital role, concerns regarding user's trust have garnered significant attention. The use of AI systems in high-risk domains have often led users to either under-trust it,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Siddharth Mehrotra , Ujwal Gadiraju , Eva Bittner , Folkert van Delden , Catholijn M. Jonker , Myrthe L. Tielman

We consider the problem of how a trusted, but computationally bounded agent (a 'verifier') can learn to interact with one or more powerful but untrusted agents ('provers') in order to solve a given task. More specifically, we study the case…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Lewis Hammond , Sam Adam-Day

Proof of work (PoW), as the representative consensus protocol for blockchain, consumes enormous amounts of computation and energy to determine bookkeeping rights among miners but does not achieve any practical purposes. To address the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Yuntao Wang , Haixia Peng , Zhou Su , Tom H Luan , Abderrahim Benslimane , Yuan Wu

PHICOIN (PHI) is a high-performance cryptocurrency based on the Proof-of-Work (PoW) mechanism. It aims to provide ordinary users with decentralized participation opportunities through an improved and innovative mining algorithm and fair…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Guang Yang , Peter Trinh , Sannan Iqbal , Justin Zhang

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

The stability of Internet services is persistently challenged by large volumetric TCP SYN floods, for which conventional defenses such as SYN Cookies preserve server state but still amplify bandwidth pressure. This paper presents SDN-SYN…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Wenyang Jia , Jingjing Wang , Xianneng Zou , Kai Lei

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

A proof of work (PoW) is an important cryptographic construct enabling a party to convince others that they invested some effort in solving a computational task. Arguably, its main impact has been in the setting of cryptocurrencies such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-15 Alexandru Cojocaru , Juan Garay , Aggelos Kiayias , Fang Song , Petros Wallden
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