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The internet faces a sovereignty crisis due to power concentration and data growth among a few hyperscalers, leading to centralization and loss of user control. This consolidation risks censorship and creates single points of failure. While…

The proliferation of resourceful mobile devices that store rich, multidimensional and privacy-sensitive user data motivate the design of federated learning (FL), a machine-learning (ML) paradigm that enables mobile devices to produce an ML…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Christodoulos Pappas , Dimitris Chatzopoulos , Spyros Lalis , Manolis Vavalis

Serverless computing is becoming widely adopted among cloud providers, thus making increasingly popular the Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) programming model, where the developers realize services by packaging sequences of stateless function…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Claudio Cicconetti , Marco Conti , Andrea Passarella

Web is a primary and essential service to share information among users and organizations at present all over the world. Despite the current significance of such a kind of traffic on the Internet, the so-called Surface Web traffic has been…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Roberto Magán-Carrión , Alberto Abellán-Galera , Gabriel Maciá-Fernández , Pedro García-Teodoro

The rise of Web3 and Decentralized Finance (DeFi) has enabled borderless access to financial services empowered by smart contracts and blockchain technology. However, the ecosystem's trustless, permissionless, and borderless nature presents…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Hesam Sarkhosh , Uzma Maroof , Diogo Barradas

Web3 is leading a wave of the next generation of web services that even many Web2 applications are keen to ride. However, the lack of Web3 background for Web2 developers hinders easy and effective access and transition. On the other hand,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Guangsheng Yu , Xu Wang , Qin Wang , Tingting Bi , Yifei Dong , Ren Ping Liu , Nektarios Georgalas , Andrew Reeves

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) offers a streamlined cloud computing paradigm, but existing centralized systems suffer from vendor lock-in and single points of failure. We propose DeFaaS, a decentralized FaaS system leveraging blockchain…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Rabimba Karanjai , Lei Xu , Lin Chen , Nour Diallo , Weidong Shi

The old mantra of decentralizing the Internet is coming again with fanfare, this time around the blockchain technology hype. We have already seen a technology supposed to change the nature of the Internet: peer-to-peer. The reality is that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Pedro Garcia Lopez , Alberto Montresor , Anwitaman Datta

The third version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is currently in its final standardization phase by the IETF. Besides better security and increased flexibility, it promises benefits in terms of performance. HTTP/3 adopts a more…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Martino Trevisan , Danilo Giordano , Idilio Drago , Ali Safari Khatouni

With the rapid growth of the Internet, human daily life has become deeply bound to the Internet. To take advantage of massive amounts of data and information on the internet, the Web architecture is continuously being reinvented and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Wensheng Gan , Zhenqiang Ye , Shicheng Wan , Philip S. Yu

The huge amount of data generated by the Internet of things (IoT) devices needs the computational power and storage capacity provided by cloud, edge, and fog computing paradigms. Each of these computing paradigms has its own pros and cons.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Binayak Kar , Widhi Yahya , Ying-Dar Lin , Asad Ali

Proponents and developers of Web3 and blockchain argue that these technologies can revolutionize how people live and work by empowering individuals and distributing decision-making power. While technologists often have expansive hopes for…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Amy A. Winecoff , Johannes Lenhard

Virtualization provides an abstraction layer for the Internet of Things technology to tackle the heterogeneity of the edge networks. It enables the deployment of an application on devices with different architectures to achieve uniformity.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Umut Can Özyar , Arda Yurdakul

With the continuous development of web technology, Web3.0 has attracted a considerable amount of attention due to its unique decentralized characteristics. The digital economy is an important driver of high-quality economic development and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Chuan Chen , Lei Zhang , Yihao Li , Tianchi Liao , Siran Zhao , Zibin Zheng , Huawei Huang , Jiajing Wu

The emerging Web 3.0 paradigm aims to decentralize existing web services, enabling desirable properties such as transparency, incentives, and privacy preservation. However, current Web 3.0 applications supported by blockchain infrastructure…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Zibo Wang , Yifei Zhu , Dan Wang , Zhu Han

Most of today's online services (e.g., social networks, search engines, market places) are centralized, which is recognized as unsatisfactory by a majority of users for various reasons (e.g., centralized governance, censorship, loss of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Kadir Korkmaz , Joachim Bruneau-Queyreix , Sonia Ben Mokthar , Laurent Réveillère

The decentralized architecture of Web3 technologies creates fundamental challenges for Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Financing of Terrorism compliance. Traditional regulatory technology solutions designed for centralized financial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Qian'ang Mao , Jiaxin Wang , Ya Liu , Li Zhu , Jiaman Chen , Jiaqi Yan

This paper introduces DMind-3, a sovereign Edge-Local-Cloud intelligence stack designed to secure irreversible financial execution in Web3 environments against adversarial risks and strict latency constraints. While existing cloud-centric…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Enhao Huang , Frank Li , Tony Lin , Lowes Yang

Understanding complex collaboration processes is essential for the success of construction projects. However, there is still a lack of efficient methods for timely collection and analysis of collaborative networks. Therefore, an integrated…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Jia-Rui Lin , Da-Peng Wu

Decentralization is a fundamental design element of the Web3 economy. Blockchains and distributed consensus mechanisms are touted as fault-tolerant, attack-resistant, and collusion-proof because they are decentralized. Recent analyses,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Harang Ju , Madhav Kumar , Ehsan Valavi , Sinan Aral