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This work considers load-balance control among the relays under the secure transmission protocol via relay cooperation in two-hop wireless networks without the information of both eavesdropper channels and locations. The available two-hop…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-01 Yulong Shen , Xiaohong Jiang , Jianfeng Ma

As an append-only distributed database, blockchain is utilized in a vast variety of applications including the cryptocurrency and Internet-of-Things (IoT). The existing blockchain solutions show downsides in communication and storage…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Yahya Hassanzadeh-Nazarabadi , Alptekin Küpçü , Öznur Özkasap

Blockchains are widely recognized for their immutability, which provides robust guarantees of data integrity and transparency. However, this same feature poses significant challenges in real-world situations that require regulatory…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Federico Calandra , Marco Bernardo , Andrea Esposito , Francesco Fabris

This paper describes the deployment and implementation of a blockchain to improve the security, knowledge, intelligence and collaboration during the inter-agent communication processes in restrict domains of the Internet Infrastructure. It…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-08-10 Juliao Braga , Joao Nuno Silva , Patricia Takako Endo , Jessica Ribas , Nizam Omar

Scalability is one of the main roadblocks to business adoption of blockchain systems. Despite recent intensive research on using sharding techniques to enhance the scalability of blockchain systems, existing solutions do not efficiently…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Mohammad Javad Amiri , Divyakant Agrawal , Amr El Abbadi

Payment channels allow transactions between participants of the blockchain to be executed securely off-chain, and thus provide a promising solution for the scalability problem of popular blockchains. We study the online network design…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Georgia Avarikioti , Kenan Besic , Yuyi Wang , Roger Wattenhofer

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

Banking as an essential service can be hard to access in remote, rural regions where the network connectivity is intermittent. Although micro-banking has been made possible by SMS or USSD messages in some places, their security flaws and…

Scalability is a common issue among the most used permissionless blockchains, and several approaches have been proposed to solve this issue. Tackling scalability while preserving the security and decentralization of the network is a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Mikel Cortes-Goicoechea , Tarun Mohandas-Daryanani , Jose L. Muñoz-Tapia , Leonardo Bautista-Gomez

Different versions of peer-to-peer electronic cash exist as data represented by separate blockchains. Payments between such systems cannot be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution. Bitcoin…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-09-12 S. Matthew English , Fabrizio Orlandi , Soeren Auer

Payment channel networks are supposed to overcome technical scalability limitations of blockchain infrastructure by employing a special overlay network with fast payment confirmation and only sporadic settlement of netted transactions on…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Felix Engelmann , Florian Glaser , Henning Kopp , Frank Kargl , Christof Weinhardt

Today, several solutions for cross-blockchain asset transfers exist. However, these solutions are either tailored to specific assets or neglect finality guarantees that prevent assets from getting lost in transit. In this paper, we present…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Marten Sigwart , Philipp Frauenthaler , Christof Spanring , Michael Sober , Stefan Schulte

Swarms of robots will revolutionize many industrial applications, from targeted material delivery to precision farming. However, several of the heterogeneous characteristics that make them ideal for certain future applications --- robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Eduardo Castelló Ferrer

Blockchain technology enhances transparency by maintaining a distributed ledger among mutually untrusting parties. Despite its advantages, scalability and availability remain critical bottlenecks that hinder widespread adoption. The…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Manaswini Piduguralla , Souvik Sarkar , Arunmoezhi Ramachandran , Sathya Peri

Scalability remains one of the biggest challenges to the adoption of permissioned blockchain technologies for large-scale deployments. Permissioned blockchains typically exhibit low latencies, compared to permissionless deployments --…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Giorgia Azzurra Marson , Sebastien Andreina , Lorenzo Alluminio , Konstantin Munichev , Ghassan Karame

This paper introduces CrossLink, a decentralized framework for secure cross-chain smart contract execution that effectively addresses the inherent limitations of contemporary solutions, which primarily focus on asset transfers and rely on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Tahrim Hossain , Faisal Haque Bappy , Tarannum Shaila Zaman , Tariqul Islam

Blockchain technology enables stakeholders to conduct trusted data sharing and exchange without a trusted centralized institution. These features make blockchain applications attractive to enhance trustworthiness in very different contexts.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Xiaohui Zhang , Mingying Xue , Xianghua Miao

Blockchains provide environments where parties can interact transparently and securely peer-to-peer without needing a trusted third party. Parties can trust the integrity and correctness of transactions and the verifiable execution of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Simon Tschirner , Shashank Shekher Tripathi , Mathias Roeper , Markus M. Becker , Volker Skwarek

The interoperability across multiple blockchains would play a critical role in future blockchain-based data management paradigm. Existing techniques either work only for two blockchains or requires a centralized component to govern the…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Xinying Wang , Olamide Timothy Tawose , Feng Yan , Dongfang Zhao

Blockchain technology is affected by massive limitations in scalability with consequent repercussions on performance. This discussion aims at analyzing the state of the art of current available Layer II solutions to overcome these…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Cosimo Sguanci , Roberto Spatafora , Andrea Mario Vergani