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Various data-sharing platforms have emerged with the growing public demand for open data and legislation mandating certain data to remain open. Most of these platforms remain opaque, leading to many questions about data accuracy, provenance…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Linh T. Nguyen , Lam Duc Nguyen , Thong Hoang , Dilum Bandara , Qin Wang , Qinghua Lu , Xiwei Xu , Liming Zhu , Petar Popovski , Shiping Chen

Blockchain technology is among the fastest-growing technologies in the world today. It has been adopted in diverse areas but mostly in financial systems, such as Bitcoin cryptocurrency. Therefore, it is a niche that has attracted interest…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Mabrook S. Al-Rakhami , Abdu Gumaei , Sk. Md. Mizanur Rahman , Atif Al-Amri

Blockchain has received increasing attention in academia and industry. However, the increasing transaction volumes and limited on-chain storage underscore scalability as a key challenge hindering the widespread adoption of blockchain.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Xiaojie Wang , Hanxue Li , Ling Yi , Zhaolong Ning , Song Guo , Yan Zhang

Traditional Blockchain Sharding approaches can only tolerate up to n/3 of nodes being adversary because they rely on the hypergeometric distribution to make a failure (an adversary does not have n/3 of nodes globally but can manipulate the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Yibin Xu , Yangyu Huang

Recommender systems have been widely used in different application domains including energy-preservation, e-commerce, healthcare, social media, etc. Such applications require the analysis and mining of massive amounts of various types of…

Sharding is a promising blockchain scaling solution. But it currently suffers from high latency and low throughput when it comes to cross-shard transactions, i.e., transactions that require coordination from multiple shards. The root cause…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Sourav Das , Vinith Krishnan , Ling Ren

Blockchain, also coined as decentralized AI, has the potential to empower AI to be more trustworthy by creating a decentralized trust of privacy, security, and audibility. However, systematic studies on the design principle of blockchain as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Luyao Sunshine Zhang

Public blockchains should be able to scale with respect to the number of nodes and to the transactions workload. The blockchain scalability trilemma has been informally conjectured. This is related to scalability, security and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Gianmaria Del Monte , Diego Pennino , Maurizio Pizzonia

Decentralized crypto-currencies based on the blockchain architecture under-utilize available network bandwidth, making them unable to scale to thousands of transactions per second. We define the Blockclique architecture, that addresses this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Sébastien Forestier , Damir Vodenicarevic , Adrien Laversanne-Finot

Blockchain technology facilitates the development of decentralized systems that ensure trust and transparency without the need for expensive centralized intermediaries. However, existing blockchain architectures particularly consortium…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Qi Xia , Hu Xia , Isaac Amankona Obiri , Adjei-Arthur Bonsu , Grace Mupoyi Ntuala , Ansu Badjie , Tienin Bole Wilfried , Jiaqin Liu , Lan Ma , Jianbin Gao , Feng Yao

Blockchain technology has revolutionized the digital landscape, driving innovations across industries through its decentralized and transparent infrastructure. These networks are primarily categorized as public or private, based on user…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Mohammad Pishdar , Jawad Manzoor

In recent years, significant research efforts have focused on improving blockchain throughput and confirmation speeds without compromising security. While decreasing the time it takes for a transaction to be included in the blockchain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Aikaterini-Panagiota Stouka , Conor McMenamin , Demetris Kyriacou , Lin Oshitani , Quentin Botha

Blockchain technology has emerged as one of the most transformative digital innovations of the 21st century. This paper presents a comprehensive review of blockchain's fundamental architecture, tracing its development from Bitcoin's initial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Aditya Pratap Singh

Blokchain is a promising technology to enable distributed and reliable data sharing at the network edge. The high security in blockchain is undoubtedly a critical factor for the network to handle important data item. On the other hand,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Yixin Li , Liang Liang , Yunjian Jia , Wanli Wen , Chaowei Tang , Zhengchuan Chen

This article examines the significant challenges encountered in implementing sharding within distributed replication systems. It identifies the impediments of achieving consensus among large participant sets, leading to scalability,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Siamak Solat

Blockchain technologies are gaining massive momentum in the last few years. Blockchains are distributed ledgers that enable parties who do not fully trust each other to maintain a set of global states. The parties agree on the existence,…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-08-21 Tien Tuan Anh Dinh , Rui Liu , Meihui Zhang , Gang Chen , Beng Chin Ooi , Ji Wang

As an emerging service framework built by combining cryptography, P2P network, consensus mechanism and innovative contract technology, blockchain has been widely used in digital finance, data sharing, message traceability and electronic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Wenwen Zhou , Dongyang Lyu , Xiaoqi Li

Payment Channel Networks (PCNs) have been proposed as an alternative solution to the scalability, throughput, and cost overhead problems associated with blockchain transactions. By facilitating offchain execution of transactions, PCNs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Kartick Kolachala , Mohammed Ababneh , Roopa Vishwanathan

Access to the system resources. The current access control systems face many problems, such as the presence of the third-party, inefficiency, and lack of privacy. These problems can be addressed by blockchain, the technology that received…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Sara Rouhani , Ralph Deters

In recent years, blockchain has grown in popularity due to its singular attributes, enabling the development of new innovative decentralized applications. But when companies consider leveraging blockchain for their applications, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Nicolas Six