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AI Innovations in the IoT for Real-Time Patient Monitoring On one hand, the current traditional centralized healthcare architecture poses numerous issues, including data privacy, delay, and security. Here, we present an AI-enabled…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Harsha Sammangi , Aditya Jagatha , Giridhar Reddy Bojja , Jun Liu

An identity system based secure overlay for the Internet is presented. This includes a primary root-of-trust in self-certifying identifiers. It presents a formalism for Autonomic Identifiers (AIDs) and Autonomic Namespaces (ANs). They are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Samuel M. Smith

The Public Key Infrastructure existed in critical infrastructure systems since the expansion of the World Wide Web, but to this day its limitations have not been completely solved. With the rise of government-driven digital identity in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Adrian-Tudor Dumitrescu , Johan Pouwelse

Sensor networks and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are key components for the development of the Internet of Things. These networks are subject of two kinds of constraints. Adaptability by the mean of mutability and evolutivity, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-06-07 Axel Moinet , Benoît Darties , Jean-Luc Baril

Exploiting unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for delivery services is expected to reduce delivery time and human resource costs. However, the proximity of these UAVs to the ground can make them an ideal target for opportunistic criminals.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Sana Hafeez , Habib Ullah Manzoor , Lina Mohjazi , Ahmed Zoha , Muhammad Ali Imran , Yao Sun

Internet of Things (IoT) is becoming an increasingly attractive target for cybercriminals. We observe that many attacks to IoTs are launched in a collusive way, such as brute-force hacking usernames and passwords, to target at a particular…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Garegin Grigoryan , Yaoqing Liu , Laurent Njilla , Charles Kamhoua , Kevin Kwiat

Smart contracts, integral to blockchain ecosystems, enable decentralized applications to execute predefined operations without intermediaries. Their ability to enforce trustless interactions has made them a core component of platforms such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Mesut Ozdag

A movement for a more transparent and decentralized Internet is globally attracting more attention. People are becoming more privacy-aware of their online identities and data. The Internet is constantly evolving. Web2 focused on companies…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Joost Bambacht , Johan Pouwelse

We propose CrowdPatching, a blockchain-based decentralized protocol, allowing Internet of Things (IoT) manufacturers to delegate the delivery of software updates to self-interested distributors in exchange for cryptocurrency. Manufacturers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Edoardo Puggioni , Arash Shaghaghi , Robin Doss , Salil S. Kanhere

In Internet of Things (IoT) driven smart-world systems, real-time crowd-sourced databases from multiple distributed servers can be aggregated to extract dynamic statistics from a larger population, thus providing more reliable knowledge for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Xuebin Ren , Chia-Mu Yu , Wei Yu , Xinyu Yang , Jun Zhao , Shusen Yang

The Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) is a decentralized paradigm enabling full control over the data used to build and prove the identity. In Internet of Things networks with security requirements, the Self-Sovereign Identity can play a key…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Alessandro Pino , Davide Margaria , Andrea Vesco

Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) facilitate decentralized computations across trust boundaries. However, ensuring complex computations with low gas fees and confidentiality remains challenging. Recent advances in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Fernando Castillo , Jonathan Heiss , Sebastian Werner , Stefan Tai

This paper addresses privacy protection in decentralized Artificial Intelligence (AI) using Confidential Computing (CC) within the Atoma Network, a decentralized AI platform designed for the Web3 domain. Decentralized AI distributes AI…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Dayeol Lee , Jorge António , Hisham Khan

The OPC UA protocol is becoming the de facto standard for Industry 4.0 machine-to-machine communication. It stands out as one of the few industrial protocols that provide robust security features designed to prevent attackers from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Rinieri Lorenzo , Gori Giacomo , Melis Andrea , Girau Roberto , Prandini Marco , Callegati Franco

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

Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) sharing is an important activity to reduce information asymmetries between attackers and defenders. However, this activity presents challenges due to the tension between data sharing and confidentiality, that…

Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) offers significant potential for managing identities in the Internet of Things (IoT), enabling decentralized authentication and credential management without reliance on centralized entities. However, existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Guntur Dharma Putra , Bagus Rakadyanto Oktavianto Putra

Verifiable delegation in digital identity systems remains unresolved across centralized, federated, and self-sovereign identity (SSI) environments, particularly where both human users and autonomous AI agents must exercise and transfer…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-22 David Ricardo Saavedra

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

Recent technological advancements have seen the integration of unmanned aerial networks (UAVs) into various sectors, from civilian missions to military operations. In this context, ensuring security, precisely authentication, is essential…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Meriem Ouadah , Fatiha Merazka