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Twenty-five years ago, the specification of the Intelligent Product was established, envisaging real-time connectivity that not only enables products to gather accurate data about themselves but also allows them to assess and influence…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Alex C. Y. Wong , Duncan McFarlane , C. Ellarby , M. Lee , M. Kuok

The potential of digital twin technology is yet to be fully realized due to its diversity and untapped potential. Digital twins enable systems' analysis, design, optimization, and evolution to be performed digitally or in conjunction with a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-23 MohammadHossein Homaei , Oscar Mogollon Gutierrez , Jose Carlos Sancho Nunez , Mar Avila Vegas , Andres Caro Lindo

The growing complexity of healthcare systems requires advanced computational models for real-time monitoring, secure data exchange, and intelligent decision-making. Digital Twins (DTs) provide virtual representations of physical healthcare…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Asma Taheri Monfared , Andrea Bombarda , Angelo Gargantini , Majid Haghparast

Web 3.0 represents the next stage of Internet evolution, aiming to empower users with increased autonomy, efficiency, quality, security, and privacy. This evolution can potentially democratize content access by utilizing the latest…

Web3 brings an emerging outlook for the value of decentralization, boosting the decentralized infrastructure. People can benefit from Web3, facilitated by the advances in distributed ledger technology, to read, write and own web content,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Hao Xu , Yunqing Sun , Zihao Li , Yao Sun , Lei Zhang , Xiaoshuai Zhang

Distributed applications need identifiers that satisfy storage efficiency, chronological sortability, origin metadata embedding, zero-lookup verifiability, confidentiality for external consumers, and multi-century addressability. Based on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Duran Serkan Kılıç

Self-Sovereign Digital Identity (SSDI) enables individuals to control their own identity assertions and data, rather than relying on centralized or federated systems prone to large-scale data breaches. By eliminating centralized databases…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Sushanth Ambati , Kainat Adeel , Jack Myers , Nikolay Ivanov

With the advent of Web 3.0, the swift advancement of technology confronts an imminent threat from quantum computing. Security protocols safeguarding the integrity of Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 are growing more susceptible to both quantum attacks…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-30 Yifan Zhou , Xinlin Zhou , Zi Yan Li , Yew Kee Wong , Yan Shing Liang

Due to the widespread COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a push for `immunity passports' and even technical proposals. Although the debate about the medical and ethical problems of immunity passports has been widespread, there has been less…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Harry Halpin

This paper analyses the concept of Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI), an emerging approach for establishing digital identity, in the context of the Internet of Things (IoT). We contrast existing approaches for identity on the Internet, such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Geovane Fedrecheski , Jan M. Rabaey , Laisa C. P. Costa , Pablo C. Calcina Ccori , William T. Pereira , Marcelo K. Zuffo

Web 3.0 opens the world of new existence of the crypto-network-entity, which is independently defined by the public key pairs for entities and the connection to the Web 3.0 cyberspace. In this paper, we first discover a spacetime coordinate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Hao Xu , Yunqing Sun , Xiaoshuai Zhang , Erwu Liu , Chih-Lin I

The advent of quantum key distribution (QKD) has revolutionized secure communication by providing unconditional security, unlike classical cryptographic methods. However, its effectiveness relies on robust identity authentication, as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-11 Arindam Dutta

The Internet of Things (IoT) is expanding rapidly, which has created a need for sophisticated computational frameworks that can handle the data and security requirements inherent in modern IoT applications. However, traditional cloud…

The rapid expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) has significantly increased the attack surface of such systems, making them vulnerable to a wide range of cyber threats. Traditional Intrusion Detection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Hamid Barati

Digital twins (DTs) help improve real-time monitoring and decision-making in water distribution systems. However, their connectivity makes them easy targets for cyberattacks such as scanning, denial-of-service (DoS), and unauthorized…

Recent European efforts around digital identity -- the EUDI regulation and its OpenID architecture -- aim high to provide an EU-wide authentication framework. However, its current technical and legislative architecture are based on a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Wouter Termont , Beatriz Esteves

Since the first appearance of the World Wide Web, people more rely on the Web for their cyber social activities. The second phase of World Wide Web, named Web 2.0, has been extensively attracting worldwide people that participate in…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Shicheng Wan , Hong Lin , Wensheng Gan , Jiahui Chen , Philip S. Yu

Digital identity is evolving from centralized systems to a decentralized approach known as Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI). SSI empowers individuals to control their digital identities, eliminating reliance on third-party data custodians and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Evan Krul , Hye-young Paik , Sushmita Ruj , Salil S. Kanhere

Decentralised identifiers have become a standardised element of digital identity architecture, with supra-national organisations such as the European Union adopting them as a key component for a unified European digital identity ledger.…

Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) is revolutionizing cryptography by promising information-theoretic security through the immutable laws of quantum mechanics. Yet, the challenge of transforming these idealized security models into practical,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Nitin Jha , Abhishek Parakh , Mahadevan Subramaniam