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Blockchain is a core technology to manage the value of cryptocurrencies, or to record trails of important business trades. The Smart Contract on blockchain is expected to improve security on blockchain system with automated operation, but…

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In this paper, we introduce Super Luminal ("xLumi"), a new payment channel protocol for blockchain systems. xLumi is a simple unidirectional payment channel that can be extended to a bidirectional payment channel or a complete network.…

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Mobility systems often suffer from a high price of anarchy due to the uncontrolled behavior of selfish users. This may result in societal costs that are significantly higher compared to what could be achieved by a centralized system-optimal…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-26 David van de Sanden , Maarten Schoukens , Mauro Salazar

We study transportation networks controlled by dynamic feedback tolls. We focus on a multiscale model whereby the dynamics of the traffic flows are intertwined with those of the routing choices. The latter are influenced by the current…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-10-20 Giacomo Como , Rosario Maggistro

Bitcoin is the first and the most extensive decentralized electronic cryptocurrency system that uses blockchain technology. It uses a peer-to-peer (P2P) network to operate without a central authority and propagate system information such as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Befekadu G. Gebraselase , Bjarne E. Helvik , Yuming Jiang

We propose Parsec, a web-scale State channel for the Internet of Value to exterminate the consensus bottleneck in Blockchain by leveraging a network of state channels which enable to robustly transfer value off-chain. It acts as an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Amit Kumar Jaiswal

Options are fundamental to blockchain-based financial services, offering essential tools for risk management and price speculation, which enhance liquidity, flexibility, and market efficiency in decentralized finance (DeFi). Despite the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Zifan Peng , Yingjie Xue , Jingyu Liu

A smart contract is a digital program of transaction protocol (rules of contract) based on the consensus architecture of blockchain. Smart contracts with Blockchain are modern technologies that have gained enormous attention in scientific…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Norah M. Alshahrani , M. L. Mat Kiah , B. B. Zaidan , A. H. Alamoodi , Abdu Saif

With the continuous emergence of new mobile devices which support new communication paradigms such as D2D and V2V, Internet users can take advantage of these devices to achieve better Internet connectivity and improve service quality.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Yuhang Ye , Brian Lee , Yuansong Qiao

Establishing efficient and robust covert channels is crucial for secure communication within insecure network environments. With its inherent benefits of decentralization and anonymization, blockchain has gained considerable attention in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Xiaobo Ma , Pengyu Pan , Jianfeng Li , Wei Wang , Weizhi Meng , Xiaohong Guan

Allocation of resources and their control over multiple organisations is challenging. This is especially true for a large-scale and dynamic system like the Internet of Things (IoT). One of the core issues in such a system is the provision…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Shantanu Pal , Ambrose Hill , Tahiry Rabehaja , Michael Hitchens

This paper studies the problem of optimal flow control in dynamic inventory systems. A dynamic optimal distribution problem, including time-varying supply and demand, capacity constraints on the transportation lines, and convex flow cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-03-28 Mathias Bürger , Claudio De Persis , Frank Allgöwer

Blockchain technology, beyond cryptocurrencies, is called to be the new information exchange ecosystem due to its unique properties, such as immutability and transparency. The main objective of this work is to introduce the design of a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-29 N García-Moreno , P Caballero-Gil , C Caballero-Gil , J Molina-Gil

Currently cryptocurrencies and Decentralized Finance (DeFi), which enable financial services on public blockchains, represents a new growing trend in finance. In contrast to financial markets, ruled by traditional corporations, DeFi is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Mar Grande , Florentino Borondo , Javier Borondo

The confluence of Internet of Things(IoT) , Blockchain(BC) and Artificial Intelligence(AI) acts as a key accelerator for enabling Machine Economy. To be ready for future businesses these technologies needs to be adapted by extending the IoT…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Misha Abraham , Himajit Aithal , Krishnan Mohan

Bitcoin transaction fees will become more important as the block subsidy declines, but fee formation is hard to study with blockchain data alone because the relevant queueing environment is unobserved. We develop and estimate a structural…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Daniel Aronoff , Kristian Praizner , Armin Sabouri

This paper studies an important rate allocation problem that arises in many networked and distributed systems: steady-state traffic rate allocation from multiple sources to multiple service nodes when both (i) the access-path delay on each…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Tamoghna Sarkar , Bhaskar Krishnamachari

Blockchain is a decentralized ledger used to securely exchange digital currency, perform deals and transactions efficient manner, each user of the network has access to the least copy of the encrypted ledger so that they can validate a new…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Bosubabu Sambana

In this paper, we will consider a governance token pricing algorithm that conducts liquidity operations on AMM (CPMM) DEXs (automated market maker decentralized exchanges) with liquidity that belongs to a decentralized autonomous…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Aleksei Pupyshev , Ilya Sapranidi , Shamil Khalilov

Cryptocurrencies are distributed systems that allow exchanges of native tokens among participants, or the exchange of such tokens for fiat currencies in markets external to these public ledgers. The availability of their complete historical…