Consensus algorithms are applied in the context of distributed computer systems to improve
their fault tolerance. The explosive development of distributed ledger technology following …

As one of the disruptive technologies in the fourth industrial revolution, Blockchain has
irrevocably changed how people live and work. Many scholars have studied the Blockchain …

The Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm aims to enhance human society and living standards
with the vast deployment of smart and autonomous devices, which requires seamless …

Abstract Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud metadata have highly sensitive details and facts
about data and objects; it usually holds confidential information about the data for which …

Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT) is a cutting-edge technology that allows users to interact
with real-world objects in the virtual world and to share data. In that mobile ad-hoc networks …

The increasing number of drones brings various issues like security risks, increasing air
traffic, misuse or crash of drones, and so on. Blockchain can provide the solution to mitigate …

Cellular networks have played a critical role in building today's Internet. However, they are
facing more and more challenges such as softwarization and programmability …

The reputation models may be used to evaluate the reputation of blockchain nodes, and the
consensus mechanisms can use the reputation models to quantify the credibility or …

As edge computing has been widely used in IoT (Internet of Things) systems, the security
has become one of important issues for IoT. Because of a large amount of private …

As edge computing has been widely used in IoT (Internet of Things) systems, the multi-
service access control has become one of important issues for IoT. That is because current …