The blockchain: State-of-the-art and research challenges

Y Lu - Journal of Industrial Information Integration, 2019 - Elsevier
The blockchain revolutionizes the creation of both scalable information technology systems
and diversified applications by integrating the increasingly popular artificial intelligence …

A survey on consensus mechanisms and mining strategy management in blockchain networks

W Wang, DT Hoang, P Hu, Z Xiong, D Niyato… - Ieee …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The past decade has witnessed the rapid evolution in blockchain technologies, which has
attracted tremendous interests from both the research communities and industries. The …

Blockchain for smart communities: Applications, challenges and opportunities

S Aggarwal, R Chaudhary, GS Aujla, N Kumar… - Journal of Network and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Since the success of Bitcoin, there have been increased focus of studying the application of
blockchain in a broad range of applications, such as in solutions facilitating identity privacy …

A review on the application of blockchain to the next generation of cybersecure industry 4.0 smart factories

TM Fernandez-Carames, P Fraga-Lamas - Ieee Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Industry 4.0 is a concept devised for improving the way modern factories operate through the
use of some of the latest technologies, like the ones used for creating the Industrial Internet …

A survey on security aspects for 3GPP 5G networks

J Cao, M Ma, H Li, R Ma, Y Sun, P Yu… - … surveys & tutorials, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the continuous development of mobile communication technologies, Third Generation
Partnership Project (3GPP) has proposed related standards with the fifth generation mobile …

Auction mechanisms in cloud/fog computing resource allocation for public blockchain networks

Y Jiao, P Wang, D Niyato… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As an emerging decentralized secure data management platform, blockchain has gained
much popularity recently. To maintain a canonical state of blockchain data record, proof-of …

Blockchain-powered value creation in the 5G and smart grid use cases

K Valtanen, J Backman, S Yrjölä - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Before the implementation of a solution, it is cost-efficient and practical to be able to evaluate
and analyze the expected value of use cases. Especially, this is emphasized in blockchain …

Towards a performance evaluation of private blockchain frameworks using a realistic workload

MT Oliveira, GR Carrara, NC Fernandes… - … 22nd conference on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The blockchain is currently under the spotlight of trending technologies. It adds security to
private applications in several areas of knowledge, and its versatility results in the …

Providing a sliced, secure, and isolated software infrastructure of virtual functions through blockchain technology

GAF Rebello, GF Camilo, LGC Silva… - 2019 IEEE 20th …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network slicing, network function virtualization (NFV), and software defined network (SDN)
technologies provide agile on-demand end-to-end services. The identification of a faulty …

[HTML][HTML] Evolution of access network sharing and its role in 5G networks

N Afraz, F Slyne, H Gill, M Ruffini - Applied Sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
This paper details the evolution of access network sharing models from legacy DSL to the
most recent fibre-based technology and the main challenges faced from technical and …