The research on the sixth-generation (6G) wireless communications for the development of
future mobile communication networks has been officially launched around the world. 6G …

Blockchain technology has been extended from bitcoin transactions to applications in
multiple domains. Scalability has been identified as a major challenge in large-scale …

State-of-the-art blockchain sharding solutions, say Monoxide, can induce imbalanced
transaction (TX) distributions among all blockchain shards due to their account deployment …

As a promising solution to blockchain scalability, sharding divides blockchain nodes into
small groups called shards, splitting the workload. Existing works for sharding, however, are …

Blockchain-based Federated Learning (FL) technology enables vehicles to make smart
decisions, improving vehicular services and enhancing the driving experience through a …

Dynamic off-chain routing in payment channel network (PCN)-based Internet of Things (IoT)
is attracting increasing research attention. However, there are two major issues in dynamic …

Payment channel network (PCN) is a promising off-chain technology for blockchain
scalability, but it suffers from poor sustainability in practice. In other words, due to the …

Recently, blockchain has gained momentum as a novel technology that gives rise to a
plethora of new decentralized applications (eg, Internet of Things (IoT)). However, its …

Ethereum is an emerging distributed computing platform that supports a decentralized
replicated virtual machine at a large scale. Transactions in Ethereum are specified in smart …

Existing permissionless sharded-Blockchains come on the scene. However, there is a lack
of systematic formulations and experiments regarding the behaviors of individual miners. In …