Decentralized, distributed storage offers a way to reduce the impact of data silos as often
fostered by centralized cloud storage. While the intentions of this trend are not new, the topic …

Recent demands for storing and querying big data have revealed various shortcomings of
traditional relational database systems. This, in turn, has led to the emergence of a new kind …

在诸如文件共享等无中心的Peer-to-Peer 环境中, 资源共享是用户自愿的行为. 在这类系统中,
由于用户不为自身的行为担负(法律) 责任, 因而节点间的信任关系往往很难通过传统的信任机制 …

Healthcare information exchange is an important research topic, which can benefit both
healthcare providers and patients. In healthcare data sharing, many cloud-based solutions …

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platforms and" serverless" cloud computing are becoming
increasingly popular. Current FaaS offerings are targeted at stateless functions that do …

In recent years, Blockchain has attracted tremendous attention due to its salient features
including auditability, immutability, security, and anonymity. Resulting from these salient …

Recent years have witnessed growing consolidation of web operations. For example, the
majority of web traffic now originates from a few organizations, and even micro-websites …

A secure digital evidence system should ensure that evidence cannot be tampered with and
that private information cannot be leaked. Blockchain, a distributed tamper-resistant and …

Nakamoto's famous blockchain protocol enables achieving consensus in a so-called
permissionless setting—anyone can join (or leave) the protocol execution, and the protocol …

We present the design of a novel performance-oriented serverless computing platform
implemented in. NET, deployed in Microsoft Azure, and utilizing Windows containers as …