With the advancement in communication techniques and sensor technologies, mobile
crowdsensing (MCS)—one of the most successful applications of crowdsourcing—has …

The widespread adoption of continuously connected smartphones and tablets developed
the usage of mobile applications, among which many use location to provide geolocated …

Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs), like Blockchain, are characterized by features such
as transparency, traceability, and security by design. These features make the adoption of …

Security and privacy will play a pivotal role in the commercialization of Vehicular Ad-hoc
NETworks (VANETs). Traditionally, both cryptographic and non-cryptographic approaches …

In distributed peer-to-peer (P2P) applications, peers self-organize and cooperate to
effectively complete certain tasks such as forwarding files, delivering messages, or …

Mobile crowdsensing engages a crowd of individuals to use their mobile devices to
cooperatively collect data about social events and phenomena for customers with common …

Smartphones have become the most pervasive devices in people's lives and are clearly
transforming the way we live and perceive technology. Today's smartphones benefit from …

The purpose of a reputation system is to hold the users of a distributed application
accountable for their behavior. The reputation of a user is computed as an aggregate of the …

With the popularity of sensor-rich mobile devices (eg, smart phones and wearable devices),
mobile crowdsourcing (MCS) has emerged as an effective method for data collection and …

The Internet of things is the next stage in the evolution of the Internet that is being
materialized with the integration of billions of smart objects. The state-of-the-art …