Blockchain (eg, Bitcoin and Ethereum) has drawn much attention and has been widely-
deployed in recent years. However, blockchain scalability is emerging as a challenging …

Network slicing is one of the fundamental tenets of Fifth Generation (5G)/Sixth Generation
(6G) networks. Deploying slices requires end-to-end (E2E) control of services and the …

The proliferation of blockchains has given developers a variety of platforms on which to run
their smart contracts based on application features and requirements for throughput …

Abstract McCorry et al.(Financial Cryptography 2017) presented the first implementation of a
decentralized self-tallying voting protocol on Ethereum. However, their implementation did …

Federation of services, as a 5G networks concept, aims to provide orchestration of services
across multiple administrative domains. In this paper, we are exploring a solution of applying …

In this paper, we present a ymmetric ey nter-loud uthentication and redeemable
micropayment rotocol () for IoT-Edge computing applications. The proposed protocol takes …

Abstract The Open Vote Network is a self-tallying decentralized e-voting protocol suitable for
boardroom elections. Currently, it has two Ethereum-based implementations: the first, by …

In this paper, we propose a lightweight mutual authentication and inter-cloud redeemable
payment protocol which allows IoT devices to subscribe with their home cloud service …

Blockchain-based1 decentralized applications (DApps) are applications that operate on
blockchain smart contracts. A smart contract is a program that runs on blockchain where the …

The development of e-commerce applications for small-value transactions introduces
significant security and privacy challenges. Micropurchases, that is, commercial operations …