How to reach an agreement in a blockchain network is a complex and important task that is
defined as a consensus problem and has wide applications in reality including distributed …

In smart grid era, demand side management (DSM) plays an indispensable role in
development of sustainable cities and societies. This paper presents practical challenges …

Nowadays an emerging class of applications are based oncollaboration over a shared
database among different entities. However, the existing solutions on shared database may …

In this paper, we propose a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) energy trading scheme between EVs and
the SPs to manage the demand response in V2G environment. Unlike the traditional …

Blockchain, emerging technology, has immense potential to transform supply chain
activities. Though blockchain offers more benefits, industries face many challenges in …

Network slicing (NS) is envisioned as an emerging paradigm for accommodating different
virtual networks on a common physical infrastructure. Considering the integration of …

The advent of radio access network (RAN) slicing is envisioned as a new paradigm for
accommodating different virtualized networks on a single infrastructure in 5G and beyond …

The Bitcoin payment system involves two agent types: users that transact with the currency
and pay fees and miners in charge of authorizing transactions and securing the system in …

In the IoT-based economy, a large number of subjects (companies, public bodies, or private
citizens) are willing to buy data or services offered by subjects that provide, operate, or host …

Temporary fork is a fundamental phenomenon in many blockchains with proof of work, and
the analysis of temporary fork has recently drawn great attention. Different from existing …