Blockchain consensus protocols have been a focus of attention since the advent of Bitcoin.
Although classic distributed consensus algorithms made significant contributions to the …

Blockchain is an inspiring emerging technology that takes much attention from various
researchers and companies. The technology offers various benefits such as data security …

Blockchain-based decentralized cryptocurrencies have drawn much attention and been
widely-deployed in recent years. Bitcoin, the first application of blockchain, achieves great …

Since the inception of Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and the underlying blockchain technology
have attracted an increasing interest from both academia and industry. Among various core …

The paradigm of Internet of Things (IoT) is paving the way for a world, where many of our
daily objects will be interconnected and will interact with their environment in order to collect …

Blockchain technologies are gaining massive momentum in the last few years. Blockchains
are distributed ledgers that enable parties who do not fully trust each other to maintain a set …

Designing a secure permissionless distributed ledger (blockchain) that performs on par with
centralized payment processors, such as Visa, is a challenging task. Most existing …

SBFT is a state of the art Byzantine fault tolerant state machine replication system that
addresses the challenges of scalability, decentralization and global geo-replication. SBFT is …

Blockchain is a distributed and decentralized ledger for recording transactions. It is
maintained and shared among the participating nodes by utilizing cryptographic primitives …

Background: With increased specialization of health care services and high levels of patient
mobility, accessing health care services across multiple hospitals or clinics has become very …