Sybil in the haystack: A comprehensive review of blockchain consensus mechanisms in search of strong Sybil attack resistance

M Platt, P McBurney - Algorithms, 2023 - mdpi.com
Consensus algorithms are applied in the context of distributed computer systems to improve
their fault tolerance. The explosive development of distributed ledger technology following …

A delay-tolerant payment scheme based on the ethereum blockchain

Y Hu, A Manzoor, P Ekparinya, M Liyanage… - IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Digital banking as an essential service can be hard to access in remote, rural regions where
the network connectivity is unavailable or intermittent. The payment operators like Visa and …

Privacy preserving and cost optimal mobile crowdsensing using smart contracts on blockchain

D Chatzopoulos, S Gujar, B Faltings… - 2018 IEEE 15th …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The popularity and applicability of mobile crowdsensing applications are continuously
increasing due to the widespread of mobile devices and their sensing and processing …

Flopcoin: A cryptocurrency for computation offloading

D Chatzopoulos, M Ahmadi, S Kosta… - IEEE transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
During the last years, researche'rs have proposed solutions to help smartphones improve
execution time and reduce energy consumption by offloading heavy tasks to remote entities …

Proximity as a service for the use case of access enhancement via cellular network-assisted mobile device-to-device

T Guo, J Schormans, L Xu, J Wu, Y Cao - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Device-to-Device (D2D) communication is a way to treat the User Equipments (UEs) not as
terminals, but as a part of the network (helpers) for service provisioning. We propose a …

A review of cryptocurrencies research

MA Sarpong - International Journal of Blockchains and …, 2022 - inderscienceonline.com
Crypto currencies research is seen as young field though has made drastic impact with the
introduction of Bitcoin. In order to strengthen the relatively young multidisciplinary field, there …

Efficient block propagation in wireless blockchain networks and its application in Bitcoin

T Long, S Qu, Q Li, H Kang, L Fu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As the supporting architecture of cryptocurrencies, blockchain is also showing its promising
potential to be applied to mobile devices. Being WiFi supported, mobile devices nowadays …

Mneme: A mobile distributed ledger

D Chatzopoulos, S Gujar, B Faltings… - Ieee Infocom 2020-Ieee …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Advances in mobile computing have paved the way for new types of distributed applications
that can be executed solely by mobile devices on device-to-device (D2D) ecosystems (eg …

A Robust Sharding-Enabled Blockchain with Efficient Hashgraph Mechanism for MANETs

R Lai, G Zhao, Y He, Z Hou - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Blockchain establishes security and trust in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). Due to the
decentralized and opportunistic communication characteristics of MANETs, hashgraph …

[PDF][PDF] Farm: Fair reward mechanism for information aggregation in spontaneous localized settings

MH Moti, D Chatzopoulos, P Hui… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2019 - researchgate.net
Although peer prediction markets are widely used in crowdsourcing to aggregate
information from agents, they often fail to reward the participating agents equitably. Honest …