This article presents research challenges and a tutorial on performance evaluation of
blockchain-based security and privacy systems for the Internet of Things (IoT). We start by …

In a blockchain-based system, the lack of centralized control requires active participation
and cooperative behaviors of system entities to ensure system security and sustainability …

The beginning of 2020 has seen the emergence of coronavirus outbreak caused by a novel
virus called SARS-CoV-2. The sudden explosion and uncontrolled worldwide spread of …

Given the explosive growth of portable devices, mobile crowdsensing (MCS) is becoming an
essential approach that fully utilizes pervasive idle resources to accomplish sensing tasks …

Blockchain technology has emerged as one of the most vital and encouraging technology in
Industry 4.0. It is said to have the potential to majorly transform the way the business world …

Federated learning (FL) is one of many tasks facilitated by crowdsourcing. Generally in such
a setting, participating workers cooperate to train a comprehensive model by exchanging the …

With the rapid growth of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs), vehicular
crowdsensing (VCS) has emerged as an effective way in a wide range of applications …

This paper aims to develop some specific theoretical themes, which could be useful for HR
personnel in adopting and implementing blockchain technology in the HR department. Total …

Wearable sensing technologies are having a worldwide impact on the creation of novel
business opportunities and application services that are benefiting the common citizen. By …

Smart contracts struggle with the major limitation of operating on data that is solely residing
on the blockchain network. The need of recruiting third parties, known as oracles, to assist …