Blockchains are distributed systems, in which security is a critical factor for their success.
However, despite their increasing popularity and adoption, there is a lack of standardized …

Storage as a Service (StaaS) is a vital component of cloud computing by offering the vision
of a virtually infinite pool of storage resources. It supports a variety of cloud-based data store …

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 …

Blockchain technologies are taking the world by storm. Public blockchains, such as Bitcoin
and Ethereum, enable secure peer-to-peer applications like crypto-currency or smart …

Coordination services are a fundamental building block of modern cloud systems, providing
critical functionalities like configuration management and distributed locking. The major …

Growing main memory capacity has fueled the development of in-memory big data
management and processing. By eliminating disk I/O bottleneck, it is now possible to support …

Data is at the center of many challenges in system design today. Difficult issues need to be
figured out, such as scalability, consistency, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability. In …

Lock managers are widely used by distributed systems. Traditional centralized lock
managers can easily support policies between multiple users using global knowledge, but …

Large-scale distributed systems often rely on replicated databases that allow a programmer
to request different data consistency guarantees for different operations, and thereby control …

Modern cloud providers offer dense hardware with multiple cores and large memories,
hosted in global platforms. This raises the challenge of implementing high-performance …