Numerous consensus mechanisms have been suggested to cater to the specific
characteristics of fog computing. To comprehensively understand their unique features …

This study has investigated how blockchain-based technologies can be integrated at the
boundary of computing environments in this research to revolutionize security, effectiveness …

Abstract Internet of Things (IoT) has gained its widespread application in various fields.
Integrating blockchain technology with IoT-based applications has been attracting more …

Blockchain has been widely criticized due to the use of inefficient consensus protocols and
energy-intensive mechanisms that derived into a global enormous power consumption …

Smart contracts (SC) are programs embodying certain business logic stored on a blockchain
network like Ethereum. The execution of transactions on SC has a cost, measured in gas …

This paper describes a lightweight proof-of-concept that tackles the problem of academic
certificate forgery with the use of a smart contract deployed in the Ethereum blockchain. The …

Regarding geographic cloud computing, the three most crucial services are storage,
processing, and visualisation. This cloud computing setup necessitates using the Internet of …

Utilizing blockchain along with fog computing to improve secure data access control
mechanisms within the realm of distributed data storage and authentication poses various …

Academic certificate forgeries and the lack of resources to tackle them is a problem that
implies big costs to society. It harms the figure of the certificates and impairs the trust of …