The highly anticipated 5G network is projected to be introduced in 2020. 5G stakeholders
are unanimous that densification of mobile networks is the way forward. The densification …

The article reviews the most popular peer-to-peer key management protocols for mobile ad
hoc networks (MANETs). The protocols are subdivided into groups based on their design …

Despite recent progresses of practical asynchronous Byzantine-fault tolerant (BFT)
consensus, the state-of-the-art designs still suffer from suboptimal performance. Particularly …

Smart contracts are applications that execute on blockchains. Today they manage billions of
dollars in value and motivate visionary plans for pervasive blockchain deployment. While …

Trading goods lies at the backbone of the modern economy and the recent advent of
cryptocurrencies has opened the door for trading decentralized (digital) assets: A large …

Motivated and inspired by the emergence of blockchains, many new protocols have recently
been proposed for generating publicly verifiable randomness in a distributed yet secure …

Cryptography is an indispensable tool used to protect information in computing systems. It is
used everywhere and by billions of people worldwide on a daily basis. It is used to protect …

While threshold signature schemes have been presented before, there has never been an
optimal threshold signature algorithm for DSA. The properties of DSA make it quite …

Constructing intelligent and efficient transportation systems for modern metropolitan areas
has become a very important quest for nations possessing metropolitan cities with ever …

We propose a fully functional identity-based encryption scheme (IBE). The scheme has
chosen ciphertext security in the random oracle model assuming an elliptic curve variant of …