Bitcoin introduced delegation of control over a monetary system from a select few to all who
participate in that system. This delegation is known as the decentralization of controlling …

A fundamental issue in blockchain systems is their scalability in terms of data storage,
computation, communication, and security. To resolve this issue, a promising research …

With the fast development and expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT), billions of smart
devices are being continuously connected, and smart homes, as a typical IoT application …

In this paper, we propose coded Merkle tree (CMT), a novel hash accumulator that offers a
constant-cost protection against data availability attacks in blockchains, even if the majority …

Industry 5.0 is seen as the next stage of the industrial revolution. However, the centralized
management of the vast amount of data in Industry 5.0 poses significant security challenges …

The integration of the industrial Internet of Things (IoT) and blockchain technology is
changing the business and management model of the supply chain. Much work is focused …

With the rise of cryptocurrencies, blockchain, which is the underlying technology of them,
has gained more attention and been used in the Internet of Things (IoT) and other fields …

Blockchain systems establish a cryptographically secure data structure for storing data in the
form of a hash chain. We use a novel combination of distributed storage, private key …

Medical tourism has witnessed significant growth over the last decade. This nascent sector
creates a new tourist class with access to affordable healthcare services by combining …

This article presents a novel way to reduce blockchain nodes' memory requirements using
error correcting codes. In particular, LDPC codes are taken as examples to explicitly …