The education sector has been experiencing the progressive popularity of the Internet of
Things (IoT) systems with a range of applications that can monitor simple attendance to …

Within cloud-based internet of things (IoT) applications, typically cloud providers employ
Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to ensure the quality of their provisioned services. Similar …

Sharding is used to address the performance and scalability issues of the blockchain
protocols, which divides the overall transaction processing costs among multiple clusters of …

One of the main drivers behind blockchain adoption is a lack of trust among entities serving
a common goal, but with different interests. Following the success of Bitcoin, several …

As one of the emerging technologies that have attracted much attention, blockchain has a
wide range of application prospects. However, one prominent issue restricting its …

The efficiency of block lifecycle determines the performance of blockchain, which is critically
affected by the execution, mining and validation steps in blockchain lifecycle. To accelerate …

The processing of block lifecycles is essential to the efficiency of a blockchain, which
consists of four steps: creation, execution, consensus, and validation. The permissionless …

Abstract A Service Level Agreement (SLA) establishes the trustworthiness of service
providers and consumers in several domains; including the Internet of Things (IoT). Given …

Hyperledger Fabric is a popular permissioned blockchain system that features a highly
modular and extensible system for deploying permissioned blockchains which are expected …

Hyperledger Fabric (HLF), a permissioned blockchain network recognized for high
throughput and low transaction latency, has proven instrumental in augmenting security and …