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chainScale: Secure Functionality-oriented Scalability for Decentralized Resource Markets
Mohamed E. Najd, Ghada Almashaqbeh
Decentralized resource markets are Web 3.0 applications that build open-access platforms for trading digital resources among users without any central management. They promise cost…
Competitive Policies for Online Collateral Maintenance
Ghada Almashaqbeh, Sixia Chen, Alexander Russell
Layer-two blockchain protocols emerged to address scalability issues related to fees, storage cost, and confirmation delay of on-chain transactions. They aggregate off-chain transa…
ammBoost: State Growth Control for AMMs
Nicolas Michel, Mohamed E. Najd, Ghada Almashaqbeh
Automated market makers (AMMs) are a prime example of Web 3.0 applications. Their popularity and high trading activity led to serious scalability issues in terms of throughput and…
chainBoost: A Secure Performance Booster for Blockchain-based Resource Markets
Zahra Motaqy, Mohamed E. Najd, Ghada Almashaqbeh
Cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology provide an innovative model for reshaping digital services. Driven by the movement toward Web 3.0, recent systems started to provide dist…
AnoFel: Supporting Anonymity for Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning
Ghada Almashaqbeh, Zahra Ghodsi
Federated learning enables users to collaboratively train a machine learning model over their private datasets. Secure aggregation protocols are employed to mitigate information le…
Bet and Attack: Incentive Compatible Collaborative Attacks Using Smart Contracts
Z. Motaqy, G. Almashaqbeh, B. Bahrak +1
Smart contract-enabled blockchains allow building decentralized applications in which mutually-distrusted parties can work together. Recently, oracle services emerged to provide th…
MicroCash: Practical Concurrent Processing of Micropayments
Ghada Almashaqbeh, Allison Bishop, Justin Cappos
Micropayments are increasingly being adopted by a large number of applications. However, processing micropayments individually can be expensive, with transaction fees exceeding the…
CAPnet: A Defense Against Cache Accounting Attacks on Content Distribution Networks
Ghada Almashaqbeh, Kevin Kelley, Allison Bishop +1
Peer-assisted content distribution networks(CDNs) have emerged to improve performance and reduce deployment costs of traditional, infrastructure-based content delivery networks. Th…
ABC: A Cryptocurrency-Focused Threat Modeling Framework
Ghada Almashaqbeh, Allison Bishop, Justin Cappos
Cryptocurrencies are an emerging economic force, but there are concerns about their security. This is due, in part, to complex collusion cases and new threat vectors that could be…
Implementing Support for Pointers to Private Data in a General-Purpose Secure Multi-Party Compiler
Yihua Zhang, Marina Blanton, Ghada Almashaqbeh
Recent compilers allow a general-purpose program (written in a conventional programming language) that handles private data to be translated into secure distributed implementation…