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20192025
most citedLightChain: Scalable DHT-Based Blockchain

52 citations · 73 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.CR2025

Constraint-Level Design of zkEVMs: Architectures, Trade-offs, and Evolution

Yahya Hassanzadeh-Nazarabadi, Sanaz Taheri-Boshrooyeh

Zero-Knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machines (zkEVMs) face an inherent tension. The Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) was built for transparent step-by-step execution. Proving that execut…

cs.DC2022★ 9 cited

DHT-based Edge and Fog Computing Systems: Infrastructures and Applications

Yahya Hassanzadeh-Nazarabadi, Sanaz Taheri-Boshrooyeh, Öznur Özkasap

Intending to support new emerging applications with latency requirements below what can be offered by the cloud data centers, the edge and fog computing paradigms have reared. In s…

cs.DC2021★ 2 cited

DHT-based Communications Survey: Architectures and Use Cases

Yahya Hassanzadeh-Nazarabadi, Sanaz Taheri-Boshrooyeh, Safa Otoum +2

Several distributed system paradigms utilize Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs) to realize structured peer-to-peer (P2P) overlays. DHT structures arise as the most commonly used organi…

cs.DC2021★ 52 cited

LightChain: Scalable DHT-Based Blockchain

Yahya Hassanzadeh-Nazarabadi, Alptekin Küpçü, Öznur Özkasap

As an append-only distributed database, blockchain is utilized in a vast variety of applications including the cryptocurrency and Internet-of-Things (IoT). The existing blockchain…

cs.DC2020

Demo: A Proof-of-Concept Implementation of Guard Secure Routing Protocol

Sanaz Taheri-Boshrooyeh, Ali Utkan Şahin, Yahya Hassanzadeh-Nazarabadi +1

Skip Graphs belong to the family of Distributed Hash Table (DHT) structures that are utilized as routing overlays in various peer-to-peer applications including blockchains, cloud…

cs.DC2020

A containerized proof-of-concept implementation of LightChain system

Yahya Hassanzadeh-Nazarabadi, Nazir Nayal, Shadi Sameh Hamdan +2

LightChain is the first Distributed Hash Table (DHT)-based blockchain with a logarithmic asymptotic message and memory complexity. In this demo paper, we present the software archi…