2 papers
cs.CR2020
Green-PoW: An Energy-Efficient Blockchain Proof-of-Work Consensus Algorithm
Noureddine Lasla, Lina Alsahan, Mohamed Abdallah +1
This paper opts to mitigate the energy-inefficiency of the Blockchain Proof-of-Work (PoW) consensus algorithm by rationally repurposing the power spent during the mining process. T…
cs.CR2020
Local Bitcoin Network Simulator for Performance Evaluation using Lightweight Virtualization
Lina Alsahan, Noureddine Lasla, Mohamed Abdallah
This paper presents a new blockchain network simulator that uses bitcoin's original reference implementation as its main application. The proposed simulator leverages the use of li…