4 papers
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…
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…
On Sharing Models Instead of Data using Mimic learning for Smart Health Applications
Mohamed Baza, Andrew Salazar, Mohamed Mahmoud +2
Electronic health records (EHR) systems contain vast amounts of medical information about patients. These data can be used to train machine learning models that can predict health…
Blockchain-based Firmware Update Scheme Tailored for Autonomous Vehicles
Mohamed Baza, Mahmoud Nabil, Noureddine Lasla +3
Recently, Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) have gained extensive attention from both academia and industry. AVs are a complex system composed of many subsystems, making them a typical tar…