3 papers
cs.DC2019
How to profit from payments channels
Oguzhan Ersoy, Stefanie Roos, Zekeriya Erkin
Payment channel networks like Bitcoin's Lightning network are an auspicious approach for realizing high transaction throughput and almost-instant confirmations in blockchain networ…
cs.DC2018
VAPOR: a Value-Centric Blockchain that is Scale-out, Decentralized, and Flexible by Design
Zhijie Ren, Zekeriya Erkin
Blockchains is a special type of distributed systems that operates in unsafe networks. In most blockchains, all nodes should reach consensus on all state transitions with Byzantine…
cs.CR2018
DEFenD: A Secure and Privacy-Preserving Decentralized System for Freight Declaration
Daniël Vos, Leon Overweel, Wouter Raateland +4
Millions of shipping containers filled with goods move around the world every day. Before such a container may enter a trade bloc, the customs agency of the goods' destination coun…