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most citedMaximal Extractable Value Mitigation Approaches in Ethereum and Layer-2 Chains: A Comprehensive Survey

13 citations · 31 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.CR2026

SoK: Federated Learning for Intrusion Detection in Vehicular Networks

Yahya Shahsavari, Reza Nourmohammadi, Sara Rouhani +1

Modern vehicular networks face an expanding attack surface across internal Electronic Control Units (ECUs) and external Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication. Federated Learnin…

cs.LG2026

SCOPE-FL: A Strategy-proof Chain-based Optimal pareto efficient Federated Learning System

Seyed Salar Ghazi, Kaiwen Zhang, Mehdi feizi +1

Hierarchical Federated Learning (HFL) enables scalable collaborative model training across distributed devices while preserving data privacy. However, existing HFL client selection…

cs.CR2026

ICBAC: an Intelligent Contract-Based Access Control framework for supply chain management by integrating blockchain and federated learning

Sadegh Sohani, Salar Ghazi, Farnaz Kamranfar +4

This paper addresses the critical challenge of access control in modern supply chains, which operate across multiple independent and competing organizations. Existing access contro…

cs.DC2025

AI-driven Predictive Shard Allocation for Scalable Next Generation Blockchains

M. Zeeshan Haider, Tayyaba Noreen, M. D. Assuncao +1

Sharding has emerged as a key technique to address blockchain scalability by partitioning the ledger into multiple shards that process transactions in parallel. Although this appro…

cs.CR2025

EthVault: A Secure and Resource-Conscious FPGA-Based Ethereum Cold Wallet

Joel Poncha Lemayian, Ghyslain Gagnon, Kaiwen Zhang +1

Cryptocurrency blockchain networks safeguard digital assets using cryptographic keys, with wallets playing a critical role in generating, storing, and managing these keys. Wallets,…

cs.CR2025★ 1 cited

A Range-Based Sharding (RBS) Protocol for Scalable Enterprise Blockchain

M. Z. Haider, M. Dias de Assuncao, Kaiwen Zhang

Blockchain technology offers decentralization and security but struggles with scalability, particularly in enterprise settings where efficiency and controlled access are paramount.…

quant-ph2025★ 2 cited

V-ZOR: Enabling Verifiable Cross-Blockchain Communication via Quantum-Driven ZKP Oracle Relays

M. Z. Haider, Tayyaba Noreen, M. Salman +2

Cross-chain bridges and oracle DAOs represent some of the most vulnerable components of decentralized systems, with more than $2.8 billion lost due to trust failures, opaque valida…

eess.SP2025

EVMx: An FPGA-Based Smart Contract Processing Unit

Joel Poncha Lemayian, Hachem Bensalem, Ghyslain Gagnon +2

Ethereum blockchain uses smart contracts (SCs) to implement decentralized applications (dApps). SCs are executed by the Ethereum virtual machine (EVM) running within an Ethereum cl…

cs.CR2024

WiP: Towards a Secure SECP256K1 for Crypto Wallets: Hardware Architecture and Implementation

Joel Poncha Lemayian, Ghyslain Gagnon, Kaiwen Zhang +1

The SECP256K1 elliptic curve algorithm is fundamental in cryptocurrency wallets for generating secure public keys from private keys, thereby ensuring the protection and ownership o…

cs.CR2024★ 13 cited

Maximal Extractable Value Mitigation Approaches in Ethereum and Layer-2 Chains: A Comprehensive Survey

Zeinab Alipanahloo, Abdelhakim Senhaji Hafid, Kaiwen Zhang

Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) represents a pivotal challenge within the Ethereum ecosystem; it impacts the fairness, security, and efficiency of both Layer 1 (L1) and Layer 2 (L2…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

MultiConfederated Learning: Inclusive Non-IID Data handling with Decentralized Federated Learning

Michael Duchesne, Kaiwen Zhang, Chamseddine Talhi

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a prominent privacy-preserving technique for enabling use cases like confidential clinical machine learning. FL operates by aggregating model…

cs.CR2020

A position paper on GDPR compliance in sharded blockchains: rehash of old ideas or new interesting challenges?

Narasimha Raghavan Veeraragavan, Kaiwen Zhang

Sharding has emerged as one of the common techniques to address the scalability problems of blockchain systems. To this end, various sharding techniques for blockchain systems have…

cs.NI2013★ 12 cited

SDN-like: The Next Generation of Pub/Sub

Kaiwen Zhang, Hans-Arno Jacobsen

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) has raised the boundaries of cloud computing by offering unparalleled levels of control and flexibility to system administrators over their virtua…