3 papers
cs.DC2026
PoCQ: Proof of Contribution Quality as a Lightweight Blockchain Consensus for Secure Federated Learning
Sudad Abed, Nasser Sabar, Abdun Mahmood +1
Decentralized Federated Learning (FL) removes reliance on centralized coordinators but remains vulnerable to model poisoning, unreliable validation, and high validation overhead. T…
cs.CR2025
A Comprehensive Review of Denial of Wallet Attacks in Serverless Architectures
Mark Dorsett, Scott Mann, Jabed Chowdhury +1
The Denial of Wallet (DoW) attack poses a unique and growing threat to serverless architectures that rely on Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) models, exploiting the cost structure of p…
cs.CR2025
Decentralized Federated Anomaly Detection in Smart Grids: A P2P Gossip Approach
Muhammad Akbar Husnoo, Adnan Anwar, Md Enamul Haque +1
The increasing security and privacy concerns in the Smart Grid sector have led to a significant demand for robust intrusion detection systems within critical smart grid infrastruct…