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most citedBlock4Forensic: An Integrated Lightweight Blockchain Framework for Forensics Applications of Connected Vehicles

329 citations · 396 across the 26 of their papers we have counts for

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31 papers

cs.NI2023

Bringing DNS Service to 5G Edge for Reduced Latencies in mMTC Applications

Ricardo Harrilal-Parchment, Diana Pineda, Kemal Akkaya +2

5G brings many improvements to cellular networks in terms of performance, such as lower latency, improved network efficiency, and higher throughput, making it an attractive candida…

cs.CR2023

LNMesh: Who Said You need Internet to send Bitcoin? Offline Lightning Network Payments using Community Wireless Mesh Networks

Ahmet Kurt, Abdulhadi Sahin, Ricardo Harrilal-Parchment +1

Bitcoin is undoubtedly a great alternative to today's existing digital payment systems. Even though Bitcoin's scalability has been debated for a long time, we see that it is no lon…

cs.CR2022

LNGate: Secure Bidirectional IoT Micro-payments using Bitcoin's Lightning Network and Threshold Cryptography

Ahmet Kurt, Kemal Akkaya, Sabri Yilmaz +3

Bitcoin has emerged as a revolutionary payment system with its decentralized ledger concept; however it has significant problems such as high transaction fees and low throughput. L…

cs.CR2021★ 1 cited

D-LNBot: A Scalable, Cost-Free and Covert Hybrid Botnet on Bitcoin's Lightning Network

Ahmet Kurt, Enes Erdin, Kemal Akkaya +2

While various covert botnets were proposed in the past, they still lack complete anonymization for their servers/botmasters or suffer from slow communication between the botmaster…

cs.CR2021

3-of-3 Multisignature Approach for Enabling Lightning Network Micro-payments on IoT Devices

Ahmet Kurt, Suat Mercan, Enes Erdin +1

Bitcoin's success as a cryptocurrency enabled it to penetrate into many daily life transactions. Its problems regarding the transaction fees and long validation times are addressed…

cs.CR2021★ 3 cited

LNGate: Powering IoT with Next Generation Lightning Micro-payments using Threshold Cryptography

Ahmet Kurt, Suat Mercan, Omer Shlomovits +2

Bitcoin has emerged as a revolutionary payment system with its decentralized ledger concept however it has significant problems such as high transaction fees and long confirmation…

cs.CR2021★ 1 cited

Survey on Enterprise Internet-of-Things Systems (E-IoT): A Security Perspective

Luis Puche Rondon, Leonardo Babun, Ahmet Aris +2

As technology becomes more widely available, millions of users worldwide have installed some form of smart device in their homes or workplaces. These devices are often off-the-shel…

cs.CR2021★ 3 cited

An Evaluation of Cryptocurrency Payment Channel Networks and Their Privacy Implications

Enes Erdin, Suat Mercan, Kemal Akkaya

Cryptocurrencies redefined how money can be stored and transferred among users. However, independent of the amount being sent, public blockchain-based cryptocurrencies suffer from…

cs.CR2021

Cryptocurrency Solutions to Enable Micro-payments in Consumer IoT

Suat Mercan, Ahmet Kurt, Enes Erdin +1

The successful amalgamation of cryptocurrency and consumer Internet of Things (IoT) devices can pave the way for novel applications in machine-to-machine economy. However, the lack…

cs.CR2020

Enabling Micro-payments on IoT Devices using Bitcoin Lightning Network

Ahmet Kurt, Suat Mercan, Enes Erdin +1

Lightning Network (LN) addresses the scalability problem of Bitcoin by leveraging off-chain transactions. Nevertheless, it is not possible to run LN on resource-constrained IoT dev…

cs.CR2020★ 2 cited

PoisonIvy: (In)secure Practices of Enterprise IoT Systems in Smart Buildings

Luis Puche Rondon, Leonardo Babun, Ahmet Aris +2

The rise of IoT devices has led to the proliferation of smart buildings, offices, and homes worldwide. Although commodity IoT devices are employed by ordinary end-users, complex en…

cs.NI2020

Security, Privacy and Ethical Concerns of IoT Implementations in Hospitality Domain

Suat Mercan, Kemal Akkaya, Lisa Cain +1

The Internet of Things (IoT) has been on the rise in the last decade as it finds applications in various domains. Hospitality is one of the pioneer sectors that has adopted this te…

cs.CR2020★ 3 cited

Server-side Fingerprint-Based Indoor Localization Using Encrypted Sorting

Andrew Quijano, Kemal Akkaya

GPS signals, the main origin of navigation, are not functional in indoor environments. Therefore, Wi-Fi access points have started to be increasingly used for localization and trac…

cs.CR2020★ 27 cited

A Cost-efficient IoT Forensics Framework with Blockchain

Suat Mercan, Mumin Cebe, Ege Tekiner +3

IoT devices have been adopted widely in the last decade which enabled collection of various data from different environments. The collected data is crucial in certain applications…

cs.CR2020★ 7 cited

Improving Transaction Success Rate via Smart Gateway Selection in Cryptocurrency Payment Channel Networks

Suat Mercan, Enes Erdin, Kemal Akkaya

The last decade has experienced a vast interest in Blockchain-based cryptocurrencies with a specific focus on the applications of this technology. However, slow confirmation times…

cs.CR2020★ 8 cited

Improving Sustainability of Cryptocurrency Payment Networks for IoT Applications

Suat Mercan, Enes Erdin, Kemal Akkaya

Blockchain-based cryptocurrencies received a lot of attention recently for their applications in many domains. IoT domain is one of such applications, which can utilize cryptocur-r…

cs.CR2020

Assuring the Integrity of Videos from Wireless-based IoT Devices using Blockchain

Dominik Danko, Suat Mercan, Mumin Cebe Kemal Akkaya

Blockchain technology has drawn attention fromvarious communities. The underlying consensus mechanism inBlockchain enables a myriad of applications for the integrityassurance of st…

cs.LG2019

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…

cs.NI2019

Strategic Defense against Stealthy Link Flooding Attacks: A Signaling Game Approach

Abdullah Aydeger, Mohammad Hossein Manshaei, Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman +1

With the increasing diversity of Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks, it is becoming extremely challenging to design a fully protected network. For instance, Stealthy Link…

cs.NI2019★ 2 cited

Heuristic Approach for Jointly Optimizing FeICIC and UAV Locations in Multi-Tier LTE-Advanced Public Safety HetNet

Abhaykumar Kumbhar, Hamidullah Binol, Simran Singh +2

UAV enabled communications and networking can enhance wireless connectivity and support emerging services. However, this would require system-level understanding to modify and exte…

cs.CR2019

LNBot: A Covert Hybrid Botnet on Bitcoin Lightning Network for Fun and Profit

Ahmet Kurt, Enes Erdin, Mumin Cebe +2

While various covert botnets were proposed in the past, they still lack complete anonymization for their servers/botmasters or suffer from slow communication between the botmaster…

cs.CR2019★ 5 cited

HDMI-Walk: Attacking HDMI Distribution Networks via Consumer Electronic Control Protocol

Luis Puche Rondon, Leonardo Babun, Kemal Akkaya +1

The High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) is the de-facto standard for Audio/Video interfacing between video-enabled devices. Today, almost tens of billions of HDMI devices e…

cs.CR2019★ 3 cited

Privacy-Preserving Smart Parking System Using Blockchain and Private Information Retrieval

Wesam Al Amiri, Mohamed Baza, Karim Banawan +3

Searching for available parking spaces is a major problem for drivers especially in big crowded cities, causing traffic congestion and air pollution, and wasting drivers' time. Sma…

cs.CR2019

Communication-efficient Certificate Revocation Management for Advanced Metering Infrastructure and IoT

Mumin Cebe, Kemal Akkaya

Advanced Metering Infrastructure forms a communication network for the collection of power data from smart meters in Smart Grid. As the communication between smart meters could be…