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  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,054 Views
18 Pages

Blockchain-Based Security Configuration Management for ICT Systems

  • Dimitrios Chatziamanetoglou and
  • Konstantinos Rantos

The world has become increasingly dependent on large-scale and distributed information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructures and systems in sectors such as energy, transport, banking, healthcare, water supply, and digital services, while...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,579 Views
18 Pages

Blockchain technology is suited to the high-quality development of the digital economy in addressing privacy and data security issues. This study explores the synergistic mechanism of the following six factors from three dimensions based on the Techn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,507 Views
19 Pages

6 September 2022

The increasing number of security breaches in centralized systems provides the necessity to introduce decentralization in more fields. The Blockchain is a widely utilized decentralization technology that is implemented in various industries. Therefor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,140 Views
17 Pages

A Blockchain-Based Configuration for Balancing the Electricity Grid with Distributed Assets

  • Tarek AlSkaif,
  • Bart Holthuizen,
  • Wouter Schram,
  • Ioannis Lampropoulos and
  • Wilfried van Sark

This paper explores a future perspective to foster the provision of balancing services to the electricity grid by distributed assets. One recent test case, initiated by the Dutch Transmission System Operator (TSO), was to operate an Electric Vehicle...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,274 Views
11 Pages

10 August 2019

The blockchain technique is becoming more and more popular due to its advantages such as stability and dispersed nature. This is an idea based on blockchain activity paradigms. Another important field is machine learning, which is increasingly used i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,985 Views
16 Pages

HMM-Based Blockchain Visual Automatic Deployment System

  • Junkai Yi,
  • Jin Wang,
  • Lingling Tan and
  • Taifu Yuan

30 June 2024

The traditional blockchain deployment process is too complicated and has high technical requirements for blockchain deployers. Deploying a blockchain requires building a complex software-dependent environment, being able to use Linux commands for cum...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,923 Views
22 Pages

Fuzzy Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Loyalty Programmes Powered with Blockchain via an UTAUT2 Framework

  • Mario Arias-Oliva,
  • Jaume Gené-Albesa,
  • Jorge de Andrés-Sánchez and
  • Miguel Llorens-Marín

29 November 2024

(1) Background: Loyalty programmes are business strategies aimed at increasing customer fidelity to brands. One of the most promising technologies of the 21st century is blockchain, whose application to the management of loyalty programmes can increa...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,728 Views
19 Pages

29 April 2022

With cloud computing, organizations must comply with applicable laws, policies, and best practices. Companies typically rely on cloud service providers to implement and adopt regulations. This consulting phase is often time-consuming, costly, and not...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,260 Views
20 Pages

22 April 2025

In this study, a Multi-Sensor IoT Device (MSID) is developed that is designed to collect various environmental data and interconnect with the cloud and blockchain to ensure reliable data management. The MSID is designed with a flexible, modular struc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
108 Citations
15,392 Views
12 Pages

Management and Monitoring of IoT Devices Using Blockchain

  • Kristián Košťál,
  • Pavol Helebrandt,
  • Matej Belluš,
  • Michal Ries and
  • Ivan Kotuliak

19 February 2019

Nowadays, we are surrounded by a large number of IoT (Internet of Things) devices and sensors. These devices are designed to make life easier and more comfortable. Blockchain technology, especially its mass application, is becoming a term number one....

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
7,325 Views
23 Pages

6 July 2023

Communication and information technologies have accelerated the implementation of electronic medical records, but at the same time, have put patient privacy, information security and health data at risk. An alternative to address the problem of secur...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1,934 Views
10 Pages

2 July 2023

One of the primary challenges in wireless blockchain networks is to ensure security and high throughput with constrained communication and energy resources. In this paper, with curve fitting on the collected blockchain performance dataset, we explore...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,194 Views
38 Pages

10 February 2024

The energy-intensive characteristics of the computations performed by graphics processing units (GPUs) in proof-of-work (PoW) blockchain technology are readily apparent. The optimization of GPU feature configuration is a complex subject that signific...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,859 Views
8 Pages

10 December 2021

Ensuring a production-ready state of the application under development is the immanent feature of the continuous delivery approach. In a blockchain network, nodes communicate, storing data in a decentralized manner. Each node executes the same busine...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,112 Views
31 Pages

26 October 2022

Although many studies have been devoted to integrating blockchain into IoT device management, access control, data integrity, security, and privacy, blockchain-facilitated IoT communication is still much less studied. Blockchain has great potential i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
4,972 Views
17 Pages

Agricultural Lightweight Embedded Blockchain System: A Case Study in Olive Oil

  • Jalel Ktari,
  • Tarek Frikha,
  • Faten Chaabane,
  • Monia Hamdi and
  • Habib Hamam

20 October 2022

In Tunisia, one of the major problems of the olive oil industry is marketing. Several factors have an impact, such as quality, originality, lobbying, subsidies and the certification of extra virgin olive oil. The major problem remains the traceabilit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,040 Views
15 Pages

31 August 2022

Blockchain network architecture is a promising technology for constructing highly secure Internet of Things (IoT) networks. IoT networks typically comprise various sensors and actuators. Blockchain network technology can be applied to secure control...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,529 Views
31 Pages

A Review of Blockchained Product Quality Management Towards Smart Manufacturing

  • Lihua Wu,
  • Yuanwei Zhong,
  • Xiaofeng Zhu,
  • Xueliang Zhou and
  • Jiewu Leng

19 August 2025

Trustworthy product quality data forms the foundation of digital and distributed manufacturing, yet current centralized product quality management (PQM) systems remain vulnerable to data manipulation, traceability breaks, single points of failure, an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
9,837 Views
24 Pages

The Impact of Perceived Benefits on Blockchain Adoption in Supply Chain Management

  • Chuangneng Cai,
  • Xiancheng Hao,
  • Kui Wang and
  • Xuebing Dong

13 April 2023

Globalization has prompted enterprises worldwide to increasingly seek the optimal supply chain configuration. However, outsourcing, shortened product life cycles, and a reduced supply base severely weaken supply chain risk tolerance. With the emergen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,824 Views
18 Pages

8 December 2023

The energy blockchain is a platform based on blockchain technology, creating a secure, transparent, and decentralized system for peer-to-peer transactions and automated smart contracts. This platform has the ability to facilitate the exchange and man...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,909 Views
16 Pages

Autonomous Operation Control of IoT Blockchain Networks

  • Jae-Hoon Kim,
  • Seungchul Lee and
  • Sengphil Hong

Internet of Things (IoT) networks are typically composed of many sensors and actuators. The operation controls for robots in smart factories or drones produce a massive volume of data that requires high reliability. A blockchain architecture can be u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,796 Views
18 Pages

25 December 2021

Ensuring a production-ready state of the application under development is the imminent feature of the Continuous Delivery (CD) approach. In a blockchain network, nodes communicate and store data in a distributed manner. Each node executes the same bu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,332 Views
21 Pages

Renewable energy resources have been gaining ground in recent years and we are on the verge of a decentralized energy market with consumers becoming prosumers. Platforms that facilitate peer-to-peer (P2P) sale or purchase of energy are therefore esse...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
5,770 Views
19 Pages

Given the issues of low efficiency of agricultural Internet of Things (IoT) data collection and data storage security, this study proposes a fast and reliable storage method for IoT data based on blockchain. Firstly, it performs RC5 encryption for da...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,916 Views
31 Pages

27 March 2023

This study investigates the effects of blockchain technology scalability limitations on the performance of Blockchain-Based Shared Manufacturing (BBSM), an innovative smart-manufacturing paradigm aimed at enhancing the utilization of global manufactu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,524 Views
26 Pages

15 August 2022

Due to the high mobility of nodes and the complexity of the mission environment, mission-oriented UAV networks are not only subject to frequent topology changes, but also to the risk of being compromised, hijacked and corrupted. As a result, an opera...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,249 Views
18 Pages

1 December 2020

A major concern of the adoption and scalability of Blockchain technologies refers to their efficient use for payments. In this work, we analyze how Lightning Network (LN), which represents a relevant infrastructural novelty, is influenced by the mark...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,249 Views
20 Pages

Blockchain oracles are an intermediary designed to connect external non-deterministic information and real-world data to the blockchain digital infrastructure. The variety of proposed solutions and purposes are of great variety and suggest that it is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,938 Views
21 Pages

Blockchain-Based Decentralized Architecture for Software Version Control

  • Muhammad Hammad,
  • Jawaid Iqbal,
  • Ch Anwar ul Hassan,
  • Saddam Hussain,
  • Syed Sajid Ullah,
  • Mueen Uddin,
  • Urooj Ali Malik,
  • Maha Abdelhaq and
  • Raed Alsaqour

27 February 2023

Version control is an important component of configuration management, and most enterprise-level software uses different tools and technologies to manage the software version control such as CVS, Subversion, or Perforce. Following the success of bitc...

  • Review
  • Open Access
65 Citations
7,431 Views
32 Pages

Secure Blockchain Middleware for Decentralized IIoT towards Industry 5.0: A Review of Architecture, Enablers, Challenges, and Directions

  • Jiewu Leng,
  • Ziying Chen,
  • Zhiqiang Huang,
  • Xiaofeng Zhu,
  • Hongye Su,
  • Zisheng Lin and
  • Ding Zhang

26 September 2022

Resilient manufacturing is a vision in the Industry 5.0 blueprint for satisfying sustainable development goals under pandemics or the rising individualized product needs. A resilient manufacturing strategy based on the Industrial Internet of Things (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,452 Views
16 Pages

ChronoEOS 2.0: Device Fingerprinting and EOSIO Blockchain Technology for On-Running Forensic Analysis in an IoT Environment

  • José Álvaro Fernández-Carrasco,
  • Xabier Echeberria-Barrio,
  • Daniel Paredes-García,
  • Francesco Zola and
  • Raul Orduna-Urrutia

10 March 2023

In industrial environments there are critical devices, so their correct operation must be ensured. In particular, having a secure record of the different events related to these devices is essential. Thus, this record can be used in future forensic i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
9,492 Views
12 Pages

Smart Contract Data Feed Framework for Privacy-Preserving Oracle System on Blockchain

  • Junhoo Park,
  • Hyekjin Kim,
  • Geunyoung Kim and
  • Jaecheol Ryou

28 December 2020

As blockchain-based applications and research such as cryptocurrency increase, an oracle problem to bring external data in the blockchain is emerging. Among the methods to solve the oracle problem, a method of configuring oracle based on TLS, an exis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
8,977 Views
14 Pages

Electronic Voting System Using an Enterprise Blockchain

  • Camilo Denis González,
  • Daniel Frias Mena,
  • Alexi Massó Muñoz,
  • Omar Rojas and
  • Guillermo Sosa-Gómez

6 January 2022

Conventional electronic voting systems use a centralized scheme. A central administration of these systems manages the entire voting process and has partial or total control over the database and the system itself. This creates some problems, acciden...

  • Article
  • Open Access
786 Views
17 Pages

31 October 2025

This study analyzes how blockchain technology can be interpreted through an economic perspective, viewing network nodes as rational agents whose strategic behavior affects the efficiency and sustainability of decentralized systems. Using a multi-play...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,702 Views
17 Pages

Implementation of a Distributed Framework for Permissioned Blockchain-Based Secure Automotive Supply Chain Management

  • Saima Zafar,
  • Syed Faseeh Ul Hassan,
  • AlSharef Mohammad,
  • Ahmad Aziz Al-Ahmadi and
  • Nasim Ullah

28 September 2022

An automotive supply chain includes a range of activities from the concept of the product to its final transfer to a customer and subsequent vehicle maintenance. The three distinct stages of this chain are production, sales, and maintenance. In many...

  • Letter
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,727 Views
11 Pages

Enhancing Border Gateway Protocol Security Using Public Blockchain

  • Lukas Mastilak,
  • Marek Galinski,
  • Pavol Helebrandt,
  • Ivan Kotuliak and
  • Michal Ries

11 August 2020

Communication on the Internet consisting of a massive number of Autonomous Systems (AS) depends on routing based on Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). Routers generally trust the veracity of information in BGP updates from their neighbors, as with many o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,223 Views
15 Pages

BRAIN: Blockchain-Based Record and Interoperability Network

  • Sergi López-Sorribes,
  • Josep Rius-Torrentó and
  • Francesc Solsona-Tehàs

11 November 2023

In today’s highly competitive landscape, effective information sharing is crucial for distinguishing successful entities from the rest. However, achieving seamless collaboration in this digital era remains challenging due to distrust among enti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
4,882 Views
20 Pages

Towards a Secure and Scalable Maritime Monitoring System Using Blockchain and Low-Cost IoT Technology

  • Warlley Paulo Freire,
  • Wilson S. Melo,
  • Vinicius D. do Nascimento,
  • Paulo R. M. Nascimento and
  • Alan Oliveira de Sá

29 June 2022

Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) is a strategic field of study that seeks to provide a coastal country with an effective monitoring of its maritime resources and its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). In this scope, a Maritime Monitoring System (MMS) aims...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,778 Views
16 Pages

This paper investigates the application of graph theory and variants of greedy graph coloring algorithms for the optimization of distributed peer-to-peer networks, with a special focus on private blockchain networks. The graph coloring problem, as an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
8,342 Views
17 Pages

4 October 2022

Sharing data securely and efficiently has been identified as an issue in IoT-based smart systems such as smart cities, smart agriculture, smart health, etc. A large number of IoT devices are used in these smart systems and they produce a large amount...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,738 Views
18 Pages

Compared to other applications of distributed ledger technologies, for example, in decentralized finance, non-fungible tokens, and logistics, Blockchain applications in the energy industry have not found widespread dissemination and fell short of mar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,167 Views
21 Pages

Purpose: The main objective of this research is to highlight the managerial and organizational implications for businesses resulting from the implementation of blockchain logic and technologies. The functionalities of blockchain technologies are comp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
5,184 Views
17 Pages

Blockchain-Based Secure Device Management Framework for an Internet of Things Network in a Smart City

  • Seonghyeon Gong,
  • Erzhena Tcydenova,
  • Jeonghoon Jo,
  • Younghun Lee and
  • Jong Hyuk Park

17 July 2019

The broadly configured smart city network requires a variety of security considerations for a heterogeneous device environment. Because a network of heterogeneous devices facilitates an attacker’s intrusion through a specific device or node, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,809 Views
18 Pages

28 March 2023

Industrial Symbiosis (IS) involves a network of organizations that exchange energy, materials, and by-products to lower production costs, reduce environmental impact, and conserve natural resources. Despite over two decades of extensive research into...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,146 Views
25 Pages

3 November 2019

This paper aims to study the problems of surplus interaction, poor real-time performance, and excessive processing of information in the micro-grid scheduling and decision-making process. Firstly, the micro-grid dual-loop mobile topology structure is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
6,210 Views
21 Pages

25 May 2022

Smart contracts constitute the foundation for blockchain distributed applications. These constructs enable transactions in trustless environments using consensus algorithms and software-controlled verification rules. In the current state of the art,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
10,615 Views
31 Pages

Web Application for Retrieval-Augmented Generation: Implementation and Testing

  • Irina Radeva,
  • Ivan Popchev,
  • Lyubka Doukovska and
  • Miroslava Dimitrova

The purpose of this paper is to explore the implementation of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) technology with open-source large language models (LLMs). A dedicated web-based application, PaSSER, was developed, integrating RAG with Mistral:7b, Ll...

  • Article
  • Open Access
304 Views
31 Pages

8 January 2026

Blockchain technology has attracted considerable attention in the supply chain literature for its potential to enhance operational traceability, transparency, and trust, as well as to advance greening initiatives. Given current supply chain configura...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,918 Views
27 Pages

15 November 2023

Regulatory authorities, consumers, and producers alike are alarmed by the issue of food safety, which is a matter of international concern. The conventional approaches utilized in food quality management demonstrate deficiencies in their capacity to...

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