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  • Article
  • Open Access
3,617 Views
33 Pages

29 May 2023

Open-source systems help to manage the rapid development of software, while governing open-source systems properly can effectively promote software and software engineering. However, some significant problems, such as code controls, incentives, inter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
62 Citations
5,652 Views
18 Pages

Evaluating Centralized and Heterarchical Control of Smart Manufacturing Systems in the Era of Industry 4.0

  • Anna Rosaria Boccella,
  • Piera Centobelli,
  • Roberto Cerchione,
  • Teresa Murino and
  • Ralph Riedel

21 January 2020

In light of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the concepts of flexibility and re-configurability of manufacturing systems and the evolution of their control architectures are becoming increasingly important. The development of Cyber Physical Systems...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,678 Views
25 Pages

A Novel Locality Algorithm and Peer-to-Peer Communication Infrastructure for Optimizing Network Performance in Smart Microgrids

  • Silvia Marzal,
  • Raul González-Medina,
  • Robert Salas-Puente,
  • Emilio Figueres and
  • Gabriel Garcerá

27 August 2017

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) overlay communications networks have emerged as a new paradigm for implementing distributed services in microgrids due to their potential benefits: they are robust, scalable, fault-tolerant, and they can route messages even when a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,978 Views
29 Pages

Platform Architecture for Decentralized Positioning Systems

  • Zakaria Kasmi,
  • Abdelmoumen Norrdine and
  • Jörg Blankenbach

26 April 2017

A platform architecture for positioning systems is essential for the realization of a flexible localization system, which interacts with other systems and supports various positioning technologies and algorithms. The decentralized processing of a pos...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,305 Views
31 Pages

16 August 2016

The last decade has witnessed an increased interest in physical systems controlled over wireless networks (networked control systems). These systems allow the computation of control signals via processors that are not attached to the physical systems...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,614 Views
10 Pages

Robotic Systems of Systems Based on a Decentralized Service-Oriented Architecture

  • Lennart Siefke,
  • Volker Sommer,
  • Björn Wudka and
  • Carsten Thomas

27 September 2020

Multi-robot systems are often static and pre-configured during the design time of their software. Emerging cooperation between unknown robots is still rare and limited. Such cooperation might be basic like sharing sensor data or complex like conjoine...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,073 Views
18 Pages

19 July 2025

Background/Objectives: Electronic medical record systems play a crucial role in the operation of modern healthcare institutions, enabling the foundational data necessary for advancements in personalized medicine. Despite their importance, the softwar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,361 Views
22 Pages

Harnessing the Cloud: A Novel Approach to Smart Solar Plant Monitoring

  • Mohammad Imran Ali,
  • Shahi Dost,
  • Khurram Shehzad Khattak,
  • Muhammad Imran Khan and
  • Riaz Muhammad

Renewable Energy Sources (RESs) such as hydro, wind, and solar are merging as preferred alternatives to fossil fuels. Among these RESs, solar energy is the most ideal solution; it is gaining extensive interest around the globe. However, due to solar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
3,998 Views
19 Pages

A Robotic Cognitive Architecture for Slope and Dam Inspections

  • Milena F. Pinto,
  • Leonardo M. Honorio,
  • Aurélio Melo and
  • Andre L. M. Marcato

15 August 2020

Big construction enterprises, such as electrical power generation dams and mining slopes, demand continuous visual inspections. The sizes of these structures and the necessary level of detail in each mission requires a conflicting set of multi-object...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
5,619 Views
20 Pages

A Reference Architecture for Cloud–Edge Meta-Operating Systems Enabling Cross-Domain, Data-Intensive, ML-Assisted Applications: Architectural Overview and Key Concepts

  • Panagiotis Trakadas,
  • Xavi Masip-Bruin,
  • Federico M. Facca,
  • Sotirios T. Spantideas,
  • Anastasios E. Giannopoulos,
  • Nikolaos C. Kapsalis,
  • Rui Martins,
  • Enrica Bosani,
  • Joan Ramon and
  • Dimitrios V. Lyridis
  • + 2 authors

21 November 2022

Future data-intensive intelligent applications are required to traverse across the cloud-to-edge-to-IoT continuum, where cloud and edge resources elegantly coordinate, alongside sensor networks and data. However, current technical solutions can only...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,002 Views
39 Pages

19 July 2025

The rapid growth in large-scale distributed video conferencing, remote education, and real-time broadcasting poses significant challenges to traditional centralized streaming systems, particularly regarding scalability, cost, and reliability under hi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,948 Views
27 Pages

Coordinated Multi-Platooning Planning for Resolving Sudden Congestion on Multi-Lane Freeways

  • Jia-You Lin,
  • Chia-Che Tsai,
  • Van-Linh Nguyen and
  • Ren-Hung Hwang

28 August 2022

Resolving traffic congestion caused by sudden events (e.g., an accident, lane closed due to construction) on the freeway has always been a problem that is challenging to address perfectly. The congestion resolution can take hours if the congestion is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,374 Views
14 Pages

A Decentralized Architecture Based on Cooperative Dynamic Agents for Online Voltage Regulation in Smart Grids

  • Amedeo Andreotti,
  • Alberto Petrillo,
  • Stefania Santini,
  • Alfredo Vaccaro and
  • Domenico Villacci

10 April 2019

The large-scale integration of renewable power generators in power grids may cause complex technical issues, which could hinder their hosting capacity. In this context, the mitigation of the grid voltage fluctuations represents one of the main issues...

  • Article
  • Open Access
173 Views
15 Pages

Decentralized Control for Interrelated Systems with Asymmetric Information Architecture

  • Yixing Wang,
  • Yirun Wang,
  • Boqun Tan,
  • Xinghua Li and
  • Xiao Liang

This paper focuses on finite-horizon optimum state feedback control problems for interconnected systems of two players involved with asymmetric one-step delay information. For the finite horizon optimum decentralized control problem, a crucial and ad...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,817 Views
18 Pages

As smart transportation systems evolve, secure and efficient V2X communication between vehicles and infrastructure becomes crucial. This paper introduces a Vehicle-to-Blockchain (V2B) communication architecture, leveraging blockchain technology for t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,854 Views
35 Pages

Smart Grid Architecture for Rural Distribution Networks: Application to a Spanish Pilot Network

  • Francesc Girbau-Llistuella,
  • Francisco Díaz-González,
  • Andreas Sumper,
  • Ramon Gallart-Fernández and
  • Daniel Heredero-Peris

4 April 2018

This paper presents a novel architecture for rural distribution grids. This architecture is designed to modernize traditional rural networks into new Smart Grid ones. The architecture tackles innovation actions on both the power plane and the managem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,328 Views
32 Pages

26 January 2025

In the digital era, the demand for real-time streaming services highlights the scalability, data sovereignty, and privacy limitations of traditional centralized systems. VidBlock introduces a novel decentralized blockchain architecture that leverages...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,053 Views
22 Pages

16 February 2023

The crypto and digital assets ecosystems have attracted investment, regulators, and speculators to their environment. As the blockchain-based framework can reduce transaction costs, generate distributed trust, and enable decentralized platforms, it h...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,674 Views
20 Pages

Towards Sustainable Education 4.0: Opportunities and Challenges of Decentralized Learning with Web3 Technologies

  • Breno Duarte,
  • Márcio Ferro,
  • Mohamed Yassine Zarouk,
  • Alan Silva,
  • Márcio Martins and
  • Fábio Paraguaçu

18 August 2025

Education 4.0 promotes active, personalized, and competency-based learning aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), yet most current platforms rely on centralized architectures that restrict access, agency, and adaptability. To address...

  • Review
  • Open Access
35 Citations
5,542 Views
44 Pages

4 November 2024

Background/Objectives: The healthcare sector is rapidly growing, aiming to promote health, provide treatment, and enhance well-being. This paper focuses on the organ donation and transplantation system, a vital aspect of healthcare. It offers a compr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
8,068 Views
23 Pages

24 November 2022

The data economy is based on data and information sharing and tremendously impacts society as it facilitates innovative collaborations and decision-making strategies. Nonetheless, most dataset-sharing solutions rely on a centralized authority that ru...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,334 Views
26 Pages

Blockchain and Internet of Things for Electrical Energy Decentralization: A Review and System Architecture

  • Manuel Casquiço,
  • Bruno Mataloto,
  • Joao C. Ferreira,
  • Vitor Monteiro,
  • Joao L. Afonso and
  • Jose A. Afonso

1 December 2021

The decentralization in the electrical power grids has gained increasing importance, especially in the last two decades, since transmission system operators (TSO), distribution system operators (DSO) and consumers are more aware of energy efficiency...

  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
12,372 Views
26 Pages

Existing product anti-counterfeiting and traceability solutions across today’s internationally spanning supply chain networks are indeed developed and implemented with centralized system architecture relying on centralized authorities or intermediari...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,732 Views
16 Pages

A Blockchain Approach for Migrating a Cyber-Physical Water Monitoring Solution to a Decentralized Architecture

  • Bogdan-Ionut Pahontu,
  • Adrian Petcu,
  • Alexandru Predescu,
  • Diana Andreea Arsene and
  • Mariana Mocanu

9 August 2023

Water is one of the most important resources in our lives, and because of this, the interest in water management systems is growing constantly. A primary concern regarding urban water distribution is how to build robust solutions to facilitate water...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,733 Views
21 Pages

23 June 2023

Currently, most control systems of the aero-engines possess a central controller. The core tasks for the control system, such as control law calculations, are executed in this central controller, and its performance and reliability greatly impact the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,837 Views
16 Pages

Validation of Embedded State Estimator Modules for Decentralized Monitoring of Power Distribution Systems Using IoT Components

  • Rosvando Marques Gonzaga Junior,
  • Sergio Márquez-Sánchez,
  • Jorge Herrera Santos,
  • Rodrigo Maximiano Antunes de Almeida,
  • João Bosco Augusto London Junior and
  • Juan Manuel Corchado Rodríguez

9 March 2022

Recent theoretical studies demonstrate the advantages of using decentralized architectures over traditional centralized architectures for real-time Power Distribution Systems (PDSs) operation. These advantages include the reduction of the amount of d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
2,894 Views
13 Pages

Improved Decentralized Fractional PD Control of Structure Vibrations

  • Kang Xu,
  • Liping Chen,
  • Minwu Wang,
  • António M. Lopes,
  • J. A. Tenreiro Machado and
  • Houzhen Zhai

2 March 2020

This paper presents a new strategy for the control of large displacements in structures under earthquake excitation. Firstly, an improved fractional order proportional-derivative (FOPD) controller is proposed. Secondly, a decentralized strategy is de...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,819 Views
6 Pages

Equivalent Sliding Mode Controller for Stability of DC Microgrid

  • Muhammad Rashad,
  • Uzair Raoof,
  • Nazam Siddique and
  • Bilal Ashfaq Ahmed

23 December 2021

DC microgrids are gaining popularity due to their lack of reactive power compensation, frequency synchronization, and skin effect problems. However, DC microgrids are not exempted from stability issues. The stability of DC microgrids based on decentr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,804 Views
23 Pages

A Blockchain Protocol for Real-Time Application Migration on the Edge

  • Aleksandar Tošić,
  • Jernej Vičič,
  • Michael Burnard and
  • Michael Mrissa

2 May 2023

The Internet of Things (IoT) is experiencing widespread adoption across industry sectors ranging from supply chain management to smart cities, buildings, and health monitoring. However, most software architectures for the IoT deployment rely on centr...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,957 Views
26 Pages

3 September 2025

The convergence of decentralized artificial intelligence (DAI), blockchain technology, and smart contracts is reshaping the design and governance of intelligent systems. As these technologies rapidly evolve, addressing privacy within their architectu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,146 Views
27 Pages

Toward the Theoretical Foundations of Industry 6.0: A Framework for AI-Driven Decentralized Manufacturing Control

  • Andrés Fernández-Miguel,
  • Susana Ortíz-Marcos,
  • Mariano Jiménez-Calzado,
  • Alfonso P. Fernández del Hoyo,
  • Fernando E. García-Muiña and
  • Davide Settembre-Blundo

3 October 2025

This study advances toward establishing the theoretical foundations of Industry 6.0 by developing a comprehensive framework that integrates artificial intelligence (AI), decentralized control systems, and cyber–physical production environments...

  • Review
  • Open Access
66 Citations
8,208 Views
33 Pages

Blockchain-Enabled Smart Grid Applications: Architecture, Challenges, and Solutions

  • Bhargav Appasani,
  • Sunil Kumar Mishra,
  • Amitkumar V. Jha,
  • Santosh Kumar Mishra,
  • Florentina Magda Enescu,
  • Ioan Sorin Sorlei,
  • Fernando Georgel Bîrleanu,
  • Noureddine Takorabet,
  • Phatiphat Thounthong and
  • Nicu Bizon

18 July 2022

The conventional electrical grid is undergoing substantial growth for reliable grid operation and for more efficient and sustainable energy use. The traditional grid is now metamorphosing into a smart grid (SG) that incorporates a diverse, heterogene...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
7,755 Views
17 Pages

DDNB—Doubly Decentralized Network Blockchain Architecture for Application Services

  • Youhwan Seol,
  • Jaehong Ahn,
  • Sehyun Park,
  • Mookeun Ji,
  • Heungseok Chae,
  • Jiheon Yi and
  • Jeongyeup Paek

29 July 2020

Decentralization and immutability characteristics of blockchain technology has attracted numerous blockchain-based systems and applications to be proposed. However, technical shortcomings such as low transaction speed, complexity, scalability, and vu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,996 Views
19 Pages

12 June 2025

This paper aims to design and implement a decentralized multi-agent hierarchical system for energy management that can perform real-time monitoring and management of a real-world power grid with penetration of renewable energy. This approach integrat...

  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
21,947 Views
25 Pages

4 September 2024

In the digital age, data sovereignty has emerged as a critical concern due to the increasing demand for privacy, security, and user control. In this context, decentralized storage infrastructure is reshaping how data are stored and managed, leading t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,587 Views
44 Pages

NFT Technology for Enhanced Global Digital Registers: A Novel Approach to Tokenization

  • Oleksandr Kuznetsov,
  • Emanuele Frontoni,
  • Kateryna Kuznetsova,
  • Ruslan Shevchuk and
  • Mikolaj Karpinski

In the rapidly evolving field of digital asset management, centralized and decentralized global registries have become essential tools for organizing, tracking, and distributing digital assets. However, existing systems often face challenges regardin...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
2,608 Views
25 Pages

Rethinking Blockchain Governance with AI: The VOPPA Framework

  • Catalin Daniel Morar,
  • Daniela Elena Popescu,
  • Ovidiu Constantin Novac and
  • David Ghiurău

4 October 2025

Blockchain governance has become central to the performance and resilience of decentralized systems, yet current models face recurring issues of participation, coordination, and adaptability. This article offers a structured analysis of governance fr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,317 Views
17 Pages

SBTMS: Scalable Blockchain Trust Management System for VANET

  • Fatemeh Ghovanlooy Ghajar,
  • Javad Salimi Sratakhti and
  • Axel Sikora

15 December 2021

With many advances in sensor technology and the Internet of Things, Vehicle Ad Hoc Network (VANET) is becoming a new generation. VANET’s current technical challenges are deploying decentralized architecture and protecting privacy. Because Block...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
8,564 Views
21 Pages

Towards a Decentralized Magnetic Indoor Positioning System

  • Zakaria Kasmi,
  • Abdelmoumen Norrdine and
  • Jörg Blankenbach

4 December 2015

Decentralized magnetic indoor localization is a sophisticated method for processing sampled magnetic data directly on a mobile station (MS), thereby decreasing or even avoiding the need for communication with the base station. In contrast to central-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,010 Views
29 Pages

25 November 2025

The integration of renewable energy sources (RES) and distributed energy resources (DER) into local energy markets is transforming modern power grids toward a decentralized architecture. To enhance the efficiency of decentralized energy trading, bloc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,853 Views
27 Pages

Data Conversion Strategies for Effective Aviation Technical Support as a Service

  • Igor Kabashkin,
  • Vladimir Perekrestov and
  • Maksim Pivovar

6 February 2025

Small airlines face significant challenges in maintaining operational efficiency and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards due to limited resources, fragmented technical support ecosystems, and high operational costs. Aviation Technical Suppo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,561 Views
16 Pages

10 January 2022

With the rise of technology in recent years, more people are studying distributed system architecture, such as the e-government system. The advantage of this architecture is that when a single point of failure occurs, it does not cause the system to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,328 Views
26 Pages

18 July 2024

Electric mobility is pervasive and strongly affects everyone in everyday life. Motorbikes, bikes, cars, humanoid robots, etc., feature specific battery architectures composed of several lithium nickel oxide cells. Some of them are connected in series...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,214 Views
25 Pages

10 July 2023

A decentralized power distribution network consisting of smart microgrids introduces opportunities to trade with energy called transactive energy. However, research studies in the existing literature suggest that several standardized information mode...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
3,701 Views
31 Pages

29 April 2021

Voltage control is becoming a key issue in active distribution systems, which are electric distribution networks characterized by a large penetration of DERs. Traditional voltage control devices, as well as the active and reactive powers injected by...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,384 Views
25 Pages

15 October 2022

The development of local energy communities observed in the last years requires the reorganization of energy consumption and production. In these newly considered energy systems, the commercial and technical decision processes should be decentralized...

  • Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,721 Views
25 Pages

The heterogeneous and decentralized nature of renewable energy sources is too much to handle for traditional and centralized IT grid infrastructure. Blockchain technology can address many of the associated challenges. This paper provides an overview...

  • Article
  • Open Access
232 Views
30 Pages

30 December 2025

High variability in multi-product manufacturing environments and rapidly changing customer demands make decentralized coordination of work-in-process (WIP) and production resources increasingly important. However, the intrinsic rigidity of convention...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,192 Views
20 Pages

Advancing Compliance with HIPAA and GDPR in Healthcare: A Blockchain-Based Strategy for Secure Data Exchange in Clinical Research Involving Private Health Information

  • Sabri Barbaria,
  • Abderrazak Jemai,
  • Halil İbrahim Ceylan,
  • Raul Ioan Muntean,
  • Ismail Dergaa and
  • Hanene Boussi Rahmouni

15 October 2025

Background: Healthcare data interoperability faces significant barriers, including regulatory compliance complexities, institutional trust deficits, and technical integration challenges. Current centralized architectures demonstrate inadequate mechan...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,810 Views
25 Pages

From IOTA Tangle 2.0 to Rebased: A Comparative Analysis of Decentralization, Scalability, and Suitability for IoT Applications

  • Pierre Sedi Nzakuna,
  • Vincenzo Paciello,
  • Aimé Lay-Ekuakille,
  • Angelo Kuti Lusala,
  • Salvatore Dello Iacono and
  • Antonio Pietrosanto

28 May 2025

The Internet of Things (IoT) demands scalable, secure, and feeless distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) to enable seamless machine-to-machine transactions. The IOTA DLT was developed to fulfill this vision through its feeless Directed Acyclic Graph...

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