Blockchain technology is fast becoming the most transformative technology of recent times and has created hype and optimism, gaining much attention from the public and private sectors. It has been widely deployed in decentralized crypto currencies su...
Blockchain technology, originally designed as a secure and immutable ledger, has expanded its applications across various domains. However, its scalability remains a fundamental bottleneck, limiting throughput, specifically Transactions Per Second (T...
Blockchain adopts a chain data structure, and the characteristics of blocks that can only be added and cannot be deleted make the total number of blocks accumulate over time, forcing resource-constrained nodes to become degraded nodes in order to all...
This paper studies the scalability and replicability of smart grid projects. Currently, most smart grid projects are still in the R&D or demonstration phases. The full roll-out of the tested solutions requires a suitable degree of scalability and...
The dynamics of change in modern business create new mechanisms for company management to determine their pursuit and the achievement of their high performance. This performance maintained over a long period of time becomes a source of ensuring busin...
The reliability and scalability of large-scale based optical fiber sensor networks (AOFSN) are considered in this paper. The AOFSN network consists of three-level hierarchical sensor network architectures. The first two levels consist of active inter...
Recent advances in information and communications cloud-based services hold the potential to overcome the scalability and complex maintenance limitations of traditional networks. Software Defined Networking (SDN) surfaced as a promising paradigm to m...
Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems have the potential of providing joint services, including joint initial access, efficient clustering of access points (APs), and pilot allocation to user equipment (UEs) over large cover...
The essential role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in modern electricity grids makes it necessary to consider them when evaluating the scalability and replicability capabilities of smart grid systems. This paper proposes a novel s...
The internet of things (IoT) revolutionized human life, whereby a large number of interrelated devices are connected to exchange data in order to accomplish many tasks, leading to the rapid growth of connected devices, reaching the tens of billions....
Blockchain technology promises transformative potential across diverse sectors, facilitating innovations in areas ranging from finance to healthcare. Despite its many promising applications, several barriers—including scalability challenges, re...
LoRa is a long-range, low power, low bit rate and single-hop wireless communication technology. It is intended to be used in Internet of Things (IoT) applications involving battery-powered devices with low throughput requirements. A LoRaWAN network c...
Blockchain technology has emerged as a transformative force with the potential to disrupt traditional industries by providing decentralized, secure, and transparent systems. However, blockchain systems face a fundamental challenge known as the Blockc...
Singular value decomposition has recently seen a great theoretical improvement for k-tridiagonal matrices, obtaining a considerable speed up over all previous implementations, but at the cost of not ordering the singular values. We provide here a ref...
Blockchain is a peer-to-peer trustless network that keeps records of digital assets without any central authority. With the passage of time, the sustainability issue of blockchain is rising. This paper discusses two major sustainability issues of blo...
This integrative systematic review addresses the existing gap in understanding how frugal innovation can scale sustainably in emerging economies. Through a mixed-methods analysis based on the PRISMA 2020 protocol, 142 documents published between 2019...
Parking Guidance and Information (PGI) systems aim at supporting drivers in finding suitable parking spaces, also by predicting the availability at driver’s Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA), leveraging information about the general parking avail...
The shift from traditional monolithic architectures to container-based solutions has revolutionized application deployment by enabling consistent, isolated environments across various platforms. However, as organizations look for improved efficiency,...
The rapid expansion of IoT devices has introduced major challenges in ensuring data interoperability, enabling real-time processing, and achieving scalability, especially in decentralized edge computing environments. In this paper, an advanced framew...
In recent years, blockchain research has drawn attention from all across the world. It is a decentralized competence that is spread out and uncertain. Several nations and scholars have already successfully applied blockchain in numerous arenas. Block...
Stochastic computing (SC) is an emerging low-cost computation paradigm for efficient approximation. It processes data in forms of probabilities and offers excellent progressive accuracy. Since SC’s accuracy heavily depends on the stochastic bit...
Radio frequency (RF) technologies are often used to track assets in indoor environments. Among others, ultra-wideband (UWB) has constantly gained interest thanks to its capability to obtain typical errors of 30 cm or lower, making it more accurate th...
Electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) technology can improve connectivity while minimizing reliance on traditional ground-based transportation systems. However, the rapid growth in eVTOL adoption brings challenges in managing landing pad oper...
This paper is focused on structural scalability studies of a new generation of civil tiltrotor wingbox structures. Starting from a reference wingbox, developed under the H2020 Clean Sky 2 NGCTR-TD T-WING project, a geometric scaling was performed to...
Despite the widespread use of distributed hydrological models for operational forecasting, climate change impact assessment, and large ensemble experiments, their computational performance and scalability are rarely systematically and reproducibly qu...
Image noise degrades image quality in applications such as medical imaging, surveillance, and remote sensing, where real-time processing and high accuracy are critical. Software-based denoising can be flexible, but often suffers from latency and low...
This study investigated the scalability of a cognitive multiple-choice test through the Mokken package in the R programming language for statistical computing. A 2019 mathematics West African Examinations Council (WAEC) instrument was used to gather...
The combination of blockchain and internet of things (IoT) technology realizes reliable storage of IoT data. However, the data stored on the blockchain (on-chain) face the problem of poor scalability and inefficient retrieval. In this paper, the on-c...
This article addresses the issues of scalability and security in blockchain networks, with a focus on sharding algorithms and decentralized data storage. Key challenges include the low throughput and high transaction latency in public networks such a...
Anomaly detection plays an increasingly important role in maintaining the stability and reliability of modern distributed systems. Federated Learning (FL) is an emerging method that shows strong potential in enabling anomaly detection across decentra...
Non-fungible Tokens (NFTs) are ownership records stored on a blockchain, and they are typically digital items such as photos and videos. In many ways, an NFT is like a conventional proof-of-purchase document, such as a paper invoice or an electronic...
Current state-of-the-art point cloud data management (PCDM) systems rely on a variety of parallel architectures and diverse data models. The main objective of these implementations is achieving higher scalability without compromising performance. Thi...
High-performance computing systems have become increasingly dynamic, complex, and unpredictable. To help build software that uses full-system capabilities, performance measurement and analysis tools exploit extensive execution analysis focusing on si...
With the development of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, industries such as healthcare have started using low-powered sensor-based devices. Because IoT devices are typically low-powered, they are susceptible to cyber intrusions. As an emerging...
Through the implementation of low carbon-based energy systems and participatory modes of governance, there are countless collective initiatives progressing towards a sustainable and resilient energy model. Local alternatives necessarily have to be ab...
Time series databases aim to handle big amounts of data in a fast way, both when introducing new data to the system, and when retrieving it later on. However, depending on the scenario in which these databases participate, reducing the number of requ...
Lower renewable energy generator prices are leading people to install solar panels to reduce their electricity bills or, in some cases, even sell the surplus generated energy to the grid and earn credits from the grid operator. Generally, they are li...
Blockchain has recently drawn wide attention in the research community. Since its emergence, the world has seen the expansion of this new technology, which was initially developed as a digital currency more than a decade ago. A self-administering led...
The Multi-Layer Blockchain Security Model (MLBSM) proposed in 2024 was designed to safeguard Internet of Things (IoT) networks, as well as similar network architectures, against transaction privacy leakage in public blockchain systems. MLBSM also add...
In this paper, detailed scalability and replicability plans have been developed to facilitate the adoption of innovation technologies in the pan-EU market. Smart grid development must enable both information and power exchange between suppliers and c...
The intersection between technology and education has taken on unprecedented relevance, driven by the promise of transforming teaching and learning through advanced digital tools. This study proposes a comprehensive exploration of how cloud computing...
Cooperative robotics relies on robust fault-tolerant control (FTC) to maintain resilience in dynamic environments, where actuators are pivotal to system reliability. This review synthesizes advancements in hybrid FTC, integrating mechanical redundanc...
Framework: Financial Technology (FinTech) is an industry composed of diversified firms that combine financial services with innovative technologies. The research question and main goal are attempting to answer whether they are more similar to traditi...
The integration of blockchain technology with the Internet of Things (IoT) presents a paradigm shift in securing decentralized networks, yet it introduces critical trade-offs among security, privacy, and scalability. This systematic analytical review...
Scalability of the original test design for the box assembly with removable component (BARC) structure is of interest in the field of experimental structural analysis. As complex structures become increasingly difficult to test experimentally the lar...
Large-scale automated systems such as manufacturing systems, transportation systems, the Smart Grid and many others are continuously becoming larger, more distributed, more complex, and more intelligent. There is a growing expectation that their soft...
The selector is an indispensable section of the phase change memory (PCM) chip, where it not only suppresses the crosstalk, but also provides high on-current to melt the incorporated phase change material. In fact, the ovonic threshold switching (OTS...
Large-scale events, such as festivals and public gatherings, pose serious problems in terms of traffic congestion, slow transaction processing, and security risks to transportation planning. This study proposes a blockchain-based solution for enhanci...
A blockchain is a distributed ledger forming a distributed consensus on a history of transactions, and is the underlying technology for the Bitcoin cryptocurrency. Its applications are far beyond the financial sector. The transaction verification pro...
In 2004, the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya decided to change one of its critical and strategic information services: the online teaching support platform. An Open Source software, Moodle, was adopted and the previous proprietary softwar...
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