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Scalable Bias-Resistant Distributed Randomness

Bryan Alexander Ford, Philipp Svetolik Jovanovic, Linus Gasser, Eleftherios Kokoris Kogias, Nicolas Gailly, Ismail Khoffi

Bias-resistant public randomness is a critical component in many (distributed) protocols. Existing solutions do not scale to hundreds or thousands of participants, as is needed in many decentralized systems. We propose two large-scale distributed protocols ...

IEEE2017

UnLynx: A Decentralized System for Privacy-Conscious Data Sharing

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Bryan Alexander Ford, Jean Louis Raisaro, Zhicong Huang, Joao André Gomes de Sá e Sousa, David Jules Froelicher, Christian Vincent Mouchet, Patricia Egger

Current solutions for privacy-preserving data sharing among multiple parties either depend on a centralized authority that must be trusted and provides only weakest-link security (e.g., the entity that manages private/secret cryptographic keys), or leverag ...

De Gruyter2017

Centralized and Decentralized Electricity Markets: Assessment of Operational and Economic Aspects

Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Farzaneh Abbaspourtorbati

This paper presents the comparison of decentralized and centralized market settings in terms of economic efficiencies, particularly price signals, and operating aspects. The decentralized dispatch consists of an energy auction separated from a contingency ...

Ieee2016

Poster: LocalCoin: An Ad-hoc Payment Scheme for Areas with High Connectivity

Boi Faltings, Sujit Prakash Gujar

The popularity of digital currencies, especially cryptocurrencies, has been continuously growing since the appearance of Bitcoin. Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer (P2P) cryptocurrency protocol enabling transactions between individuals without the need of a truste ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2016