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- research-articleNovember 2023
Blockchain privacy: Fundamental aspects and challenges for the future Internet data sharing
AbstractPrivacy concerns the majority of individuals, governments, and organizations that share data over dissimilar networks of nodes. Every kind of participant requires awareness of the data journey that unfolds inside a blockchain network with its ...
This article presents significant blockchain aspects respecting privacy impact on data sharing. It argues on the essential mutual exclusivity between the blockchain properties of privacy and transparency and provides a high‐level architecture configuring ...
- research-articleJanuary 2023
Utilising blockchain technology to provide safety for smart home networks
International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics (IJESDF), Volume 15, Issue 52023, Pages 532–540https://doi.org/10.1504/ijesdf.2023.133193Bitcoin, other cryptocurrencies, and the trading of digital assets were among the first uses for blockchain technology. However, blockchain has many other advantages as well. This paper details the application of blockchain technology to the problem of ...
- research-articleJune 2022
Engineering the Transition of Interactive Collaborative Software from Cloud Computing to Edge Computing
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (PACMHCI), Volume 6, Issue EICSArticle No.: 160, Pages 1–31https://doi.org/10.1145/3532210The "Software as a Service" (SaaS) model of cloud computing popularized online multiuser collaborative software. Two famous examples of this class of software are Office 365 from Microsoft and Google Workspace. Cloud technology removes the need to ...
- research-articleMarch 2022
Opportunistic Uploading: Latency Aware Data Deduplication In Peer-to-Peer Push/Mesh Networks
ACSW '22: Proceedings of the 2022 Australasian Computer Science WeekFebruary 2022, Pages 125–135https://doi.org/10.1145/3511616.3513107Transmission of live media is becoming increasingly popular in entertainment. Despite peer-to-peer protocols being popular for transmission of large data files, they are notably absent from the application of live content distribution. A protocol named ...
- research-articleJuly 2020
Distributed mitigation of content pollution in peer‐to‐peer video streaming networks
IET Communications (CMU2), Volume 14, Issue 11Pages 1759–1767https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-com.2019.0627Video streaming has become increasingly popular in the Internet. Frequently, video transmissions are based on peer‐to‐peer networks, in which peers running on end‐user hosts transmit data among themselves. An important security vulnerability of this ...
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- research-articleMay 2020
Data availability improvement in peer‐to‐peer online social networks
IET Information Security (ISE2), Volume 14, Issue 3May 2020, Pages 332–341https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-ifs.2019.0363One of the main challenges of centralised social networks is having a central provider that stores the data which imposes some limitations to preserve the privacy of users’ data. However, one of the decentralised architectures is peer‐to‐peer network that ...
- research-articleMay 2020
Reconstruction of C&C channel for P2P botnet
IET Communications (CMU2), Volume 14, Issue 8Pages 1318–1326https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-com.2018.5286Breaking down botnets has always been a big challenge. The robustness of command and control (C&C) channels is increased, and the detection of botmaster is harder in peer‐to‐peer (P2P) botnets. In this study, the authors proposed a probabilistic method to ...
- research-articleApril 2020
WidePLive: a coupled low‐delay overlay construction mechanism and peer‐chunk priority‐based chunk scheduling for P2P live video streaming
In recent years, peer‐to‐peer (P2P) live streaming is popularised by the scalability and cost‐effectiveness of P2P networks. User satisfaction in P2P live streaming systems depends on several factors, including chunk scheduling techniques and overlay ...
- research-articleMarch 2020
EMC2: an emergency management system using mobile cloud computing
IET Networks (NTW2), Volume 9, Issue 2March 2020, Pages 64–73https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-net.2019.0014A natural or unexpected man‐made emergency may occur at any time and which affects the economy as well as human life of the country. The most important task in an emergency is to collect the essential information about the emergency places and do a proper ...
- research-articleMarch 2020
Novel non‐linear dynamics P2P network worm propagation and immune model
IET Information Security (ISE2), Volume 14, Issue 2March 2020, Pages 175–184https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-ifs.2019.0262This study proposes a novel non‐linear dynamic worm propagation model in order to describe the dynamics model of conditional triggered worm's propagation in the network, then proposes an immune dynamics model. First, the authors build impact factor ...
- research-articleJanuary 2020
Augmenting smart home network security using blockchain technology
International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics (IJESDF), Volume 12, Issue 12020, Pages 99–117https://doi.org/10.1504/ijesdf.2020.103881The idea of smart home existed from 1970's onwards but has come into the knowledge of researchers and data scientist due to the development in the domain of internet of things (IoT) (Kopetz, 2011), but it still suffers from privacy and security ...
- research-articleMarch 2019
Opportunistic content dissemination in mobile social networks via adjustment of user selfishness
IET Networks (NTW2), Volume 8, Issue 2March 2019, Pages 126–137https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-net.2018.5013By increase in smart phone penetration rate, mobile social networks (MSNs) become more popular. In such networks, users can exchange and share information via peer‐to‐peer opportunistic wireless connections. Wireless connections are prone to failures, ...
- research-articleOctober 2018
Measuring Ethereum Network Peers
IMC '18: Proceedings of the Internet Measurement Conference 2018October 2018, Pages 91–104https://doi.org/10.1145/3278532.3278542Ethereum, the second-largest cryptocurrency valued at a peak of $138 billion in 2018, is a decentralized, Turing-complete computing platform. Although the stability and security of Ethereum---and blockchain systems in general---have been widely-studied, ...
- research-articleSeptember 2018
Content pollution propagation in the overlay network of peer‐to‐peer live streaming systems: modelling and analysis
IET Communications (CMU2), Volume 12, Issue 17Pages 2119–2131https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-com.2018.5069In the past few years, peer‐to‐peer (P2P) live streaming systems have gained great commercial success and have become a popular way to deliver multimedia content over the Internet, which received more and more attentions from both industry and academia ...
- research-articleMarch 2017
Secure transmission in multiuser peer‐to‐peer relay network with finite alphabet input
This study considers linear precoding for secure transmission in a multiuser peer‐to‐peer relay network with finite alphabet input. Under the assumption that the global channel‐state‐information is available, the achievable secrecy rate is derived. ...
- research-articleJune 2016
SplayNet: towards locally self-adjusting networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Volume 24, Issue 3Pages 1421–1433https://doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2015.2410313This paper initiates the study of locally self-adjusting networks: networks whose topology adapts dynamically and in a decentralized manner, to the communication pattern σ. Our vision can be seen as a distributed generalization of the self-adjusting ...
- research-articleMay 2016
Secure communication design for multi‐user peer‐to‐peer wireless relay networks
In this study, physical layer security techniques are studied for multi‐user peer‐to‐peer relay networks using amplify‐and‐forward protocol in the presence of an eavesdropper. Two system designs are considered: the minimum achievable secrecy rate ...
- research-articleSeptember 2015
Investigation on software‐defined networks’ reactive routing against BitTorrent
IET Networks (NTW2), Volume 4, Issue 5September 2015, Pages 249–254https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-net.2014.0105Technologies in software‐defined networks (SDNs) introduce programmatic ways to reorganise the network logical topology. A possible practical usage of SDNs is reactive routing, where the logical topology is continuously evolving based on traffic ...
- research-articleAugust 2015
On user availability prediction and network applications
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Volume 23, Issue 4Pages 1300–1313https://doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2014.2321430User connectivity patterns in network applications are known to be heterogeneous and to follow periodic (daily and weekly) patterns. In many cases, the regularity and the correlation of those patterns is problematic: For network applications, many ...
- research-articleJuly 2015
Hijacking the Vuze BitTorrent network: all your hop are belong to us
IET Information Security (ISE2), Volume 9, Issue 4July 2015, Pages 203–208https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-ifs.2014.0337Vuze is a popular file‐sharing client. When looking for content, Vuze selects from its list of neighbours, a set of 20 nodes to be contacted; the selection is performed such that the neighbours closest to the content in terms of Vuze ID are contacted ...