Blockchain for decentralization of internet: prospects, trends, and challenges

Zarrin, Javad; Phang, Hao Wen; Saheer, Lakshmi Babu; Zarrin, Bahram

doi:10.1007/s10586-021-03301-8

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“…The paper explores the factor of blockchain's compatibility with other upcoming Internet technologies and the influence of blockchain on those technologies. [69,74]…”

Section: Internetmentioning

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Systematic Analysis of Risk Associated with Supply Chain Operations Using Blockchain Technology

Khan

Malik

Khan

2022

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

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Advancements in information and communication technologies (ICT), big data analytics, and artificial intelligence- (AI-) based techniques brought a dramatic revolution in diverse research domains, including healthcare, IoT, and networking. Blockchain technologies are gaining traction from both private and government organizations at an incredible rate. Emerging technologies have different levels of technological complexities and commercial ramifications. This technology is playing an essential role in the financial revolution of banking and regulatory sectors. Blockchain has piqued the interest of many academics, organizations, and businesses, particularly in using bitcoin. To grasp the significance of this revolution, a comprehensive assessment is performed to bridge the gaps in the targeted blockchain-driven domain with different perspectives. For this systematic review process, a set of four distinct research questions were formulated to accumulate the most relevant research trends. In private and public organizations, it is a securing technology to deliver trustworthy and protected services to users because of its decentralized, controlled aspect. Financial services, real estate, supply chain management, healthcare, academics, and other industries benefit significantly from this evolutionary technology. These application cases are diverse and far-reaching, ranging from smart contracts to blockchain-encrypted educational certificates. This systematic analysis has investigated a total of 113 relevant articles and concluded with the features and functions in an economic setting and briefed how these variables can balance players’ incentives, define core blockchain-related features, and present new research ideas to solve the proposed risk.

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“…The paper explores the factor of blockchain's compatibility with other upcoming Internet technologies and the influence of blockchain on those technologies. [69,74]…”

Section: Internetmentioning

confidence: 99%

Systematic Analysis of Risk Associated with Supply Chain Operations Using Blockchain Technology

Khan

Malik

Khan

2022

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

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“…Blockchain can help an ecosystem to regulate the transactions inside it through consensus and eliminates the need for a central institution that takes unilateral decisions. Therefore, blockchain has revolutionized some sectors, such as the financial industry with cryptocurrencies (Zarrin et al, 2021) with Bitcoin (Nakamoto, 2008). In 2014 the Ethereum platform (Buterin, 2014) remodeled the blockchain by implementing smart contracts.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Collaborative Validation of User-Contributed Data Using a Geospatial Blockchain Approach: The Simile Case Study

Jimenez

Folini

Brovelli

2022

Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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Abstract. Internet decentralization nowadays represents a critical topic to be addressed. It protects the users’ privacy, promotes data ownership, eliminates single points of failure and data censorship. An element that has an important role in decentralization is blockchain technology. Although blockchain has revolutionised sectors like the financial one with Bitcoin, there are still some fields where it needs to be further developed. One of these is geospatial data sharing and citizen science, where features like decentralization, immutability and transparency are needed. This study focuses on the description of a decentralized application developed specifically for geospatial data-point sharing and validation. As an example, the Informative System for the Integrated Monitoring of Insubric Lakes and their Ecosystems (SIMILE) is used. This application is developed in the Velas blockchain infrastructure and implements a combination of a Discrete Global Grid System (DGGS) with smart contracts. Two types of smart contracts were created, a cell and a registry smart contract. The cell smart contracts are individual for each DGGS partition and contain the list of observations present in a specific area. The registry smart contracts keep track of all the DGGS cells added to the system. Currently, SIMILE observations are validated by public authorities, which requires time that is not always available. Therefore, a fully working prototype was developed to solve this. Here users can add and manage personal observations and validate the ones belonging to other users. This work demonstrates the feasibility of creating decentralized applications for geographical data validation as a citizen science solution.

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“…Privacy issues like the possibility of identifying users and quantity of transactions are other important points for users. A review of those studies using systematic review and survey studies in the field of blockchain and FL shows that although this field has been considered by various researchers in recent years, but a review of articles shows that a comprehensive study in the field of security and privacy of blockchain research papers indexed in the ISI is not done [ 11 ]. For example, Tseng and his partners [ 12 ] reviewed the area of blockchain between 2013 and 2018.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%