Publications tagged with "Block-chain"

1. Performance Evaluation of an Edge-Blockchain Architecture for Smart City

   Campanile, L., Iacono, M., Mastroianni, M., & Riccio, C. (2025). Performance Evaluation of an Edge-Blockchain Architecture for Smart City [Conference paper]. Proceedings - European Council for Modelling and Simulation, ECMS, 2025-June, 620–627. https://doi.org/10.7148/2025-0620

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   This paper presents a simulation-based methodology to evaluate the performance of a privacy-compliant edge-blockchain architecture for smart city environments. The proposed model combines edge computing with a private, permissioned blockchain to ensure low-latency processing, secure data management, and verifiable transactions. Using a discrete-event simulation framework, we analyze the behavior of the system under realistic workloads and time-varying traffic conditions. The model captures edge operations, including preprocessing and cryptographic tasks, as well as blockchain validation using Proof of Stake consensus. Several experiments explore saturation thresholds, resource utilization, and latency dynamics, under both synthetic and realistic traffic profiles. Results reveal how architectural bottlenecks shift depending on resource allocation and input rate, and demonstrate the importance of balanced dimensioning between edge and blockchain layers. © ECMS Marco Scarpa, Salvatore Cavalieri, Salvatore Serrano, Fabrizio De Vita (Editors) 2025.

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2. Risk Analysis of a GDPR-Compliant Deletion Technique for Consortium Blockchains Based on Pseudonymization

   Campanile, L., Cantiello, P., Iacono, M., Marulli, F., & Mastroianni, M. (2021). Risk Analysis of a GDPR-Compliant Deletion Technique for Consortium Blockchains Based on Pseudonymization [Conference paper]. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 12956 LNCS, 3–14. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87010-2_1

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   Blockchains provide a valid and profitable support for the implementation of trustable and secure distributed ledgers, in support to groups of subjects that are potentially competitors in conflict of interest but need to share progressive information recording processes. Blockchains prevent data stored in blocks from being altered or deleted, but there are situations in which stored information must be deleted or made inaccessible on request or periodically, such as the ones in which GDPR is applicable. In this paper we present literature solutions and design an implementation in the context of a traffic management system for the Internet of Vehicles based on the Pseudonymization/Cryptography solution, evaluating its viability, its GDPR compliance and its level of risk. © 2021, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

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