The energy sector plays a vital role in achieving a sustainable net-zero future, and the
adoption of advanced technologies such as AI, blockchain, quantum computing, digital twin …

Governments' net zero emission target aims at increasing the share of renewable energy
sources as well as influencing the behaviours of consumers to support the cost-effective …

Trust is key to the efficient functioning of any fiat or crypto-currency and so is for the
consensus algorithm behind the functioning of blockchain systems. By an arbitrary design …

Edge computing can serve latency-sensitive data generated by smart IoT devices in smart
cities, which cannot be accommodated by cloud services. However, edge-enabled smart …

Energy represents one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century due to the rapid growth
of the global population and economy. However, gaining a Net-Zero emission is one of the …

With the widespread use of Bitcoin, more demands on the underlying blockchain technology
have been raised for more efficient transactions. Thus, in the last decade, many solutions …

In this paper, we review the undercutting attacks in the transaction-fee-based regime of proof-
of-work (PoW) blockchains with the longest chain fork-choice rule. Next, we focus on the …

This dissertation contains seven papers from my four years PhD study. All the researches
mainly focus on the effect of consensus and incentives on the functioning of different …

In this paper, we review the undercutting attacks in the transaction-fee-based regime (ie,
without block rewards) of proof-of-work (PoW) blockchains with the longest chain fork-choice …

With the increasing number of users in blockchain-based cryptocurrencies, the public has
raised the demand for transaction throughput, and many protocols are designed to improve …