Publications

An Open and Fully Decentralised Platform for Safe Food Traceability's Image

Concerns about food safety have grown across society in recent years. Building a trustworthy traceability system is essential for effectively identifying and preventing food safety issues as well as tracing the responsible parties. The entire food s…

Blockchain interoperability: the state of heterogenous blockchain-to-blockchain communication's Image

Blockchain technology has been increasingly adopted over the past few years since the introduction of Bitcoin, with several blockchain architectures and solutions being proposed. Most proposed solutions have been developed in isolation, without a st…

An Adaptive Storage Optimization Scheme for Blockchain-IIoT Applications using Deep Reinforcement Learning's Image

Blockchain-IIoT integration into industrial processes promises greater security, transparency, and traceability. However, this advancement faces significant storage and scalability issues with existing blockchain technologies. Each peer in the block…

An Overview on Technologies for Improving Storage Efficiency in Blockchain-Based IIoT Applications's Image

Since the inception of blockchain-based cryptocurrencies, researchers have been fascinated with the idea of integrating blockchain technology into other fields, such as health and manufacturing. Despite the benefits of blockchain, which include immu…

Software-Defined Networks for Optical Networks Using Flexible Orchestration: Advances, Challenges, and Opportunities's Image

Optical networks offer a wide range of benefits to the telecommunication sector worldwide with their provision of higher bandwidth, which leads to faster data speed, longer transmission distance, and improved latency. Currently, the complexity assoc…

A Survey on Network Optimization Techniques for Blockchain Systems's Image

The increase of the Internet of Things (IoT) calls for secure solutions for industrial applications. The security of IoT can be potentially improved by blockchain. However, blockchain technology suffers scalability issues which hinders integration w…

Blockchain-IoT peer device storage optimization using an advanced time-variant multi-objective particle swarm optimization algorithm's Image

The integration of Internet of Things devices onto the Blockchain implies an increase in the transactions that occur on the Blockchain, thus increasing the storage requirements. A solution approach is to leverage cloud resources for storing blocks w…

On cloud-based systems and distributed platforms for smart grid integration: Challenges and prospects for Ghana's Grid Network's Image

Advances in cloud computing and distributed systems are enhancing the advantages that computing delivers to systems that can be integrated with computers due to their multitasking ability. This is already the case when discussing Smart Grid (SG). Th…

On Blockchain and IoT Integration Platforms: Current Implementation Challenges and Future Perspectives's Image

Digitization and automation have engulfed every scope and sphere of life. Internet of Things (IoT) has been the main enabler of the revolution. There still exist challenges in IoT that need to be addressed such as the limited address space for the i…