IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency
2-6 May 2020 // Virtual Conference

Poster and Demo Session

 

There will be 4 Poster/Demo tracks held in parallel. Each poster and demo will be scheduled in 2 different sessions.

 

Saturday, May 2, 2020

Poster/Demo Session 1A - 10:00 AM
Chair:  Qinghua Lu, Data61 of CSIRO, Australia

10:00 AM Verification of Customizable Blockchain Consensus Rule for Assurance of Fault Tolerance in a Network of Distrusting Organizations
Ryo Kawahara
IBM Research, Tokyo
10:15 AM A Time Bank System Design on the Basis of Hyperledger Fabric Framework
Yu-Tse Lee, Jhan-Jia Lin, Jane Yung-Jen Hsu, Ja-Ling Wu
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
10:30 AM Crypto Terminal: A New Open Device For Securing Blockchain Wallets
Pascal Urien
Telecom ParisTech, France
10:45 AM TRUSTD: Combat Fake Content using Blockchain and Collective Signature Technologies
Zakwan Jaroucheh, Mohammad Alissa, William J Buchanan
Edinburgh Napier University, Great Britain
11:00 AM Incorruptible Auditing: Blockchain-Powered Graph Database Management
Victor Ermolaev1, Indrek Klangberg2, Yash Madhwal3, Silver Vapper2, Sjoerd Wels2, Yury Yanovich1
1Bitfury, The Netherlands
2University of Twente, The Netherlands
3Skoltech, Russia
11:15 AM SkillCheck: An Incentive-based Certification System using Blockchains
Swaprava Nath, Jay Gupta
IIT Kanpur, India
11:30 AM Vote Delegation and Malicious Parties
Hans Gersbach, Akaki Mamageishvili, Manvir Schneider
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
11:45 AM Evaluation of Security and Performance of Master Node Protocol in the Bitcoin Peer-to-Peer Network
Muntadher Fadhil Sallal
Nottingham Trent University, Great Britain

Poster/Demo Session 1B - 10:00 AM
Chair: Yuxi Cai, University of Toronto, Canada

10:00 AM Profiling of Malicious Users Using Simple Honeypots on the Ethereum Blockchain Network
Kazuki Hara, Teppei Sato, Mitsuyoshi Imamura, Kazumasa Omote
University of Tsukuba, Japan
10:15 AM Reasonableness Discussion and Analysis for Hyperledger Fabric Configuration
Song Hua1, Shenbin Zhang1, Bingfeng Pi1, Jun Sun1, Kazuhiro Yamashita2, Yoshihide Nomura2
1Fujitsu Research, China
2Fujitsu Research, Japan
10:30 AM Democratization of Smart Contracts: A Prototype for Automated Contract Generation
Felix Franz, Tobias Fertig, Andreas E Schutz
University of Applied Sciences Wurzburg-schweinfurt, Germany
10:45 AM SC-Flare: Cooperative DDoS Signaling based on Smart Contracts
Bruno Rodrigues, Spasen Trendafilov, Eder John Scheid, Burkhard Stiller
University of Zurich, Switzerland
11:00 AM Wallet Contracts on Ethereum
Monika Di Angelo, Gernot Salzer
TU Wien, Austria
11:15 AM Rational Exchange: Incentives in Atomic Cross Chain Swaps
Janick Rueegger1, Guilherme Sperb Machado2,3

1Swisscom, Switzerland
2SIBEX, Switzerland
3AxLabs, Switzerland

11:30 AM Mining Blocks in a Row: A Statistical Study of Fairness in Bitcoin Mining
Shengnan Li, Zhao Yang, Claudio Tessone
University of Zurich, Switzerland

Poster/Demo Session 2A - 1:00 PM
Chair: Anastasia Mavridou, KBR / NASA Ames Research Center, USA

1:00 PM On the Fairness of Distributed Ledger Technologies for the Internet of Things
Luigi Vigneri, Wolfgang Welz
IOTA Foundation, Germany
1:15 PM Gamified Service Exchange Platform on Blockchain for IoT Business Agility
Shahin Gheitanchi
IEEE, Great Britain
1:30 PM EcoBoost: Efficient Bootstrapping for Confidential Transactions
Chenggang Wang1, Boyang Wang1, Xinxin Fan2
1University of Cincinnati, USA
2Hyperconnect Lab Inc, USA
1:45 PM Balance Transfers and Bailouts in Credit Networks using Blockchains
Roopa Vishwanathan, Kartick Kolachala, Lalitha Muthu Subramanian
New Mexico State University, USA
2:00 PM Distributed Consensus for Mobile Devices using Online Brokers
Mehrdad Kiamari, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Muhammad Naveed, Seokgu Yun
University of Southern California, USA
2:15 PM A Blockchain-Based Privacy-Preserving Intelligent Charging Station Selection for Electric Vehicles
Syed Muhammad Danish1, Kaiwen Zhang1, Hans-Arno Jacobsen2
1Ecole de Tecnologie Superieure ETS, Canada
2University of Toronto, Canada
2:30 PM Determining Optimal Shard Size in a Hierarchical Blockchain Architecture
Shyam Kantesariya, Dhrubajyoti Goswami
Concordia University, Canada
2:45 PM Architecting Configurable Blockchain Network Simulators: A Model-driven Perspective
Sotirios Liaskos, Tarun Anand, Nahid Alimohammadi
York University, Canada

Poster/Demo Session 2B - 1:00 PM
Chair: Zissis Poulos, University of Toronto Canada

1:00 PM A Containerized Proof-of-Concept Implementation of LightChain system
Yahya Hassanzadeh-Nazarabadi1, Nazir Nayal2, Shadi Sameh Hamdan2, Oznur Ozkasap2, Alptekin Küpçü2
1DapperLabs
2Koç University
1:15 PM SkipSim: Scalable Skip Graph Simulator
Yahya Hassanzadeh-Nazarabadi1, Ali Utkan Sahin2, Oznur Ozkasap 2, Alptekin Küpçü 2
1DapperLabs
2Koç University, Turkey
1:30 PM From Curved Bonding to Configuration Spaces
Michael Zargham, Krzysztof Paruch, Jamsheed Shorish
Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
1:45 PM Towards Usable Protection Against Honeypots
Christof Ferreira Torres1, Mathis Baden2, Radu State2
1University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2Telindus, Belgium
2:00 PM Discover DaVinci A Gamified Blockchain Trivia App
Marko Suvajdzic, James Oliverio, Angelos Barmpoutis, Liam Wood, Paul Burgermeister
University of Florida, Digital Worlds Institute, USA
2:15 PM Distributed Fractionalized Data Networks for Data Integrity
Arun Majumdar, Govind Mohan
Virgil Systems, Canada
2:30 PM Customer Data Sharing Platform: A Blockchain Based Shopping Cart
Ajay Shrestha
University of Saskatchewan, Canada
2:45 PM Improving Transaction Success Rate via Smart Gateway Selection in Cryptocurrency Payment Channel Networks
Suat Mercan, Enes Erdin, Kemal Akkaya
Florida International University, USA

Poster/Demo Session 3A - 4:00 PM
Chair: Christof Ferreira Torres, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

4:00 PM Formalizing Correct-by-Construction Casper in Coq
Elaine Li1, Traian Serbanuta2, Denisa Diaconescu2, Grigore Rosu3
1Runtime Verification, USA
2Runtime Verification, Romania
3University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, USA
4:15 PM Energy Consumption Analysis of XRP Validator
Crystal A Roma, M Anwar Hasan
University of Waterloo, Canada
4:30 PM A Relational Network Framework for Interoperability in Distributed Energy Trading
Samuel Maina Karumba1, Salil S. Kanhare1, Raja Jurdak2
1UNSW, Australia
2QUT, Australia
4:45 PM PLEDGE: A Proof-of-Honesty based Consensus Protocol for Blockchain-based IoT Systems
Imran Makhdoom
University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Poster/Demo Session 3B - 4:00 PM
Chair: Sotirios Liaskos, York University, Canada

4:00 PM Performance and Fault Tolerance Tradeoffs in Sharded Permissioned Blockchains
Chunyu Mao, Anh Duong Nguyen, Wojciech Golab
University of Waterloo, Canada
4:15 PM FabricUnit: A Framework for Faster Execution of Unit Tests on Hyperledger Fabric
Shashank Motepalli1, Patricia Vilain2, Arno Jacobsen1
1University of Toronto, Canada
2Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
4:30 PM Software Architecture for Blockchain-based Trade Certificate Systems
Qinghua Lu1, Mark Staples1, Hugo O'Connor1Shiping Chen2, Adnene Guabtni1
1CSIRO, Australia
2CSIRO Data61, Australia
4:45 PM Leveraging Lightweight Blockchain to Establish Data Integrity for Surveillance Cameras
Regio Michelin, Nadeem Ahmed, Salil S. Kanhare, A Seneviratne, Sanjay Jha
UNSW, Australia

Poster/Demo Session 4A - 10:00 AM
Chair: Anastasia Mavridou, KBR / NASA Ames Research Center, USA

10:00 AM On the Fairness of Distributed Ledger Technologies for the Internet of Things
Luigi Vigneri, Wolfgang Welz
IOTA Foundation, Germany
10:15 AM Gamified Service Exchange Platform on Blockchain for IoT Business Agility
Shahin Gheitanchi
IEEE, Great Britain
10:30 AM EcoBoost: Efficient Bootstrapping for Confidential Transactions
Chenggang Wang1, Boyang Wang1, Xinxin Fan2
1University of Cincinnati, USA
2Hyperconnect Lab Inc, USA
10:45 AM Balance Transfers and Bailouts in Credit Networks using Blockchains
Roopa Vishwanathan, Kartick Kolachala, Lalitha Muthu Subramanian
New Mexico State University, USA
11:00 AM Distributed Consensus for Mobile Devices using Online Brokers
Mehrdad Kiamari, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Muhammad Naveed, Seokgu Yun
University of Southern California, USA
11:15 AM A Blockchain-Based Privacy-Preserving Intelligent Charging Station Selection for Electric Vehicles
Syed Muhammad Danish1, Kaiwen Zhang1, Hans-Arno Jacobsen2
1Ecole de Tecnologie Superieure ETS, Canada
2University of Toronto, Canada
11:30 AM Determining Optimal Shard Size in a Hierarchical Blockchain Architecture
Shyam Kantesariya, Dhrubajyoti Goswami
Concordia University, Canada
11:45 AM Architecting Configurable Blockchain Network Simulators: A Model-driven Perspective
Sotirios Liaskos, Tarun Anand, Nahid Alimohammadi
York University, Canada

Poster/Demo Session 4B - 10:00 AM
Chair: Zissis Poulos, University of Toronto Canada

10:00 AM Democratization of Smart Contracts: A Prototype for Automated Contract Generation
Felix Franz, Tobias Fertig, Andreas E Schutz
University of Applied Sciences Wurzburg-schweinfurt, Germany
10:15 AM A Containerized Proof-of-Concept Implementation of LightChain system
Yahya Hassanzadeh-Nazarabadi1, Nazir Nayal2, Shadi Sameh Hamdan2, Oznur Ozkasap2, Alptekin Küpçü2
1DapperLabs
2Koç University, Turkey
10:30 AM SkipSim: Scalable Skip Graph Simulator
Yahya Hassanzadeh-Nazarabadi1, Ali Utkan Sahin2, Oznur Ozkasap 2, Alptekin Küpçü 2
1DapperLabs
2Koç University, Turkey
10:45 AM From Curved Bonding to Configuration Spaces
Michael Zargham, Krzysztof Paruch, Jamsheed Shorish
Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
11:00 AM Towards Usable Protection Against Honeypots
Christof Ferreira Torres1, Mathis Baden2, Radu State1
1University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2Telindus, Belgium
11:15 AM Discover DaVinci A Gamified Blockchain Trivia App
Marko Suvajdzic, James Oliverio, Angelos Barmpoutis, Liam Wood, Paul Burgermeister
University of Florida, Digital Worlds Institute, USA
11:30 AM Distributed Fractionalized Data Networks for Data Integrity
Arun Majumdar, Govind Mohan
Virgil Systems, Canada
11:45 AM Customer Data Sharing Platform: A Blockchain Based Shopping Cart
Ajay Shrestha
University of Saskatchewan, Canada

Poster/Demo Session 5A - 1:00 PM
Chair: Nicholas Fung, University of Toronto, Canada

1:00 PM Crypto Terminal: A New Open Device For Securing Blockchain Wallets
Pascal Urien
Telecom ParisTech, France
1:15 PM TRUSTD: Combat Fake Content using Blockchain and Collective Signature Technologies
Zakwan Jaroucheh, Mohammad Alissa, William J Buchanan
Edinburgh Napier University, Great Britain
1:30 PM Incorruptible Auditing: Blockchain-Powered Graph Database Management
Victor Ermolaev1, Indrek Klangberg2, Yash Madhwal3, Silver Vapper2, Sjoerd Wels2, Yury Yanovich1
1Bitfury, The Netherlands
2University of Twente, The Netherlands
2Skoltech, Russia
1:45 PM SkillCheck: An Incentive-based Certification System using Blockchains
Swaprava Nath, Jay Gupta
IIT Kanpur, India
2:00 PM Vote Delegation and Malicious Parties
Hans Gersbach, Akaki Mamageishvili, Manvir Schneider
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
2:15 PM Evaluation of Security and Performance of Master Node Protocol in the Bitcoin Peer-to-Peer Network
Muntadher Fadhil Sallal
Nottingham Trent University, Great Britain
2:30 PM Formalizing Correct-by-Construction Casper in Coq
Elaine Li1, Traian Serbanuta2, Denisa Diaconescu2, Grigore Rosu3
1Runtime Verification, USA
2Runtime Verification, Romania
3University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, USA
2:45 PM Energy Consumption Analysis of XRP Validator
Crystal A Roma, M Anwar Hasan
University of Waterloo, Canada

Poster/Demo Session 5B - 1:00 PM
Chair: Keerthi Nelaturu, University of Toronto, Canada

1:00 PM Improving Transaction Success Rate via Smart Gateway Selection in Cryptocurrency Payment Channel Networks
Suat Mercan, Enes Erdin, Kemal Akkaya
Florida International University, USA
1:15 PM SC-Flare: Cooperative DDoS Signaling based on Smart Contracts
Bruno Rodrigues, Spasen Trendafilov, Eder John Scheid, Burkhard Stiller
University of Zurich, Switzerland
1:30 PM Wallet Contracts on Ethereum
Monika Di Angelo, Gernot Salzer
TU Wien, Austria
1:45 PM Rational Exchange: Incentives in Atomic Cross Chain Swaps
Janick Rueegger1, Guilherme Sperb Machado2,3
1Swisscom, Switzerland
2SIBEX, Switzerland
3AxLabs, Switzerland
2:00 PM Mining Blocks in a Row: A Statistical Study of Fairness in Bitcoin Mining
Shengnan Li, Zhao Yang, Claudio Tessone
University of Zurich, Switzerland
2:15 PM Performance and Fault Tolerance Tradeoffs in Sharded Permissioned Blockchains
Chunyu Mao, Anh Duong Nguyen, Wojciech Golab
University of Waterloo, Canada
2:30 PM FabricUnit: A Framework for Faster Execution of Unit Tests on Hyperledger Fabric
Shashank Motepalli1, Patricia Vilain2, Arno Jacobsen1
1University of Toronto, Canada
2Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil

Poster/Demo Session 6A - 9:00 PM
Chair: Aron Laszka, University of Houston, USA

9:00 PM A Relational Network Framework for Interoperability in Distributed Energy Trading
Samuel Maina Karumba, Salil S. Kanhare, Raja Jurdak
1UNSW, Australia
2QUT, Australia
9:15 PM PLEDGE: A Proof-of-Honesty based Consensus Protocol for Blockchain-based IoT Systems
Imran Makhdoom
University of Technology Sydney, Australia
9:30 PM Verification of Customizable Blockchain Consensus Rule for Assurance of Fault Tolerance in a Network of Distrusting Organizations
Ryo Kawahara
IBM Research, Tokyo
9:45 PM A Time Bank System Design on the Basis of Hyperledger Fabric Framework
Yu-Tse Lee, Jhan-Jia Lin, Jane Yung-Jen Hsu, Ja-Ling Wu
National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Poster/Demo Session 6B - 9:00 PM
Chair: Sotirios Liaskos, York University, Canada

9:00 PM Software Architecture for Blockchain-based Trade Certificate Systems
Qinghua Lu1, Mark Staples1, Hugo O'Connor1, Shiping Chen2, Adnene Guabtni1
1CSIRO, Australia
2CSIRO Data61, Australia
9:15 PM Leveraging Lightweight Blockchain to Establish Data Integrity for Surveillance Cameras
Regio Michelin, Nadeem Ahmed, Salil S. Kanhare, A Seneviratne, Sanjay Jha
UNSW, Australia
9:30 PM Profiling of Malicious Users Using Simple Honeypots on the Ethereum Blockchain Network
Kazuki Hara, Teppei Sato, Mitsuyoshi Imamura, Kazumasa Omote
University of Tsukuba, Japan
9:45 PM Reasonableness Discussion and Analysis for Hyperledger Fabric Configuration
Song Hua1, Shenbin Zhang1, Bingfeng Pi1, Jun Sun1, Kazuhiro Yamashita2, Yoshihide Nomura2

1Fujitsu Research, China
2Fujitsu Research, Japan

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