Blockchain Research Papers from USC

Workshop and Conference Papers

• Martin Fleischmann, Bjoern S. Ivens, and Bhaskar Krishnamachari, “Blockchain Technology as a Means for Brand Trust Repair – Empirical Evidence from a Digital Transgression,” Proceedings of the 53rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Wailea, USA, 2020 (forthcoming).
• Ronghua Xu, Gowri Ramachandran, Yu Chen and Bhaskar Krishnamachari, “BlendSM-DDM: BLockchain-ENabled Secure Microservices for Decentralized Data Marketplaces,” Proceedings of The 2nd International Workshop on BLockchain Enabled Sustainable Smart Cities (BLESS 2019), Morocco, October, 2019, held in conjunction with the 5th IEEE Annual International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2 2019).
• Gowri S. Ramachandran, Sharon L.G Contreras, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, “Publish-Pay-Subscribe Protocol for Payment-driven Edge Computing,” To appear at the 2nd USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Edge Computing (HotEdge ’19) and will be co-located with the 2019 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, July, 2019.
• Gowri S. Ramachandran, Kwame-Lante Wright, Licheng Zheng,Pavas Navaney, Muhammad Naveed, Jagjit Dhaliwal, and Bhaskar Krishnamachari, “Trinity: A Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Distributed Publish-Subscribe System with Immutable Blockchain-based Persistence,”  To appear at the IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC 2019), Seoul, South Korea, May, 2019.
• Aditya Asgaonkar, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, “Solving the Buyer and Seller’s Dilemma: A Dual-Deposit Escrow Smart Contract for Provably Cheat-Proof Delivery and Payment for a Digital Good without a Trusted Mediator,” To appear at the IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC 2019), Seoul, South Korea, May, 2019.
• Yi Lucy Wang, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, “Enhancing Engagement in Token-Curated Registries with an Inflationary Mechanism,” To appear at the IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC 2019), Seoul, South Korea, May, 2019.
• Rahul Radhakrishnan, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, “Streaming Data Payment Protocol (SDPP) for the Internet of Things,” BIoT 2018: The 1 st International Workshop on Blockchain for the Internet of Things, held in conjunction with IEEE Blockchain, Halifax, Canada, 2018. [Github Repository for SDPP code]
• Kwame-Lante Wright, Martin Espinoza, Uday Chadha, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, “SmartEdge: A Smart Contract for Edge Computing,” BIoT 2018: The 1 st International Workshop on Blockchain for the Internet of Things, held in conjunction with IEEE Blockchain, Halifax, Canada, 2018.
• Gowri S. Ramachandran, Rahul Radhakrishnan, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, “Towards a Decentralized Data Marketplace for Smart Cities,” Invited paper at The 1st International Workshop on BLockchain Enabled Sustainable Smart Cities (BLESS 2018), Kansas City, MO, USA, Sept. 19, 2018, held in conjunction with the 4th IEEE Annual International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2 2018).
• Jason A. Tran, Gowri S. Ramachandran, Palash M. Shah, Claudiu B. Danilov, Rodolfo A. Santiago, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, “SwarmDAG: A Partition Tolerant Distributed Ledger Protocol for Swarm Robotics,” Symposium on Blockchain for Robotic Systems, MIT, Boston, USA, Dec. 5, 2018. (This work was supported by Boeing Research and Technology)

Preprints and Technical Reports

• Zhiyuan Jiang, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Sheng Zhou, Zhisheng Niu, “SENATE: A Permissionless Byzantine Consensus Protocol in Wireless Networks,” Arxiv Preprint – March 2018.
• Gowri S. Ramachandran, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, “Blockchain for the IoT: Opportunities and Challenges,” Arxiv Preprint – May 2018.
• Aditya Asgaonkar, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, “Solving the Buyer and Seller’s Dilemma: A Dual-Deposit Escrow Smart Contract for Provably Cheat-Proof Delivery and Payment for a Digital Good without a Trusted Mediator,” Arxiv Preprint – July 2018.
• Aditya Asgaonkar, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, “Token Curated Registries – A Game Theoretic Approach,” Arxiv Preprint – September 2018.
• Songze Li, Mingchao Yu, Salman Avestimehr, Sreeram Kannan, Pramod Viswanath, “PolyShard: Coded Sharding Achieves Linearly Scaling Efficiency and Security Simultaneously,” Arxiv Preprint – September 2018.
• Gowri S. Ramachandran, Xiang Ji, Pavas Navaney, Licheng Zheng, Martin Martinez, and Bhaskar Krishnamachari, “MOTIVE: Micropayments for trusted vehicular services,” Arxiv Preprint – January 2019.
• Gowri S. Ramachandran, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, “A Reference Architecture for Blockchain-based Peer-to-Peer IoT Applications,”  March 2019.

For more information on our research efforts, please contact Bhaskar Krishnamachari via email bkrishna@usc.edu