Programmable money: next-generation blockchain-based conditional payments

Blockchain Technology for Next Generation ICT

Blockchain technology, which supports low-cost decentralized distributed data management featuring tamper resistance, high availability, and transparency, is a breakthrough technology that will lead to the next generation of information and communications technology (ICT). Originally devised to support the Bitcoin digital currency, it is expected to be applied to a broad range of financial appl...

CyberMiles: A Next Generation Blockchain Protocol for Business Transactions

Improved Conditional E-Payments

Conditional e-cash or conditional e-payments have been introduced by Shi et al. as the means for enabling electronic payments to be based on the outcome of a certain condition not known in advance. In this framework, a payer obtains an electronic coin and can transfer it to a payee under a certain condition. Once the outcome of the condition is known, if it was favorable to the payee, the payee...

Multi-standard programmable baseband modulator for next generation wireless communication

Considerable research has taken place in recent times in the area of parameterization of software defined radio (SDR) architecture. Parameterization decreases the size of the software to be downloaded and also limits the hardware reconfiguration time. The present paper is based on the design and development of a programmable baseband modulator that perform the QPSK modulation schemes and as wel...

SMASH: A Next-Generation API for Programmable Graphics Accelerators

The SMASH API is a testbed for real-time, low-level graphics con-cepts. It is being developed to serve as a concrete target for thedevelopment of advanced extensions to OpenGL as well as a driverto test hardware architectures to support these extensions. SMASHis syntactically and conceptually similar to OpenGL but supports(along with other experimental features) a programmab...