June 05, 2019
12:45 - 13:45
Louvain-la-Neuve
Paul Otlet room - Reaumur Building a.327
Security and incentives of sharing economy systems using blockchain
By Michał Krol, research associate in the Computer Science Department at UCLouvain
The current cloud-oriented, centralized Internet model faces several problems including privacy issues, centralized security policies and power disproportion.
As as result, recently, a plethora of distributed platforms emerged to facilitate users cooperation to achieve common goals such a file hosting, computation offloading, content creation and more. To function properly, the collaborative platforms based on a sharing economy model require strong security properties and reliable incentives for workers.
In this talk, we present Airtnt - a fair exchange protocol for computation offloading using SGX and Proof of Prestige - a useful work reward system for unverifiable tasks built on top of Proof of Stake.
Bio: Michał Król is a research associate in the Computer Science Department at UCLouvain. He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from University Grenoble-Alpes, France, in 2016 and continued his research at National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo, University of Southern California, Los Angeles and University College London. His research focus is on the next-generation Internet architectures, edge computing, Internet measurements, and blockchain.