Gjesteforelesning mandag 8. april 2019 kl 14:15. Tittel: "Vegvisir: A Partition-Tolerant Blockchain for the Internet-of-Things" - Professor Robbert van Renesse, Cornell University
Professor Robbert van Renesse, Cornell University, USA, vil holde en gjesteforelesning med tittel Vegvisir: A Partition-Tolerant Blockchain for the Internet-of-Things mandag 8. april 2019 kl 14:15. Sted: TEKNO 1.023Aud, Teknologibygget, Campus Tromsø.
Målgruppe: Masternivå- og ph.d.-studenter i infomratikk, ansatte og eksternt interesserte
Faglig kontaktperson er professor Dag Johansen.
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Date: Monday April 8th 2019, 14:15
Place: TEKNO 1.023Aud, Teknologibygget, Campus Tromsø
Title: Vegvisir: A Partition-Tolerant Blockchain for the Internet-of-Things
Lecturer: Professor Robbert van Renesse, Cornell University, USA
Abstract:
While the intersection of blockchains and the Internet of Things (IoT) have received considerable research interest lately, Nakamoto-style blockchains possess a number of qualities that make them poorly suited for many IoT scenarios. Specifically, they require high network connectivity and are power-intensive. This is a drawback in IoT environments where battery-constrained nodes form an unreliable ad hoc network such as in digital agriculture. In this talk we present Vegvisir, a partition-tolerant blockchain for use in power-constrained IoT environments with limited network connectivity. It is a permissioned, directed acyclic graph (DAG)-structured blockchain that can be used to create a shared, tamperproof data repository that keeps track of data provenance. We discuss the use cases, architecture, and challenges of such a blockchain.
For more information about Professor Robbert van Renesse and his current research, please have a look at his web page at Cornell University.
