PhDSupervision:VolkerStrobel
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General Information
Personal
Name: Volker Strobel
Birthdate: 10 November 1987
Belgian mobile phone: +32 483 42 21 04
Belgian home adress: Avenue Wielemans Ceuppens 138, 1190 Forest / Bruxelles
PhD started: 7 September 2016
Matricule ULB: 000443899
Office phone: +32-2-650 27 12
Projects
Work Schedule
Lab Responsibilities
- IRIDIA server maintenance
Tutorials
- Udemy: Ethereum Developer: Build A Decentralised Blockchain App Completed 75 %
- Coursera: Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies
Literature
See separate page
FRIA
- Presentation
- Ideas for next proposal: Ideas
Meetings
Meeting 27/9/2016
- Continue literature research (read papers mentioned in FRIA proposal)
- Find out which labs are doing blockchain / cryptocurrency / cryptography research (see Google Docs)
Meeting 4/10/2016
- Propose literature (see separate page)
- Séance d'information sur les financements permettant des mobilités dans le cadre d’un doctorat [1][2][3]
- Practice presentation with Marco, Yasu, Gaetan, and Ken (Volker - Comments of Marco, Yasu, Gaetan, and Ken)
Meeting 18/10/2016
- French language course Mon 31 October - Fri 4 November?
- iMAL Blockchain symposium & showcase Friday 4 November 2pm - 6pm (0 EUR) -- http://imal.org/en/activity/blockchain-fact-fiction-future/
- iMAL Hacklab Saturday 5 November (30 EUR)
Intermediate Meeting
- French language course Mon 31 October - Fri 4 November time: 9am - 1pm
Meeting 15/11/2016
- Continued literature research
- Started first web application for smart contracts (http://164.15.10.157/) with very basic functionality:
- Robots can be added to the swarm
- Miner can issue a premium in Ether as incentive for removing oil
- Oil can be removed by pressing a button -> sender gets rewarded
- Experimented a bit with ARGoS
- Discussed points:
- I need a convincing problem/application that absolutely requires the blockchain (could be very different from oil spill removal)
- Look into PoW/PoS/PoX algorithms and see which one is best for robot swarms (also look into "Physical Proof of Work"); since robots are computationally rather limited, we need a clever consensus algorithm, otherwise, an attacker could easily perform a 51% attack; also look into which cryptocurrencies use which algorithm; see if it is possible to switch to PoS in Ethereum
- Look into possibilities for light clients (for example, each city/organization could have a node that maintains the blockchain and the corresponding robots just run light clients)
- I can use the footbot simulation for now but will probably use the e-puck in the real experiments