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Ahmet Kurt

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Ahmet Kurt

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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Florida International University
Miami, FL, USA

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Ahmet Kurt (Member, IEEE) received two BS degrees from Antalya Bilim University, Antalya, Turkey in 2018, the MSc degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, Florida in 2021, and the PhD degree in electrical and computer engineering from the Florida International University, Miami, United States, in 2023. His current research interests include Bitcoin's lightning network, blockchain and wireless networks.(Based on document published on 20 September 2023).
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6
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46
Publications by Year
20212024
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LNGate^{2}2: Secure Bidirectional IoT Micro-Payments Using Bitcoin's Lightning Network and Threshold Cryptography

Ahmet Kurt;Kemal Akkaya;Sabri Yilmaz;Suat Mercan;Omer Shlomovits;Enes Erdin

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Year: 2024 | Volume: 23, Issue: 5 | Journal Article |
Cited by: Papers (3)
Bitcoin has emerged as a revolutionary payment system with its decentralized ledger concept; however it has significant problems such as high transaction fees and low throughput. Lightning Network (LN), which was introduced much later, solves most of these problems with an innovative concept called off-chain payments. With this advancement, Bitcoin has become an attractive venue to perform micro-p...Show More

LNGate$^{2}$2: Secure Bidirectional IoT Micro-Payments Using Bitcoin's Lightning Network and Threshold Cryptography

Ahmet Kurt;Kemal Akkaya;Sabri Yilmaz;Suat Mercan;Omer Shlomovits;Enes Erdin

Year: 2024 | Volume: 23, Issue: 5 | Journal Article |

D-LNBot: A Scalable, Cost-Free and Covert Hybrid Botnet on Bitcoin's Lightning Network

Ahmet Kurt;Enes Erdin;Kemal Akkaya;Selcuk Uluagac;Mumin Cebe

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
Year: 2024 | Volume: 21, Issue: 4 | Journal Article |
Cited by: Papers (2)
While various covert botnets were proposed in the past, they still lack complete anonymization for their servers/botmasters or suffer from slow communication between the botmaster and the bots. In this article, we first propose a new generation hybrid botnet that covertly and efficiently communicates over Bitcoin Lightning Network (LN), called LNBot. Exploiting various anonymity features of LN, we...Show More

D-LNBot: A Scalable, Cost-Free and Covert Hybrid Botnet on Bitcoin's Lightning Network

Ahmet Kurt;Enes Erdin;Kemal Akkaya;Selcuk Uluagac;Mumin Cebe

Year: 2024 | Volume: 21, Issue: 4 | Journal Article |

LNMesh: Who Said You need Internet to send Bitcoin? Offline Lightning Network Payments using Community Wireless Mesh Networks

Ahmet Kurt;Abdulhadi Sahin;Ricardo Harrilal-Parchment;Kemal Akkaya

2023 IEEE 24th International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM)
Year: 2023 | Conference Paper |
Bitcoin is undoubtedly a great alternative to today’s existing digital payment systems. Even though Bitcoin’s scalability has been debated for a long time, we see that it is no longer a concern thanks to its layer-2 solution Lightning Network (LN). LN has been growing non-stop since its creation and enabled fast, cheap, anonymous, censorship-resistant Bitcoin transactions. However, as known, LN no...Show More

LNMesh: Who Said You need Internet to send Bitcoin? Offline Lightning Network Payments using Community Wireless Mesh Networks

Ahmet Kurt;Abdulhadi Sahin;Ricardo Harrilal-Parchment;Kemal Akkaya

Year: 2023 | Conference Paper |

Cryptocurrency Solutions to Enable Micropayments in Consumer IoT

Suat Mercan;Ahmet Kurt;Kemal Akkaya;Enes Erdin

IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine
Year: 2022 | Volume: 11, Issue: 2 | Magazine Article |
Cited by: Papers (15)
The successful amalgamation of cryptocurrency and consumer Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices can pave the way for novel applications in machine-to-machine economy. However, the lack of scalability and heavy resource requirements of initial blockchain designs hinder the integration, and it is unclear how consumer devices will be adopting cryptocurrency. Therefore, in this article, we critically revi...Show More

Cryptocurrency Solutions to Enable Micropayments in Consumer IoT

Suat Mercan;Ahmet Kurt;Kemal Akkaya;Enes Erdin

Year: 2022 | Volume: 11, Issue: 2 | Magazine Article |

Enabling Micro-payments on IoT Devices using Bitcoin Lightning Network

Ahmet Kurt;Suat Mercana;Enes Erdin;Kemal Akkaya

2021 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC)
Year: 2021 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (8)
Lightning Network (LN) addresses the scalability problem of Bitcoin by leveraging off-chain transactions. Nevertheless, it is not possible to run LN on resource-constrained IoT devices due to its storage, memory, and processing requirements. Therefore, in this paper, we propose an efficient and secure protocol that enables an IoT device to use LN’s functions through a gateway LN node. The idea is ...Show More

Enabling Micro-payments on IoT Devices using Bitcoin Lightning Network

Ahmet Kurt;Suat Mercana;Enes Erdin;Kemal Akkaya

Year: 2021 | Conference Paper |

Distributed Connectivity Maintenance in Swarm of Drones During Post-Disaster Transportation Applications

Ahmet Kurt;Nico Saputro;Kemal Akkaya;A. Selcuk Uluagac

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
Year: 2021 | Volume: 22, Issue: 9 | Journal Article |
Cited by: Papers (18)
Considering post-disaster scenarios for intelligent traffic management and damage assessment where communication infrastructure may not be available, we advocate a swarm-of-drones mesh communication architecture that can sustain in-network connectivity among drones. The connectivity sustenance requirement stems from the fact that drones may move to various locations in response to service requests...Show More

Distributed Connectivity Maintenance in Swarm of Drones During Post-Disaster Transportation Applications

Ahmet Kurt;Nico Saputro;Kemal Akkaya;A. Selcuk Uluagac

Year: 2021 | Volume: 22, Issue: 9 | Journal Article |

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