Blockchain and federated Q-learning-based secure, fault tolerant, and energy efficient framework for ad hoc networks

• Righa Tandon ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Righa Tandon, Xiaochun Cheng

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: righatandon@gmail.com, righa.tandon@chitkara.edu.in (RT); xiaochun.cheng@swansea.ac.uk (XC)

  Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chitkara University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Chitkara University, Rajpura, Punjab, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5953-5355

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• P. K. Gupta,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Jaypee University of Information Technology, Solan, Himachal Pradesh, India

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• Xiaochun Cheng

  Contributed equally to this work with: Righa Tandon, Xiaochun Cheng

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Visualization

  * E-mail: righatandon@gmail.com, righa.tandon@chitkara.edu.in (RT); xiaochun.cheng@swansea.ac.uk (XC)

  Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Swansea University, Bay Campus, Fabian Way, Swansea, SA1 8EN, Wales, UK

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