The Blockchain Technology for Secure and Smart Applications across Industry Verticals

by Neeraj Kumar (Editor), Shubhani Aggarwal (Editor), Pethuru Raj Ph.D. (Editor)

Overview

The Blockchain Technology for Secure and Smart Applications across Industry Verticals, Volume 121, presents the latest information on a type of distributed ledger used for maintaining a permanent and tamper-proof record of transactional data. The book presents a novel compendium of existing and budding Blockchain technologies for various smart applications. Chapters in this new release include the Basics of Blockchain, The Blockchain History, Architecture of Blockchain, Core components of Blockchain, Blockchain 2.0: Smart Contracts, Empowering Digital Twins with Blockchain, Industrial Use Cases at the Cusp of the IoT and Blockchain Paradigms, Blockchain Components and Concepts, Digital Signatures, Accumulators, Financial Systems, and more.

This book is a unique effort to illuminate various techniques to represent, improve and authorize multi-institutional and multidisciplinary research in a different type of smart applications, like the financial system, smart grid, transportation system, etc. Readers in identity-privacy, traceability, immutability, transparency, auditability, and security will find it to be a valuable resource.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780128219911
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	01/26/2021
Series:	Advances in Computers , #121
Pages:	516
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.13(d)

About the Author

Neeraj Kumar is at Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, India

Shubhani Aggarwal is at Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, India

Pethuru Raj PhD works as chief architect and vice president of site reliability engineering (SRE) division of Reliance Jio Infocomm. Ltd. Bangalore. Previously he worked as a cloud infrastructure architect in the IBM Global Cloud Center of Excellence (CoE), Bangalore. He worked as a TOGAF-certified enterprise architecture (EA) consultant in Wipro Consulting Services (WCS) Division and as a lead architect in the corporate research (CR) division of Robert Bosch, India. He has gained more than 18 years of IT industry experience.
He finished the CSIR-sponsored PhD degree in Anna University, Chennai and continued the UGC-sponsored postdoctoral research in the department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Thereafter, he was granted a couple of international research fellowships (JSPS and JST) to work as a research scientist for 3.5 years in two leading Japanese universities. He has authored and edited 18 books thus far and he focuses on some of the emerging technologies such as Containerized Clouds; Big, Fast, and Streaming Data Analytics; Microservices architecture (MSA); Machine and Deep Learning Algorithms; Blockchain Technology; The Internet of Things; and Edge Computing. He has published more than 30 research papers in peer-reviewed journals such as IEEE, ACM, Springer-Verlag, Inderscience, etc.

Table of Contents

1. Basics of Blockchain
Shubhani Aggarwal
2. The Blockchain History
Shubhani Aggarwal
3. Architecture of Blockchain
Shubhani Aggarwal
4. Core components of Blockchain
Shubhani Aggarwal
5. Blockchain 2.0: Smart Contracts
Shubhani Aggarwal
6. Empowering Digital Twins with Blockchain
Pethuru Raj Chelliah Sr.
7. Industrial Use Cases at the Cusp of the IoT and Blockchain Paradigms
Pethuru Raj Chelliah Sr.
8. Blockchain Components and Concepts
Pethuru Raj Chelliah Sr.
9. Hashes
Pethuru Raj Chelliah Sr.
10. Digital Signatures
Pethuru Raj Chelliah Sr.
11. Signature Primitives
Pethuru Raj Chelliah Sr.
12. Accumulators
Pethuru Raj Chelliah Sr.
13. Financial System
Pethuru Raj Chelliah Sr.
14. Intelligent Transportation System
Pethuru Raj Chelliah Sr.
15. Smart Grid
Pethuru Raj Chelliah Sr.
16. Healthcare System
Pethuru Raj Chelliah Sr.
17. Voting System
Pethuru Raj Chelliah Sr.
18. Demystifying Blockchain Technology
Pethuru Raj Chelliah Sr.

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Edited by top scientists in the field, this series presents the latest updates in the field of blockchain technology