The Blockchain Technology for Secure and Smart Applications across Industry Verticals
- 1st Edition, Volume 121 - January 23, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editors: Neeraj Kumar, Shubhani Aggarwal, Pethuru Raj
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 1 9 9 1 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 1 9 9 2 - 8
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Request a sales quoteThe 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.
- Provides a snapshot of the state of current research based on the decentralized system that provides security and privacy to the smart applications
- Chapters cover the fundamental concepts of the newly emerged Blockchain technology along with, the various smart applications
- Helps to elucidate new trading platforms that provides business benefits like efficiency, auditability, traceability, transparency, feedback, and security
Industrial researchers, academicians, and research scholars in the areas of security and privacy in various applications, such as healthcare systems, smart grid systems, intelligent transportation systems, financial systems, voting systems
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter One: Demystifying the blockchain technology
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: The key motivations for the blockchain technology
- 3: Delineating the blockchain technology
- 4: Briefing of the blockchain system elements
- 5: Blockchain consensus algorithms
- 6: Power of work
- 7: Proof of stake
- 8: Delegated proof of stake
- 9: Proof of burn
- 10: Practical Byzantine fault tolerance
- 11: Blockchain types
- 12: About the bitcoin application of the blockchain technology
- 13: Enterprise blockchain use cases
- 14: The blockchain technology benefits
- 15: The blockchain challenges and concerns
- 16: How blocks and their chains nullify security attacks on blockchain networks
- 17: An efficient cross-organizational information transfer method through blockchain
- 18: The marriage between blockchain, AI, and the IoT
- 19: Conclusion
- Appendix
- Chapter Two: Data structures
- Abstract
- 1: Primitive data structure
- 2: Nonprimitive data structure
- 3: Merkle root
- 4: InterPlanetary file system
- Chapter Three: Hashes
- Abstract
- 1: SHA-256 or SHA-2
- 2: Ethash
- 3: Scrypt
- 4: X11
- 5: Equihash
- 6: RIPEMD-160
- Chapter Four: Digital signatures
- Abstract
- 1: Digital signatures
- 2: Digital signature algorithm
- 3: Elliptic curve digital signature algorithm
- 4: Edward curve digital signature algorithm
- 5: Difference between EdDSA and ECDSA
- Chapter Five: Signature primitives
- Abstract
- 1: Ring signatures
- 2: One-time signatures
- 3: Multisignatures [3]
- 4: Borromean
- Chapter Six: Accumulators
- Abstract
- 1: RSA-based accumulators
- 2: Pairing-based accumulators
- 3: Hash-based accumulators
- Chapter Seven: Basics of blockchain
- Abstract
- 1: Overview of blockchain
- 2: Traditional centralized systems
- 3: Types of systems
- 4: Scope of the blockchain
- 5: Characteristics of blockchain
- 6: Key motivations for blockchain
- Chapter Eight: History of blockchain-Blockchain 1.0: Currency
- Abstract
- 1: Bitcoin cryptocurrency
- 2: Double-spending problem
- 3: Byzantine Generals’ problem
- 4: Evolution of blockchain
- 5: Fundamentals of blockchain
- 6: Potential impact of blockchain
- Chapter Nine: Architecture of blockchain
- Abstract
- 1: Technology behind blockchain
- 2: Structure of blockchain
- 3: Benefits of blockchain technology
- 4: Working of blockchain
- Chapter Ten: Core components of blockchain
- Abstract
- 1: Classification of nodes in a blockchain network
- 2: Classification of blockchain system
- 3: Blockchain platforms
- Chapter Eleven: Cryptographic consensus mechanisms
- Abstract
- 1: Proof-of-work
- 2: Proof-of-stake
- 3: Delegated proof-of-stake
- 4: Practical Byzantine fault tolerance
- 5: Proof-of-capacity
- 6: Proof-of-elapsed time
- 7: Proof-of-activity
- 8: Proof-of-publication
- 9: Proof-of-retrievability
- 10: Proof-of-importance
- 11: Proof-of-ownership
- 12: Proof-of-burn
- Chapter Twelve: Cryptocurrencies
- Abstract
- 1: Bitcoin
- 2: Ethereum
- 3: Ripple
- 4: Litecoin
- 5: Tether
- 6: Bitcoin Cash
- 7: Libra
- 8: Monero
- 9: EOS
- 10: Bitcoin SV
- 11: Binance Coin
- 12: Cardano
- 13: Tezos
- 14: Crypto.com Coin
- 15: Stellar
- 16: ChainLink
- 17: UNUS SED LEO
- 18: Tron
- 19: Huobi Token
- 20: NEO
- 21: BitTorrent
- 22: BitShares
- 23: Ethereum Classic
- 24: USD Coin
- 25: Hedge Trade
- 26: Cosmos
- 27: ZCash
- 28: Hedera Hashgraph
- 29: Bitcoin Gold
- 30: Bitcoin Diamond
- 31: Komodo
- 32: Nexo
- 33: Zcoin
- 34: Bytecoin
- 35: Gnosis
- 36: Maker
- 37: NEM
- 38: DOGE
- 39: THETA
- 40: ICON
- 41: QTUM
- 42: Siacoin
- 43: MonaCoin
- 44: Terra
- 45: Flexacoin
- Chapter Thirteen: Empowering digital twins with blockchain
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Briefing the digital twin (DT) paradigm
- 3: Digital twins: The industrial use cases
- 4: Digital twin industry use cases
- 5: Digital twins: The benefits
- 6: Blockchain as a powerful antidote
- 7: The combination of digital twins and blockchain
- 8: Blockchain and digital twins for enhanced digital value
- 9: Digital twins for sharing economy
- 10: Conclusion
- Chapter Fourteen: Phases of operation
- Abstract
- 1: Transaction generation and transaction verification
- 2: Consensus execution
- 3: Block verification and validation
- Chapter Fifteen: Blockchain 2.0: Smart contracts
- Abstract
- 1: Smart contracts
- 2: Advantages of smart contracts
- 3: Blockchain platforms using smart contracts
- 4: Ethereum smart contracts using solidity
- Chapter Sixteen: Hyperledger
- Abstract
- 1: Hyperledger: An industrial approach to blockchain
- 2: Hyperledger fabric
- Chapter Seventeen: Blockchain for enterprise
- Abstract
- 1: Track assets in a business network
- 2: Benefits of blockchain in a business
- Chapter Eighteen: Industrial use cases at the cusp of the IoT and blockchain paradigms
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Briefing the Internet of Things Conundrum
- 3: Entering into the blockchain technology
- 4: The convergence of the IoT and the blockchain paradigms
- 5: Prominent blockchain–IoT platforms and products
- 6: The challenges of blockchain–IoT combination
- 7: The IoT and blockchain convergence: Next-generation applications
- 8: How blockchain and IoT can work together
- 9: Companies using IoT: Blockchain combination
- 10: Conclusion
- Chapter Nineteen: Blockchain components and concepts
- Abstract
- 1: Actors in a blockchain
- 2: Components used in a blockchain
- 3: Applications interact with the blockchain ledger
- 4: Blockchain events
- Chapter Twenty: Attacks on blockchain
- Abstract
- 1: Consensus and ledger-based attacks
- 2: Peer-to-peer network attacks
- 3: Smart contract-based attacks
- 4: Wallet-based attacks
- Chapter Twenty-One: Financial system
- Abstract
- 1: Transaction management in financial system
- 2: Benefits of blockchain in the banking system
- 3: Digitization impact the banking system
- 4: Crowdfunding
- 5: Scope of blockchain in financial system
- 6: Decentralized finance on Ethereum
- Chapter Twenty-Two: Transportation system
- Abstract
- 1: Challenges faced by the transportation system
- 2: Blockchain relevant to the transportation system
- 3: Reasons to implement blockchain in the transportation system
- 4: Challenges with blockchain in the supply chain
- Chapter Twenty-Three: Smart grid
- Abstract
- 1: Architecture of smart grid
- 2: Salient features of smart grid
- 3: Applications of blockchain in smart grid
- 4: Challenges for blockchain into the smart grid
- 5: Initiatives on smart grid in India
- Chapter Twenty-Four: Healthcare system
- Abstract
- 1: Current healthcare system
- 2: Blockchain for healthcare system
- 3: Blockchain can solve the healthcare issues
- 4: Use cases of blockchain in healthcare system
- Chapter Twenty-Five: Voting system
- Abstract
- 1: Current digital voting system
- 2: Blockchain-based online voting system
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 121
- Published: January 23, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- No. of pages: 516
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780128219911
- eBook ISBN: 9780128219928
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Neeraj Kumar
Neeraj Kumar is at Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, India
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Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, IndiaSA
Shubhani Aggarwal
Shubhani Aggarwal is at Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, India
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Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, IndiaPR
Pethuru Raj
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.
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