Advances in computers. Volume 121 , Blockchain technology for secure and smart applications across industry verticals / edited by Shubhani Aggarwal, Neeraj Kumar, Pethuru Raj.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aggarwal, Shubhani, editor.

Kumar, Neeraj, editor.

Raj, Pethuru, editor.

Series:

Advances in computers ; 0065-2458 v. 121 (OCoLC)1461174

Advances in computers, 0065-2458 ; v. 121

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blockchains (Databases).

Vertical integration--Technological innovations.

Vertical integration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 500 pages)

Other Title:

Blockchain technology for secure and smart applications across industry verticals.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Academic Press, 2021.

Summary:

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. 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.

Contents:

Preface / Pethuru Raj

1. Demystifying the blockchain technology / Pethuru Raj

2. Data structures / Shubhani Aggarwal, Neeraj Kumar

3. Hashes / Shubhani Aggarwal, Neeraj Kumar

4. Digital signatures / Shubhani Aggarwal, Neeraj Kumar

5. Signature primitives / Shubhani Aggarwal, Neeraj Kumar

6. Accumulators / Shubhani Aggarwal, Neeraj Kumar

7. Basics of blockchain / Shubhani Aggarwal, Neeraj Kumar

8. History of blockchain-Blockchain 1.0: Currency / Shubhani Aggarwal, Neeraj Kumar

9. Architecture of blockchain / Shubhani Aggarwal, Neeraj Kumar

10. Core components of blockchain / Shubhani Aggarwal, Neeraj Kumar

11. Cryptographic consensus mechanisms / Shubhani Aggarwal, Neeraj Kumar

12. Cryptocurrencies / Shubhani Aggarwal, Neeraj Kumar

13. Empowering digital twins with blockchain / Pethuru Raj

14. Phases of operation 2.0: Smart contracts. / Shubhani Aggarwal, Neeraj Kumar

15. Blockchain 2.0: Smart contracts / Shubhani Aggarwal, Neeraj Kumar

16. Hyperledger / Shubhani Aggarwal, Neeraj Kumar

17. Blockchain for enterprise / Shubhani Aggarwal, Neeraj Kumar

18. Industrial use cases at the cusp of the IoT and blockchain paradigms / Pethuru Raj

19. Blockchain components and concepts / Shubhani Aggarwal, Neeraj Kumar

20. Attacks on blockchain / Shubhani Aggarwal, Neeraj Kumar

21. Financial system / Shubhani Aggarwal, Neeraj Kumar

22. Transportation syst / Shubhani Aggarwal, Neeraj Kumar

23. Smart grid / Shubhani Aggarwal, Neeraj Kumar

24. Healthcare system / Shubhani Aggarwal, Neeraj Kumar

25. Voting system / Shubhani Aggarwal, Neeraj Kumar.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-12-821991-2

0-12-821992-0

OCLC:

1233008648