1st Edition

Blockchain Technology and Applications

272 Pages 87 B/W Illustrations
by Auerbach Publications

272 Pages 87 B/W Illustrations
by Auerbach Publications

272 Pages 87 B/W Illustrations
by Auerbach Publications

Blockchain is emerging as a powerful technology, which has attracted the wider attention of all businesses across the globe. In addition to financial businesses, IT companies and business organizations are keenly analyzing and adapting this technology for improving business processes. Security is the primary enterprise application. There are other crucial applications that include creating... Read more

Editors

Contributors

1 Distributed Computing and/or Distributed Database Systems

K. P. ARJUN, N. M. SREENARAYANAN, K. SAMPATH KUMAR, AND R. VISWANATHAN

2 Blockchain Components and Concept

M. R. MANU, NAMYA MUSTHAFA, B. BALAMURUGAN, AND RAHUL CHAUHAN

3 Blockchain and IoT Security

D. PETER AUGUSTINE AND PETHURU RAJ

4 Consensus Algorithms – A Survey

R. INDRAKUMARI, T. POONGODI, KAVITA SAINI, AND B. BALAMURUGAN

5 Optimized Digital Transformation in Government Services with Blockchain

R. SUJATHA, C. NAVANEETHAN, RAJESH KALURI, AND S. PRASANNA

6 Blockchain and Social Media

SAUGATA DUTTA AND KAVITA SAINI

7 Assessing Security Features of Blockchain Technology

T. SUBHA

8 Merger of Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain

POOJA SAIGAL

9 Identification of Blockchain-Enabled Opportunities and Their Business Values: Interoperability of Blockchain

N.S. GOWRI GANESH

10 Enabling Digital Twin through Blockchain: A Strategic Perspective

RITIKA WASON, BROTO RAUTH BHARDWAJ, AND VISHAL JAIN

11 Blockchain for Securing Internet of Things (IoT) Applications

PRAMOD MATHEW JACOB AND PRASANNA MANI

12 Bitcoins and Crimes

M. VIVEK ANAND, T. POONGODI, AND KAVITA SAINI

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Biography

Dr. Pethuru Raj Chelliah has been working as the chief architect in the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) division of Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd. (RJIL), Bangalore. He previously worked as a cloud infrastructure architect in the IBM Global Cloud Center of Excellence (CoE), IBM India Bangalore for four years. Prior to that, he had a long stint as TOGAF-certified enterprise architecture (EA) consultant in Wipro Consulting Services (WCS) Division. He has also worked as a lead architect in the corporate research division of Robert Bosch, Bangalore. In total, he has gained more than 17 years of IT industry experience and eight years of research experience.

Dr. Kavita Saini earned a Ph.D. at Banasthali University, Banasthali, Jaipur and currently working as an Assistant Professor in Galgotias University, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh. She has more than 14 years of teaching experience in the field of computer science. Her area of interest lies in the field of web-based instructional systems, blockchain, cloud computing, and Big Data. She is author of 4 books. Dr. Kavita Saini has published more than 15 papers in national and international journals. She has also presented many papers in national and international conferences.

Dr. Chellammal Surianarayanan is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science in Bharathidasan University Constituent Arts and Science College, Tiruchirappalli, TamilNadu, India. She earned a Master of Science degree in Physics, Master of Technology degree in Information Technology and a doctorate degree in Computer Science.  She has worked on discovery and selection of semantic web services. She has published research papers in Springer Service-Oriented Computing and Applications, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, International Journal of Computational Science, Interscience, and SCIT Journal of Symbiosis Centre for Information Technology. She has authored book chapters with IGI Global and CRC Press. She is a life member in professional bodies such as the Computer Society of India and the IAENG.