Blockchain and AI Amalgamation for IoT Applications Beyond 5G

Part 1 Laying the Foundation: Blockchain and AI Amalgamation in 5G-IoT

1. Introduction of Blockchain and 5G-enabled IoT Devices

R. Venkatesh

2. A Review on Blockchain-enabled Decentralized Architecture in a 5G-IoT Network

Keshini R Trivedi

3. Integrating Blockchain and IoT: Opportunities, Challenges, and Applications

N Rajkumar, C Viji, Balusamy Nachiappan, A Mohanraj, N Karthikeyan, and Judeson Antony Kovilpillai J

4. Case Studies and Prototypes for Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Integration in 5G-Enabled (IoT) Systems: Towards Secure, Intelligent, and Efficient Paradigms

Khalid Aziz, Sakshi Dua, and Prabal Gupta

Part 2 Security and Privacy Enhancement in 5G-IoT Using Blockchain and AI

5. Enhancing Data Security and Privacy in 5G-IoT Using Blockchain Technology

Rohit Malik, Sakshi Dua, Preety Shoran, Prabal Gupta

6. Interconnected Integrity: Securing IoT Networks with Blockchain Technology

Sartaj Singh, Shilpa, Sandeep Kaur, and Rishi Kumar

7. An Adaptive Approach for Cloud Security Using Cloud Service Tool, Blockchain, Protocols and Algorithms

Sheetal Kumar Dixit, Rahul Jain, Madhuri Bhavsar, and Preeti Kathiria

8. Blockchain-enabled VPN Security

Nidhi Bangar, Jaskeerat Kaur, and Nitin Rathore

Part 3 Intelligent Decision Making and Automation for 5G-IoT Systems Powered by Blockchain and AI

9. Smarter Security: Blockchain and AI-driven Identity Management for Next-Generation IoT

Neel Dedkawala, Priyal Bhinde, Rajesh Gupta, and Sudeep Tanwar

10. Enabling Automated Network Services Using Zero-touch Technology for Intelligent 5G-IoT Communication

Roshni Pankaj Kumar Rana, Nitin Rathore, and Aparna Kumari

11. Blockchain and AI Integration for Enhanced Security and Intelligence in 5G-IoT

Yash Koshti, Rahul Jain, Deepak Kumar Mehta, Sejal Mishra, and Nitin Varshney

12. Enhancing Environmental Monitoring and Sustainability through 5G-IoT Integration with AI and Blockchain

Heena Khanna, Sartaj Singh, Manik Mehra, and Akshay Sahnan

Part 4 Applications of Blockchain and AI in 5G-IoT

13. Exploration of Conditional Privacy Preserving and Authentication Protocols for Internet of Vehicles

Neha Bagga, Sheetal Kalra, Sartaj Singh, and Vinit Grewal

14. Solutions of Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence for 5G-Internet of Things in Agriculture

Isaac Oluwafemi Elesemoyo, Oyeyemi Temitayo Oyewole, Adekemi Joanne Olowu, Julius Olasunmibo Ogunniyi, and Favour Oluchi Boi

15. Smart Travelling Bag: Leveraging Blockchain for Enhanced Travel Security and Efficiency with 5G Technology

Detroja Heli, Thakkar Mansi, Ayushi Shah, Keyaba Gohil, Rajesh Gupta, and Sudeep Tanwar

16. Transformation of Financial and Virtual Realms in the Metaverse: A Blockchain Technology Perspective

Sheetal Sharma, Rushina Singhi, Kiran Jindal, and Vijit Chaturvedi

Biography

Dr. Sudeep Tanwar (Senior Member, IEEE) is working as a professor at the Nirma University, India. He is also a Visiting Professor with WSG University, Bydgoszczy, Poland, Jan Wyzykowski University, Poland, and the University of Pitesti, Romania. He is a senior member of IEEE and also Vice Chair of IEEE Computer Society Gujarat Section. He received his B.Tech in 2002 from Kurukshetra University, India, his M.Tech (Honor’s) in 2009 from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi, India and his Ph.D. in 2016 with specialization in Wireless Sensor Network. He has authored 5 books and edited 25 books, authored more than 400 technical articles, including for top cited journals and conferences, such as IEEE TNSE, IEEE TVT, IEEE TII, IEEE TGCN, IEEE TCSC, IEEE IoTJ, IEEE NETWORKS, IEEE WCM, ICC, IWCMC, GLOBECOM, CITS, and INFOCOM. He initiated the research field of blockchain technology adoption in various verticals in the year 2017. His H-index as per Google Scholar and Scopus is 84 and 71, respectively. His research interests include blockchain technology, D2D communication, deep learning/machine learning, wireless sensor networks, fog computing, smart grid, and the IoT. He is a member of the Technical Committee on Tactile Internet of the IEEE Communication Society. He has served many international conferences as a member of the Organizing Committee, such as the Publication Chair for FTNCT-2020, ICCIC 2020, and WiMob2019, and a General Chair for IC4S 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, ICCSDF 2020, FTNCT 2021. He is also serving the editorial boards of COMCOM-Elsevier, IJCS-Wiley.

Dr. Maniklal Das is Professor of Computer Science at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT), Gandhinagar, India. He has over 23 years of research and teaching experience in computer science. His research works broadly cover all areas of cyber security and IT security management. During his professional service, he has served as investigator of several sponsored research projects with national and international collaborators in the area of security and privacy. He has collaborated on research works with many researchers in premier universities abroad and in India. He is currently on the Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. He has served as a member of the technical program committee for many international conferences, and he is a regular reviewer of IEEE/ACM/Springer/Elsevier journals. Detailed information about his research and other accomplishments can be found at http://intranet.daiict.ac.in/~maniklal_das/. Dr. Das received his Ph.D. degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and M.Tech. degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Dhanbad (formerly, Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad), India. He is a senior member of the IEEE and life member of Cryptology Research Society of India.

Abderrahim Benslimane has been a Full Professor of Computer Science at the Avignon University/France since 2001. He is Vice Dean of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology and Head of the Master Degree SICOM, Communicating Systems. He was nominated in 2020 as IEEE VTS Distinguished Lecturer. He has the French award for Doctoral supervision and Research 2017-2021. He has been as Associate Professor at the University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard since September 1994. He received his Ph.D. degree (1993), DEA (MS 1989) from the Franche-Comte University of Besançon, and B.Sc. (1987) from the University of Nancy, all in computer science. He is EiC of Inderscience Int. J. of Multimedia Intelligence and Security (IJMIS), Area Editor of Security in IEEE IoT journal, editorial member of IEEE Transaction on Multimedia, IEEE Wireless Communication Magazine, IEEE System Journal, Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, and Springer Wireless Network Journal. He has authored more than 220 refereed international publications (books, conference proceedings, journals and conferences) and more than 20 articles for special issues. He has supervised more than 20 Ph.D. theses and more than 40 M.Sc. research theses. His research topics are monitoring schemes, secure and QoS protocols design, verification and performance evaluation, multicasting for IoT, autonomous vehicles, UAV, DDoS, and Blockchain technology and AI/ML schemes for security. He has been reviewer of a great number of journals and of national research projects sponsored by the ANR/Telecom French Agency. He is involved in many national and international projects.

Rajesh Gupta (Member IEEE) is currently working as an Assistant Professor at Nirma University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. He completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering in 2023 from Nirma University under the supervision of Dr. Sudeep Tanwar. He received his Bachelor of Engineering in 2008 from the University of Jammu, India and Master’s in Technology in 2013 from Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Jammu, India. He has authored/co-authored more than 250 publications (including papers in SCI Indexed Journals and IEEE ComSoc sponsored International Conferences). His research findings are published in top-cited journals and conferences. His research interests include device-to-device communication, network security, Blockchain technology, 5G communication network, and machine learning. His Google Scholar citations are 7600+, h-index 48, and i10-index 110. He has also been a recipient of a Doctoral Scholarship from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Govt. of India under the Visvesvaraya Ph.D. Scheme. His name has been included in the list of Top 2% scientists worldwide published jointly by Elsevier and Stanford university, USA consecutively in 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024.