1st Edition
Recent Trends in Blockchain for Information Systems Security and Privacy
Contents
Preface vii
Acknowledgments ix
About the Editors xi
TRACK 1 Blockchain: Background and Importance 1
1 Fundamentals of Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) 3
Leema Roselin G, Rajmohan R, Usharani S, Kiruba K, Manjubala P
2 Blockchain for Information Systems Applications 39
Divya Stephen, Blesmi Rose Joseph, Neeraja James, and Aswathy S.U.
3 A Dynamic Trust Model for Blockchain-Based Supply Chain Management Networks 59
Shivam Narula, Annapurna Jonnalgadda, and Aswani Kumar Cherukuri
TRACK 2 Blockchain for Information Systems: New Methods
for Day-to-Day Problems 75
4 Blockchain and IoT Technologies to Improve the Agricultural Food Supply Chain 77
Saranya P, Maheswari R, and Tanmay Kulkarni
5 A Novel Hybrid Chaotic Map–Based Proactive RSA Cryptosystem in Blockchain 87
S. Selvi and M. Vimala Devi
6 Institutional Technologies for Blockchain: Implications and Policies 99
Shyam Mohan J.S., S. Ramamoorthy, Narasimha Krishna Amruth Vemuganti,
Vankadara Naga Venkata Kuladeep, and Raghuram Nadipalli
7 Two-Fold Security Model Using 2D-Vector Key Bunch and Privacy
Preservation of the EHRs in the Distributed Network Involving Blockchain 117
Shirisha Kakarla, Geeta Kakarla, and D. Narsinga Rao
TRACK 3 Blockchain in the Near Future: Possible Uses and Research Gaps 139
8 Analysis of Security and Privacy Aspects of Blockchain Technologies from
Smart Era’ Perspective: The Challenges and a Way Forward to Future 141
Amit Kumar Tyagi
9 Applications of Blockchain Technologies in Digital Forensics and Threat Hunting 159
Shabnam Kumari, Amit Kumar Tyagi and G. Rekha
10 Healthcare Solutions for the Next Generation: A Useful Explanation
from the User’s Perspective 175
Amit Kumar Tyagi, Meenu Gupta, Aswathy S.U., and Chetanya Ved
11 Blockchain-Based Medical Insurance Storage Systems 219
Ciza Thomas, Bindu V, Amrutha Ann Aby, Anjalikrishna U.R., Anu Kesari,
and Dhanya Sabu
12 Hybrid Multilevel Fusion: Integrating Score and Decision Levels of Fusion
for Multimodal Biometric Systems 237
Aarohi Vora, Chirag Paunwala, and Mita Paunwala
13 Blockchain: A Security Component for Data Security and Privacy—Current
Trends in the Automotive Industry 247
Sruti C R, S Umamaheswari
TRACK 4 Blockchain with Other Computing Environments 259
14 The Future of Edge Computing with Blockchain Technology: Possibility of
Threats, Opportunities, and Challenges 261
Aswathy S. U., Amit Kumar Tyagi and Shabnam Kumari
15 CryptoCert: A Blockchain-Based Academic Credential System 293
Varun Wahi, Aswani Kumar Cherukuri, Kathiravan Srinivasan,
and Annapurna Jonnalagadda
16 A Comprehensive Transformative Effect of IoT, Machine Learning,
and Blockchain in Computing Technology 315
Deepshikha Agarwal, Khushboo Tripathi, and Kumar Krishen
Index 343
Biography
Amit Kumar Tyagi is Assistant Professor (Senior Grade), and Senior Researcher at Vellore Institute
of Technology (VIT), Chennai Campus, India. He earned his PhD in 2018 from Pondicherry Central
University, India. He joined the Lord Krishna College of Engineering, Ghaziabad (LKCE) from 2009–
2010 and 2012–2013. He was Assistant Professor and Head Researcher at Lingaya’s Vidyapeeth (formerly
known as Lingaya’s University), Faridabad, Haryana, India from 2018 to 2019. Dr. Tyagi’s current research
focuses on machine learning with big data, blockchain technology, data science, cyberphysical systems,
smart and secure computing and privacy. He contributed to several projects such as “AARIN” and “P3-
Block” to address some of the open issues related to the privacy breaches in vehicular applications (such
as parking) and medical cyberphysical systems (MCPS). He has also published more than 8 patents in the
area of deep learning, Internet of Things, cyberphysical systems and computer vision. Recently, he was
awarded best paper award for “A Novel Feature Extractor Based on the Modified Approach of Histogram of
oriented Gradient”, ICCSA 2020, Italy. He is a regular member of the ACM, IEEE, MIRLabs, Ramanujan
Mathematical Society, Cryptology Research Society, and Universal Scientific Education and Research
Network, CSI, and ISTE.
Ajith Abraham is Director of Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), a not-for-profit scientific
network for innovation and research excellence connecting industry and academia. As an investigator and
co-investigator, he has won research grants worth over US$100 million from Australia, USA, EU, Italy,
Czech Republic, France, Malaysia, and China. His research focuses on real world problems in the fields
of machine intelligence, cyberphysical systems, Internet of Things, network security, sensor networks,
web intelligence, web services, and data mining. He is Chair of the IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics
Society Technical Committee on Soft Computing. He is editor-in-chief of Engineering Applications of
Artificial Intelligence (EAAI) and serves/served on the editorial board of several international journals.
He earned his Ph.D. in computer science from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
