| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 500 pages) |
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Advances in computers ; v. 121 |
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Advances in computers ; v. 121
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| Contents |
Intro -- The Blockchain Technology for Secure and Smart Applications across Industry Verticals -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Chapter One: Demystifying the blockchain technology -- 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 -- 6.1. Advantages of PoW -- 6.2. Disadvantages of PoW -- 6.3. Where POW used? -- 7. Proof of stake -- 8. Delegated proof of stake -- 9. Proof of burn |
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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 -- A.1. The blockchain frameworks -- Chapter Two: Data structures |
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1. Primitive data structure -- 1.1. Integers -- 1.2. Float -- 1.3. Characters -- 1.4. Pointers -- 2. Nonprimitive data structure -- 2.1. Arrays -- 2.1.1. Creating an array -- 2.1.2. Adding elements to an array -- 2.1.3. Accessing elements from the array -- 2.1.4. Removing elements from the array -- 2.1.5. Searching element in an array -- 2.1.6. Updating elements in an array -- 2.2. Linked list -- 2.2.1. Linked list insertion -- 2.2.2. Deletion of an element in a linked list -- 2.3. Queue -- 2.3.1. Implement queues using linked list -- 2.3.2. Implement queues using arrays -- 2.4. Stack |
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2.4.1. Stack implementation using list -- 2.4.2. Stack implementation using queue module -- 2.5. Graphs -- 2.5.1. Creating a graph -- 2.5.2. Display vertices of graph -- 2.5.3. Display edges of graph -- 2.5.4. Adding a vertex to the graph -- 2.5.5. Adding an edge to the graph -- 2.6. Trees -- 2.6.1. Creating a root -- 2.6.2. Inserting a node into tree -- 2.7. Heaps -- 2.7.1. Creating a heap -- 2.7.2. Inserting into heap -- 2.7.3. Removing from heap -- 2.7.4. Replacing in a heap -- 3. Merkle root -- 3.1. Hash function -- 3.2. Applications of Merkle tree -- 4. InterPlanetary file system |
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4.1. History of IPFS -- 4.2. Nodes of IPFS -- 4.3. Advantages of IPFS -- 4.4. Disadvantages of IPFS -- References -- Chapter Three: Hashes -- 1. SHA-256 or SHA-2 -- 2. Ethash -- 3. Scrypt -- 4. X11 -- 5. Equihash -- 5.1. Properties of Equihash -- 6. RIPEMD-160 -- References -- Chapter Four: Digital signatures -- 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 -- References -- Chapter Five: Signature primitives -- 1. Ring signatures |
| 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 |
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Blockchains (Databases)
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Vertical integration -- Technological innovations
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Software Development & Engineering.
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MATHEMATICS.
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COMPUTERS.
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Blockchains (Databases)
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Aggarwal, Shubhani, editor
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Kumar, Neeraj, editor
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Raj, Pethuru, editor
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| ISBN |
9780128219928 |
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0128219920 |
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