Overview
- A comprehensive book that presents both fundamental concepts and applications in blockchain
- Discusses popular blockchain designs and platforms
- Presents various security and privacy issues of blockchain
Part of the book series: Advances in Information Security (ADIS, volume 105)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Building Blocks
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Security and Scalability
Keywords
About this book
The second part of this handbook consists of popular blockchain designs and platforms. Architecture of Bitcoin, Ethereum, Monero, Tendermint and Algorand have been presented. Various important issues like scalability and security are discussed in the third part. Security design challenges, security vulnerabilities and their analysis are discussed. The final part of this handbook discusses various applications of blockchains. These include supply-chain, identity and credential management, Internet of Things (IoT), data-sharing, e-voting, e-governance, e-health, smart cities, and Industry 4.0. Research challenges and directions of future work are included in this handbook.
This comprehensive reference targets students and researchers, who are starting to explore blockchain. Professionals working in blockchain security and applications will find this handbook to be a valuable reference.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Salil Kanhere is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at UNSW Sydney. He is also affiliated with CISRO's Data61, the Cybersecurity Cooperative Research Centre (CSCRC) and the UNSW Institute forCyber Security (IFCYBER). His research interests span the Internet of Things, cyberphyiscal systems, cybersecurity, blockchain and machine learning. He has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles and is leading several government and industry funded research projects on these topics. He received the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award (2020) and the Humboldt Research Fellowship (2014), both from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and ACM, an ACM Distinguished Speaker and an IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor. He has held visiting positions at I2R Singapore, Technical University Darmstadt, University of Zurich and Graz University of Technology. He serves as the Editor in Chief of the Ad Hoc Networks journal and as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions On Network and Service Management, Computer Communications, and Pervasive and Mobile Computing. He regularly serves on the organising committee of several IEEE/ACM international conferences. Salil co-authored a book titled Blockchain for Cyberphysical Systems published by Artech House in 2020.
Mauro Conti is Full Professor at the University of Padua, Italy. He is also affiliated with TU Delft and University of Washington, Seattle. He obtained his Ph.D. from Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, in 2009. After his Ph.D., he was a Post-Doc Researcher at Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam, The Netherlands. In 2011 he joined as Assistant Professor at the University of Padua, where he became Associate Professor in 2015, and Full Professor in 2018. He has been Visiting Researcher at GMU, UCLA, UCI, TU Darmstadt, UF, and FIU. He has been awarded with a Marie Curie Fellowship (2012) by the European Commission, and with a Fellowship by the German DAAD (2013). His research is also funded by companies, including Cisco, Intel, and Huawei. His main research interest is in the area of Security and Privacy. In this area, he published more than 550 papers in topmost international peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He is Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on
Information Forensics and Security, Area Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, and has been Associate Editor for several journals, including IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, and IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. He was Program Chair for TRUST 2015, ICISS 2016, WiSec 2017, ACNS 2020, CANS 2021, CSS 2021, WiMob 2023 and ESORICS 2023, and General Chair for SecureComm 2012, SACMAT 2013, NSS 2021 and ACNS 2022. He is Fellow of the IEEE, Fellow of the AAIA, Senior Member of the ACM, and Fellow of the Young Academy of Europe.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Blockchains
Book Subtitle: A Handbook on Fundamentals, Platforms and Applications
Editors: Sushmita Ruj, Salil S. Kanhere, Mauro Conti
Series Title: Advances in Information Security
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32146-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-32145-0Published: 08 March 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-32148-1Due: 23 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-32146-7Published: 07 March 2024
Series ISSN: 1568-2633
Series E-ISSN: 2512-2193
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 625
Number of Illustrations: 97 b/w illustrations, 98 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cryptology, Privacy, Security Services, Mobile and Network Security, Systems and Data Security