Blockchain Technology From Theory to Practice

Blockchain is an emerging technology platform for developing decentralized applications and data storage, over and beyond its role as the technology underlying the cryptocurrencies. The basic tenet of this platform is that it allows one to create a distributed and replicated ledger of events, transactions, and data generated through various IT processes with strong cryptographic guarantees of tamper resistance, immutability, and verifiability. Public blockchain platforms allow us to guarantee these properties with overwhelming probabilities even when untrusted users are participants of distributed applications with the ability to transact on the platform. Even though, blockchain technology has become popularly known because of its use in the implementation of cryptocurrencies such as BitCoin, Ethereum, etc.; the technology itself holds much more promise in various areas such as time stamping, logging of critical events in a system, recording of transactions, trustworthy e-governance, etc. 

It introduces theoretical and practical aspects of blockchain technology. The book includes an in-depth insight into the need for decentralization, smart contracts, consensus both permissioned and permissionless, and various blockchain development frameworks, tools, and platforms. It can be used as a learning resource for various examinations and certifications related to cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. This book explained the nuts and bolts of blockchain technology in lucid language to make students more familiar with the implementation perspective of this much-needed technology.

Introduction to Blockchain Technology.- Blockchain Revolution from 1.0 to 5.0: Technological Perspective.- Decentralization and Architecture of Blockchain Technology.- Basics of Cryptographic Primitives for Blockchain Development.- Smart Contracts for Building Decentralized Applications.- Distributed Consensus for Permissionless Environment.- Mining Procedure in Distributed Consensus.- Distributed Consensus for Permissioned Environment.- Consensus Scalability in Blockchain Network.- Building Trust in Blockchain Network using Collective Signing.- Adoption of Blockchain in Enterprise Computing.- Blockchain for Supply Chain Management.- Blockchain for Government Services.- Impact of Blockchain on Academic Publishing.

Sudeep Tanwar (Senior Member, IEEE) is working as a full professor at the Nirma University, India. He is also a Visiting Professor with Jan Wyzykowski University, Poland, and the University of Pitesti, Romania. He received B. Tech in 2002 from Kurukshetra University, India, M.Tech (Honor’s) in 2009 from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi, India, and Ph.D. in 2016 with specialization in Wireless Sensor Network. He has authored 04 books and edited 20 books, more than 270 technical articles, including top-cited journals and conferences, such as IEEE TNSE, IEEE TVT, IEEE TII, IEEE TGCN, IEEE TCSC, IEEE IoTJ, IEEE NETWORKS, ICC, IWCMC, GLOBECOM, CITS, and INFOCOM. He initiated the research field of blockchain technology adoption in various verticals, in 2017. His H-index is 47. His research interests include blockchain technology, wireless sensor networks, fog computing, smart grid, and the IoT. He is a member of the Technical Committee on Tactile Internet of IEEE Communication Society. He has been awarded the Best Research Paper Awards from IEEE IWCMC-2021, IEEE ICCCA-2021, IEEE GLOBECOM 2018, IEEE ICC 2019, and Springer ICRIC-2019. He has won Dr. KW Wong Annual Best Paper Prize for 2021 sponsored by Elsevier (publishers of JISA). 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, ICCSDF 2020, FTNCT 2021. He is also serving the editorial boards of COMCOM-Elsevier, IJCS-Wiley, Cyber Security and Applications- Elsevier, Frontiers of blockchain, and SPY, Wiley. He is also leading the ST Research Laboratory, where group members are working on the latest cutting-edge technologies.