Blockchain 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.