Blockchain technology : from theory to practice / / Sudeep Tanwar

• Autore: Tanwar Sudeep
• Pubblicazione: Singapore : , : Springer, , [2022]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (421 pages)
• Disciplina: 05.74
• Soggetto topico: Blockchains (Databases)
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- About the Author -- 1 Introduction to Blockchain Technology -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.1.1 Distributed Systems -- 1.1.2 Decentralized Systems -- 1.2 What Is Blockchain? -- 1.3 Structure of Blockchain -- 1.3.1 Types of Blocks in Blockchain Network -- 1.3.2 Types of Blockchain Nodes -- 1.4 Key Technologies of Blockchain -- 1.4.1 Cryptographic Hash Functions -- 1.4.2 Message Authentication -- 1.4.3 Smart Contract -- 1.4.4 Consensus Mechanism -- 1.5 How Blockchain Works? -- 1.6 Features of Blockchain -- 1.6.1 Peer-to-Peer Network -- 1.6.2 Distributed Ledger -- 1.6.3 Cryptographically Secure -- 1.6.4 Append-only -- 1.7 Growth of Blockchain Technology -- 1.7.1 Blockchain 1.0: Bitcoin -- 1.7.2 Blockchain 2.0: Smart Contracts -- 1.7.3 Blockchain 3.0: DApps -- 1.7.4 Blockchain 4.0: Industry 4.0 -- 1.7.5 Blockchain 5.0 -- 1.8 The Need of Blockchain Technology -- 1.9 Types of Blockchain -- 1.9.1 Public Blockchain -- 1.9.2 Private (permissioned) Blockchain -- 1.9.3 Consortium Blockchain -- 1.10 Implementation Platforms of Blockchain -- 1.10.1 Node.js -- 1.10.2 Remix IDE -- 1.10.3 Ganache -- 1.10.4 Hardhat -- 1.11 Summary -- 1.12 Practice Questions -- 1.12.1 Multiple Choice Questions -- 1.12.2 Fill in the Blanks -- 1.12.3 Short Questions -- 1.12.4 Long Questions -- References -- 2 Blockchain Revolution from 1.0 to 5.0: Technological Perspective -- 2.1 History of Blockchain -- 2.1.1 Blockchain 1.0 -- 2.1.2 Blockchain 2.0 -- 2.1.3 Blockchain 3.0 -- 2.1.4 Blockchain 4.0 -- 2.1.5 Blockchain 5.0 -- 2.2 Summary -- 2.3 Practice Questions -- 2.3.1 Multiple Choice Questions -- 2.3.2 Fill in the Blanks -- 2.3.3 Short Questions -- 2.3.4 Long Questions -- References -- 3 Decentralization and Architecture of Blockchain Technology -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.1.1 Need for Decentralization. ; 3.1.2 Comparative Analysis with Other Approaches -- 3.1.3 Methods of Decentralization -- 3.1.4 Correctness of Decentralization -- 3.1.5 Benefits of Decentralization -- 3.1.6 Challenges of Decentralized Organizations -- 3.2 Investigating Decentralized Consensus Mechanisms -- 3.3 Blockchain-Based Decentralized Supply Chain Management System-Case Study -- 3.3.1 Decentralized Supply Chain Management -- 3.3.2 Use Case: Food Supply Chain -- 3.3.3 Use Case-Logistic Supply Chain Management -- 3.4 Blockchain-Based Decentralized Healthcare System-Case Study -- 3.5 Blockchain-Based Decentralized Battlefield System-Case Study -- 3.6 Summary -- 3.7 Practice Questions -- 3.7.1 Multiple Choice Questions -- 3.7.2 Fill in the Blanks -- 3.7.3 Short Questions -- 3.7.4 Long Questions -- References -- 4 Basics of Cryptographic Primitives for Blockchain Development -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Blockchain Technology Hash Primitives -- 4.2.1 Message Digest in Blockchain -- 4.2.2 Secure Hash Algorithms (SHA) -- 4.2.3 RIPEMD -- 4.2.4 Ethash -- 4.2.5 SCrypt -- 4.3 Digital Signature -- 4.3.1 Authentication -- 4.3.2 Integrity -- 4.3.3 Non-repudiation -- 4.4 Digital Signature in Blockchain -- 4.4.1 Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) -- 4.4.2 Schnorr Signatures -- 4.4.3 Multisignatures -- 4.4.4 Ring Signature -- 4.5 Encryption Primitives for Blockchain -- 4.5.1 Symmetric Encryption -- 4.5.2 Asymmetric Encryption -- 4.5.3 Key Management and Exchange -- 4.6 Implementation -- 4.6.1 Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) Implementation -- 4.7 Summary -- 4.8 Practice Questions -- 4.8.1 MCQ Questions -- 4.8.2 Fill in the Blanks -- 4.8.3 Short Questions -- 4.8.4 Long Questions -- References -- 5 Smart Contracts for Building Decentralized Applications -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.1.1 What is Smart Contract? -- 5.1.2 Disadvantages of the Smart Contracts. ; 5.2 Blockchain Platforms Using Smart Contracts -- 5.3 Deploying Smart Contracts on a Blockchain -- 5.4 Applications of Smart Contract -- 5.5 Implementation Concepts -- 5.5.1 Introduction to Solidity Programming -- 5.5.2 Basics of Solidity Programming -- 5.6 Smart Contracts Case Studies -- 5.6.1 Telesurgery -- 5.6.2 Oil Mining -- 5.6.3 Banking Smart Contract -- 5.6.4 Voting Smart Contract -- 5.6.5 Remote Patient Monitoring -- 5.7 Security Threats on Smart Contracts -- 5.7.1 Known Possible Attacks on the Smart Contracts -- 5.7.2 Cause of the Attacks on Smart Contracts -- 5.8 Summary -- 5.9 Practice Questions -- 5.9.1 MCQ Questions -- 5.9.2 Short Questions -- 5.9.3 Long Questions -- References -- 6 Distributed Consensus for Permissionless Environment -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.1.1 Notion of Consensus -- 6.1.2 Distributed Consensus -- 6.1.3 Faults in Distributed Systems -- 6.1.4 Properties of Distributed Consensus -- 6.1.5 Correctness of a Distributed Consensus Protocol -- 6.1.6 Types of Consensus Mechanisms -- 6.1.7 Consensus in Blockchain -- 6.2 Taxonomy of Consensus Algorithms for Permissionless Environment -- 6.3 Various Consensus Algorithms -- 6.3.1 Proof of Work (PoW) -- 6.3.2 Proof of Stake (PoS) -- 6.3.3 Proof of Burn (PoB) -- 6.3.4 Proof of Capacity (PoC) -- 6.3.5 Proof of Activity (PoAc) -- 6.3.6 Proof of Weight (PoWe) -- 6.3.7 Proof of Luck (PoL) -- 6.3.8 Proof of Ownership (PoO) -- 6.3.9 Proof of Existence (PoE) -- 6.3.10 Proof of History (PoH) -- 6.3.11 Proof of Believability (PoBe) -- 6.4 Implementation -- 6.4.1 Proof-of-Work Implementation -- 6.4.2 Proof-of-Stake Implementation -- 6.4.3 Proof-of-Burn Implementation -- 6.4.4 Proof-of-Ownership Implementation -- 6.5 Comparison -- 6.6 Summary -- 6.7 Practice Questions -- 6.7.1 MCQ Questions -- 6.7.2 Fill in the Blanks -- 6.7.3 Short Questions -- 6.7.4 Long Questions -- References. ; 7 Mining Procedure in Distributed Consensus -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Proof-Based Consensus Mechanism -- 7.2.1 Proof of Work -- 7.2.2 Proof of Stake -- 7.2.3 Proof of Burn -- 7.3 Mining Pools -- 7.3.1 Benefit of Mining Pools -- 7.3.2 Mining Pools Methods -- 7.4 Voting-Based Consensus Mechanism -- 7.4.1 Byzantine Fault Tolerance Consensus -- 7.4.2 Crash Fault Consensus Tolerance -- 7.5 Mining Procedure Implemented with PoW -- 7.5.1 Create Blockchain -- 7.5.2 Block Mining Using PoW -- 7.5.3 Rewards for Miners -- 7.6 Summary -- 7.7 Practice Questions -- 7.7.1 Multiple Choice Questions -- 7.7.2 Fill in the Blanks -- 7.7.3 Short Questions -- 7.7.4 Long Questions -- References -- 8 Distributed Consensus for Permissioned Blockchain -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.1.1 Provenance Tracking Use Case -- 8.1.2 Design Limitations of Permissioned Environment -- 8.1.3 Challenges Faced by Permissioned Environment -- 8.1.4 Advantages of Permissioned Environment -- 8.2 Taxonomy of Consensus Algorithms for Permissioned Environment -- 8.3 State Machine Replication -- 8.3.1 Working of Distributed State Machine Replication -- 8.4 Voting-Based Consensus -- 8.5 Crash Fault Tolerance-Based Consensus -- 8.5.1 PAXOS -- 8.5.2 RAFT -- 8.6 Notion of Byzantine Fault -- 8.6.1 Three Byzantine Generals Problem -- 8.6.2 Lamport Shostak Pease Algorithm -- 8.7 Byzantine Fault Tolerance-Based Consensus -- 8.7.1 Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (PBFT) -- 8.7.2 Delegated Byzantine Fault Tolerance (DBFT) -- 8.7.3 Federated Byzantine Fault Tolerance (FBFT) -- 8.8 Proof-Based Consensus Algorithm -- 8.8.1 Proof of Authority (PoA) -- 8.8.2 Proof of Elapsed Time (PoET) -- 8.9 Implementation -- 8.9.1 Proof of Authority (PoA) Implementation -- 8.10 Comparison -- 8.11 Summary -- 8.12 Practice Questions -- 8.12.1 Muliple Choice Questions -- 8.12.2 Fill in the Blanks -- 8.12.3 Short Questions. ; 8.12.4 Long Questions -- References -- 9 Consensus Scalability in Blockchain Network -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.1.1 Bitcoin-NG -- 9.1.2 Scaling Byzantine -- 9.1.3 Helix Byzantine Fault Tolerance Scalable Algorithm -- 9.1.4 Various Byzantine-Based Scalable Consensus Algorithms -- 9.2 Scalability Bottlenecks -- 9.2.1 Scaling the Data -- 9.2.2 Scaling Consensus -- 9.2.3 Scaling Execution -- 9.2.4 RPoC Reputation Based Scalable Consensus Algorithm -- 9.2.5 EBRC Framework -- 9.3 Summary -- 9.4 Question Answers -- 9.4.1 Short Questions -- 9.4.2 Long Questions -- References -- 10 Building Trust in Blockchain Network Using Collective Signing -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Byzcoin: Securely Scaling Blockchains -- 10.2.1 Byzcoin Architecture -- 10.2.2 Collective Signing-CoSi -- 10.2.3 Byzcoin: Securely Scaling Blockchain -- 10.3 BLS Multisignature -- 10.3.1 Applications of Using BLS Multisignature -- 10.4 Deployment Challenges -- 10.5 Use Case of Collective Signing -- 10.5.1 Determine the Combat Fake Content Using Collective Signing -- 10.6 Summary -- 10.7 Question and Answer -- 10.7.1 MCQ Questions -- 10.7.2 Fill in the Blanks -- 10.7.3 Short Questions -- 10.7.4 Long Questions -- References -- 11 Adoption of Blockchain in Enterprise Computing -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.1.1 Enterprise Computing -- 11.1.2 Security Flow in Enterprise Computing -- 11.1.3 Motivation -- 11.2 Blockchain Integration in Enterprise Computing -- 11.3 Problem: How It Is Difficult to Track Asset Transfers in a Business Network -- 11.4 Key Concepts and Benefits of Blockchain for Business -- 11.4.1 Key Concepts -- 11.4.2 Benefits -- 11.5 Degree of Centralization: Permission-Less Versus Permissioned Blockchains -- 11.5.1 Permissionless Blockchain -- 11.5.2 Permissioned Blockchain -- 11.5.3 Similarities of Permissioned and Permissionless Blockchains -- 11.6 Actors in BC Solution. ; 11.7 Components of BC Solution.
• Titolo autorizzato: Blockchain Technology
• ISBN: 9789811914881; 9789811914874
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910568284103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in Autonomic, Data-Driven and Industrial Computing