Essentials of Blockchain Technology

Blockchain technologies, as an emerging distributed architecture and computing paradigm, have accelerated the development/application of the Cloud/GPU/Edge Computing, Artificial Intelligence, cyber physical systems, social networking, crowdsourcing and crowdsensing, 5G, trust management, and finance. The popularity and rapid development of Blockchain brings many technical and regulatory challenges for research and academic communities. This book will feature contributions from experts on topics related to performance, benchmarking, durability, robustness, as well data gathering and management, algorithms, analytics techniques for transactions processing, and implementation of applications.

Kuan-Ching Li is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at Providence University,

TaiwanXiaofeng Chen is a professor in the School of Cyber Engineering at Xidian University,

ChinaHai Jiang is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Arkansas State University, USAElisa

Bertino is Samuel Conte Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University