Synopsis:
In recent years, the surge of blockchain technology has been rising due to is proven reliability in ensuring secure and effective transactions, even between untrusted parties. Its application is broad and covers public and private domains varying from traditional communication networks to more modern networks like the internet of things and the internet of energy crossing fog and edge computing, among others. As technology matures and its standard use cases are established, there is a need to gather recent research that can shed light on several aspects and facts on the use of blockchain technology in different fields of interest.
Enabling Blockchain Technology for Secure Networking and Communications consolidates the recent research initiatives directed towards exploiting the advantages of blockchain technology for benefiting several areas of applications that vary from security and robustness to scalability and privacy-preserving and more. The chapters explore the current applications of blockchain for networking and communications, the future potentials of blockchain technology, and some not-yet-prospected areas of research and its application. This book is ideal for practitioners, stakeholders, researchers, academicians, and students interested in the concepts of blockchain technology and the potential and pitfalls of its application in different utilization domains.
About the Authors:
Adel Ben Mnaouer is currently a Professor at the Department of Computer Engineering and Computational Sciences at the Canadian University Dubai. Dr. Ben Mnaouer received his BSc degree in Computer Science from the “Ecole Supérieure des communications (SUP’COM) of Tunisia in 1985 and the MEng and PhD degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Fukui and from Yokohama National University, Japan, in 1993 and 1997 respectively. He has served as Associate Professor and Acting Dean (2010–2011) of the College of Computer Engineering and Information Technology at Dar Al Uloom University, Ryadh, Saudi Arabia, then as a Vice-Dean of research of the same College. He joined the Faculty of Engineering, Applied Science and Technology at the Canadian University as an Associate Professor in Sept 2012. His research interests are in the areas of protocol design and analysis of Wired and Wireless Networks, Internet of Things and Cyber-physical Systems, Blockchain applied to the Internet of Things, Cluster, Grid and Cloud Computing. Dr. Ben Mnaouer is the recipient of four major QNRF projects worth 3.7 million dollars focused on harnessing the power of wireless sensor networks in remote ubiquitous healthcare systems, in Air Quality Control, in Structural Health Monitoring and in developing new communications protocols that are better equipped to serve specific target application fields. He is active in Chairmanship, editorial board, TPC and organization of scores of top-class international conferences and Symposia. Dr. Ben Mnaouer is a Senior Member of the IEEE Communication Society since 2009.
Lamia Chaari Fourati is a professor at Computer Science and Multimedia Higher Institute), Sfax University, and researcher at Digital Research Center of Sfax (CRNS), Laboratory of Signals, systems, artificial Intelligence, networks (SM@RTS). She focused her research activities on conception and validation of new protocols and mechanisms for emerging networks technologies. Her research activities are very important and up-to-date which are related to digital telecommunication networks, in particular wireless access networks, sensor networks, vehicular networks, Internet of things, 5G, software defined network, information centric network and wireless body area network, unmanned aerial vehicle, etc. In these areas, she is interested in problems such as quality of services provisioning (congestion control, admission control, resources allocations…), cyber security and ambient intelligence. Her scientific publications have met the interest of the scientific community and her work has been published in top-tier journals and conferences. She has more than 60 papers published in journals and more than 90 papers published in conferences. Prof. Lamia CHAARI FOURATI is the laureate for the Kwame Nkrumah Regional Awards for women 2016 (North Africa Region).
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