Blockchain technology for smart cities. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Dhananjay Singh, Navin Singh Rajput, editors.
• Other Names: Singh, Dhananjay; Rajput, Navin Singh
• Contents: Intro -- Contents -- Introducing Blockchain for Smart City Technologies and Applications -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Requirements and Analysis of Smart City -- 3 Blockchain for Smart Healthcare Applications -- 3.1 Motivation and Challenges -- 3.2 Reliable Healthcare Data System -- 3.3 Role of Blockchain in Healthcare System -- 3.4 Trusted Blockchain in Healthcare -- 4 Intelligent Vehicle Technologies -- 4.1 Trusted Vehicle Networks -- 4.2 Smart City Vehicle Challenges -- 4.3 Role of Blockchain in ITS -- 4.4 Impact of Blockchain in ITS -- 5 Disseminate Self-governing Organization 6 Blockchain in Smart Education System -- 7 Decentralized Distributed Insurance for Smart Living -- 8 Distributed Smart Real Estate -- 9 Sustainable Green Technology -- 10 Conclusions -- References -- Chain of Antichains: An Efficient and Secure Distributed Ledger -- 1 Introduction and Our Motivation -- 2 The Dual Ledger-Keeping Algorithm for Constructing an Effective and Secure Distributed Ledger -- 2.1 DAG: Distributed System, Differences from Blockchain, and Previous Works -- 2.2 DAG, Structure of Trees and Related Set Representation 2.3 Primal and Dual Spaces, and the Dual Ledger-Keeping System -- 2.4 Chain of Antichains -- 3 Stochastic Models of the Dual Ledger-Keeping System -- 3.1 A Nonhomogeneous Poisson Process-Practical Assumptions on the Frequency of Transactions -- 3.2 Some Important Random Behaviors Regarding Transaction Interarrival Times in a Poisson Process -- 3.3 Combining Nonhomogeneous Poisson Processes of Transactions -- 3.4 Transaction ``size'', and the Recursive Formulas for the Probability Mass Function of Compound Random Variables -- 4 Models and Discussions for Boxdollar -- 4.1 Background of Boxdollar 4.2 Currency Conversion Problem -- 4.3 Currency Rebalancing-Kataoka's Problem: The Safety First Model -- 4.4 Currency Rebalancing-Conditional Value-at-Risk, I.e., Minimization of Risk -- 4.5 More General Formulations -- 4.6 Valuation of Boxdollar -- 4.7 Boxdollar as a Regional Currency and a Quasi-fiat Money -- 4.8 The Dual Cryptocurrencies: Boxcoin and Boxdollar in the Value Chain -- 5 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Blockchain for Intelligent Gas Monitoring in Smart City Scenario -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Smart City -- 1.2 Gas Monitoring -- 2 Intelligent Gas Monitoring -- 2.1 Gas Sensors 2.2 Bottlenecks in Gas Monitoring -- 2.3 Intelligence Gas Monitoring -- 3 Blockchain for Intelligent Gas Monitoring -- 3.1 Blockchain -- 3.2 Intelligent Gas Monitoring Based on Blockchain -- References -- Commodity Ecology: From Smart Cities to Smart Regions Via a Blockchain-Based Virtual Community Platform for Ecological Design in Choosing All Materials and Wastes -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Our New "Network Society" Creates the Possibility for "Smart Regions" Via Societies Saturated with Mobile ICT, Equalized by Common Online Platform Participation and Powered by Blockchain Revolution
• Publisher Details: Sinagpore : Springer
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 005.74; Blockchains (Databases); Smart cities; Blockchains (Databases); Smart cities; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789811522055; 9811522057
• Related ISBNs: 9811522049; 9789811522048
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