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Focusing on different tools, platforms, and techniques, Blockchain and the Smart City: Infrastructure and Implementation uses case studies from around the world to examine blockchain deployment in diverse smart city applications. The book begins by examining the fundamental theories and concepts of blockchain. It looks at key smart cities’ domains such as banking, insurance, healthcare, and supply chain management. It examines Using case studies for each domain, the book looks at payment mechanisms, fog/edge computing, green computing, and algorithms and consensus mechanisms for smart cities implementation. It looks at tools such as Hyperledger, Etherium, Corda, IBM Blockchain, Hydrachain, as well as policies and regulatory standards, applications, solutions, and methodologies. While exploring future blockchain ecosystems for smart and sustainable city life, the book concludes with the research challenges and opportunities academics, researchers, and companies in implementing blockchain applications.

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Saravanan Krishnan is working as a Senior Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Anna University, Regional Campus, Tirunelveli, Tamilnadu. He has done ME in Software Engineering and PhD in Computer Science Engineering. His research interests include cloud computing, software engineering, Internet of Things, and smart cities. He has published research papers in 14 international conferences and 27 international journals. He has also written 9 book chapters and 5 books with international publishers. He has done consultancy work for Municipal Corporation and Smart City schemes. Valentina Emilia Balas is currently a Full Professor in the Department of Automatics and Applied Software at the Faculty of Engineering, “Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad, Romania. She holds a PhD cum Laude in Applied Electronics and Telecommunications from the Polytechnic University of Timisoara. Dr. Balas is the author of more than 350 research papers. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the 'International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms' and the 'International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering', an editorial board member for several other national and international publications, and an expert evaluator for national and international projects and PhD theses. E.Golden Julie is currently working as a Senior Assistant Professor in the department of computer science and Engineering, Anna university, Regional campus, Tirunelveli. She has received Ph.D degree in Information and Communication Engineering from Anna University, Chennai in the year 2017. She has more than 13 years of experience in teaching and has published more than 35 papers in various International Journals and presented more than 20 papers in both national and International Conferences. She has written 10 book chapters by Springer, IGI global Publication. Her research area includes Wireless Sensor Ad-hoc Networks, Soft computing, block chain, fuzzy logic, neural network, soft computing techniques, clustering and IoT. She is also an active life time member in Indian Society of Technical Education. Dr. Y. Harold Robinson is currently working in the School of Information Technology and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore. He has received Ph.D. degree in Information and Communication Engineering from Anna University, Chennai in the year 2016. He is having more than 15 years of experience in teaching. He has published more than 100 papers in various International Journals and presented more than 45 papers in both national and International Conferences. He is acting as an editor for many research books. His research area includes Wireless Sensor Networks, Ad-hoc Networks ,Soft computing, blockchain, IoT and Image Processing. Raghvendra Kumar is working as an Associate Professor in Computer Science and Engineering Department at GIET University, India. He received BTech, MTech, and PhD in Computer Science and Engineering, India, and Postdoc Fellow from the Institute of Information Technology, Virtual Reality and Multimedia, Vietnam. He has published a number of research papers in international journals and conferences. His research areas are computer networks, data mining, cloud computing, and secure multiparty computations, theory of computer science, and design of algorithms. He authored and edited 23 computer science books in field of IoT, data mining, and biomedical engineering.

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