Main description:

Distributed Computing to Blockchain: Architecture, Technology, and Applications provides researchers, computer scientists and data scientists with a comprehensive and applied reference covering the evolution of distributed systems computing into blockchain and associated systems such as consensus algorithms, distributed ledgers, DApps, byzantine fault tolerance, distributed databases and operating systems. Sections cover key concepts and technologies such as distributed systems and their architecture, distributed ledger and decentralized web, application and properties of crypto economics, blockchain crypto-analysis for distributed systems followed by DApps architecture. Other sections cover blockchain architecture and security, including smart contracts, tokens, and more.

The authors then review byzantine fault tolerance (BFT), distributed ledgers vs. blockchains, and blockchain protocols. The security issues of blockchain and how it aims to resolve trust problems is also covered, along with consensus algorithms used in blockchain. Throughout the book, the presentation of key concepts is supported by real-world tools, algorithms, programming languages and technology to support the implementation of distributed ledger and blockchain in a variety of fields, including healthcare, finance, legal and business applications.

Contents:

Section A - Evolution of distributed system

1. Decentralized web, distributed ledgers, and build up to blockchains

2. Decentralized everything: A practical use of blockchain technology in future applications

3. Distributed computing to blockchain: Architecture, technology, and applications

4. Types of blockchain

5. Blockchain types: A characteristic view

6. DApps: Decentralized applications for blockchains

7. Analyzing information flow in Solidity smart contracts

8. Formal verification and code generation for solidity smart contracts

9. Blockchain consensus algorithms: Past, present, and future trends

10. A systematic study on the development of decentralized application (dApp)

11. AI, IoT, blockchain, and cloud computing: A necessity of the future

12. Functional analysis of blockchain consensus algorithms

Section B - Blockchain architecture and security

13. Blockchain and forensics

14. Cryptography in blockchain

15. Ethereum blockchain platform

16. Hyperledger Fabric blockchain platform

17. An in-depth look at blockchain technology: Architecture and security concerns

18. Blockchain-based IoT security solutions

19. Crypto economics

Section C - Distributed computing

20. Distributed databases, distributed operating systems, and blockchain

21. Demystifying blockchain adoption in financial sector-A critical analysis

22. e-Governance and blockchainbased data supply chain for used cars

23. Emerging trends of blockchain in bioinformatics: A revolution in health care

24. Blockchain's potential to rescue sports: A social media perspective

25. Design and development of a mobile application for level monitoring of oxygen cylinders using block chain technology

26. A futuristic approach to decentralize and authenticate workplace safety records leveraging on blockchain distributed ledger network

27. Designing business models through blockchain: A process of value creation