Chapter 1. Blockchain Foundation. Chapter 2. Distributed Consensus Protocols and Algorithms. Chapter 3. Performances of Blockchain. Chapter 4. Blockchain Smart Contract. Chapter 5. Blockchain in Supply Chain Management. Chapter 6. Securing the Internet of Things Using Blockchain. Chapter 7. Blockchain Identity Management. Chapter 8. Next Generation Logistics: A Novel Approach of Blockchain Technology. Chapter 9. A Blockchain Technology for Asset Management in Multinational Operations. Chapter 10. Cloud Based Blockchain for the Measurement of Alleviation in Debacle Period. Chapter 11. Blockchain Versus IoT Architectural Styles. Chapter 12. The Role of Blockchain for Medical Electronics Security.

Dr. Kavita Saini is presently working as an Associate Professor at School of Computing Science and Engineering, Galgotias University, India, and received her Ph. D Degree from Banasthali Vidyapeeth, Banasthali. She has 17 years of Teaching experience and research experience and supervising M.Tech and Ph.D. scholars in various areas.

Her Research interests include Web-Based Instructional System (WBIs), Software Engineering, Blockchain, Database. She has Published various Books for UG and PG courses for various Universities including M.D University, Rothak, Punjab Technical University, Jallandhar.

She has published 30+ Research Papers in National and International journals and Conferences, published patent and delivered Technical Talk on Blockchain: An Emerging Technology, Web to Deep Web and other emerging areas.

Dr. Pethuru Raj Chelliah works as the chief architect in the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) division of Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd. (RJIL), Bangalore and previously worked as a cloud infrastructure architect in the IBM Global Cloud Center of Excellence (CoE), IBM India Bangalore for four years. Prior to that, he was q TOGAF-certified enterprise architecture (EA) consultant in Wipro Consulting Services (WCS) Division and worked as a lead architect in the corporate research (CR) division of Robert Bosch, Bangalore. he has over than 17 years of IT industry experience and 8 years of research experience.

Upon receiving a CSIR-sponsored PhD degree at Anna University, Chennai, he continued with the UGC-sponsored postdoctoral research in the Department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He was granted a couple of international research fellowships (JSPS and JST) to work as a research scientist for 3.5 years in two leading Japanese universities, and published more than 30 research papers in peer-reviewed journals such as IEEE, ACM, Springer-Verlag, Inderscience, etc. He has contributed 35 book chapters thus far for various technology books edited by highly acclaimed and accomplished professors and professionals.

Deepak Kumar Saini is a Project Manager and associated with ST Microelectronics a French-Italian Multinational Company greater Noida , India with 16 years of experience with IT industry.

He has keen interest in emerging technologies in the field of computer science and handling various cloud based live projects. Deepak has deep knowledge of blockchain and its various applications.