Название: Blockchain and the Supply Chain: Concepts, Strategies and Practical Applications, 2nd Edition
Автор: Nick Vyas, Aljosja Beije, Bhaskar Krishnamachari
Издательство: Kogan Page
Год: 2022
Страниц: 289
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 20.9 MB

Blockchain is a transformative driver for change in all industries. Learn from the latest research and case studies how this technology can and will be used to revolutionize supply chain management. Blockchain and the Supply Chain provides a complete overview of blockchain and the key benefits of integrating this technology into the supply chain. This textbook explains how track and trace can be improved, transaction efficiency increased, visibility enhanced, and more through blockchain. With extensive case studies, learning is underpinned by practical insights as well as cutting-edge research. The fully revised new edition includes the latest information on Enterprise Blockchain, Ethereum and Hyperledger. Focus is also placed on the application of Cloud, Internet of Things (IoT), Machine learning (ML) and other technologies that support supply chains and their integration with blockchain. This textbook highlights how to use blockchain as an enabler and key driver for solutions in the end-to-end supply chain.

Название: Tools, Languages, Methodologies for Representing Semantics on the Web of Things
Автор: Shikha Mehta, Sanju Tiwari, Patrick Siarry
Издательство: Wiley, ISTE
Год: 2022
Страниц: 272
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 26.9 MB

This book is a guide to the combination of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the Semantic Web, covering a variety of tools, technologies and applications that serve the myriad needs of the researchers in this field. It provides a multi dimensional view of the concepts, tools, techniques and issues that are involved in the development of semantics for the Web of Things. The Semantic Web (SW), coined for the first time by Tim Berners-Lee, aims to make web content machines comprehensible by allowing agents and applications to access a wide range of heterogeneous resources, analyze and integrate the contents and generate additional value output for consumers. Semantic Web technologies enable the creation of data stores, build vocabularies and write rules for handling data. In this light, a variety of languages have been created. Resource Description Framework (RDF),RDFs (RDF Schemas) and Web Ontology Language (OWL) are representation languages developed by the W3C.

Название: Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT) and Smart Materials for Energy Applications
Автор: Mohan Lal Kolhe, Kailash J. Karande, Sampat G. Deshmukh
Издательство: CRC Press
Год: 2023
Страниц: 317
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 13.3 MB

This reference text offers the reader a comprehensive insight into recent research breakthroughs in blockchain, the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence and material structure and hybrid technologies in their integrated platform, while also emphasizing their sustainability aspects.

Название: Smart Cities Blockchain-Based System, Networks, and Data
Автор: Jianbin Gao, Qi Xia, Bonsu Adjei-Arthur
Издательство: CRC Press
Год: 2023
Страниц: 248
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 18.6 MB

Smart Cities: Blockchain-Based Systems, Networks, and Data examines the various components that make up a smart city. It focuses on infrastructure, processes, and services and outlines approaches for services such as health, transport, energy, and more. With an underlying emphasis on blockchain networks, the authors examine ways to provide the management of resources and activities by creating a more secure and trustless operating systems where resources are more effectively allocated and managed. This book is a practical and detailed demonstration for researchers and industry professionals who would use blockchain technology for effective city management.

Название: mmWave Massive MIMO Vehicular Communications
Автор: Xiang Cheng, Shijian Gao
Издательство: Springer
Серия: Wireless Networks
Год: 2023
Страниц: 152
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 25.1 MB

This book proposes promising mmWave solutions to promoting safe and reliable vehicular communications. The authors include topics such as channel estimation, multi-user transceiver design, and advanced index modulation. For channel estimation, unique channel properties and hybrid structures are first introduced, followed by the development of a doubly-sparse doubly-selective channel estimator. For multi-user transceiver design, the concept of hybrid block diagonalization (HBD) is first introduced, followed by a generic HBD-based transceiver design to maximize the system capacity. For advanced index modulation, the generalized beamspace modulation for uplink multi-user scenarios are first introduced, followed by the precoded beamspace modulation for the downlink. Finally, this book discusses open problems and future research directions to inspire further studies in the field of mmWave vehicular communications. Against this background, this book will showcase a comprehensive picture regarding advanced mmWave massive MIMO techniques, hoping to provide promising physical-layer solutions to vehicular communications in the 5G and Beyond era.

Название: The Auditor’s Guide to Blockchain Technology: Architecture, Use Cases, Security and Assurance
Автор: Shaun Aghili
Издательство: CRC Press
Год: 2023
Страниц: 321
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 32.4 MB

The 21st century has been host to a number of information systems technologies in the areas of science, automotive, aviation and supply chain, among others. But perhaps one of its most disruptive is blockchain technology whose origin dates to only 2008, when an individual (or perhaps a group of individuals) using the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto published a white paper entitled Bitcoin: A peer-to-peer electronic cash system in an attempt to address the threat of “double- spending” in digital currency. Today, many top-notch global organizations are already using or planning to use blockchain technology as a secure, robust and cutting-edge technology to better serve customers. If you are looking for a comprehensive study and reference source on blockchain technology, look no further than The Auditor’s Guide to Blockchain Technology: Architecture, Use Cases, Security and Assurance. This title is a must read for all security and assurance professionals and students looking to become more proficient at auditing this new and disruptive technology.

Название: Blockchain Technology for Smart Grids: Implementation, management and security
Автор: H.L. Gururaj, Kumar V. Ravi, Francesco Flammini, Hong Lin, B. Goutham
Издательство: The Institution of Engineering and Technology
Год: 2022
Страниц: 326
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 12.6 MB

Smart grids with distributed clean energy generation, storage and prosumers are the future of energy systems. They need two-way digital communication between multiple customers and suppliers of energy, to produce, buy and sell electricity to the grid at small scales. These arrangements need a system that maintains, checks, and registers information about transactions. Blockchain technology is able to handle these requirements with smart contracts, peer-to-peer energy trading and immutable transactions. A blockchain is a digital ledger of transactions that can be accessed across the entire network of computer systems. Combined with sensors to track energy flows, blockchain can enable the smart grid. After an introduction to blockchain, chapters cover integration with IoT, IoT- and blockchain-enabled smart grids, use of sensors, security and privacy, use of machine and deep learning, energy storage and transaction, as well as use of cryptocurrencies for transactions.

Название: Advanced Fiber Access Networks
Автор: Cedric F. Lam, Shuang Yin, Tao Zhang
Издательство: Academic Press/Elsevier
Год: 2022
Страниц: 287
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 24.6 MB

Advanced Fiber Access Networks takes a holistic view of broadband access networks—from architecture to network technologies and network economies. The book reviews pain points and challenges that broadband service providers face (such as network construction, fiber cable efficiency, transmission challenges, network scalability, etc.) and how these challenges are tackled by new fiber access transmission technologies, protocols and architecture innovations. Chapters cover fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) applications as well as fiber backhauls in other access networks such as 5G wireless and hybrid-fiber-coax (HFC) networks. In addition, it covers the network economy, challenges in fiber network construction and deployment, and more. Finally, the book examines scaling issues and bottlenecks in an end-to-end broadband network, from Internet backbones to inside customer homes, something rarely covered in books.

Название: (ISC)2 CCSP Certified Cloud Security Professional Official Study Guide, 3rd Edition
Автор: Mike Chapple, David Seidl
Издательство: Sybex
Год: 2023
Страниц: 416
Язык: английский
Формат: epub (true)
Размер: 10.2 MB

The only official study guide for the new CCSP exam objectives effective from 2022-2025. (ISC)2 CCSP Certified Cloud Security Professional Official Study Guide, 3rd Edition is your ultimate resource for the CCSP exam. As the only official study guide reviewed and endorsed by (ISC)2, this guide helps you prepare faster and smarter with the Sybex study tools that include pre-test assessments that show you what you know, and areas you need further review. In this completely rewritten 3rd Edition, experienced cloud security professionals Mike Chapple and David Seidl use their extensive training and hands on skills to help you prepare for the CCSP exam. Objective maps, exercises, and chapter review questions help you gauge your progress along the way, and the Sybex interactive online learning environment includes access to a PDF glossary, hundreds of flashcards, and two complete practice exams.

Название: Broadband Connectivity in 5G and Beyond: Next Generation Networks
Автор: Simranjit Singh, Gurpreet Kaur
Издательство: Springer
Год: 2022
Страниц: 201
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 44.4 MB

This book discusses the role of optical networks in 3G, 4G, 5G and beyond. The authors discuss the evolution of the technologies, the research involved, and the applications with respect to optical communication systems. In addition, the book provides in-depth knowledge of broadband connectivity for future generation networks. More focus is given towards the front-, mid- and back- hauling of 5G and beyond. The authors present architecture for broadband connectivity and explain its potential in 5G and beyond applications. This book includes several architectures based on Hybrid Fiber-Wireless; Next Generation Passive Optical Networks Stage 1 and 2; millimeter wave over fiber; sub-THz wave over fiber; millimeter/sub-THz wave over multicore fiber; 6G fronthaul; 6G backhaul; GMPLS networks, and massive MIMO sub-Thz antenna. The contributors provide supplementary material such as simulations, analysis and experiments.