Blockchain-enabled Fog and Edge Computing: Concepts, Architectures and Applications

Part I: Fundamental Concepts and Applications of Blockchain-enabled Fog and Edge Computing

Chapter I. From Blockchain Internet of Things (B-IoT) Towards Decentralized Tactile Internet (Abdeljalil Beniiche, Amin Ebrahimzadeh, and Martin Maier)

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Blockchain Technologies

1.3 Blockchain Iot And Edge Computing

1.4 The IEEE P1918.1 Tactile Internet

1.5 Decentralizing The Tactile Internet

1.6 Blockchain, AI, And Human Intelligence: The Path Forward

1.7 Open Challenges And Future Work

Chapter II. Blockchain Concepts, Architectures and Smart City Applications in Fog and Edge Computing Environments (Daniel Minoli, and Benedict Occhiogrosso)

2.1 Introduction And Overview

2.2 Background And Motivations

2.3 Iot Architectures With Emphasis On The Edge Structures

2.4 5G IoT Communication Technologies

2.5 Smart City Concepts and Common Smart City Applications

2.6 Summary Of Applicable Blockchain Concepts

2.7 Survey Of Smart City Iot Applications That Are And/Or Will Benefit From Blockchains

2.8 Future Research Areas

Chapter III. A Blockchain-enabled Edge Supported E-Challan Mechanism for Content-Centric Internet of Vehicles (Ali Nawaz Abbasi, Tashjia Anfal, and Muhammad Maaz Rehan)

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Literature Survey

3.3 Research Motivation and Problem Statement

3.4 Proposed Mechanism

3.5 Results and Discussion

3.6 Conclusion

Part II: Security and Privacy Issues in Blockchain-enabled Fog and Edge Computing

Chapter IV. Hardware Primitive based Blockchain for IoT in Fog and Edge Computing (Uzair Javaid, Muhammad Naveed Aman, and Biplab Sikdar)

4.1 Introduction

4.2 PUF Based Blockchain Protocols for IoT In Fog And Edge Computing

4.3 Conclusion

Chapter V. On Blockchain and its Complementarity with Fog Computing to Secure Management Systems (Chaima Khalfaoui, Samiha Ayed, and Moez Esseghir)

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Internet Of Things Context

5.3 Fog Computing

5.4 Blockchains

5.5 Blockchain And Fogs Complementarity

5.6 Proposition

5.7 Conclusion

Chapter VI. Security and Privacy Issues of Blockchain-enabled Fog and Edge Computing (Imane Ameli, Nabil Benamar, and Abdlhakim Senhaji Hafid)

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Cloud-To-Thing Continuum by means of Fog and Edge Computing

6.3 Blockchain

6.4 Blockchain & Fog/Edge Computing: A possible cooperation

6.5 Future Direction

6.6 Conclusions

Chapter VII Scaling Edge Computing Security with Blockchain Technologies (Pau Marcer, Xavier Masip, Eva Marin, and Alejandro Jurnet)

7.1 Edge Security and Challenges

7.2 Blockchain in the security arena

7.3 Blockchain architecture

7.4 Blockchain services in edge computing

7.5 Blockchain vs cloud solutions applied to edge scenarios

Chapter VIII Blockchain based Solutions for Achieving Secure Storage in Fog Computing (Ouns Bouachir, Rima Grati, Moayad Aloqaily, and Adel Ben Mnaouer)

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Background

8.3 Emerging Issues And Challenges

8.4 BC For Edge And Fog

8.5 Security In BC Based Fog Computing Systems: Solutions

8.6 Conclusion

Chapter IX. Differential Privacy for Edge Computing-based Smart Grid Operating over Blockchain (Muneeb Ul Hassan, Mubashir Husain Rehmani, and Jinjun Chen)

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Preliminaries Of Private Smart Grid Edge Computing Over Blockchain

9.3 Literature Review

9.4 Differentially Private Rer Monitoring For Edge Computing Based Smart Grid Operating Over Blockchain

9.5 Performance Evaluation

9.6 Challenges and Future Research Directions

9.7 Conclusion