Convergence of Blockchain and Internet of Things in Healthcare
暫譯: 區塊鏈與物聯網在醫療保健中的融合

物聯網（IoT）和區塊鏈是兩種新技術，以多種方式結合了不同的元素。透過整合普遍計算、無處不在的計算、通信技術、感測技術、網際網路協議和嵌入式設備，創造了一個虛擬與物理世界互動的系統。大量相連的設備和海量數據為開發能直接惠及經濟、環境、社會和個人居民的服務提供了新的機會。由於物聯網的規模和數據安全不足，安全漏洞可能會產生巨大的影響和負面效果。物聯網不僅連接設備，還連接人和其他實體，使每個物聯網組件都面臨各種攻擊的風險。本書涵蓋了物聯網和區塊鏈技術在實際科學、生物醫學和數據應用中的實施和應用。通過應用分散式帳本系統固有的獨特能力，本書突顯了健康科學研究和開發的重要進展。每一章都描述了區塊鏈在現實世界數據收集、藥物開發、設備追蹤以及更有意義的病患互動中的當前應用。所有這些都用於創造擴展健康科學研究的機會。這一範式轉變從製藥高管、生物技術企業家、監管機構、倫理審查委員會和區塊鏈開發者的角度進行研究。

主要特點：
- 提供基於健康相關技術的區塊鏈和物聯網設備實施過程的基礎
- 圖像處理和物聯網設備研究人員可以將他們的工作與健康領域先進技術的其他需求相關聯
- 傳達健康相關技術中的最新技術，包括人工智慧和機器學習
- 對於研究人員探索健康相關技術中的安全性、密碼學和隱私等新事物非常有用
- 專為希望在健康相關技術中開始使用區塊鏈和物聯網的人士量身定制

本書主要針對電機工程、電子與通信工程、計算機科學與工程以及生物醫學工程領域的高年級本科生、研究生和學術研究人員。

Arun Kumar Rana completed his BTech degree at Kurukshetra University, and his MTech and PhD at Maharishi Markandeshwar (Deemed to be University), Mullana, India. His areas of interest include image processing, wireless sensor networks, the Internet of Things, AI, and machine learning and embedded systems. Dr Rana is currently an assistant professor at the Galgotias College of Engineering and Technology, Greater Noida, India, with more than 16 years of experience. Dr Rana is a collaborative researcher and has published more than 110 SCI/ESCI/Scopus/others papers in national and international journals and conference papers. He has also published 10 books with national and international publishers including Taylor & Francis. He has also attended 15 workshops and 12 faculty development programs (FDP). He has guided six MTech candidates. He serves as an editor or reviewer for several international journals and conferences and served as keynote speaker. He is also a member of the Asia Society of Research and SIRG (Scientific Innovation Research Group), Egypt. He has published/granted 10 national and international patents. He has conducted many workshops on IoT and its applications in engineering, wireless networks, and simulators, and teaches the latest techniques related to wireless and IoT technology. He is listed in the world scientist rankings for 2021 and 2022. He was guest editor for the special issue "Routing and Protocols for Energy Efficient Communication," MDPI, SCI, IF-3.004 (Q2).

Vishnu Sharma is a professor and dean of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at ITS College of Engineering, Greater Noida, India. He earned his BTech, MTech, and PhD from Madhav Institute of Technology & Science (M.I.T.S.), Gwalior, India, in Computer Science and Engineering, and is affiliated with Rajiv Gandhi Technical University, Bhopal. He has published 100-plus papers on MANETs, AI, machine learning, IoT, cryptography and network security, computer networks, and mobile computing in international conferences and international journals/SCI/Scopus. He has published three books on mobile computing, cyber security and law, and advanced mobile computing, and has been the editor of ten IEEE conference proceedings. He has also organized many IEEE international conferences for the IEEE Uttar Pradesh section. He has 26 years of teaching experience at various reputed engineering institutes and universities, including Jaypee University, Galgotias University, KIET, and Galgotias College.

Ajay Rana has more than 22 years of teaching experience in academia and industry with roles including lecturer, professor, director, dean, and senior vice president (RBEF). His areas of interest include machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), augmented reality, software engineering, and soft computing. He has 60-plus patents in the fields of IoT, networks, and sensors. He has more than 271 research papers in reputed journals published by ACM, Springer, Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, and others, and from international and national conferences; co-authored 8 books, and co-edited 36 conference proceedings. Rana is chairman of AUN Research Labs, an executive committee member of IEEE Uttar Pradesh Section, a senior member of IEEE, and a life member of the Computer Society of India and ISTE. He is also a member of the editorial boards and review committees of several journals. He has visited many top universities and colleges worldwide, including in Europe, United Arab Emirates, UK, and Asia.

Maksud Alam earned his BTech degree in 2007 from Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow, India; and his MTech degree in 2012. He earned his PhD from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India. He is a recipient of the Visveswaraya PhD Fellowship from the Ministry of Electronics and IT, Government of India, and is currently an assistant professor at Galgotias College of Engineering and Technology, Greater Noida, India. Prior to this, he was a lecturer at the GLA Institute of Technology and Management, Mathura; and Babu Banarasi Das Group of Institutions, Bulandshahr, in 2007 and 2008, respectively. From 2009 to 2016, he served as an assistant professor at the Bharat Institute of Technology, Meerut. He has published more than 12 research papers in reputed journals and conferences such as IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation, International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering (Wiley), Microwave and Optical Technology Letters (Wiley), Frequenz, Progress in Electromagnetic Research, and IEEE conferences. His research interests include the Internet of Things and antennas, design and development of electromagnetic band-gap structures, metamaterial antennas, circularly polarized microstrip antennas, reconfigurable antennas, ultrawideband antennas, and defected ground structures.

Suman Lata Tripathi is a professor at Lovely Professional University with more than 21 years of experience in academics and research. She completed her PhD in the area of microelectronics and VLSI design from MNNIT, Allahabad. She earned her MTech in electronics engineering from UP Technical University, Lucknow, and BTech in electrical engineering from Purvanchal University, Jaunpur. She was also a remote post-doc researcher at Nottingham Trent University, London, in 2022. She has published more than 104 research papers in Springer, Elsevier, IEEE, Wiley, and IOP refereed science journals, conference proceedings, and e-books. She has also published 13 Indian patents and four copyrights. She has guided four PhD scholars and four are in the submission stage. She has organized several workshops, summer internships, and expert lectures for students. She has worked as a session chair, conference steering committee member, editorial board member, and peer reviewer for international/national journals and conferences (IEEE, Springer, Wiley). She received the Research Excellence Award in 2019 and the Research Appreciation Award in 2020 and 2021 at Lovely Professional University, India. She was a recipient of the IGEN Women for Green Technology's Women's Achievers Award on International Women's Day, 8 March 2023. She received the best paper award at IEEE ICICS 2018. She has also received project funding from SERB DST under the scheme TARE in the area of microelectronic devices. She has edited and authored more than 19 books in the areas of electronics and electrical engineering. She has done editing work with top publishers like Elsevier, CRC/Taylor & Francis, Wiley-IEEE, SP Wiley, Nova Science, and Apple Academic Press. She is also book series editor for the series Smart Engineering Systems (CRC Press); Engineering System Design for Sustainable Developments, and Decentralized Systems and Next-Generation Internet (Wiley-Scrivener); and conference series editor for Conference Proceedings Series on Intelligent Systems for Engineering Designs (CRC Press/Taylor & Francis). She serves as academic editor of the Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Scopus/WoS, Q2), International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing (Scopus, Q3), Active and Passive Electronic Components (Scopus, Q4; Hindawi), and special issue guest editor for Materials: Advances in Nanomaterials and Nanoscale Semiconductor Applications (MDPI; SCI IF = 3.74, Q2). She is a senior member of IEEE, a fellow of IETE, and a life member of ISC, and is continuously involved in different professional activities along with academic work. Her areas of expertise include microelectronic device modeling and characterization, low-power VLSI circuit design, VLSI design of testing, and advanced FET design for IoT, embedded system design, reconfigurable architecture with FPGAs, and biomedical applications.

阿倫·庫馬·拉納於庫魯克舍特大學完成了他的BTech學位，並在印度穆拉納的馬哈里希·馬爾坎德什瓦爾（被認定為大學）獲得了MTech和博士學位。他的研究興趣包括影像處理、無線感測器網路、物聯網、人工智慧、機器學習和嵌入式系統。拉納博士目前是印度大諾伊達的加爾戈提亞工程與技術學院的助理教授，擁有超過16年的經驗。拉納博士是一位合作研究者，已在國內外期刊和會議論文中發表了超過110篇SCI/ESCI/Scopus等論文。他還與國內外出版商（包括泰勒與法朗西斯）出版了10本書籍。他參加了15個工作坊和12個教師發展計劃（FDP），並指導了六名MTech候選人。他擔任多個國際期刊和會議的編輯或審稿人，並曾擔任主題演講者。他還是亞洲研究學會和埃及科學創新研究小組（SIRG）的成員。他已獲得10項國內外專利。他舉辦了許多有關物聯網及其在工程、無線網路和模擬器中的應用的工作坊，並教授與無線和物聯網技術相關的最新技術。他在2021年和2022年被列入世界科學家排名。他曾擔任MDPI的特刊《能源高效通信的路由和協議》的客座編輯，SCI，IF-3.004（Q2）。

維什努·夏爾馬是印度大諾伊達ITS工程學院計算機科學與工程系的教授和院長。他在印度瓜利奧爾的馬達夫科技與科學學院（M.I.T.S.）獲得了BTech、MTech和博士學位，並與博帕爾的拉吉夫·甘地技術大學有關聯。他在國際會議和國際期刊/SCI/Scopus上發表了超過100篇有關MANET、人工智慧、機器學習、物聯網、密碼學和網路安全、計算機網路和移動計算的論文。他出版了三本有關移動計算、網路安全與法律以及先進移動計算的書籍，並擔任十本IEEE會議論文集的編輯。他還為IEEE北方邦分會組織了許多IEEE國際會議。他在包括傑普大學、加爾戈提亞大學、KIET和加爾戈提亞學院在內的多所知名工程學院和大學擁有26年的教學經驗。

阿賈伊·拉納在學術界和工業界擁有超過22年的教學經驗，擔任過講師、教授、主任、院長和高級副總裁（RBEF）。他的研究興趣包括機器學習、物聯網（IoT）、擴增實境、軟體工程和軟計算。他在物聯網、網路和感測器領域擁有超過60項專利。他在ACM、Springer、Elsevier、泰勒與法朗西斯等知名期刊上發表了超過271篇研究論文，並在國際和國內會議上發表；共同撰寫了8本書籍，並共同編輯了36本會議論文集。拉納是AUN研究實驗室的主席，IEEE北方邦分會的執行委員會成員，IEEE的高級會員，以及印度計算機學會和ISTE的終身會員。他還是多個期刊的編輯委員會和審稿委員會成員。他曾造訪過世界各地的多所頂尖大學和學院，包括歐洲、阿拉伯聯合酋長國、英國和亞洲。

馬克蘇德·阿拉姆於2007年在印度盧克瑙的北方邦技術大學獲得BTech學位，並於2012年獲得MTech學位。他在印度新德里的賈米亞·米利亞·伊斯蘭尼亞獲得博士學位。他是印度電子與資訊技術部頒發的維斯維斯瓦里亞博士獎學金的獲得者，目前是印度大諾伊達的加爾戈提亞工程與技術學院的助理教授。在此之前，他於2007年和2008年分別在GLA科技與管理學院和巴布·巴納拉西·達斯機構擔任講師。從2009年到2016年，他在米魯特的巴拉特科技學院擔任助理教授。他在、（Wiley）、（Wiley）、、和IEEE會議上發表了超過12篇研究論文。他的研究興趣包括物聯網和天線、電磁帶隙結構的設計與開發、超材料天線、圓極化微帶天線、可重構天線、超寬頻天線和缺陷地結構。

蘇曼·拉塔·特里帕提是Lovely Professional University的教授，擁有超過21年的學術和研究經驗。她在MNNIT阿拉哈巴德完成了微電子學和VLSI設計的博士學位。她在北方邦技術大學獲得電子工程的MTech學位，並在普爾萬查爾大學獲得電氣工程的BTech學位。她還於2022年在倫敦的諾丁漢特倫特大學擔任遠程博士後研究員。她在Springer、Elsevier、IEEE、Wiley和IOP的同行評審科學期刊、會議論文集和電子書中發表了超過104篇研究論文。她還獲得了13項印度專利和四項版權。她指導了四名博士生，另外四名正在提交階段。她為學生組織了多個工作坊、暑期實習和專家講座。她曾擔任會議主席、會議指導委員會成員、編輯委員會成員和國際/國內期刊及會議的同行評審（IEEE、Springer、Wiley）。她在2019年獲得了研究卓越獎，並在2020年和2021年獲得了研究表彰獎，均在Lovely Professional University頒發。她於2023年3月8日國際婦女節獲得IGEN綠色技術女性成就獎。她在IEEE ICICS 2018獲得最佳論文獎。她還獲得了SERB DST在微電子設備領域的TARE計劃的項目資金。她在電子和電氣工程領域編輯和撰寫了超過19本書籍。她曾與Elsevier、CRC/Taylor & Francis、Wiley-IEEE、SP Wiley、Nova Science和Apple Academic Press等頂尖出版商合作進行編輯工作。她還是《智能工程系統》（CRC Press）系列的書籍系列編輯；《可持續發展的工程系統設計》和《去中心化系統與下一代互聯網》（Wiley-Scrivener）；以及《智能系統工程設計會議論文集系列》（CRC Press/Taylor & Francis）的會議系列編輯。她擔任《電氣與計算機工程期刊》（Scopus/WoS, Q2）、《可重構計算國際期刊》（Scopus, Q3）、《主動與被動電子元件》（Scopus, Q4; Hindawi）的學術編輯，以及《材料：納米材料和納米尺度半導體應用的進展》（MDPI; SCI IF = 3.74, Q2）的特刊客座編輯。她是IEEE的高級會員，IETE的院士，以及ISC的終身會員，並持續參與各種專業活動和學術工作。她的專業領域包括微電子設備建模與特性分析、低功耗VLSI電路設計、VLSI測試設計，以及針對物聯網的先進FET設計、嵌入式系統設計、使用FPGA的可重構架構和生物醫學應用。