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Blockchain: Enabling Future Internet with Intrinsic Security

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Blockchain; Future Internet architecture; Network security

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The term, “blockchain,” has various meanings in different context. It is often referred to as the set of the technologies constituting the blockchain-based system, including but not limited to the ledger, the consensus algorithm, the hash algorithm, the asymmetric cryptography, and so on (Narayanan et al. 2016). In the context of data structure, the term “blockchain” is referred to the chain of blocks. Each block includes a bundle of transactions bound together and is secured via cryptography. Each transaction is considered as connecting two entities which are identified by the cryptographic addresses generated from the public keys of them. The contents in the transaction indicate the transfer of valued data between the involved entities. The valued data contained in each transaction can be cryptocurrency, business records, finance incoming, certificate of a care, smart contract, or anything in the digital...

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  1. Harbin Institute of Technology, Weihai, P. R. China

    Kai Wang

  2. Beijing Information Science and Technology University, Beijing, P. R. China

    Dongchao Guo

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    Xuemin (Sherman) Shen

  2. Faculty of Business and Information Technology, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, ON, Canada

    Xiaodong Lin

  3. Dpt.of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Omaha, NE, USA

    Kuan Zhang

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    Wei Quan

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Wang, K., Guo, D. (2020). Blockchain: Enabling Future Internet with Intrinsic Security. In: Shen, X., Lin, X., Zhang, K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Wireless Networks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32903-1_332-1

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