Wireless Communication Technologies: Roles, Responsibilities, and Impact of IoT, 6G, and Blockchain Practices

This book introduces recent wireless technologies and their impact on recent trends, applications, and opportunities. It explores the latest 6G, IoT, and Blockchain techniques with AI and evolutionary applications, showing how digital integration can be used to serve society. It explores the most important aspects of modern technologies, providing insights into the newest 6G technology and practices; covering the roles, responsibilities, and impact of IoT, 6G, and Blockchain practices to sustain the world economy.

This book highlights the roles, responsibilities, and impact of IoT, 6G, and Blockchain and its practices. By describing the implementation strategies for Blockchain, IoT, and 6G, this book focuses on technologies related to the advancement in wireless ad-hoc networks and the current sustainability practices used in IoT. It offers popular use cases and case studies related to 6G, IoT, and Blockchain to provide a better understanding and covers the global approach towards the convergence of 6G, IoT, and Blockchain along with recent applications and future potential.

The book is a reference for those working with 6G, IoT, AI, and its related application areas. Students at both the UG and PG levels in various departments such as manufacturing, electronics, telecommunications, computer science, other engineering fields, and information technology will be interested in this book. It is ideally designed for use by technology development, academicians, data scientists, industry professionals, researchers, and students.

Dr. Vandana Sharma is an Associate Professor at CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Delhi-NCR Campus, India. She has 15-plus years of teaching experience at the postgraduate level. She has published more than 60 research papers in Scopus-indexed journals and conferences. She is a Senior Member of IEEE, a member of the Women in Engineering Society, and a member of IEEE Consumer Technology Society popularly known as CTSoc. She has contributed voluntarily as a keynote speaker, session chair, Reviewer, and Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for reputed International Journals and IEEE Conferences and has presented her work across India and abroad. Currently, she is a post-doctoral fellow at Lincoln University College, Malaysia. Her primary areas of interest include Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain Technology, and the Internet of Things (IoT).

Dr. B. Balamurugan Completed his Ph.D. at VIT University, Vellore, and currently works as an Associate Dean- Student Engagement at, Delhi-NCR Campus and has 21 years of teaching experience in the field of computer science. His areas of interest lie in the field of the Internet of Things, Big data, and Networking. He has published more than 150 international journal papers and contributed book chapters.

Dr. Gianluigi Ferrari received the Laurea and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Parma, Parma, Italy, in 1998 and 2002, respectively. Since 2002, he has been with the University of Parma, where he is currently a Full Professor of Telecommunications and also the coordinator of the Internet of Things (IoT) Laboratory, Department of Engineering and Architecture. He is the co-founder and President of things2i Ltd., a spin-off of the University of Parma dedicated to IoT and smart systems. His current research interests include advanced communication and networking, IoT and smart systems, signal processing, and data analysis.

Prerna Ajmani is a Senior Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies. She has a keen interest in computers and strongly believes in imparting quality education with an emphasis on Computer Science. She has over 11 years of experience in research and academics. She is a Lifetime Member of the Computer Society of India (CSI) and as a keen researcher, she has published many research papers in international journals and conferences as well as books and book chapters. She has several Indian design patents in her name. She has also contributed as a Reviewer and Technical Program Committee member for reputed international journals and IEEE conferences and has presented her work at conferences across India and abroad. She is actively involved in research in the areas of IoT, Next Generation Technologies, cyber security, cloud computing, Ad-hoc networks, and blockchain.