Blockchain‐based applications provide many promising opportunities to overcome the
challenges associated with the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystems (eg, centralized …

Nowadays, with the rapid development and wide application of Internet of Things
technology, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has become an essential part of industrial …

Energy is a scarce resource in mobile wireless networks that consist of devices mainly
powered by their batteries. Providing energy ubiquitously to these devices for making them …

In the current centralized IoT ecosystems, all financial transactions are routed through IoT
platform providers. The security and privacy issues are inevitable with an untrusted or …

The high transaction fees and confirmation times made Bitcoin unfeasible for many
applications when the payments are in small amounts and require instant approval. As a …

The application of blockchain cryptocurrency in the field of energy transactions has attracted
wide attention because it supports complex communication interactions of a large number of …

This is to certify that the research work presented in this thesis, entitled “Privacy Aware
Energy Management in Smart Communities by Exploiting Blockchain” was conducted by Mr …

Since its introduction, Bitcoin cryptocurrency has revolutionized the way payment systems
can be designed in a purely distributed manner through its novel Blockchain data structure …