Leveraging VANETs and Blockchain Technology for Urban Mobility

The integration of Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) with blockchain technology emerges as a transformative approach to enhancing urban mobility, offering new solutions to the challenges of traffic management, vehicle safety, and data security in smart cities. VANETs enable real-time communication between vehicles and infrastructure, creating a dynamic network to optimize traffic flow, reduce congestion, and improve safety by enabling autonomous vehicle interaction and instant data exchange. When combined with blockchain technology, this network gains a layer of decentralization and security, ensuring data shared between vehicles, traffic signals, and other urban systems remains tamper-proof and transparent. Blockchain also facilitates secure and efficient transactions, like toll payments or car-sharing services, and maintains a record of vehicle data, including maintenance history or driving patterns, offering new opportunities for vehicle lifecycle management, insurance claims, and regulatory compliance. Together, VANETs and blockchain could revolutionize urban mobility by creating a more efficient, secure, and sustainable transportation ecosystem, driving the development of smarter, safer cities. Leveraging VANETs and Blockchain Technology for Urban Mobility explores the capabilities of VANET and blockchain technology to create a new intelligent urban transportation architecture. It examines how transportation and infrastructure engineers can create secure, efficient, and safe urban mobility. This book covers topics such as smart cities, sustainability, and waste management, and is a useful resource for civil and mechanical engineers, urban developers, business owners, academicians, researchers, and data scientists.

Sivaram Ponnusamy is a distinguished academic and researcher with expertise across diverse fields, including computer science, electrical engineering, and business management. With qualifications such as a B.E. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, an M.E. in Computer Science, a Ph.D., and an MBA in Project Management, he serves as a professor and research supervisor in engineering colleges and universities, specializing in artificial intelligence and computer science. Dr. Ponnusamy has filed multiple patents in cutting-edge technologies, ranging from remote voting systems to AI-based attendance management and environmental analysis tools. His work includes editing several Scopus-indexed books on topics like AI applications, digital twin technology, and women's safety, with ongoing international projects in AI research. As an active member of various professional bodies, including IAENG and ISOC, he also contributes as a reviewer for reputed journals. Recognized for his academic contributions, he was awarded by the Thanjavur District Collector for developing an innovative Android-based meeting management tool. Additionally, Dr. Ponnusamy frequently chairs international conferences and conducts seminars on the latest technological trends, making significant contributions to the fields of AI, machine learning, and software development. He is the research supervisor for several research scholars.

Mansour H. Assaf joined the University of the South Pacific as an Associate Professor in 2010. Before that, he was associated with the School of Information and Communications Technology and Engineering at the University of Trinidad and Tobago. Before that, he served as a Research Scholar and Lecturer in the School of Information Technology and Engineering of the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Ottawa and his M.A.Sc. Degree in electrical engineering and a B.A.Sc. degree in communication engineering. He also holds a B.Sc. degree in Applied Physics from the Lebanese University. His research interests are the Internet of Things, mixed-signal analysis, fault-tolerant computing, and sensor networks. Dr. Assaf is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Senior Member of the ACM. He is the co-recipient of the IEEE's Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award in 2003.

Gwanggil Jeon is a Full Professor at Incheon National University, Incheon, Korea. His research focuses on (areas of research interest, including metaverse, immersive tech, A.I., IoT, etc.). He was previously a Prestigious Visiting Professor at Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Milano Statale (Italy), and a Visiting Professor at Sichuan University and Xinjiang University (China), Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain), King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, (Bangkok, Thailand), University of Burgundy (Dijon, France) and the Centre de Mathématiques et Leurs Applications (CMLA) at École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay (ENS-Cachan, France). He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, (ON, Canada). He is an IEEE Senior Member and associate editor of Sustainable Cities and Society, IEEE Access, Real-Time Image Processing, Journal of System Architecture, and MDPI Remote Sensing. He received the Industry-Academic Merit Award from the Ministry of SMEs and Startups of the Korea Ministerium in 2020. And IEEE Chester Sall Award in 2007. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. (summa cum laude) degrees from the Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea.

K. Swaminathan is currently a faculty member at the Constituent College of Anna University, Chennai, bringing over 11 years of teaching experience in Anna University- affiliated institutions. With B.E. and M.E. degrees earned from Anna University in 2008 and 2012, he has established an impressive research profile, presenting 23 papers in national and international forums and being recognized in reputable publications such as Scopus and SCI journals. Completing his Ph.D. journey at Anna University, Chennai, in September 2022, He actively participates in international technical bodies, including the International Association of Engineers, Internet Society(ISOC), European Society for Research on Internet Interventions (ESRII),Institute for Engineering Research and Publication (IFERP) ISTE, and IEI. His contributions extend to serving as a diligent reviewer for international journals and book chapters, notably for IGI Global and Hindawi. Also he filled 06 Indian patents. Additionally he plays an editorial role for the “Spectrum Journal” (ISSN: 2583-9306) and IGI Global publications with ISBN13: 9798369318188, EISBN13: 9798369318195, and “Journal of VLSI circuits and systems (ISSN; 2582- 1458)”highlighting his dedication to advancing knowledge within academic circles.