#Smart #Cities #Blockchain #Internet #of #Things #(IoT)

Abstract - Smart cities will depend on reliable Internet of things to effectively provide residential and commercial services. Smart city applications generate vast amount of data and will need the infrastructure to support high transaction throughput. The data associated with smart cities can include sensitive information and there is a need to guarantee the security and privacy through a blockchain-based decentralized infrastructure. Current blockchain environments face several challenges, such as,  lack of high transaction throughput, high scalability, real-time transaction processing, and back-end stress operations, etc. In this talk, we present "Bassa", a blockchain platform that will meet the aforementioned challenges. Bassa employs a Apache Kafka based consensus and "validate-execute-group" blockchain architecture to realize real-time transaction. Bassa's smart contract platform realizes concurrent transaction by leveraging actor-based concurrency. 

 

Speaker's Bio - Dr. Sachin Shetty is an Associate Director in the Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center at Old Dominion University. He holds a joint appointment as an Associate Professor with the Department of Computational, Modeling and Simulation Engineering  . His research interests lie at the intersection of computer networking, network security and machine learning. His laboratory conducts cloud and mobile security research and has received over $13 million in funding from National Science Foundation, Air Office of Scientific Research, Air Force Research Lab, Office of Naval Research, Department of Homeland Security, Sentara Healthcare, and Boeing.  He is the site lead on the DoD Cyber Security Center of Excellence, the Department of Homeland Security National Center of Excellence, the Critical Infrastructure Resilience Institute (CIRI), and the Department of Energy, Cyber Resilient Energy Delivery Consortium (CREDC). He has authored and coauthored over 150 research articles in journals and conference proceedings and edited four books. He is the recipient of Fulbright Specialist award, EPRI Cybersecurity Research Challenge award, DHS Scientific Leadership Award and has been inducted in Tennessee State University’s million dollar club. He has served on the technical program committee for several flagship ACM and IEEE conferences. He is a Senior Member of IEEE.