This book highlights the importance of data-driven techniques to solve wireless communication problems. It presents a number of problems (e.g., related to performance, security, and social networking), and provides solutions using various data-driven techniques, including machine learning, deep learning, federated learning, and artificial intelligence.This book details wireless communication problems that can be solved by data-driven solutions. It presents a generalized approach to...

Securing the Internet of Things provides network and cybersecurity researchers and practitioners with both the theoretical and practical knowledge they need to know regarding security in the Internet of Things (IoT). This booming field, moving from strictly research to the marketplace, is advancing rapidly, yet security issues abound. This book explains the fundamental concepts of IoT security, describing practical solutions that account for resource limitations at IoT end-node, hybrid net...

This open access book was prepared as a Final Publication of the COST Action IC1304 “Autonomous Control for a Reliable Internet of Services (ACROSS)”. The book contains 14 chapters and constitutes a show-case of the main outcome of the Action in line with its scientific goals. It will serve as a valuable reference for undergraduate and post-graduate students, educators, faculty members, researchers, engineers, and research strategists working in this field.The explosive growth of t...

This SpringerBrief provides state-of-the-art technical reviews on self-organizing and optimization in 5G systems. It covers the latest research results from physical-layer channel modeling to software defined network (SDN) architecture. This book focuses on the cutting-edge wireless technologies such as heterogeneous networks (HetNets), self-organizing network (SON), smart low power node (LPN), 3D-MIMO, and more. It will help researchers from both the academic and industrial worlds to bett...

This book introduces Content-Centric Networking (CCN), a networking paradigm that provides a simple and effective solution to the challenging demands of future wired and wireless communications. It provides an overview of the recent developments in the area of future internet technologies, bringing together the advancements that have been made in Information-Centric Networking (ICN) in general, with a focus on CCN.It begins with an introduction to the basics of CCN is followed by a...

From Internet of Things to Smart Cities: Enabling Technologies explores the information and communication technologies (ICT) needed to enable real-time responses to current environmental, technological, societal, and economic challenges. ICT technologies can be utilized to help with reducing carbon emissions, improving resource utilization efficiency, promoting active engagement of citizens, and more.This book aims to introduce the latest ICT technologies and to promote internation...

Presents an Cyber-Assurance approach to the Internet of Things (IoT)This book discusses the cyber-assurance needs of the IoT environment, highlighting key information assurance (IA) IoT issues and identifying the associated security implications. Through contributions from cyber-assurance, IA, information security and IoT industry practitioners and experts, the text covers fundamental and advanced concepts necessary to grasp current IA issues, challenges, and solut...

This book presents state-of-the-art research on architectures, algorithms, protocols and applications in pervasive computing and networksWith the widespread availability of wireless and mobile networking technologies and the expected convergence of ubiquitous computing with these emerging technologies in the near future, pervasive computing and networking research and applications are among the hot topics on the agenda of researchers working on the next generation ...

The integration of fog computing with the resource-limited Internet of Things (IoT) network formulates the concept of the fog-enabled IoT system. Due to a large number of IoT devices, the IoT is a main source of Big Data. A large volume of sensing data is generated by IoT systems such as smart cities and smart-grid applications. A fundamental research issue is how to provide a fast and efficient data analytics solution for fog-enabled IoT systems. Big Data Analytics in Fog-Enabled IoT ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Distributed Computing for Emerging Smart Networks, DiCES-N 2022, held in Bizerte, Tunisia, in February 2022. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online.The 5 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 14 submissions. The volume also presents one invited paper. The papers are organized in topical sections on emerging networks and communications; c...

With the ubiquitous diffusion of the IoT, Cloud Computing, 5G and other evolved wireless technologies into our daily lives, the world will see the Internet of the future expand ever more quickly. Driving the progress of communications and connectivity are mobile and wireless technologies, including traditional WLANs technologies and low, ultra-power, short and long-range technologies. These technologies facilitate the communication among the growing number of connected devices, leading to ...

This book gathers key advances in various areas related to using wireless Internet and wireless connectivity to achieve a more connected world.The world is now highly dependent on Internet connectivity. Even though some parts of the globe remain isolated, the smoothly running world all around us relies on Internet services for countless businesses and activities. During the COVID-19 pandemic, we have seen that exclusively relying on wired Internet would leave out a large part of ou...