It's scary how much life can change in an instant.One minute I'm preparing for a new school year in my San Diego town, and the next I'm being ripped from my childhood home.Making the cut from my father's death two years ago that much deeper.Not only am I being forced to leave a place that reminds me so much of him, but I'm being forced to move hundreds of miles across the country to a city I've only learned about through Mom and social media.Different climat...

In a love story full of mystery, a beautiful girl gets caught up in the charms of a successful CEO, who hides his identity. As they fall in love and decide to marry, she begins to sense a secret lurking behind his smile. As their married life begins, she tries to uncover the truth about who her husband really is, and what made him choose to live in the shadows. Is their love strong enough to overcome all the hidden secrets?

The Onge of Little Andaman, one of the surviving important Negrito communities in the world, have a very small static population since last four decades. There have been several critical issues pertaining to adopting the induced changes in their habitat and economy. The volume presents detailed documentation and in-depth analysis of the situation and concerns related to their survival.The volume is the outcome of a prolonged field investigation and research presented in the form of...

Orsello is an epic science fiction tale about galactic politics centred around a planet called Oink which lies a vast distance from planet Earth. Orsello, the man, is the outcome of genetic hybridisation and other scientific interventions by a race of advanced beings, the Venturans. Orsello must lead Oink on a quest for civilization and enlightenment using his spiritual and superior intellectual endowments. In that quest, he encounters numerous social and political challenges which threate...

This book provides probabilistic, deterministic and geolocation-aware approaches for adaptive connectivity, robust security and privacy-aware communications for vehicular cyber physical systems (CPS). It presents mathematical models and numerical results obtained from experiments and simulations, and a trade-off between connectivity, security and privacy for vehicular communications.Connectivity between vehicles is crucial for vehicular CPS. Intelligent vehicular CPS provides not o...

This SpringerBrief presents adaptive resource allocation schemes for secondary users for dynamic spectrum access (DSA) in cognitive radio networks (CRNs) by considering Quality-of-Service requirements, admission control, power/rate control, interference constraints, and the impact of spectrum sensing or primary user interruptions. It presents the challenges, motivations, and applications of the different schemes. The authors discuss cloud-assisted geolocation-aware adaptive resource alloca...

Smart Cities Cybersecurity and Privacy examines the latest research developments and their outcomes for safe, secure, and trusting smart cities residents. Smart cities improve the quality of life of citizens in their energy and water usage, healthcare, environmental impact, transportation needs, and many other critical city services. Recent advances in hardware and software, have fueled the rapid growth and deployment of ubiquitous connectivity between a city's physical and cyber component...

Cybersecurity is a paramount concern in both Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) due to the interconnected and often critical nature of these systems. The integration of AI/ML into the realm of IoT and CPS security has gained significant attention and momentum in recent years. The success of AI/ML in various domains has sparked interest in leveraging these technologies to enhance the security, resilience, and adaptability of IoT and CPS. Secure and Smart ...

While security is of vital importance to ensure the integrity of communications in wireless and mobile networks, most businesses which rely on these networks expect a high level of security and privacy to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of communications among terminals, networks, applications, and services. Security, Privacy, Trust, and Resource Management in Mobile and Wireless Communications examines the current scope of theoretical and practical applications on the security of...

This book presents the best-selected research papers presented at the Second International Conference on Computing, Communication, Security & Intelligent Systems (IC3SIS 2023), organized by SCMS School of Engineering and Technology, Kochi, on July 06–07, 2023. It discusses the latest technologies in communication and intelligent systems, covering various areas of computing, such as advanced computing, communication and networking, intelligent systems and analytics, 5G and IoT, soft computi...

This book presents the best-selected research papers presented at the Third International Conference on Computing, Communication, Security & Intelligent Systems (IC3SIS 2024), organized by SCMS School of Engineering and Technology, Kochi, on July 11–12, 2024. It discusses the latest technologies in communication and intelligent systems, covering various areas of computing, such as advanced computing, communication and networking, intelligent systems and analytics, 5G and IoT, soft computin...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Security in Computing and Communications, SSCC 2019, held in Trivandrum, India, in December 2019.The 22 revised full papers and 7 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 submissions. The papers cover wide research fields including cryptography, database and storage security, human and societal aspects of security and privacy.