The Internet of Things (IoT) aims to connect billions of smart objects to the Internet, which
can bring a promising future to smart cities. These objects are expected to generate large …

Through the exponential growth of sensors and smart gadgets (collectively referred to as
smart devices or Internet of Things (IoT) devices), significant amount of heterogeneous and …

Greetings from a bygone era! We are writing this preface in May 2019, in the year that fully
autonomous and self-driving vehicles are not yet available. That being said, we expect this …

The internet of things (IoT) is quickly growing into a large industry with a huge economic
impact expected in the near future. However, the users needs go beyond the existing web …

Demographic growth in urban areas means that modern cities face challenges in ensuring a
steady supply of water and electricity, smart transport, livable space, better health services …

In recent years, the landscape of computing paradigms has witnessed a gradual yet
remarkable shift from monolithic computing to distributed and decentralized paradigms such …

The recent advances in cloud services technology are fueling a plethora of information
technology innovation, including networking, storage, and computing. Today, various flavors …

With the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm, the cloud model is unable to offer
satisfactory services for latency‐sensitive and real‐time applications due to high latency and …

Industry is going through a transformation phase, enabling automation and data exchange
in manufacturing technologies and processes, and this transformation is called Industry 4.0 …

Cloud computing with its three key facets (ie, Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-
Service, and Software-as-a-Service) and its inherent advantages (eg, elasticity and …