The rise of Internet-of-Things enables the development of smart applications devoted to
improving the quality of life in urban and rural areas, thus fostering the creation of smart …

Many services that are taken for granted in smart cities are not even remotely available in
dislocated areas yet, due to the lack of or too costly wide area network connectivity. With the …

Many services that are taken for granted in smart cities are not even remotely available in
dislocated areas, ie" smart territories". With the aim to offer a practical and secure way to …

Mobile devices integrating wireless short-range communication technologies make possible
new applications for spontaneous communication, interaction and collaboration. An …

Concomitant to the growing popularity of Internet enabled mobile devices such as
smartphones, tablets, PDAs, portable media players etc., however, are the concerns about …

When mobile devices are unable to establish direct communication, or when communication
should be offloaded to cope with large throughputs, mobile collaboration can be used to …

The idea that devices in a distributed system share their resources is quite old. Recent
research areas which continue to rely on this idea are opportunistic networks and …

This paper presents a system architecture to promote the development of smart
transportation systems. Thanks to the use of distributed ledgers and related technologies, it …

In the field of smart communities, significant progress has been made in recent years. The
objective of constructing smart communities is to improve the quality of life of their …

This chapter introduces opportunistic networks. Such networks support spontaneous
interaction between mobile users carrying mobile devices with them. After having been …