Abstract With the Internet of Things (IoT) becoming part of our daily life and our environment,
we expect rapid growth in the number of connected devices. IoT is expected to connect …

The fifth generation (5G) wireless networks are on the way to be deployed around the world.
The 5G technologies target to support diverse vertical applications by connecting …

Recent years have witnessed a paradigm shift in the storage of Electronic Health Records
(EHRs) on mobile cloud environments, where mobile devices are integrated with cloud …

Contrary to using distant and centralized cloud data center resources, employing
decentralized resources at the edge of a network for processing data closer to user devices …

Decentralized, distributed storage offers a way to reduce the impact of data silos as often
fostered by centralized cloud storage. While the intentions of this trend are not new, the topic …

Emerging technologies are playing a critical role in the evolution of healthcare systems by
presenting eHealth to provide high-quality services and better health to wide-range of …

The application of the Internet of Things in agricultural development usually occurs via a
monitoring network that consists of a large number of sensor nodes, thus gradually …

Edge computing is an emerging paradigm for the increasing computing and networking
demands from end devices to smart things. Edge computing allows the computation to be …

Edge computing is promoted to meet increasing performance needs of data‐driven services
using computational and storage resources close to the end devices at the edge of the …

In the emerging area of the Internet of Things (IoT), the exponential growth of the number of
smart devices leads to a growing need for efficient data storage mechanisms. Cloud …