Personal mobile devices such as smartwatches, smart jewelry, and smart clothes have
launched a new trend in the Internet of Things (IoT) era, namely the Internet of Wearable …

Technology is continually undergoing a constituent development caused by the appearance
of billions new interconnected “things” and their entrenchment in our daily lives. One of the …

Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT) consists of heterogeneous devices such as wearables
and monitoring devices that collect data to provide autonomous decision-making and smart …

Some of the recent developments in data science for worldwide disease control have
involved research of large-scale feasibility and usefulness of digital contact tracing, user …

Smart wearable devices have become more and more popular in our daily life due to their
unique power of “wearing-while-using.” However, requirements of light weight and compact …

Energy limitations remain a key concern in the development of Internet of Medical Things
(IoMT) devices since most of them have limited energy sources, mainly from batteries …

To overcome the limitation of standalone edge cloud in terms of computing power and
resource, a concept of distributed edge cloud has been introduced, where application tasks …

In task offloading systems, it is imperative to guarantee that an offloaded task is completed
within a pre-specified deadline. In this paper, we propose a distributed device-to-device …

This thesis presents a new neural network architecture called the parallel self-organizing
hierarchical neural network (PSHNN). The new architecture involves a number of stages in …

The development of small form-factor handheld electronics is pacing the personal devices
market, followed by the increasing number of various applications. Some of those …