Recent Trends and Advances in Wireless and IoT-enabled Networks

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. A Distributed Trust Management Model for the Internet of Things (DTM-IoT)

   • Mohammad Dahman Alshehri, Farookh Hussain, Mahmoud Elkhodr, Belal Saeed Alsinglawi

   Pages 1-9

3. A Review of Current Security Issues in Internet of Things

   • Mudassar Ahmad, Tanveer Younis, Muhammad Asif Habib, Rehan Ashraf, Syed Hassan Ahmed

   Pages 11-23

4. A Review of Internet of Things (IoT) Connectivity Techniques

   • Mudassar Ahmad, Atiab Ishtiaq, Muhammad Asif Habib, Syed Hassan Ahmed

   Pages 25-36

5. An Evolutionary Game-Based Mechanism for Unwanted Traffic Control

   • Jia Liu, Mingchu Li, Zitong Feng, Cheng Guo, Lifeng Yuan, Muhammad Alam

   Pages 37-51

6. Usability Attributes for Mobile Applications: A Systematic Review

   • Ryan Alturki, Valerie Gay

   Pages 53-62

7. A Review on Integration of Scientific Experimental Data Through Metadata

   • Nur Adila Azram, Rodziah Atan, Shuhaimi Mustafa, Mohd Nasir Mohd Desa

   Pages 63-72

8. Passive RFID Localization in the Internet of Things

   • Belal Saeed Alsinglawi, Quang Vinh Nguyen, Upul Gunawardana, Simeon Simoff, Anthony Maeder, Mahmoud Elkhodr et al.

   Pages 73-81

9. Internet Traffic Flow Analysis in Fog Computing: An Experimental Case Study

   • Waleed Rafiq, Abdul Wahid, Munam Ali Shah, Adnan Akhunzada

   Pages 83-92

10. Seven Pillars to Achieve Energy Efficiency in High-Performance Computing Data Centers

    • Sardar Mehboob Hussain, Abdul Wahid, Munam Ali Shah, Adnan Akhunzada, Faheem Khan, Noor ul Amin et al.

    Pages 93-105

11. Scheduling Algorithms for High-Performance Computing: An Application Perspective of Fog Computing

    • Sidra Razzaq, Abdul Wahid, Faheem Khan, Noor ul Amin, Munam Ali Shah, Adnan Akhunzada et al.

    Pages 107-117

12. A Novel Energy-Aware Design for Clustered Wireless Sensor Networks

    • Sohail Jabbar, Mudassar Ahmad, Abid Ali Minhas, Syed Hassan Ahmad

    Pages 119-127

13. Internet of Things–Based Smart City Environments Using Big Data Analytics: A Survey

    • Muhammad Babar, Fahim Arif, Muhammad Irfan

    Pages 129-138

14. Enhancing Integrity Technique Using Distributed Query Operation

    • Umar Farooq Khattak, Aida Mustapha, Muhammad Yaseen, Muhammad Arif Shah, Asim Shahzad

    Pages 139-146

15. EH-ARCUN: Energy Harvested Analytical Approach Towards Reliability with Cooperation for Underwater WSNs

    • Adil Khan, Sheeraz Ahmad, Mukhtaj Khan, Mian Ahmad Jan, Zahoor Ali Khan, M. Usman Akhtar

    Pages 147-157

16. Congestion Aware and Adaptive Routing Protocols for MANETs: A Survey

    • Nousheen Akhtar, Muazzam A. Khan Khattak, Ata Ullah, Muhammad Younus Javed

    Pages 159-169

17. Scalability Analysis of Depth-Based Routing and Energy-Efficient Depth-Based Routing Protocols in Terms of Delay, Throughput, and Path Loss in Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks

    • Saqib Shahid Rahim, Sheeraz Ahmed, Nadeem Javaid, Adil Khan, Nouman Siddiqui, Fazle Hadi et al.

    Pages 171-185

18. A Parametric Performance Evaluation of Batteries in Wireless Sensor Networks

    • Sana Yasin, Tariq Ali, Umar Draz, Ahmad Shaf, Muhammad Ayaz

    Pages 187-196

19. Machine Imagination: A Step Toward the Construction of Artistic World Through Storytelling

    • Syed Tanweer Shah Bukhari, Asma Kanwal, Wajahat Mahmood Qazi

    Pages 197-205

20. Geospatial Division Based Geographic Routing for Interference Avoidance in Underwater WSNs

    • Farwa Ahmed, Nadeem Javaid, Zahid Wadud, Arshad Sher, Sheeraz Ahmed

    Pages 207-214

The book covers a variety of topics in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and their impact on innovation and business. The authors discuss various innovations, business and industrial motivations, and impact on humans and the interplay between those factors in terms of finance, demand, and competition. Topics discussed include the convergence of Machine to Machine (M2M), Internet of Things (IoT), Social, and Big Data. They also discuss AI and its integration into technologies from machine learning, predictive analytics, security software, to intelligent agents, and many more. Contributions come from academics and professionals around the world.

• Covers the most recent practices in ICT related topics pertaining to technological growth, innovation, and business;
  
• Presents a survey on the most recent technological areas revolutionizing how humans communicate and interact;
  
• Features four sections: IoT, Wireless Ad Hoc & Sensor Networks, Fog Computing, and Big Data Analytics.
  

• Internet of Things and Human Factors
• Internet of Things
• Wireless Ad Hoc & Sensor Networks and Human Factors
• Fog Computing and ITC
• Big Data Analytics and ITC

• Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan, Pakistan

  Mian Ahmad Jan, Fazlullah Khan

• Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China

  Muhammad Alam

Mian Ahmad Jan is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Pakistan. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Systems from University of Technology Sydney, Australia. His research interests include cluster-based hierarchical routing protocols, congestion detection and mitigation and intrusion and malicious attack detections in wireless sensor networks, Internet and web of things. He has published his research in various prestigious IEEE Transactions, Springer and Elsevier Journals. Besides, he has published his work in numerous International Conferences as well. He has served on editorial board and guest editor for various prestigious journals. He is an active reviewer of numerous IEEE Transactions, and Elsevier and Springer journals.

Fazlullah Khan is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Pakistan. Currently, he is pursuing his Ph.D. at the department of computer science, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Pakistan. He has completed his MS in Information Engineering from the Faculty of Electrical Electronics & Information Engineering, at Nagaoka University of Technology (NUT) Japan. He has MS degree in Computer Software Engineering from National University of Sciences and Technology Islamabad, Pakistan. He was awarded gold medal in BS in Information Technology from the University of Peshawar, Pakistan. He had been the recipient of various prestigious scholarships during his studies. He was the recipient of MEXT scholarship for two years at NUT Japan. His research interests are cross layer signaling and performance analysis of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks, Cognitive Radio Networks, Wireless Sensor Networks, Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks, and Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks. Recently, he has been involved in latest developments in the field of Underwater Sensor Network Localization and Secured Ticketing, Internetof Vehicles security and privacy issues, Software-defined Radio VANET, Internet of Vehicles, and Big Data Analytics. He has published his research work in various IEEE and ACM/Springer International conferences and in the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication (IEICE), Japan. Recently, he has been chair of various conferences and special sessions such as EAI Future5v-2017, IEEE CCODE-2017, EAI IoT-BC2. He has been invited to serve as a Technical Program Committee Member for various IEEE international conferences. He has been an active reviewer for high cited and highly ranked international journals, including Springer MONET, IET Wireless Sensor Systems, IEEE Communication Magazine, IEEE Transaction on ITS, and so on.

Muhammad Alam holds a PhD degree in Computer Science from University of Aveiro, Portugal (2013-14) and has a MS degree in Computer Science from International Islamic university Islamabad, Pakistan. In 2009, he joined the Instituto de Telecomunicações - Aveiro (Portugal) as researcher and completed his Ph.D. from University of Aveiro with a specialization in Inter Layer and Cooperative Design Strategies for Green Mobile Networks. He has participated in several European Union FP7 projects such as Hurricane, C2POWER, ICSI, PEACE and Portuguese government funded projects such SmartVision. He has been working as senior researcher at Instituto de Telecomunicações and participating in European Union and Portuguese government funded projects. Currently, he is an assistant professor at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU), Suzhou, China. His research interests include IoT, Real-time wireless communication, 5G, Vehicular networks, Context-aware systems and Radio resource management in next generation wireless networks. He has authored/edited 3 books and over 100 publications in refereed journals and conferences as well as book chapters. He is the TPC member and reviewer for a number of reputed conferences,journals, and magazines. He is IEEE and IEEE IES senior member. He served as general co-chair of future 5V conference and also served as session chair in a number of reputed conferences such as IEEE IECON 2016, IEEE WFCS 2016, IEEE ITSC 2015. He also provided his services as guest editor to several journals.

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