This book presents a comprehensive framework for IoT, including its architectures, security, privacy, network communications, and protocols. The book starts by providing an overview of the aforementioned research topics, future directions and open challenges that face the IoT development. The authors then discuss the main architectures in the field, which include Three- and Five-Layer Architectures, Cloud and Fog Based Architectures, a Social IoT Application Architecture. In the security chapter, the authors outline threats and attacks, privacy preservation, trust and authentication, IoT data security, and social awareness. The final chapter presents case studies including smart home, wearables, connected cars, industrial Internet, smart cities, IoT in agriculture, smart retail, energy engagement, IoT in healthcare, and IoT in poultry and farming.
- Discusses ongoing research into the connection of the physical and virtual worlds;
- Includes the architecture, security, privacy, communications, and protocols of IoT;
- Presents a variety of case studies in IoT including wearables, smart cities, and energy management.
Mohammad Ali Jabraeil Jamali received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Urmia University, Urmia, Iran, the M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Tabriz University, Tabriz, Iran, the M.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Islamic Azad University, Science and Research branch, Tehran, Iran and the Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Islamic Azad University, Science and Research branch, Tehran, Iran, in 1994, 1997, 2003 and 2009, respectively. He is an assistant professor of Computer Engineering at Islamic Azad University, Shabestar branch. He is the author/co-author of more than 50 publications in technical journals and conferences. His current research interests are processor and computer architectures, chip multiprocessors, multiprocessor systems-on-chip, networks on chip, Internet of things, ad hoc and sensor networks.
Bahareh Bahrami received her B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Islamic Azad University, Khoy branch, Iran, in 2009. She received her M.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Islamic Azad University, Tabriz branch, Iran, in 2013. Her research interests include Complex Networks, Network-on-Chip, Internet of Things, and Computer Architecture.
Arash Heidari received his B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Payam Noor University (PNU), Tehran, Iran, M.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Islamic Azad University, Science and Research branch, Tehran (East Azerbaijan), Iran, in 2014 and 2016, respectively. Also, he is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Software Engineering, Islamic Azad University, Shabestar, Iran. His research interests include cloud computing, resource management, resource discovery, and Internet of things.
Parisa Allahverdizadeh received her B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Islamic Azad University, Khoy branch, Iran, M.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Islamic Azad University, Science and Researc Tehran branch, Iran, in 2012 and 2016, respectively. Also, she is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Software Engineering, Islamic Azad University, Shabestar, Iran. Her research interests include software, Internet of things, social network and datamining.
Farhad Norouzi received his B.Sc. in Information Technology Engineering from PNU University, Ardabil branch, Iran, M.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Islamic Azad University, Science and Research branch, Tehran (East Azerbaijan), Iran, in 2012 and 2017, respectively. Also, He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Software Engineering, Islamic Azad University, Shabestar, Iran. He is an expert in system analysis at the municipality of Sarab. His research interests include social Networks, ad hoc, Internet of things, and sensor networks.
