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This comprehensive text/reference presents a broad-ranging overview of device connectivity in distributed computing environments, supporting the vision of an Internet of Things (IoT). Expert perspectives are provided by an international selection of researchers from both industry and academia, covering issues of communication, security, privacy, interoperability, networking, access control, and authentication. In addition to discussing state-of-the-art research and practice, the book includes corporate analyses offering a balanced view of benefits and limitations, and numerous case studies illustrating the challenges and practical solutions.
Topics and features: discusses issues of security and privacy in connected environments, with a specific focus on the impact of the IoT paradigm on enterprise information systems; examines the challenges of managing big data in IoT environments, and proposes cloud computing-based solutions to the limitations inherent in the IoT paradigm; suggests approaches to overcome service-level interoperability problems in the IoT environment; introduces a mobile IoT simulator designed to evaluate the behavior of IoT systems, in addition to a novel approach to manage hyper-connectivity in the IoT; describes the use of the Essence framework to model software development methods, and highlights the benefits of integrating data from smart buildings and IoT devices; presents an asymmetric schema matching mechanism for IoT interoperability, and explores the topic of automatic provenance capture at the middleware level; reviews emerging network topologies and communication technologies, and advises on the adoption of a data distribution service as a middleware platform for IoT systems.

This practically-oriented volume serves as a complete reference for students, researchers and practitioners of distributed computing, providing insights into the latest approaches, technologies, and frameworks relevant to the IoT environment.

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Part I: Challenges and Solutions

Security Challenges in the IoT Paradigm for Enterprise Information Systems
Chandrakumar Thangavel and Parthasarathy Sudhaman

Security and Privacy Across Connected Environments
Vijayaraghavan V. and Rishav Agarwal

Big Data Challenges for the IoT Paradigm
Pornpit Wongthongtham, Jaswinder Kaur, Vidyasagar Potdar, and Abhishek Das

Using Cloud Computing to Address Challenges Raised by the Internet of Things
Marinela Mircea, Marian Stoica, and Bogdan Ghilic-Micu

Overcoming Service-Level Interoperability Challenges of the IoT
Darko Androcec

Part II: Methods and Frameworks

Simulating Sensor Devices for Experimenting with IoT Cloud Systems
Tamas Pflanzner, Marta Fidrich, and Attila Kertesz

Managing Heterogeneous Communication Challenges in the Internet of Things using Connector Variability
M. Cagri Kaya, Mahdi Saeedi Nikoo, Selma Suloglu, Bedir Tekinerdogan, and Ali H. Dogru

Adopting the Essence Framework to Derive a Practice Library for the Development of IoT Systems
Görkem Giray, Bedir Tekinerdogan, and Eray Tüzün

Integration of Buildings Information with Live Data from IoT Devices
Zohreh Pourzolfaghar and Markus Helfert

Part III: Advances and Latest Research

Interoperability in the Internet of Things with Asymmetric Schema Matching
José Carlos Martins Delgado

Automatic Big Data Provenance Capture at Middleware Level in Advanced Big Data Frameworks
Anu Mary Chacko, Alfredo Cuzzocrea, and S.D. Madhu Kumar

Networking Topologies and Communication Technologies for the IoT
P Beaulah Soundarabai and Pethuru Raj Chelliah

Data Distribution Service Based Architecture Design for Internet of Things Systems
Bedir Tekinerdogan, Ömer Köksal, and Turgay €elik

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Prof. Zaigham Mahmood is a Senior Technology Consultant at Debesis Education UK; Foreign Professor at NUST and IIU in Islamabad, Pakistan; Professor Extraordinaire at the North West University, South Africa; and Professor at the Shijiazhuang Tiedao University, China. Professor Mahmood is the author or editor of more than 20 books, including the Springer titles Software Project Management in Distributed Computing, Requirements Engineering for Service and Cloud Computing, Connectivity Frameworks for Smart Devices, Data Science and Big Data Computing, Cloud Computing: Challenges, Limitations and R&D Solutions, Continued Rise of the Cloud, Cloud Computing: Methods and Practical Approaches, Software Engineering Frameworks for the Cloud Computing Paradigm, and Cloud Computing for Enterprise Architectures.

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