Zaigham Mahmood 
Connected Environments for the Internet of Things 
Challenges and Solutions

This comprehensive text/reference presents a broad-ranging overview of device connectivity in distributed computing environments, supporting the vision of an Internet of Things (Io T). 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 Io T paradigm on enterprise information systems; examines the challenges of managing big data in Io T environments, and proposes cloud computing-based solutions to the limitations inherent in the Io T paradigm; suggests approaches to overcome service-level interoperability problems in the Io T environment; introduces a mobile Io T simulator designed to evaluate the behavior of Io T systems, in addition to a novel approach to manage hyper-connectivity in the Io T; describes the use of the Essence framework to model software development methods, and highlights the benefits of integrating data from smart buildings and Io T devices; presents an asymmetric schema matching mechanism for Io T 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 Io T 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 Io T environment.

表中的内容

Part I: Challenges and Solutions .- Security Challenges in the Io T Paradigm for Enterprise Information Systems.- Security and Privacy Across Connected Environments.- Big Data Challenges for the Io T Paradigm.- Using Cloud Computing to Address Challenges Raised by the Internet of Things.- Overcoming Service-Level Interoperability Challenges of the Io T.-  Part II: Methods and Frameworks .- Simulating Sensor Devices for Experimenting with Io T Cloud Systems.- Managing Heterogeneous Communication Challenges in the Internet of Things using Connector Variability.- Adopting the Essence Framework to Derive a Practice Library for the Development of Io T Systems.- Integration of Buildings Information with Live Data from Io T Devices.-  Part III: Advances and Latest Research .- Interoperability in the Internet of Things with Asymmetric Schema Matching.- Automatic Big Data Provenance Capture at Middleware Level in Advanced Big Data Frameworks.- Networking Topologies and Communication Technologies for the Io T.- Data Distribution Service Based Architecture Design for Internet of Things Systems.

关于作者

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.