The book is structured into thirteen chapters; each comes with its own dedicated contributions and future research directions. Chapter 1 introduces IoT and the use of Edge computing, particularly cloud computing, and mobile edge computing. This chapter also mentions the use of edge computing in various real-time applications such as healthcare, manufacturing, agriculture, and transportation. Chapter 2 motivates mathematical modeling for federated learning systems with respect to IoT and its applications. Further Chapter 3 extends the discussion of federated learning for IoT, which has emerged as a privacy-preserving distributed machine learning approach. Chapter 4 provides various machine learning techniques in Industrial IoT to deliver rapid and accurate data analysis, essential for enhancing production quality, sustainability, and safety. Chapter discusses the potential role of data-driven technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning, focuses on their integration with IoT communication technologies. Chapter 6 presents the requirements and challenges to realize IoT deployments in smart cities, including sensing infrastructure, Artificial Intelligence, computing platforms, and enabling communications technologies such as 5G networks. To highlight these challenges in practice, the chapter also presents a real-world case study of a city-scale deployment of IoT air quality monitoring within Helsinki city. Chapter 7 uses digital twins within smart cities to enhance economic progress and facilitate prompt decision-making regarding situational awareness. Chapter 8 provides insights into using Multi-Objective reinforcement learning in future IoT networks, especially for an efficient decision-making system. Chapter 9 offers a comprehensive review of intelligent inference approaches, with a specific emphasis on reducing inference time and minimizing transmitted bandwidth between IoT devices and the cloud. Chapter 10 summarizes the applications of deep learning models in various IoT fields. This chapter also presents an in-depth study of these techniques to examine new horizons of applications of deep learning models in different areas of IoT. Chapter 11 explores the integration of Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) into IoT systems. It delves into the potential benefits, challenges, and practical considerations of incorporating QKD into IoT networks. In chapter 12, a comprehensive overview regarding the current state of quantum IoT in the context of smart healthcare is presented, along with its applications, benefits, challenges, and prospects for the future. Chapter 13 proposes a blockchain-based architecture for securing and managing IoT data in intelligent transport systems, offering advantages like immutability, decentralization, and enhanced security.
Dr. Praveen Kumar Donta (Senior Member IEEE & Professional Member ACM), currently working as Postdoctoral researcher at Distributed Systems Group, TU Wien (Vienna University of Technology), Vienna, Austria. He is received his PhD. from Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad in the field of Machine learning-based algorithms for wireless sensor networks in the year of 2021. From July 2019 to Jan 2020, he is a visiting Ph.D. fellow at Mobile \& Cloud Lab, Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, Estonia, under the Dora plus grant provided by the Archimedes Foundation, Estonia. He received his Master in Technology and Bachelor in Technology from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at JNTUA, Ananthapur, with Distinction in 2014 and 2012. Currently, he is a Technical Editor and Guest Editor for Computer Communications, Elsevier, Editorial Board member for International Journal of Digital Transformation, Inderscience, Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (ETT), Wiley. HE also serving as Early Career Editorial Board in Measurement and Measurement: Sensors, Elsevier journals. He served as IEEE Computer Society Young Professional Representative for Kolkata section. His current research includes Learning-driven Distributed Computing Continuum Systems, Edge Intelligence, and Causal Inference for Edge.
Dr. Abhishek Hazra currently works as an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Information Technology Sri City, Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh, India. He was a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Communications \& Networks Lab, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore. He has completed his PhD at the Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) Dhanbad, India. He received his M.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from the National Institutes of Technology Manipur, India, and his B.Tech from the National Institutes of Technology Agartala, India. He currently serves as an Editor/Guest Editor for Physical Communication, Computer Communications, Contemporary Mathematics, IET Networks, SN Computer Science, Measurement: Sensors. He is also a conference general chair for IEEE PICom 2023. His research area of interest includes IoT, Fog/Edge Computing, Machine Learning, and Industry 5.0.
Dr. Lauri Loven (IEEE Senior Member) D.Sc. (Tech), is a senior member of IEEE and the coordinator of the Distributed Intelligence strategic research area in the 6G Flagship research program, at the Center for Ubiquitous Computing (UBICOMP), University of Oulu, in Finland. He received his D.Sc. at the university of Oulu in 2021, was with the Distributed Systems Group, TU Wien in 2022, and visited the Integrated Systems Laboratory at the ETH Zürich in 2023. His current research concentrates on edge intelligence, and on the orchestration of resourcesas well as distributed learning and decision-making in the computing continuum. He has co-authored 2 patents and ca. 50 research articles.
