First and foremost, I would like to thank my husband, Shvet Jain, for standing beside me throughout my research career so far and editing this book. He has been my motivation for continuing to improve my knowledge and move forward in my career. He is my lifetime achievement, and I dedicate this book of mine to him.
Moreover, without the prayers and best wishes of my parents, my sister, and both of my sons, none of my achievements would have been possible.
I am also thankful to the Wiley editorial team and my co‐editors, Dr. Neeraj Kumar, Dr. R. Maheswar, and Dr. Syed Hassan Ahmed Shah, who really helped me in every aspect in the preparation of this book. Their prompt response and care to the literature and contribution is remarkable. They are great and responsible researchers indeed.
I would also like to thank each and every one behind the completion of this book, especially Dr. Syed Hassan Ahmed Shah, who actually helped a lot, and without his quick and efficient efforts, it wouldn’t have been possible to get our book published. He motivated and gave me this platform to go ahead.
Last but not least, my gratitude is due to my inspiration Dr. Archana Mantri, Vice Chancellor, Chitkara University, Punjab, for her trust in me and for making me confident that I can put efforts to be successful in each and every field.
About the Editors
Dr. Shalli Rani (member IEEE) is associate professor in CSE with Chitkara University, Rajpura, Punjab, India. She has 15+ years of teaching experience. She received an MCA degree from Maharishi Dyanand University, Rohtak, in 2004, an M.Tech. degree in computer science from Janardan Rai Nagar Vidyapeeth University, Udaipur, in 2007, and a PhD degree in computer applications from Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar, in 2017. Her main areas of interest and research are wireless sensor networks, underwater sensor networks, and Internet of Things. She has published and presented more than 50 papers in international journals/conferences (SCI+Scopus) and two books with Springer. She is serving as an associate editor of IEEE Future Directions Newsletter. She has worked on big data, cloud computing, fog computing, underwater acoustic sensors, and IoT to show the importance of WSN in IoT applications. She won the Young Scientist Award in February 2014 from Punjab.
Dr. Maheswar Rajagopal has completed his B.E (ECE) from Madras University in 1999, and M.E (applied electronics) from Bharathiyar University in 2002, and a PhD in the field of wireless sensor networks from Anna University in 2012. He has about 19 years of teaching experience at various levels and is presently working as Dean – Research (Assistant) and Dean In‐Charge for the School of EEE, VIT Bhopal University, Bhopal. He has published around 70 papers at international journals and international conferences and published four patents. His research interests include wireless sensor networks, IoT, queueing theory, and performance evaluation. He has served as guest editor for Wireless Networks Journal, Springer, currently serves as editorial review board member for peer‐reviewed journals, and has also edited four books supported by EAI/Springer Innovations in Communications and Computing book series. He is presently an associate editor in the Wireless Networks Journal, Springer, Alexandria Engineering Journal, Elsevier, and Ad‐hoc Sensor Wireless Networks Journal, Old City Publishing.
Professor Neeraj Kumar (SMIEEE) is a full professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala (Pb.), India. He is also adjunct professor at Asia University, Taiwan, King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and Charles Darwin University, Australia. He has published more than 400 technical research papers (DBLP: https://dblp.org/pers/hd/k/Kumar_0001:Neeraj) in top‐cited journals and conferences, which have been cited more than 17000 times from well‐known researchers across the globe, with current h‐index of 71 (Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=gL9gR‐4AAAAJ). He was highly cited researcher in 2019 and 2020 in the list released by Web of Science (WoS). He has guided many research scholars leading to PhD and M.E./M.Tech degrees. His research is supported by funding from various competitive agencies across the globe. His broad research areas are green computing and network management, IoT, big data analytics, deep learning, and cybersecurity. He has also edited/authored 10 books with international and national publishers such as IET, Springer, Elsevier, CRC: Security and Privacy of Electronic Healthcare Records: Concepts, Paradigms and Solutions (ISBN‐13: 978‐1‐78561‐898‐7), Machine Learning for Cognitive IoT, CRC Press, Blockchain, Big Data and Machine Learning, CRC Press, Blockchain Technologies across Industrial Vertical, Elsevier, Multimedia Big Data Computing for IoT Applications: Concepts, Paradigms and Solutions (ISBN: 978‐981‐13‐8759‐3), Proceedings of First International Conference on Computing, Communications, and Cyber‐Security (IC4S 2019; ISBN 978‐981‐15‐3369‐3), and Probabilistic Data Structures for Blockchain based IoT Applications, CRC Press. One of the textbooks he edited, entitled Multimedia Big Data Computing for IoT Applications: Concepts, Paradigms, and Solutions, published in Springer in 2019, has had 3.5 million downloads as of June 2020. It attracts the attention of the researchers across the globe. (https://www.springer.com/in/book/9789811387586). He serves as editor of ACM Computing Survey, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE Network Magazine, IEEE Communication Magazine, Elsevier Journal of Networks and Computer Applications, Elsevier Computer Communication, and Wiley International Journal of Communication Systems. Also, he has organized various special issues of journals of repute from IEEE, Elsevier, and Springer. He has been a workshop chair at IEEE Globecom 2018, IEEE Infocom 2020 (https://infocom2020.ieee‐infocom.org/workshop‐blockchain‐secure‐software‐defined‐networking‐smart‐communities) and IEEE ICC 2020 (https://icc2020.ieee‐icc.org/workshop/ws‐06‐secsdn‐secure‐and‐dependable‐software‐defined‐networking‐sustainable‐smart) and Track Chair of Security and Privacy of IEEE MSN 2020 (https://conference.cs.cityu.edu.hk/msn2020/cf‐wkpaper.php). He is also TPC Chair and member of various international conferences such as IEEE MASS 2020 and IEEE MSN2020. He has won the best papers award from IEEE Systems journal and IEEE ICC 2018, Kansas City, in 2018. He won the best researcher award from a parent organization every year for the last eight consecutive years.
Dr. Syed Hassan Ahmed Shah (SM’18) Ahmed is IEEE Senior Member and ACM Distinguished Speaker. He currently works at JMA Wireless as a product specialist for distributed antenna systems (DAS), CBRS, small cell, and the virtualized RAN product line. Previously, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Georgia Southern University, US, where, he also founded the Wireless Internet and Networking Systems (WINS) lab. Prior to this, he was a Post‐Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, US. Before moving to the United States, he completed his