Internet of Things and Secure Smart Environments

Editors Uttam Ghosh is working as an Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA. Dr Ghosh obtained his PhD in Electronics and Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India, in 2013, and has post-doctoral experience at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, Fordham University, and Tennessee State University. He has been awarded the 2018-2019 Junior Faculty Teaching Fellow (JFTF) and has been promoted to a Graduate Faculty position at Vanderbilt University. Dr Ghosh has published fifty papers at reputed international journals including IEEE Transaction, Elsevier, Springer, IET, Wiley, InderScience and IETE, and also in top international conferences sponsored by IEEE, ACM and Springer. Dr Ghosh has conducted several sessions and workshops related to Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), SDN, IoT and smart cities as co-chair at top international conferences including IEEE Globecom, IEEE MASS, SECON, CPSCOM, IEMCON, ICDCS and so on. He has served as a Technical Program Committee (TPC) member at renowned international conferences including ACM SIGCSE, IEEE LCN, IEMCON, STPSA, SCS SpringSim, IEEE Compsac. He is serving as an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Computers and Applications (Taylor & Francis), and also a reviewer for international journals including IEEE Transactions (Elsevier, Springer and Wiley). Dr Ghosh is contributing as guest editor for special issues with IEEE Journal of IoT, IEEE Transaction on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE), ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), Springer MTAP, MDPI Future Internet, and Wiley Internet Technology Letters (ITL). He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a member of AAAS, ASEE, ACM, and Sigma Xi. Dr Ghosh is actively working for editing seven edited volumes on Emerging CPS, Security, and Machine/Machine Learning with CRC Press, Chapman Hall Big Data Series, and Springer. His main research interests include Cybersecurity, Computer Networks, Wireless Networks, Information Centric Networking, and Software-Defined Networking. Dr. Danda B. Rawat is a Full Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS), Founding Director of the Howard University Data Science and Cybersecurity Center, Director of Cyber-security and Wireless Networking Innovations (CWiNs) Research Lab, Graduate Program Director of Howard-CS Graduate Programs and Director of Graduate Cybersecurity Certificate Program at Howard University, Washington, DC, USA. Dr. Rawat is engaged in research and teaching in the areas of cybersecurity, machine learning and wireless networking for emerging networked systems including cyber-physical systems, Internet-of-Things, smart cities, software defined systems and vehicular networks. His professional career comprises more than 15 years in academia, government, and industry. He has secured over $5 million in research funding from US National Science Foundation, US Department of Homeland Security, Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), DoD Research Labs, Industry (Microsoft, Intel, etc.) and private Foundations. Dr. Rawat is the recipient of NSF CAREER Award in 2016, the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Summer Faculty Visiting Fellowship in 2017, Outstanding Research Faculty Award (Award for Excellence in Scholarly Activity) at GSU in 2015, the Best Paper Awards and Outstanding PhD Researcher Award in 2009. He has delivered over 15 Keynotes and invited speeches at international conferences and workshops. Dr. Rawat has published over 200 scientific/technical articles and 9 books. He has been serving as an Editor/Guest Editor for over 30 international journals. He has been in Organizing Committees for several IEEE flagship conferences such as IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE CNS, IEEE ICC and so on. He served as a technical program committee (TPC) member for several

LIST OF FIGURES. LIST OF TABLES. PREFACE. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. EDITORS. CONTRIBUTORS. Chapter 1 Wireless Localization for Smart Indoor Environments. Chapter 2 An Approach towards GIS Application in Smart City Urban Planning. Chapter 3 A Review of Checkpointing and Rollback Recovery Protocols for Mobile Distributed Computing Systems. Chapter 4 Softwarized Network Function Virtualization for 5G: Challenges and Opportunities. Chapter 5 An Effective Deployment of SDN Controller in Smart City Renovation. Chapter 6 Flying Ad Hoc Networks: Security, Authentication Protocols, and Future Directions. Chapter 7 Investigating Traffic of Smart Speakers and IoT Devices: Security Issues and Privacy Threats. Chapter 8 Hardware Security in the Context of Internet of Things: Challenges and Opportunities. Chapter 9 Security Challenges in Hardware Used for Smart Environments. Chapter 10 Blockchain for Internet of Battlefield Things: A Performance and Feasibility Study. Chapter 11 Internet of Things in 5G Cellular Networks: Radio Resource Perspective. Chapter 12 An SDN-IoTBased Framework for Future Smart Cities: Addressing Perspective. Index.