Connected Environments for the Internet of Things: Challenges and Solutions

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.

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 Çelik