Table of Contents

Part I Internet of Everything and Smart City.- Internet of Everything: Background and Challenges.- Smart Cities, ConnectedWorld and Internet of Things.- Part II Software-defined Networking.- "Challenges of Traditional Networks and Development of Programmable Networks".- Architecture and Deployment Models-SDN protocols, APIs, and Layers, Applications and Implementations.- Network Policies in Software Defined Internet of Everything.- Analysis of Load Balancing Techniques in Software-defined Networking.- Analysis of Energy Optimization Approaches in Internet of Everything: An SDN Prospective.- Network Function Virtualization.- Part III Application of Software-defined Networking in Cloud Computing.- "Prospective on Technical Considerations for Edge-Cloud Cooperation using Software Defined Networking".- Software-Defined Networking in Data Centers.- QoS-Aware Dynamic Flow Management in Software-Defined Data Center Networks.- Part IV Security and Trust Applications for Software-defined Networking.- Trusted Mechanism using Artificial Neural Networks in Healthcare Software-Defined Networks.- Stealthy Verification Mechanism to Defend SDN Against Topology Poisoning.- Implementation of Protection Protocols for Security Threats in SDN.- Part V Application Use Cases of Software-defined Networking.- SDVN Based Smart Data Dissemination Model for High Speed Road Networks.- Advanced Deep Learning for Image Processing in Industrial Internet of Things under Software Defined Network.

About the Author

Dr. Sahil Garg received the Ph.D. degree from the Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, India, in 2018. He is currently a Research Associate at Resilient Machine learning Institute (ReMI) in correlation with École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), Montréal. Prior to this, he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at ÉTS, Montreal and MITACS Researcher at Ericsson, Montreal. He has many research contributions in the area of Internet of Things, Machine Learning, Big Data Analytics, Knowledge Discovery, Cloud Computing, Software Defined Networking, and Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks. He has over 80 publications in high ranked Journals and Conferences, including 50+ top-tier journal papers and 30+ reputed conference articles. Some of his research findings are published in top-cited journals such as IEEE COMST, IEEE TNSE, IEEE TIFS, IEEE T-ITS, IEEE TII, IEEE TCC, IEEE TMM, IEEE TVT, IEEE TNSM, IEEE TSUSC, IEEE TCCN, IEEE TETC, IEEE IoT Journal, IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Network Magazine, IEEE Wireless Communications, IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, FGCS, Computer Networks, JPDC, Applied Soft Computing, and Information Sciences including various International conferences of repute such as-IEEE Globecom, IEEE ICC, IEEE WCNC, IEEE CCNC, IEEE VTC, IEEE Infocom Workshops, ACM MobiCom Workshops, ACM MobiHoc Workshops, etc. He was the recipient of the prestigious Visvesvaraya PhD fellowship from the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology under Government of India (2016-2018). He has been awarded the 2021 IEEE Systems Journal Best Paper Award; the 2020 IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing (Early Career Researcher) and the IEEE ICC best paper award in 2018 at Kansas City, Missouri. He is currently a Managing Editor of Springer's Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences (HCIS) journal; and an Associate Editor of IEEE Network Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Elsevier's Applied Soft Computing (ASoC), and Wiley's International Journal of Communication Systems (IJCS). In addition, he also serves as the Workshops and Symposia Officer for the IEEE ComSoc ETI on Aerial Communications. He guest edited a number of special issues in top-cited journals including IEEE T-ITS, IEEE TII, IEEE IoT Journal, IEEE Network Magazine, FGCS, Computer Networks, NCAA, etc. He also served as the TPC Co-Chair/Publicity Co-chair/Special Sessions Chair/Publication Chair for several conferences. He also served as the workshop co-chair for different workshops in IEEE /ACM conferences including IEEE Infocom, IEEE Globecom, ACM MobiCom, etc. Moreover, he will also be a Symposium Chair for Aerial Communications track in IEEE ICC 2022 in Seoul, South Korea. He is a member of IEEE, IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, IEEE Software Defined Networks Community, IEEE Smart Grid Community, ACM, and IAENG.

Dr. Gagangeet Singh Aujla received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, Punjab, India in 2018. He received the B.Tech. and M.Tech. degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar, Punjab, India, in 2003 and 2013, respectively. He is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Durham University, Durham, UK. Prior to this he was working as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the School of Computing, Newcastle University, United Kingdom. Before that he was working as an Associate Professor in Computer Science and Engineering Department, Chandigarh University, Mohali, Punjab, India. Prior to this, he was working as a Research Associate in Indo-Austria Research project sponsored by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India and Ministry of Science, Austria at Thapar University, India and a Visiting Researcher at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. He also worked as a Project fellow in Haryana State Center of Science and Technology funded research project on Smart Grid. For my contributions to the area of scalable and sustainable computing, I was awarded the 2018 IEEE TCSC Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award. He is the recipient of 2021: IEEE Systems Journal Best Paper Award. He is Senior Member of the IEEE and member of ACM and Life Member of ISTE. He has many research contributions in the area of smart grid, cloud computing, edge computing, vehicular networks, software defined networks, security and cryptography. Some of his research findings are published in top cited journals such as the IEEE TVT, the IEEE TITS, the IEEE TSC, the IEEE TDSC, IEEE TII, the IEEE TKDE, the IEEE TCC, the IEEE TSuSC, the IEEE JSAC, the IEEE IoT Journal, the IEEE System Journal, the IEEE Communication Magazine, the IEEE Network Magazine, the IEEE Internet Computing Magazine, IEEE Internet of Things Magazine, IEEE Communication Standards Magazine, the IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, Future Generation Computer Systems, Information Sciences, Computer Networks, Computer and Security, the Journal of Network and Computer Applications, the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Computing and Neural Computing and Applications, His research findings have been accepted at top-tier conferences such as IEEE Infocom Wkps, ACM MobiHoc Wkps, IEEE Globecom, IEEE ICC, IEEE WiMob, IEEE WoWMoM, IEEE WCNC Wkps, etc. He is an Area Editor for Adhoc Networks, Elsevier. He has been Guest Editor for Special Issues in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Network, Computer Communications, Elsevier, Neural Computing and Applications, Springer, Software: Practice and Engineering, Wiley and Security and Privacy, Wiley. He led my team organizing workshops (BlockCPS, SecSDN and BlockSecSDN) in conjunction with different IEEE conferences like IEEE Infocom, IEEE Globecom, IEEE ICC, and ACM/IEEE UCC.He has been Workshop Chair, Publicity Chair and TPC Chair for various conferences including IEEE Globecom, IEEE ICC,IEEE PiCom, IEEE WoWMoM, and ACM/IEEE UCC.

Dr. Kuljeet Kaur received her Ph.D. degree from the Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology in 2018. She is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), Montreal and a Visiting Researcher in the School of Computer Science and Engineering (SCSE) at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. She worked as a NSERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the ÉTS, Université du Québec, Montréal, Canada from 2018 till 2020. Her main research interests include Cloud Computing, Energy Efficiency, Smart Grid, Frequency Support, and Vehicle-to-Grid. She has over 50 publications in high ranked Journals and Conferences. Some of her research findings are published in top cited journals such as IEEE T-ITS, TII, IEEE TMM, IEEE TSG, IEEE TVT, IEEE TNSM, the IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE TSUSC, IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Wireless Communications, IEEE Network, IEEE PS, FGCS, JPDC, and Springer PPNA. During her PhD, she received two prestigious fellowships, i.e., INSPIRE fellowship from Department of Science & Technology, India (in 2015) and research scholarship from Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) (from 2016–2018). Dr. Kaur also received the IEEE ICC best paper award in 2018 at Kansas City, USA; 2019 Best Research Paper Award from Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, India; and the 2021 IEEE Systems Journal Best Paper Award. She serves as an Associate Editor of Wiley’s Security and Privacy (SPY), Journal of Information Processing Systems (JIPS), Springer’s Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences (HCIS), and guest editor for special issues in IEEE Transaction on Industrial Informatics and IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society. She is a website co-chair of N2Women community. She also serves as the Vice-Chairof the IEEE Montreal Young Professionals Affinity Group. She is a member of IEEE, IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Women in Engineering, IEEE Software Defined Networks Community, IEEE Smart Grid Community, ACM, and IAENG.

Biplab Sikdar received the B.Tech. degree in electronics and communication engineering from North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India, in 1996, the M.Tech. degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, in 1998, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA, in 2001. He was on the faculty of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute from 2001 to 2013, first as an Assistant and then as an Associate Professor. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore. His research interests include wireless network, and security for IoT and cyber physical systems. Dr. Sikdar is a member of Eta Kappa Nu and Tau Beta Pi. He served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications from 2007 to 2012. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.