IoT and IoE Driven Smart Cities

lt;p> Dr. Samarendra Nath Sur (M'2016) was born in Hooghly, West Bengal, India, in 1984. He received B.Sc degree in Physics (Hons.) from the University of Burdwan in 2007. He received M.Sc. degree in Electronics Science from Jadavpur University in 2007 and M.Tech degree in Digital Electronics and Advanced Communication from Sikkim Manipal University in 2012. He received his Ph. D degree from NIT, Durgapur. Since 2008, he has been associated with the Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, India, where he is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering. His current research interests include Broadband Wireless Communication (MIMO and Spread Spectrum Technology), Advanced Digital Signal Processing, and Remote Sensing. He is a Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), IEEE-IoT, IEEE Signal Processing Society, Institution of Engineers (India) (IEI) and International Association of Engineers (IAENG). He was the recipient of the University Medal & Dr. S.C. Mukherjee Memorial Gold Centered Silver Medal from Jadavpur University in 2007. He also serves as the reviewer of International Journal of Electronics, Taylor and Francis, IET Communication, Ad Hoc Networks, Elsevier and IEEE transactions on signal processing, SN Applied Science.

Dr. Valentina Emilia Balas is currently Full Professor in the Department of Automatics and Applied Software at the Faculty of Engineering, "Aurel Vlaicu" University of Arad , Romania. She holds a Ph.D. in Applied Electronics and Telecommunications from Polytechnic University of Timisoara. Dr. Balas is author of more than 300 research papers in refereed journals and international conferences. Her research interests include intelligent systems, fuzzy control, soft computing, smart sensors, information fusion, modeling and simulation. She is the Editor-in Chief of the International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms and the International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering. She also serves as an editorial board member of several national and international journals and is the Director of the Department of International Relations and Head of Intelligent Systems Research Centre in Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad. She is a member of EUSFLAT, SIAM and a Senior Member IEEE, member in TC-Fuzzy Systems (IEEE CIS), chair of the TF 14 in TC - Emergent Technologies (IEEE CIS), member in TC - Soft Computing (IEEE SMCS).

Dr. Akash Kumar Bhoi [B.Tech, M.Tech, Ph.D.] is working as Assistant Professor (Research) in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology (SMIT), India, since 2012. He is also working (Period: 20th Jan 2021 - 19th Jan 2022) as Research Associate at Wireless Networks (WN) Research Laboratory, Institute of Information Science and Technologies, National Research Council (ISTI-CRN) Pisa, Italy. He is a University Ph.D. Course Coordinator for "Research & Publication Ethics (RPE)." He is a member of IEEE, ISEIS, and IAENG, an associate member of IEI, UACEE, and an editorial board member reviewer of Indian and international journals. He is also a regular reviewer of repute journals, namely IEEE, Springer, Elsevier, Taylor and Francis, Inderscience, etc. His research areas are Biomedical Technologies, the Internet of Things, Computational Intelligence, Antenna, Renewable Energy. He has published several papers in national and international journals and conferences. He has 100+ documents registered in the Scopus database by the year 2020. He has also served on numerous organizing panels for international conferences and workshops. He is currently editing several books with Springer Nature, Elsevier, and Routledge & CRC Press. He is also serving as Guest editor for special issues of the journal like Springer Nature and Inderscience.

Introduction.-  Section 1: Review on IoT/IoE for Smart Cities.- A comprehensive review on physical layer design for Smart cities.- A comprehensive review on security and privacy aspect for Smart cities.- A comprehensive review on IEEE IoT/IoE standards for Smart cities.- Section 2: IoE Physical Layer Design for Smart Cities.- Analysis of multi antenna signal processing for the realization of IoT/IoE.- Analysis of spectrum management for the realization of IoT/IoE.- Analysis of RF energy harvesting techniques for the realization of IoT/IoE.- Section 3:  IoE Network Layer Design for Smart Cities.- Design and signal processing aspect of Wireless Sensor Networks.- Design aspect of Device to Device (D2D), Machine to Machine (M2M) Network.- Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) for IoT.- Section 4: IoE-Intelligent Computing systems for Smart Cities.- Analysis of cloud-based design for the realization of smart cities.- Review on Machine Learning/ deep learning Algorithms for smart cities.- Application of Machine Learning/ deep learning Algorithms for the IoE.- Section 5: IoT/IoE Applications: Smart Cities.- IoT platform for Smart Cities: Requirements and implementation case studies.- Real life case studies on smart cities.- Survey on Research/Implementation Challenges: IoE for Smart Cities.- Conclusion.