This book covers computer-integrated equipment manufacturing, which allows high levels of adaptability and rapid equipment design changes to enable smart manufacturing processes. Benefits of the integration of lean manufacturing, smart sensors, 5G technology, IoTs, virtual reality, 3D printing, robotics and automation, are discussed.

This book covers important topics and approaches related to the modeling and simulation of complex communication networks from a complex adaptive systems perspective. The authors present different modeling paradigms and approaches as well as surveys and case studies.

This edited book discusses the technical considerations, potential opportunities and critical challenges of AI and blockchain in telehealth systems and presents case studies and critical lessons to consider when designing future AI and blockchain-based telehealth systems which have privacy and security in mind.

This book discusses the applications of distributed ledger technology in healthcare environments such as e-healthcare records and data security, health insurance management and fraud detection, pharmaceutical supply chain management and drug traceability, and IoT enabled patient monitoring.

This book brings together contributions from a multidisciplinary team of researchers in the field of wireless and mobile communications, signal processing and medical measurements, to present the underlying theory, implementation challenges and applications of this exciting new technology.

The book proposes solutions to revamp traditional security architecture by addressing critical security challenges in commercialized 5G and envisioned 6G wireless communication systems. New insights into real-world scenarios for the deployment, applications and management of robust, secure, and efficient security schemes are discussed.

Power line communications enable electric power system components to use the very power lines for communication about voltage, frequency, generation and loads. This work covers the technology systematically. This second edition offers updates and new content on noise types, mitigation, and properties of power line channels.

This book covers cybersecurity, privacy and control methods and technologies integrated with blockchain and multimedia AI, including encryption and watermarking techniques, wearable-based IoT security methods, multimedia data forensics and video monitoring.