This comprehensive edited 2-volume handbook provides a unique platform for researchers, engineers, developers, educators and advanced students in the field of Big Data analytics. The first volume presents methodologies that support Big Data analytics, while the second volume offers a wide range of Big Data analytics applications.

This book provides a comprehensive review of emerging security threats and privacy protection issues, and the versatile state-of-the-art hardware-based security countermeasures proposed by the hardware security community. It serves as an advanced reference for researchers on current hardware security problems, challenges and solutions.

This book brings together leading experts in the areas of urban planning, transport planning and strategy, traffic management and transport technology to present a cohesive work on the policy principles and practical applications to drive urban mobility services in tomorrow's smart cities.

Smart roads are road infrastructures with integrated structural materials, sensors, information centres, and energy systems. The goals are extending service life and performance, reducing safety risks, and improving service quality. This book brings together the latest research into technologies for novel and smart road infrastructures.

Aimed at smart city researchers and engineers, city planners, and stakeholders in urban communities and local governments, this book covers technology advances, innovative concepts, solutions and applications in smart cities, both from an engineering and social aspects towards inclusive innovation and sustainability.

This book examines future video coding from the perspective of hardware implementation and architecture design. The book identifies challenges in deploying VLSI architectures for video coding and postulates potential solutions with reference to recent research.

This book focuses on both the design and implementation aspects for smart city and sensing applications that are enabled and supported by IoT paradigms. Attention is also given to data delivery approaches and performance aspects.

This is a comprehensive textbook and reference that provides a solid background in active sensing technology. Beginning with a historical overview and an introductory section on signal generation, filtering and modulation, it follows with a section on radiometry (infrared and microwave) as a background to the active sensing process.