Prof. Dr. Zaigham Mahmood is a Senior Technology Consultant at Debesis Education UK and a Professor at the Shijiazhuang Tiedao University in Hebei, China. He also holds positions as a Foreign Professor at NUST and IIU in Islamabad, Pakistan. He previously served as a Reader (Associate Professor) at the University of Derby, UK, and a Professor Extraordinaire at the North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa. His many publications include the Springer titles Security, Privacy and Trust in the IoT Environment, Guide to Ambient Intelligence in the IoT Environment, Fog Computing, Smart Cities, Connected Environments for the Internet of Things, Software Project Management for 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: Concepts and Principles (covering topics such as principles, architectures, underlying technologies, and historical perspective)

Part II: Frameworks and Methodologies (covering topics such as communication, networking, connectivity, standards and management)

Part III: security and Trust (covering topics such as ethics, social implications, data confidentiality and organisational perspectives)

Part IV: Case Studies and Future Advances (covering topics such as future trends, further developments, and new research directions)