This book provides an overview of recent innovations and achievements in the broad areas of cyber-physical systems (CPS), including architecture, networking, systems, applications, security, and privacy. The book discusses various new CPS technologies from diverse aspects to enable higher level of innovation towards intelligent life. The book provides insight to the future integration, coordination and interaction between the physical world, the information world, and human beings. The book features contributions from renowned researchers and engineers, who discuss key issues from various perspectives, presenting opinions and recent CPS-related achievements.Investigates how to advance the development of cyber-physical systems
Provides a joint consideration of other newly emerged technologies and concepts in relation to CPS like cloud computing, big data, fog computing, and crowd sourcing
Includes topics related to CPS such as architecture, system, networking, application, algorithm, security and privacy

Song Guo received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Ottawa, Canada. He is currently a full professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Prior to joining PolyU, he was a full professor with the University of Aizu, Japan. His research interests are mainly in the areas of cloud and green computing, big data, wireless networks, and cyber-physical systems. He has published over 300 conference and journal papers in these areas and received multiple best paper awards from IEEE/ACM conferences. His research has been sponsored by JSPS, JST, MIC, NSF, NSFC, and industrial companies. Dr. Guo has served as an editor of several journals, including IEEE TPDS, IEEE TETC, IEEE TGCN, IEEE Communications Magazine, and Wireless Networks. He has been actively participating in conference organizations serving as general chair and TPC chair. He is a senior member of IEEE, a senior member of ACM, and an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer.

Deze Zeng received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in computer science from University of Aizu, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan, in 2013 and 2009, respectively. He received his B.S. degree from School of Computer Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China in 2007. He is currently an associate professor in School of Computer Science, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China. His current research interests include: network function virtualization, cloud computing, software-defined networking, wireless sensor networks, data center networking, networking protocol design and analysis. He has authored 1 book and over 70 papers in refereed journals and conferences in these areas. He is a member of IEEE.

Introduction.- Part I Architecture and Applications.- Envisioned Network Architectures IoT Applications.- A Measurement Study of Campus WiFi Networks using WiFiTracer.- People as Sensors Towards a Human-machine Cooperation Approach in Monitoring Landslides in the Three Gorges Reservoir Region, China.- Two Major Applications in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks.- Concurrency and Synchronization in Structured Cyber Physical Systems.- Part II Security and Privacy.- Survey on Access Control Models Feasible in Cyber-Physical Systems.- Security Challenges and Concerns of Internet of Things (IoT).- Cyber-Physical System Security Controls: A review.- Conclusion.