The aim of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) is to enhance the smartness in people's life by enabling "things" to "see", "hear", "feel" and "understand" their environment. The initial development of WSN was motivated during the end of the 20th century by military applications in the United States of America (USA) such as enemy detection, battlefield surveillance, etc. Later on, come commercial companies like Bell Laboratories & AT&T started the distribution of WSNs for industrial and business applications. Nowadays, WSNs are widely used for weather forecasting, temperature, humidity, light,...

This book commences with an introduction to cloud computing and green cloud computing. Further, it comprises its historical view, prominent characteristics, underpinning technologies that led to the advancement of green cloud computing, and various advantages and disadvantages. It also covers the architecture of parallel cloud computing focusing on the role played by each entity. It analyses the primary challenges that are preventing the cloud from reaching its full potential, such as application partitioning and offloading, and it discusses how to overcome these challenges. A discussion of...