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...

Intelligent Water Drops algorithm or the IWD algorithm is a swarm-based nature-inspired optimization algorithm. This algorithm contains a few essential elements of natural water drops and actions and reactions that occur between river's bed and the water drops that flow within. The IWD algorithm may fall into the category of Swarm intelligence and Meta-heuristic. Intrinsically, the IWD algorithm can be used for combinatorial optimization. However, it may be adapted for continuous optimization too. The IWD was first introduced for the traveling salesman problem in 2007. Since then, multitude...

This book explores the emerging paradigm of self-healing networks-digital infrastructures that can automatically detect, diagnose, and repair faults without human intervention. With growing reliance on uninterrupted connectivity across sectors like healthcare, smart cities, military, and autonomous systems, network resilience has become critical. The book explains key concepts such as fault tolerance, robustness, survivability, and adaptability, and shows how these are achieved through technologies like AI/ML, SDN, NFV, edge computing, blockchain, and digital twins. It outlines practical...

Der Algorithmus "Intelligente Wassertropfen" oder IWD-Algorithmus ist ein schwarmbasierter, von der Natur inspirierter Optimierungsalgorithmus. Dieser Algorithmus enthält einige wesentliche Elemente natürlicher Wassertropfen sowie Aktionen und Reaktionen, die zwischen dem Flussbett und den darin fließenden Wassertropfen stattfinden. Der IWD-Algorithmus lässt sich in die Kategorie der Schwarmintelligenz und der Meta-Heuristik einordnen. An sich kann der IWD-Algorithmus für kombinatorische Optimierung verwendet werden. Er kann jedoch auch für die kontinuierliche Optimierung angepasst...

L'algorithme des gouttes d'eau intelligentes ou algorithme IWD est un algorithme d'optimisation inspiré de la nature et basé sur un essaim. Cet algorithme contient quelques éléments essentiels des gouttes d'eau naturelles et des actions et réactions qui se produisent entre le lit de la rivière et les gouttes d'eau qui s'y écoulent. L'algorithme IWD peut être classé dans la catégorie de l'intelligence en essaim et de la méta-heuristique. Intrinsèquement, l'algorithme IWD peut être utilisé pour l'optimisation combinatoire. Cependant, il peut également être adapté à...