Books in Hardware and architecture

Fundamentals of Fog Computing and the Internet of Things for Smart Healthcare

1st Edition
September 17, 2025
Joseph Bamidele Awotunde + 3 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Fundamentals of Fog Computing and the Internet of Things for Smart Healthcare explores the intersection of two transformative technologies, fog computing and the IoT, shedding light on how they are revolutionizing healthcare. The book serves as an essential guide for researchers and graduate students, explaining the underlying concepts, operational benefits, and potential challenges of these technologies. By delving into how fog computing enhances real-time data processing, the book's authors provide invaluable insights into the practical applications of these advancements in the healthcare industry.Additionall... together with its companion book, Advances in Fog computing and the Internet of Things for Smart Healthcare, the series provides a comprehensive understanding of how these technologies are enabling more efficient, personalized, and accessible healthcare services. By facilitating smart applications and services across various industries, fog computing optimizes performance, latency, privacy, and overall system efficiency, ultimately contributing to the development of more effective and responsive IoT ecosystems.

Decentralized Optimization in Networks

1st Edition
August 1, 2025
Qingguo Lü, + 5 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Decentralized Optimization in Networks: Algorithmic Efficiency and Privacy Preservation provides the reader with theoretical foundations, practical guidance, and solutions to decentralized optimization problems. The book demonstrates the application of decentralized optimization algorithms to enhance communication and computational efficiency, solve large-scale datasets, maintain privacy preservation, and address challenges in complex decentralized networks. The book covers key topics such as event-triggered communication, random link failures, zeroth-order gradients, variance-reduction, Polyak’s projection, stochastic gradient, random sleep, and differential privacy. It also includes simulations and practical examples to illustrate the algorithms' effectiveness and applicability in real-world scenarios.

Digital Twin, Blockchain, and Sensor Networks in the Healthy and Mobile City

1st Edition
February 28, 2025
Tuan Anh Nguyen
English
Paperback
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eBook
9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 4 1 7 5 5

In smart cities, information and communication technologies are integrated to exchange real-time data between citizens, governments, and organizations. Blockchain provides security for communication and transactions between multiple stakeholders. Digital twin refers to a simulation of physical products in a virtual space. This simulation fully utilizes the physical models, wireless sensor networks, and historical data of city operation to integrate big information (digital twin cities) under multidiscipline, multiphysical quantities, multiscale, and multiprobability.Dig... Twin, Blockchain, and Sensor Networks in the Healthy and Mobile City explores how digital twins and blockchain can be used in smart cities. Part 1 deals with their promising applications for healthy cities. Part 2 covers other promising applications and current perspectives of blockchain and digital twins for future smart society and smart city mobility. Together with its companion volume, Digital Twin and Blockchain for Sensor Networks in Smart Cities, this book helps to understand the vast amount of data around the city to encourage happy, healthy, safe, and productive lives.

Digital Twin and Blockchain for Sensor Networks in Smart Cities

1st Edition
February 25, 2025
Tuan Anh Nguyen
English
Paperback
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eBook
9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 0 0 7 7 6

Digital twin, blackchain, and wireless sensor networks can work together to improve services in the smart city. Big data derived from wireless sensor networks can be integrated to accommodate the exchange of real-time data between citizens, governments, and organizations. Blockchain can provide high security for large-scale communications and transactions between many stakeholders. Digital twin uses physical models and historical data to integrate big information under multidiscipline, multiphysical quantities, multiscale, and multiprobability conditions.Digital Twin and Blockchain for Sensor Networks in Smart Cities explores how digital twin and blockchain can be optimized to improve services. This book is divided into three parts. Part 1 focuses on the fundamental concepts of blockchain and digital twin for sensor networks in the smart cities, while Part 2 describes their applications for managing the regular operations and services. Part 3 deals with their applications for safe cities.

Blockchain and Digital Twin for Smart Healthcare

1st Edition
February 12, 2025
Tuan Anh Nguyen
English
Paperback
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eBook
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The smart hospital framework involves three main layers: data, insight and access. Medical data is collected real-time from devices and systems in a smart hospitals: the internet of medical things. This data is integrated to provide insight from the analytics or machine learning software using digital twins. Security and transparency are brought through a combination of digital twin and blockchain technologies. Blockchain and Digital Twins for Smart Healthcare describes the role of blockchain and digital twins in smart healthcare. It describes the ecosystem of the Internet of Medical Things, how data can be gathered using a sensor network, which is securely stored, updated and managed with blockchain for efficient and private medical data exchange. The end goal is insight that provides faster, smarter decisions with more efficiency to improve care for the patient.

Blockchain and Digital Twin for Smart Hospitals

1st Edition
February 1, 2025
Tuan Anh Nguyen
English
Paperback
9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 4 2 2 6 4
eBook
9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 4 2 2 7 1

Blockchain and Digital Twins for Smart Healthcare describes the role of blockchain and digital twins in smart healthcare, covering the ecosystem of the Internet of Medical Things, how data can be gathered using a sensor network, which is securely stored, updated, and managed with blockchain for efficient and private medical data exchange. Medical data is collected real-time from devices and systems in smart hospitals: the internet of medical things. This data is integrated to provide insight from the analytics or machine learning software using digital twins. Security and transparency are brought through a combination of digital twin and blockchain technologies.

Advanced Sensors for Smart Healthcare

1st Edition
January 27, 2025
Tuan Anh Nguyen
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Advanced Sensors for Smart Healthcare provides an invaluable resource for researchers and healthcare practitioners who are eager to use technology to improve the lives of patients. Sections highlight data from sensor networks via the smart hospital framework, including data, insights, and access. This book shows how the use of sensors to gather data on a patient's condition and the environment their care takes place in can allow healthcare professionals to monitor well-being and make informed decisions about treatment.

Sensor Networks for Smart Hospitals

1st Edition
January 17, 2025
Tuan Anh Nguyen
English
Paperback
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eBook
9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 6 3 7 1 9

Sensor Networks for Smart Hospitals shows how the use of sensors to gather data on a patient's condition and the environment in which their care takes place can allow healthcare professionals to monitor well-being and make informed decisions about treatment. Written by experts in the field, this book is an invaluable resource for researchers and healthcare practitioners in their drive to use technology to improve the lives of patients. Data from sensor networks via the smart hospital framework is comprised of three main layers: data, insights, and access.Medical data is collected in real-time from an array of intelligent devices/systems deployed within the hospital. This data offers insight from the analytics or machine learning software that is accessible to healthcare staff via a smartphone or mobile device to facilitate swifter decisions and greater efficiency.

RISC-V System-On-Chip Design

1st Edition
January 1, 2025
David Harris + 3 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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RISC-V Microprocessor System-On-Chip Design is written to be accessible to an advanced undergraduate audience with limited background. It explains concepts from operating systems, VLSI, and memory systems as necessary, and High school mathematics is sufficient preparation for most of the book, although the floating point and division chapters will be primarily of interest to those with a curiosity about computer arithmetic. Like Harris and Harris’s Digital Design and Computer Architecture textbooks, this book will appeal to students with easy-to-read and complete explanations, sidebars, and occasional humor and cartoons.It comes with an open-source implementation and will include end-of-chapter problems to extend the RISC-V processor in various ways. Ancillary materials include a GitHub repository with complete open-source SystemVerilog code, validation code in C and assembly language, and code for benchmarking and booting Linux.

Computer Architecture

7th Edition
January 1, 2025
John L. Hennessy + 2 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, has been considered essential reading by instructors, students and practitioners of computer design for nearly 30 years. The seventh edition of this classic textbook from John Hennessy and David Patterson, winners of the 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award recognizing contributions of lasting and major technical importance to the computing field, along with new author Christos Kozyrakis, is fully revised with the latest developments in processor and system architecture.True to its original mission of demystifying computer architecture, this edition continues the longstanding tradition of focusing on areas where the most exciting computing innovation is happening, while always keeping an emphasis on good engineering design.

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