Fundamentals of Internet of Things
暫譯: 物聯網基礎知識

本書強調透過利用信號處理、通信、網絡和機器學習中的重要且相關的概念來建立物聯網（IoT）網絡的基礎。內容聚焦於物聯網協議、能量收集、控制優化、聚類、數據融合、數據分析、定位、雲端計算等主題。

Sudhir Kumar is currently an Assistant Professor with the Electrical Engineering (EE) department, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, Patna, India since May 2017. He received his B.Tech. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) from West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata, India, in 2010 and a Ph.D. degree from the Electrical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India, in 2015. He has worked as an Erasmus Mundus Fellow with the Department of Computer Science, the University of Oxford, U.K from October 2014 to July 2015 and a Scientist with TCS Research, Kolkata, India from February 2016 to July 2016. Subsequently, he joined as an Assistant Professor at Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT), Nagpur, India from July 2016 to May 2017. He published more than 50 research articles in prestigious journals, conference proceedings and book chapters. He has also edited a book titled "Innovations in Cyber Physical Systems", led two patents, and undertaken four sponsored projects. His broad research interests include Wireless Sensor Networks, Internet of Things (IoT), Molecular Communications, 6G Wireless Communications Systems, Signal Processing, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning. Dr. Kumar is a recipient of several awards and fellowships, such as the Best Teacher Award in UG Teaching from the EE Department; the best poster paper award at COMSNETS 2021; the CSIR, and SERB International Travel Grants; the National Award from L&T-ISTE for having guided the Best M.Tech. Thesis (Second Prize); the SERB Indo-U.S. Postdoctoral Fellowship, the India-EU Namaste Fellowship; the TCS Research Scholarship; the MHRD Scholarship; the IEEE ICC Student Travel Grant Award; and the COMSNETS Travel Grant. He has guided several B.Tech. and M.Tech. projects which won national awards. He is a member of ACM, a senior member of IEEE, and a life member of ISTE.

Sudhir Kumar 目前是印度巴特那印度科技學院 (Indian Institute of Technology Patna) 電機工程系的助理教授，自2017年5月以來任職。他於2010年在印度加爾各答的西孟加拉科技大學 (West Bengal University of Technology) 獲得電子與通信工程 (Electronics and Communication Engineering, ECE) 的學士學位，並於2015年在印度坎普爾的印度科技學院 (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur) 獲得電機工程博士學位。他曾於2014年10月至2015年7月擔任英國牛津大學 (University of Oxford) 計算機科學系的 Erasmus Mundus Fellow，並於2016年2月至2016年7月在印度加爾各答的 TCS Research 擔任科學家。隨後，他於2016年7月至2017年5月擔任印度納格浦爾的維斯維斯瓦拉亞國立技術學院 (Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, VNIT) 的助理教授。他在知名期刊、會議論文集和書籍章節上發表了超過50篇研究文章。他還編輯了一本名為《網絡物理系統的創新》（'Innovations in Cyber Physical Systems'）的書籍，主導了兩項專利，並承擔了四個贊助項目。他的廣泛研究興趣包括無線感測器網絡 (Wireless Sensor Networks)、物聯網 (Internet of Things, IoT)、分子通信 (Molecular Communications)、6G無線通信系統、信號處理 (Signal Processing)、機器學習 (Machine Learning) 和深度學習 (Deep Learning)。Kumar 博士獲得了多項獎項和獎學金，包括電機工程系的本科教學最佳教師獎、COMSNETS 2021 的最佳海報論文獎、CSIR 和 SERB 國際旅行獎學金、L&T-ISTE 的國家獎（指導最佳碩士論文第二名）、SERB 印度-美國博士後獎學金、印度-歐盟 Namaste 獎學金、TCS Research 獎學金、MHRD 獎學金、IEEE ICC 學生旅行獎和 COMSNETS 旅行獎。他指導的多個 B.Tech. 和 M.Tech. 項目獲得了國家獎項。他是 ACM 的成員，IEEE 的高級會員，以及 ISTE 的終身會員。