Edge Computing: Fundamentals, Advances and Applications
暫譯: 邊緣計算：基礎、進展與應用

本參考書介紹邊緣計算的概念及其與區塊鏈技術、雲端計算和物聯網（IoT）的整合。這本書將對電機工程、電子工程和計算機科學領域的高年級本科生、研究生及專業人士提供有用的參考。

Dr K Anitha Kumari is working as an Associate Professor in Department of IT for past 10 Years in PSG College of Technology, India. She is Highly Passionate and curious about Learning New stuffs in New Generation Computing Technologies. As an Independent Researcher, she had an Opportunity to present her UGC sponsored Research Paper based on Quantum Cryptography in USA and visited a few Foreign Universities. To her credit, she had Published a PATENT and 60 Technical Papers in refereed and Impact Factored International/National Journals/Conferences published by IEEE, Elsevier, Springer, T&F, etc., .Out of her Research interest, she published a Book in "Edge Computing: Fundamentals, Advances and Applications" by CRC Press and contributed several Book Chapters published by CRC Press, Springer, IGI Global, etc., Currently she's being the Programme Coordinator of ME [Biometrics and Cyber Security] programme and coordinated PSG CARE Sponsored One Year Certification Course on Cyber Security [Jan-Dec 2020]. She's also serving as Editorial Member for Scopus-indexed/Open-access Journals like International Journal of Education, Science, Technology, and Engineering, International Journal of Artificial Intelligence, Decision Making: Applications in Management and Engineering, etc., and acting as SPOC for the MoU signed between PSG and SETS Laboratory, Chennai. Also, she's been an Active Reviewer for Prestigious Journals published by IEEE (IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (IF: 20.230), IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (IF: 5.43)), IEEE Access, Springer, Wiley, etc., and Technical Program Committee (TPC) for many International/National conferences. Her areas of interest include Cloud & IoT Security, Design and Analysis of Security Protocols, Attacks & Defense, Security in Computing, Bioinformatics, Quantum Cryptography, Web Service Security, Network Security, Cognitive Security and Analysis of Algorithms. She delivered ample Guest Lectures in her Area of Interest. Her security project is sanctioned and granted by AICTE for a sum of Rs.11,80,000/-. She's been the mentor for Technovator Projects (2019, 2018 & 2014) and 'MEDROIDZ', an ICICI - Trinity 2014 funded project that was selected as one among the 6 projects in India. Academically, she has secured RANK-I and awarded Gold Medal in ME (SE) & in BE (CSE) from Anna University and from Avinashilingam University. As a Supervisor, she is currently guiding PhD scholars in her research area. You may contact her at anitha.psgsoft@gmail.com / kak.it@psgtech.ac.in.

Dr G Sudha Sadasivam is working as a Professor and Heading the Department of CSE at PSG College of Technology. She has 22 years of teaching experience. She has published 5 books and 20 papers in indexed journals. She has coordinated two AICTE-RPS projects and a UGC sponsored project in the areas of distributed computing. She is the coordinator of PSG-Yahoo research in grid and cloud computing, Nokia Research on Personalisation, Xurmo Research in social networking and Cloudera project on VM migration in federated Cloud Environment. Her team has set up PSG-Yahoo/Nokia lab on Big Data Analytics at PSG College of Technology. Her areas of interest include Distributed Computing and Big Data Analytics.

Ms D Dharani is working as an Assistant Professor in Department of IT in PSG College of Technology, India. She received her M.Tech degree in Information Technology in the year 2016 and B.Tech degree in Information Technology in the year 2014 from Anna University, Chennai and is currently pursuing Ph.D in Information and Communication Technology under Anna University, Chennai. She had published papers in International/National Journals/Conferences. She had also co-authored a book chapter entitled COVID-19: AI-Enabled Social Distancing Detector using CNN and has been published by Springer. She had completed PSG CARE Sponsored One year Certification Course on Data Science. She had successfully completed NPTEL and Coursera certification courses on Blockchain. Her research interest includes areas of Blockchain Technology, Edge Data Analytics and Machine Learning.

Dr. M. Niranjanamurthy is working as Assistant Professor in Department of Computer Applications, M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore, Karnataka. Having 12* years of teaching experience and 2 years of industry experience as a Software Engineer. He has published 6 books in Scholars Press Germany, Wiley-SP, Springer and around 70* research articles in various International Conferences and International Journals. TO his credit, he filed 18 Patents in that 3 were granted. He's being Research supervisor for four Ph.D. scholars in the area of Data Science, ML, and Networking. He is working as a reviewer in 22 International Journals. Two times got Best Research journal reviewer award. He Got Researcher award- Computer Science Engineering - 2018, 2019, 2020. He worked as National/ International Ph.D. examiner. He conducted various National and International Conferences, National Level workshops and Delivered Lectures. He is associated with various professional bodies like IEEE Member, Life Membership of "International Association of Engineers" (IAENG), Membership of "Computer Science Teachers Association" (CSTA). His areas of interest are Data Science, ML, E-Commerce and M-Commerce related to Industry Internal tool enhancement, Software Testing, Software Engineering, Web Services, Web-Technologies, Cloud Computing, Big data analytics, Networking.

Dr K Anitha Kumari 在印度 PSG 科技學院的資訊科技系擔任副教授已有 10 年。她對於學習新一代計算技術充滿熱情與好奇。作為一名獨立研究者，她有機會在美國發表基於量子密碼學的 UGC 贊助 研究論文，並造訪了幾所外國大學。她的成就包括 發表了一項專利 和 60 篇技術論文，這些論文發表在由 IEEE、Elsevier、Springer、T&F 等出版的國際/國內期刊和會議上。她的研究興趣中，出版了 一本書《邊緣計算：基礎、進展與應用》由 CRC Press 出版，並且貢獻了幾個由 CRC Press、Springer、IGI Global 等出版的 書章。目前，她擔任 生物識別與網路安全碩士學程的課程協調員，並協調了 PSG CARE 贊助的網路安全一年證書課程 [2020年1月至12月]。她還擔任 編輯委員，負責 Scopus 索引的開放存取期刊，如 國際教育、科學、技術與工程期刊、國際人工智慧期刊、決策應用於管理與工程等期刊，並擔任 PSG 與 Chennai SETS 實驗室簽署的 MoU 的單點聯絡人。此外，她還是 IEEE (IEEE 通訊調查與教程 (IF: 20.230)、IEEE 工業資訊學期刊 (IF: 5.43)、IEEE Access、Springer、Wiley 等出版的知名期刊的活躍審稿人，並擔任多個國際/國內會議的 技術程序委員會 (TPC) 成員。她的研究領域包括雲端與物聯網安全、安全協議的設計與分析、攻擊與防禦、計算安全、生物資訊學、量子密碼學、網路服務安全、網路安全、認知安全及演算法分析。她在其研究領域中進行了多場客座講座。她的安全項目獲得 AICTE 批准，資金為 11,80,000 印度盧比。她曾擔任 Technovator 項目的導師（2019、2018 和 2014 年）以及 'MEDROIDZ'，這是一個由 ICICI - Trinity 2014 資助的項目，該項目在印度的 6 個項目中被選中。學術上，她在安娜大學獲得 ME (SE) 和 BE (CSE) 的第一名並獲得金獎。作為指導教授，她目前正在指導 博士生 進行研究。您可以通過 anitha.psgsoft@gmail.com / kak.it@psgtech.ac.in 聯繫她。

Dr G Sudha Sadasivam 在 PSG 科技學院擔任教授並負責計算機科學系。她擁有 22 年的教學經驗。她已出版 5 本書和 20 篇期刊論文。她協調了兩個 AICTE-RPS 項目和一個 UGC 贊助的分散式計算領域的項目。她是 PSG-Yahoo 在網格和雲計算方面的研究協調員，Nokia 在個性化方面的研究，Xurmo 在社交網絡方面的研究，以及 Cloudera 在聯邦雲環境中虛擬機遷移的項目。她的團隊在 PSG 科技學院設立了 PSG-Yahoo/Nokia 大數據分析實驗室。她的研究領域包括分散式計算和大數據分析。

Ms D Dharani 在印度 PSG 科技學院的資訊科技系擔任助理教授。她於 2016 年獲得資訊科技碩士學位，於 2014 年獲得資訊科技學士學位，均來自安娜大學，並目前在安娜大學攻讀資訊與通信技術的博士學位。她在國際/國內期刊和會議上發表過論文。她還共同撰寫了一章名為《COVID-19: AI 驅動的社交距離檢測器使用 CNN》的書章，該書由 Springer 出版。她完成了 PSG CARE 贊助的一年數據科學證書課程。她成功完成了 NPTEL 和 Coursera 的區塊鏈認證課程。她的研究興趣包括區塊鏈技術、邊緣數據分析和機器學習。

Dr. M. Niranjanamurthy 在班加羅爾的 M S Ramaiah 工程學院的計算機應用系擔任助理教授。他擁有 12 年的教學經驗和 2 年的軟體工程行業經驗。他在 Scholars Press 德國、Wiley-SP、Springer 出版了 6 本書，並在各種國際會議和國際期刊上發表了約 70 篇研究文章。他的成就包括申請了 18 項專利，其中 3 項已獲得批准。他是四名博士生在數據科學、機器學習和網路領域的研究指導教授。他在 22 本國際期刊中擔任審稿人，兩次獲得最佳研究期刊審稿人獎。他獲得了 2018、2019 和 2020 年的計算機科學工程研究者獎。他曾擔任國家/國際博士考官，並舉辦各種國家和國際會議、國家級研討會並進行講座。他與多個專業機構有關聯，如 IEEE 會員、國際工程師協會 (IAENG) 的終身會員、計算機科學教師協會 (CSTA) 的會員。他的研究領域包括數據科學、機器學習、電子商務和與行業內部工具增強相關的移動商務、軟體測試、軟體工程、網路服務、網路技術、雲計算、大數據分析和網路。