There is a need to keep track of advancements related to the network technologies and further investigate several research challenges to overcome for the ease of users. With this goal, the book provides most recent and prominent research works have been done related to the network technologies.

Dr. Anshul Verma received M.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science & Engineering from ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Gwalior, India. He has done Post-doctorate from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. Currently, he is serving as Assistant Professor in Department of Computer Science, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University Varanasi, India. He has also served as faculty member in Computer Science & Engineering Department at Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (MNNIT) Allahabad and National Institute of Technology (NIT) Jamshedpur, India. His research interests include IoT, Mobile ad-hoc networks, Distributed systems, Formal verification, and Mobile computing. He is serving as Editor of the Journal of Scientific Research of the Banaras Hindu University.

Dr. Pradeepika Verma received her Ph.D. degree in Computer Science & Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad, India. She has received M.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering from Banasthali University, Rajasthan, India. Currently, she is working as Post-Doctoral Fellow in Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, India. She is also Associate Professor in Department of Computer Science at K L Deemed to be University, Andhra Pradesh, India and is presently on study leave. Prior to this, she has worked as Assistant Professor in Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Pranveer Singh Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India and as Faculty member in Department of Computer Application at Institute of Engineering and Technology, Lucknow, India. Her current research interests include IoT, Natural Language Processing, Optimization Approaches, and Information Retrieval.

Dr. Kiran Kumar Pattanaik holds Bachelor degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering followed by Master and Doctorate in Computer Science & Engineering. He is presently working as Associate Professor at ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior, India. He is enthusiastic about exploring various engineering application domains involving Distributed and Mobile Computing, Wireless Sensor Network protocols, IoT, and Edge Computing. His Wireless Sensor Network laboratory is equipped with the necessary computing facilities (simulation and hardware) and is accessible round the clock for learning. The competitive ambiance of the laboratory is instrumental for a number of public funded research projects and high impact factor research publications. Dr. Pattanaik (Senior Member of IEEE) is a reviewer for several leading Journals in the areas of communication and networking.

Dr. Lalit Garg is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Information Systems at the University of Malta, Msida, Malta. He is also an honorary lecturer at the University of Liverpool, UK. He has also worked as a researcher at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and the University of Ulster, UK. He is skilled in solving complex problems using machine learning and data analytics, especially from medicine and healthcare domain. He has published over 90 technical papers in refereed high impact journals, conferences and books and has more than 622 citation count to publications, and some of his articles awarded best paper awards. He has delivered more than 20 keynote speeches in different countries, organised/chaired/co-chaired 16 international conferences and contributed as a technical committee member or a reviewer of several high impact journals and reputed conferences. He is awarded research studentship in Healthcare Modelling to carry out his PhD research studies in the faculty of computing and engineering at the University of Ulster, UK. He completed his Post Graduate in Information Technology from ABV-IIITM, Gwalior, India and his first degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Barkatullah University, Bhopal, India. He has also consulted numerous public and private organisations for their information system implementations.

Chapter 1 Energy and Delay Balance Ensemble Scheduling Algorithm for

Wireless Sensor Networks

B. Srinivasa Rao

Chapter 2 An Improved RSSI-Based WSN Localization Algorithm for

Coal Mine Underground Miners

Shailendra Kumar Rawat, Akhilendra Pratap Singh,

S. K. Singh, and Ajay Kumar Bharti

Chapter 3 YaraCapper - YARA Rule-based Automated System to Detect

and Alert Network Attacks

Karthik Sainadh Siddabathula, Ramesh Kumar Panneerselvam,

Vineela Vasana, Jayavardhan Vejendla, Mohammed Rafi, and

Sree Bhanu Gummadi

Chapter 4 Describing Nature-inspired Networking and Real-time Task

Execution: A Theoretical Study

Rashmi Sharma, Kaustubh Lohani, and Prajwal Bhardwaj

Chapter 5 Memory Characterization of GP-GPU Applications

Govind Sreekar Shenoy

Chapter 6 A Fuzzy Logic-based Emergency Vehicle Routing Technique

for Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks

Rashmi Ranjita and Sasmita Acharya

Chapter 7 A Fog Cluster-Based Framework for Personalized Healthcare

Monitoring

Jeyashree G. and Padmavathi S.

Chapter 8 QTR: QoS-Aware Traffic Rerouting in OpenFlow-Based

Software-Defined Networks

S. K. Nivetha, N. Senthilkumaran, M. Geetha, and R. C. Suganthe

Chapter 9 Application-Based Evaluation of Neural Network Architectures

for Edge Devices

Amit Mankodi, Het Suthar, and Amit Bhatt

Chapter 10 Effective Parallel Approach to Enhance the Performance of

Cloth Simulation Model for Real-Time Applications

Abhishek S. Rao, Devidas B, Vasudeva Pai,

Deepak D., and Nagesh Shenoy

Chapter 11 Pruning in Recommendation System Using Learned Bloom Filter

Harsha Verma, Aditya Manchanda, and Amrit Pal Singh

Chapter 12 Performance Evaluation of ARIMA and CRNN for

Weather Prediction

Uma Sharma and Chilka Sharma

Chapter 13 A Novel Approach to Sorting Algorithm

Rushank Shah, Riddham Gadia, and Abhijit Joshi

Chapter 14 A New Proposed Sorting Algorithm Using Radix

Tree and Binning

Kashvi Dedhia, Riddham Gadia, Saloni Dagli,

Shivam Kejriwal, and Stevina Correia

Chapter 15 Grey Wolf Optimizer for Load Balancing in Cloud Computing

Muskan, Dharmendra Prasad Mahato, and Van Huy Pham

Chapter 16 A COVID-19 Vaccine Notifier Android App "CoWin Mitra"

Vikas Kumar Patel, Anshul Verma, and Pradeepika Verma

Chapter 17 Mathematical Modeling of Glucocerebrosidase Signaling

Networks Linked to Neurodegeneration

Hemalatha Sasidharakurup, Dheeraj Pisharody,

Haritha Bose, Dijith Rajan, and Shyam Diwakar

Chapter 18 Empirical Analysis of The Performance of Routing Protocols in

Opportunistic Networks

Mohini Singh, Anshul Verma, and Pradeepika Verma

Chapter 19 Reduce the Privacy and Security Concerns of Current Social

Media Platforms Using Blockchain Technology

Muneshwara M. S., Swetha M. S., Anand R., and Anil G. N.