Security in Smart Cities: Models, Applications, and Challenges

Abstract

Due to the increase in Internet of Things (IoT) application size, complexity, and the number of components, it is no longer practical to anticipate and secure all possible interactions and data processing in these applications using the traditional infor- mation security models. The emerging of new engineering research areas is a clear evidence of the emergence of new demands and requirements of IoT applications to be more secure. The IoT offers advanced connectivity of devices, systems, and services that go beyond machine-to-machine communications and covers a variety of domains and applications. The interconnection of embedded devices is expected in many fields including Mobility and Intelligent Transport. It is being promoted by the software engineering community to use such systems as the adequate solution to handle the current requirements of complex big data processing problems that demanding distribution, flexibility, and robustness. However, information security of such systems is still on the fly a big challenge. The main objective of this book is to provide an exhaustive review on the challenges of information security in smart and intelligent applications, especially those are working in big data environments. In addition, it aims to provide a collection of high-quality research works that address broad challenges in both theoretical and application aspects of intelligent and smart real-life applications. This book contains a set of chapters that stimulates the continuing effort on the application of the big data processing that leads to solve the problem of big data processing in smart cities applications.