Edge-of-Things in Personalized Healthcare Support Systems

Edge-of-Things in Personalized Healthcare Support Systems discusses and explores state-of-the-art technology developments in storage and sharing of personal healthcare records in a secure manner that is globally distributed to incorporate best healthcare practices. The book presents research into the identification of specialization and expertise among healthcare professionals, the sharing of records over the cloud, access controls and rights of shared documents, document privacy, as well as edge computing techniques which help to identify causes and develop treatments for human disease. The book aims to advance personal healthcare, medical diagnosis, and treatment by applying IoT, cloud, and edge computing technologies in association with effective data analytics.

• Provides an in-depth analysis of how to model and design applications for state-of-the-art healthcare systems
• Discusses and explores the social impact of the intertwined use of emerging IT technologies for healthcare
• Covers system design and software building principles for healthcare using IoT, cloud, and edge computing technologies with the support of effective and efficient data analytics strategies
• Explores the latest algorithms using machine and deep learning in the areas of cloud, edge computing, IoT, and healthcare analytics

About the Author

Rajeswari Sridhar is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India. Her research interests include Cloud computing, Natural language processing, Information Retrieval, etc. She has guided 2 PhD students in the areas of Resource provisioning in Cloud computing and Access policies for data sharing through the cloud. She is currently guiding 5 research scholars in similar areas. She has published 70 articles in reputed journals and conferences. She is a member of the IEEE, ACM and CSI.

G R Gangadharan is working as an Associate Professor in the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India. His research interests are mainly located on the interface between technological and business perspectives. He has published around 95 publications in the reputed international journals, conferences, and book chapters. He has also edited two books. He has received Ph.D. degree in Information and Communication Technology (2008) from the University of Trento, Trento, Italy and European University Association and an M.S. in Information Technology (2004) from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and ACM.

Michael Sheng is a full Professor and Head of Department of Computing at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Before moving to Macquarie University, Michael spent 10 years at School of Computer Science, the University of Adelaide (UoA). Prof. Sheng has more than 400 publications as edited books and proceedings, refereed book chapters, and refereed technical papers in journals and conferences. He is ranked by Microsoft Academic as one of the Top Authors in Services Computing (ranked the 5th of All Time worldwide). He is the recipient of the AMiner Most Influential Scholar Award on IoT (2007-2017), ARC Future Fellowship (2014), Chris Wallace Award for Outstanding Research Contribution (2012), and Microsoft Research Fellowship (2003).

Rajan Shankaran is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computing at Macquarie University. He leads the 'Security, Communications, and Networks Research Group'. He obtained his PhD in Wireless and Mobile communications from the Western Sydney University (Sydney, Australia). He has previously held an appointment at Western Sydney University. His research focuses on Internetworking security and Quality of service with a special focus on Body Area Networks and Medical Implants, Cognitive Radio, Internet of Things and Vehicular Networks and D2D Communications. He has supervised several Master by Research (MRES) and PhD students to successful completion in these areas. He has published in reputed journals such as IEEE Transactions on Vehicular communications and IEEE Sensors as well as in several prestigious conferences. He has also acted as a reviewer for many SCI journals. He has also served in Technical Program Committees for several conferences in computer networking and security.