This book gathers high-quality research articles and reviews that reflect the latest advances in the smart network-inspired paradigm and address current issues in IoT applications as well as other emerging areas.

Featuring work from both academic and industry researchers, the book provides a concise overview of the current state of the art and highlights some of the most promising and exciting new ideas and techniques. Accordingly, it offers a valuable resource for senior undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, policymakers, and IT professionals and providers working in areas that call for state-of-the-art networks and IoT applications.

A Reactive Hybrid Metaheuristic Energy Efficient Algorithm For Wireless Sensor Networks.- Maintaining Consistent Firewalls and Flows (Cff)  in Software Defined Networks.- Energy-efficient Broadcasting of Route-request Packets (E2BR2) in Ad Hoc Networks.- Decision Support System for Smart Grid using Demand Forecasting Models.- Internet of Things.-  The Concept, Inherent Security Challenges and Recommended Solutions.- Critical challenges in access management schemes for Smartphones: An Appraisal.- Using fuzzy neural networks regularized to supportsoftware for predicting autism in adolescents on mobile devices.- Performance Evaluation of Supervised Machine Learning Classifiers for Analyzing Agricultural Big Data.