Building Tomorrow's Smart Cities With 6G Infrastructure Technology

Emerging technologies such as blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI), digital twins, and advanced internet of things (IoT) sensors are transforming cities into intelligent, interconnected ecosystems through applications such as smart parking, smart healthcare, and smart education. These systems rely on IoT devices and gateways to collect, process, and analyze data for optimizing smart city functions, with advancements shifting from 5G to 6G technology. While these innovations promise to revolutionize urban environments, ensuring security and privacy in 6G infrastructure remains a critical challenge for realizing the full potential of smart cities. Building Tomorrow's Smart Cities With 6G Infrastructure Technology explores the profound impact of emerging technology-enabled secure 6G infrastructure on the creation of futuristic smart cities. It provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings. Covering topics such as AI, heritage cities, and web3, this book is an excellent resource for industry professionals, researchers, policymakers, academicians, students, and more.

Dr. Sushil Kumar Singh is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering at Marwadi University, Rajkot, India. He received Ph.D. degree from Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Seoul, South Korea. He received M.Tech. Degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Uttarakhand Technical University, Dehradun, India. He also received an M.E. degree in Information Technology from Karnataka State University, Mysore, India. He has also been the lab leader of the UCS Lab at the Department of Computer Science Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Seoul, South Korea. He has received Best Lab Leadership Award from UCS Lab for 2019-2021. He has more than 12 years of experience teaching in the field of computer science. He has published Four Books: Computer C Programming, Cyber Security, Big Data Analytics, and Mobile Computing. He has also published many high-quality papers (Q1, Top 10% JCR Rank) in international journals and conferences. He has already delivered international lectures in many countries. His research interests include Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Internet of Things, Smart City Security, and CPS.

Bal S. Virdee (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. and M.Phil. degrees in communications engineering from the University of Leeds, U.K., and the Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from the University of London, U.K. He has worked in industry for various companies, including Philips, U.K., as a Research and Development Engineer and Teledyne Defence and Space as a Future Products Developer in RF/microwave communications. He has taught at several academic institutions before joining London Metropolitan University, where he is currently a Senior Professor in communications technology with the School of Computing and Digital Media, where he is also the Head the Communications Technology Research Center. His research, in collaboration with industry and academia, is in wireless communications encompassing mobile-phones to satellite-technology. He has chaired technical sessions at IEEE international conferences and published numerous research papers. He is an Executive Member of IET’s Technical and Professional Network Committee on RF/Microwave-Technology. He is a fellow of IET.

Rajendrasinh B. Jadeja (Senior Member, IEEE) is working as a Dean at the Faculty of Engineering, Marwadi University - Gujarat, India. He completed his B.E. in Electrical Engineering from L. D. College of Engineering (Gujarat University) in 1998, M. Tech. in Electrical Engineering from Nirma University and a Ph.D. from the M S University, Baroda respectively in the year of 2005 and 2010. He has been awarded the title “ING.PAED.IGIP” in 2020.He is a Senior Member of IEEE. He has worked as a Treasurer of IEEE Region-10 during the year 2021. He is currently working as a Chair, Membership Development Committee of IEEE Region-10. He has worked as a Treasurer of IEEE India Council and worked as a Chair of IEEE Gujarat Section during the Year 2017. The areas of Research and Interest include control of power electronic converters, AC drives, Pulse Width Modulated power electronic converters and Power Quality Issues and its mitigation techniques. Various projects have been undertaken and have completed a project funded by GUJCOST (Gujarat Council on Science & Technology) and he is working on a project making “Deep Learning and AI skills” mainstream in India to fulfil trilateral needs of entrepreneurship, Industry-academia partnership and application-inspired Engineering Research. He actively participates and initiates ERASMUS+ for staff mobility and has also completed such a program for teaching between partner countries. A recipient of young Professional Award for travel grant to attend IEEE Section Congress held on 22- 24 August 2014, Amsterdam, Netherlands. He has been working as a member of Board of Studies of Electrical Engineering of the Gujarat state’s largest public Technical University Gujarat Technological University and also a BoS member at PDPU, Gandhinagar.

Prof. Sudeep Tanwar (Senior Member, IEEE) is working as a professor at the Nirma University, India. He is also a Visiting Professor with WSG University, Bydgoszczy, Poland, Jan Wyzykowski University, Poland, WSG University, Bydgoszcz, and the University of Pitesti, Romania. He is senior member of IEEE and also Vice Chair of IEEE Computer Society Gujarat Section. He received B.Tech in 2002 from Kurukshetra University, India, M.Tech (Honor’s) in 2009 from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi, India and Ph.D. in 2016 with specialization in Wireless Sensor Network. He has authored 05 books and edited 25 books, more than 400 technical articles, including top cited journals and conferences, such as IEEE TNSE, IEEE TVT, IEEE TII, IEEE TGCN, IEEE TCSC, IEEE IoTJ, IEEE NETWORKS, IEEE WCM, ICC, IWCMC, GLOBECOM, CITS, and INFOCOM. He initiated the research field of blockchain technology adoption in various verticals in the year 2017. His H-index as per Google Scholar and Scopus is 71 and 57, respectively. His research interests include blockchain technology, D2D communication, Deep Learning/ machine Learning, wireless sensor networks, fog computing, smart grid, and the IoT. He is a member of the Technical Committee on Tactile Internet of IEEE Communication Society. Recently, He has been awarded cash prize of Rs, 50,000 for publishing papers with 5+ Impact factor and publication of books with Springer, IET & CRC under the scheme of "Faculty Awards and Incentives" of Nirma University for the year 2019-2020. He has been awarded the Best Research Paper Awards from IEEE SCIoT 2022, IEEE IWCMC-2021, IEEE ICCCA-2021, IEEE GLOBECOM 2018, IEEE ICC 2019, and Springer ICRIC-2019. He has won Dr KW Wong Annual Best Paper Prize (with 750 USD) for 2021 sponsored by Elsevier (publishers of JISA). He has served many international conferences as a member of the Organizing Committee, such as the Publication Chair for FTNCT-2020, ICCIC 2020, and WiMob2019, and a General Chair for IC4S 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, ICCSDF 2020, FTNCT 2021. He is also serving the editorial boards of COMCOM-Elsevier, IJCS-Wiley, Cyber Security and Applications- Elsevier, Frontiers of blockchain, SPY, Wiley, IJMIS journal of Inderscience, JCCE, and JSSS. He is also leading the ST Research Laboratory, where group members are working on the latest cutting-edge technologies.