Jun Huang is a Full Professor at the Institute of Electronic Information and Networking in Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China, where his current research interests include network optimization and control and Internet-of-Things. He has published more than 70 refereed journal/conference papers in these areas.Kun Hua is an Associate Professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Lawrence Technological University, USA, where his research interests are in the areas of wireless communication and multimedia signal processing. He has published more than 50 refereed journal and conference papers in these areas, is a senior member of IEEE and has served as an Associate Editor of Security and Communication Networks.

• Chapter 1: Topology control for building scalable energy-efficient Internet of ThingsChapter 2: Wireless sensor network operating systems: a surveyChapter 3: Wireless sensor network operating system: concept, new design, and implementationChapter 4: OSIRIS framework: sensOr-baSed monItoRIng SystemsChapter 5: Modeling and tracing events in RFID-enabled supply chainsChapter 6: A new clone detection approach in RFID-enabled supply chainsChapter 7: Participatory sensing network: a paradigm to achieve applications of IoTChapter 8: Economics of Internet of Things (IoT): market structure analysisChapter 9: IoT and big data: application for urban planning and building smart citiesChapter 10: Healthcare Internet of Things: fundamental technologies, state-of-the-art standards, and current practices