Preface xiii Rajdeep CHAKRABORTY -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Introduction to Operations Research Methodologies 1 Trishit BANERJEE and Arup DASGUPTA -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Decision-making framework/models for operations research -- 1.3 Operations research in IoT, IIoT, edge and smart edge computing, sensor data -- 1.4 Paradigms and procedures -- 1.5 Conclusion -- 1.6 References -- Chapter 2 Edge Computing: The Foundation, Emergence and Growing Applications 25 P.K PAUL -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Objective of the work -- 2.3 Methods adopted -- 2.4 Edge computing and edge cloud: basics -- 2.5 Edge computing and edge devices -- 2.6 Edge computing: working fashions, buying and deploying and 5G -- 2.7 Functions and features of edge computing -- 2.8 Edge computing: applications and examples -- 2.9 Drawbacks, obstacles and issues in edge computing -- 2.10 Edge computing, cloud computing and Internet of Things: some concerns -- 2.11 Future and emergence of edge computing -- 2.12 Conclusion -- 2.13 Acknowledgment -- 2.14 References -- Chapter 3 Utilization of Edge Computing in Digital Education: A Conceptual Overview 47 Ritam CHATTERJEE -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Objectives -- 3.3 Methodology used -- 3.4 Digital education -- 3.5 Education and information science -- 3.6 Edge computing -- 3.7 Conclusion -- 3.8 Acknowledgment -- 3.9 References -- Chapter 4 Edge Computing with Operations Research Using IoT Devices in Healthcare: Concepts, Tools, Techniques and Use Cases 65 Shalini RAMANATHAN, Mohan RAMASUNDARAM, Tauheed KHAN MOHD and Anabel PINEDA-BRISENO -- 4.1 Overview -- 4.2 The smartness of edge across artificial intelligence with the IoT -- 4.3 Promising approaches in edge healthcare system -- 4.4 Impact of smartphones on edge computing -- 4.5 Tools, techniques and use cases -- 4.6 Significant forthcomings of edge healthcare IoT -- 4.7 Software and hardware companies developing healthcare tools -- 4.8 Summary -- 4.9 References -- Chapter 5 Performance Measures in Edge Computing Using the Queuing Model 97 Shillpi MISHRRA -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Methodology -- 5.3 Conclusion -- 5.4 Future scope -- 5.5 References -- Chapter 6 A Smart Payment Transaction Procedure by Smart Edge Computing 113 Animesh UPADHYAYA, Koushik MUKHOPADHYAY, Amejul ISLAM, Shaon Kalyan MODAK and Debdutta PAL -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Related works -- 6.3 Ethereum -- 6.4 Ethereum's components -- 6.5 General-purpose blockchains to decentralized applications (DApps) -- 6.6 Ether currency units -- 6.7 Ethereum wallet -- 6.8 A simple contract: a test Ether faucet -- 6.9 Ethereum clients -- 6.10 Conclusion -- 6.11 References -- Chapter 7 Statistical Learning Approach for the Detection of Abnormalities in Cancer Cells for Finding Indication of Metastasis 133 Soumen SANTRA, Dipankar MAJUMDAR and Surajit MANDAL -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Edge computation: a new era -- 7.3 Impact of edge computation in cancer treatment -- 7.4 Assessment parameters operational methodologies -- 7.5 Shape descriptor analysis: statistical approach -- 7.6 Results and discussion -- 7.7 Conclusion -- 7.8 References -- Chapter 8 Overcoming the Stigma of Alzheimer's Disease by Means of Natural Language Processing as well as Blockchain Technologies 149 Kaveri BANERJEE, Priyanka BHATTACHARYA, Sandip ROY and Rajesh BOSE -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Alzheimer's disease -- 8.3 Alzheimer's disease types -- 8.4 NLP in chat-bots/AI companions -- 8.5 Proposed methodologies for reduction of stigma -- 8.6 Blockchain technology for securing all medical data -- 8.7 Conclusion -- 8.8 Future scope -- 8.9 Acknowledgments -- 8.10 References -- Chapter 9 Computer Vision-based Edge Computing System to Detect Health Informatics for Oral Pre-Cancer 175 Animesh UPADHYAYA, Vertika RAI, Surajit BOSE, Dipankar BHATTACHARYA and Jayanta CHATTOPADHYAY -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Related works -- 9.3 Materials and methods -- 9.4 Results -- 9.5 Conclusion -- 9.6 References -- Chapter 10 A Study of Ultra-lightweight Ciphers and Security Protocol for Edge Computing 189 Debasmita PAUL, Aheli ACHARYA and Debajyoti GUHA -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Ultra-lightweight ciphers -- 10.3 Ultra-lightweight security protocols -- 10.3.4 Comparison between LEAP, MIFARE and RFB protocols -- 10.4 Conclusion -- 10.5 References -- Chapter 11 A Study on Security Protocols, Threats and Probable Solutions for Internet of Things Using Blockchain 215 Debajyoti GUHA -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 IoT architecture and security challenges -- 11.3 Security threat classifications -- 11.4 Security solutions for IoT -- 11.5 Blockchain-based IoT paradigm: security and privacy issues -- 11.6 IoT Messaging Protocols -- 11.7 Advantages of edge computing -- 11.8 Conclusion -- 11.9 References -- List of Authors -- Index.