Wireless Internet, Multimedia, and Artificial Intelligence: New Applications and Infrastructures

Roberto Saia,Olaf Bergmann,Salvatore Carta

doi:10.3390/fi13090240

Abstract

The potential offered by the Internet, combined with the enormous number of connectable devices, offers benefits in many areas of our modern societies, both public and private. The possibility of making heterogeneous devices communicate with each other through the Internet has given rise to a constantly growing scenario, which was unthinkable not long ago. This unstoppable growth takes place thanks to the continuous availability of increasingly sophisticated device features, an ever-increasing bandwidth and reliability of the connections, and the ever-lower consumption of the devices, which grants them long autonomy. This scenario of exponential growth also involves other sectors such as, for example, that of Artificial Intelligence (AI), which offers us increasingly sophisticated approaches that can be synergistically combined with wireless devices and the Internet in order to create powerful applications for everyday life. Precisely for the aforementioned reasons, the community of researchers, year by year, dedicates more time and resources in this direction. It should be observed that this happens in an atypical way concerning the other research fields, and this is because the achieved progress and the developed applications have practical applications in numerous and different domains.

Highlights

The increasing power of the connected devices, as well as the continuous improvements in terms of reliability and bandwidth of the Internet, have given rise to the so-called data age since an ever-increasing number of devices generate a continuous flow of information
The idea behind our Special Issue was that of bringing together scientists from a large variety of research areas, as to face multiple aspects of the scenario taken into account, believing that the meeting between ideas from people that belong to different research areas can bring advantages to each of them
This Special Issue of Future Internet received valuable contributions, both in terms of fundamental and applied research papers and high-quality surveys. An example of this is the work in [1], where the authors present an innovative approach for damage detection of infrastructures on-edge devices by exploiting a braininspired algorithm, or in [2], where, instead, two techniques aimed at supporting the user in making privacy choices about sharing personal content online have been proposed by the authors

Summary

Introduction

1. Introduction The increasing power of the connected devices, as well as the continuous improvements in terms of reliability and bandwidth of the Internet, have given rise to the so-called data age since an ever-increasing number of devices generate a continuous flow of information. This data flow can be exploited to our advantage, it exposes us to risks in terms of security and privacy.

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