Preface of special issue of CCSN2016

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The promise and the challenges of different emerging technologies like Internet of Things (IoT), 5G, cloud computing, fog computing etc.in one hand and their challenges, technical support and standardization on the other hand involve an intensive research and development works over the last few years in the fields of Computing, Communication, signal processing, sensors and devices, wireless communication and Networks. Driven by lower cost and size, higher potency and efficiency of the devices capable of sensing, actuating, processing, connecting and communicating among the themselves, there have been huge potentials envisioned that promise dramatic increase in our ability to embed intelligence in things and in the environment. Technological progress promises to offer various smart services leading to massive gains in efficiency, business growth and quality of life. Several intelligent services expect to be offered such as Smart Cities, Smart Grids, Smart healthcare, Smart Vehicles, and modern manufacturing along with imposing the challenges in security in diverse forms. Smart healthcare itself is an important research issue that involves medical imaging, disease diagnosis, symptom identification, CAD and remote health monitoring that can be accomplished through the integration of medical devices and instruments, intelligent sensors, data analysis, wireless connectivity etc. The reality of all these diverse applications and services are not the growth and the development of any single or specific research field, rather an intelligent integration of diverse research domains. It needs a synergistic integration of multiple technologies, ranging from wireless sensor networking, power harnessing, advanced sensors, power efficient architectures, semantic analysis, communication networking to the emerging fields like blockchain, machine learning, 5G etc. The promise and the potential of technologies along with the services and supports also pose challenges in security for the information and the processing systems. Privacy concerns have to be addressed at multiple levels to gain user trust. Ubiquitous Internet access allows the utilization of cloud resources on demand for processing as well as storage for learning and analytics. A large varieties of security techniques in the form of cryptography, crypt-analysis, steganography, digital watermarking, forensic to physical layer security involving signal processing and communication draw the research interest of both industry and academia. …