Internet of Computing Things: Design, Optimization, and Implementation

The Internet of Things (IoT) is emerging as a new paradigm that connects an exponentially increasing number of devices, including smartphones, wireless sensors, smart meters, health monitoring devices, etc. The number of these devices keeps increasing and is estimated to reach billions in the next five years. As a result, the data collected by these devices will grow at exponential rates. In many applications, unlocking the full power of these devices requires (i) communicating high volumes of data, and (ii) analyzing and processing this data through computationally intensive algorithms at unprecedentedly high rates. This thesis focuses on the design, optimization, and implementation of communication and computation algorithms by particularly focusing on computing devices; i.e., the Internet of Computing Things.