1 INTRODUCTION

In the last few decades, new technologies are continuously growing in next‐generation applications, such as smart energies, smart grid, and smart transportation. Big data, Internet of things (IoT), and cloud computing (BIC) are the distinct three domains taking the lead role in the modernized variant of applications with information communication and technology (ICT). They provide different types of communication networks and technologies for sharing data all over the world. However, each of these domains has some challenges, such as scalability, access control, accuracy, low performance, computational bandwidth, energy consumption, security, and privacy. IoT applications collect and process a massive amount of data from the diverse communication system (CS). Thus, we need to find BIC‐based solutions for addressing the above challenges with the convergence of ICT applications and services. The emerging ICT paradigm and BIC are developing future human requirements and provide innovation possibilities, scalable productivity, and industrial application efficiency. ICT‐based cloud computing will leverage big data analytics anytime, anywhere, collecting and processing IoT data by cloud servers and CS services. ICT has opened up various security and privacy issues in BIC, such as unauthorized software updates, weak password authentication, and insecure communication, which have become key research challenges. Artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain are also recent advanced technologies for facilitating automation and streamlined functioning of IoT devices, security, and privacy with the convergence of ICT principles and BIC. It also provides technological magic for innovation in ICT applications with BIC, when adequately designed and implemented.

This special issue focuses on the most recent advances in smart communications and information communication technology, design, and development of emerging ICT applications and services, including big data, IoT, and cloud computing for advanced applications. We invited technical articles that have a broad scope and general interest to an engineering audience.

中文翻译：

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新兴的ICT应用程序和服务-大数据，物联网和云计算

1引言

在过去的几十年中，新技术在下一代应用中不断增长，例如智能能源，智能电网和智能交通。大数据，物联网（IoT）和云计算（BIC）是在信息通信和技术（ICT）的现代应用程序变体中起主导作用的三个不同领域。它们提供了不同类型的通信网络和技术，用于在世界范围内共享数据。但是，每个域都有一些挑战，例如可伸缩性，访问控制，准确性，低性能，计算带宽，能耗，安全性和隐私性。物联网应用程序从多样化的通信系统（CS）收集和处理大量数据。从而，我们需要找到基于BIC的解决方案，以解决ICT应用和服务融合带来的上述挑战。新兴的ICT范式和BIC正在开发未来的人类需求，并提供创新的可能性，可扩展的生产力和工业应用效率。基于ICT的云计算将随时随地利用大数据分析，通过云服务器和CS服务收集和处理IoT数据。ICT已在BIC中打开了各种安全和隐私问题，例如未经授权的软件更新，弱密码验证和不安全的通信，这些已成为关键的研究挑战。人工智能（AI）和区块链也是最新的先进技术，可促进IoT设备的自动化和简化功能，安全性，ICT原则和BIC的融合带来了隐私和隐私。如果设计和实施得当，它还为BIC的ICT应用创新提供了技术魔力。

本期专刊侧重于智能通信和信息通信技术的最新发展，新兴ICT应用程序和服务的设计和开发，包括大数据，IoT和用于高级应用程序的云计算。我们邀请了技术文章，这些文章对工程读者具有广泛的范围和普遍的兴趣。