This book provides the state-of-the-art research on aerial communications coexisting with terrestrial networks from physical, MAC, network, and application layer perspectives. It includes thorough discussion of control issues, access techniques and resource sharing between cellular communication and aerial communications to accommodate larger volumes of traffic and to provide better service to users. Other challenges are explored in this text are: identification of services, radio resource allocation and resource management for aerial links, self-organizing aerial networks, aerial offloading, and performance evaluation of aerial communications. This volume will be a highly useful resource for students, researchers and engineers interested in obtaining comprehensive information on the design, evaluation, and applications of aerial access networks and communications.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Big Data Computing and Communications, BigCom 2016, held in Shenyang, China, in July 2016. The 39 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 90 submissions. BigCom is an international symposium dedicated to addressing the challenges emerging from big data related computing and networking. The conference is targeted to attract researchers and practitioners who are interested in Big Data analytics, management, security and privacy, communication and high performance computing in its broadest sense.