Book excerpt: This book presents emerging concepts in data mining, big data analysis, communication, and networking technologies, and discusses the state-of-the-art in data engineering practices to tackle massive data distributions in smart networked environments. It also provides insights into potential data distribution challenges in ubiquitous data-driven networks, highlighting research on the theoretical and systematic framework for analyzing, testing and designing intelligent data analysis models for evolving communication frameworks. Further, the book showcases the latest developments in wireless sensor networks, cloud computing, mobile network, autonomous systems, cryptography, automation, and other communication and networking technologies. In addition, it addresses data security, privacy and trust, wireless networks, data classification, data prediction, performance analysis, data validation and verification models, machine learning, sentiment analysis, and various data analysis techniques.