Chapter 3 Advanced Communications in Cyber-Physical Systems Taslim Arefin Khan, Suraiya Tairin, Mahmuda Naznin, Md Zakirul Alam Bhuyian, and A. B. M. Alim Al Islam 3.1 Introduction The recent technological developments offer us a new generation of systems known as cyber-physical systems (CPSs). The emergence of CPSs introduces specialized networking and communication strategy, information technology, integrating them with physical world which enables the advancement of a new vision for the social facilities. A CPS is the integration of computation, communication, control, learning, and reasoning with physical processes. CPSs cannot be considered as conventional real-time systems or embedded systems. There are several features that exist in CPSs which make it different from other systems such as dynamically reconfigurable, fully automation, auto-assembly, and integration. A definition of CPSs was provided by Shankar Sastry from University of California, Berkeley in 2008 [1]: A cyber-physical system (CPS) integrates computing, communication and storage capa- bilities with monitoring and/or control of entities in the physical world, and must do so dependably, safety, securely, efficiently and real-time. Cyber-physical systems provide a number of advantages. CPSs are safe and efficient engineered systems that control and integrate entities forming sophisticated systems with new competences and capabilities. CPSs can be applied extensively in several domains offering ample chances such as infrastructure control, energy control, environmental control, efficient transport system, tele-medicine, medical devices, assisted living, and agriculture. Complex systems having critical infrastruc- T. A. Khan · S. Tairin · M. Naznin · A. B. M. A. Al Islam Department of CSE, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh M. Z. A. Bhuyian () Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Fordham University, Bronx, NY, USA © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 S. Hu, B. Yu (eds.), Big Data Analytics for Cyber-Physical Systems, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43494-6_3 43