Scalable Distributed Systems Based on Intelligent IoTs

Dear Colleagues,

Advances in Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) have made interoperability possible, such that everyday devices at home, in the city, hospitals, educational institutes and industries can be networked to give the inhabitants new and unexpected possibilities. Particularly, the high penetration rate of the Intelligent Internet of Things (IIoTs) paradigm in every environment allows for the introduction of the new concepts of “Intelligent home, Intelligent/Smart city, Intelligent e-Health, Intelligent e-learning and Intelligent/smart industries”. Thanks to the latest sensor technologies and Distributed Computing, the theological environment monitors everything to improve their overall quality of life.

International Data Corporation (IDC) research estimates that by 2025, there will be more than 41.6 billion connected IoT devices, and that the amount of data produced by these devices will increase at an annual growth rate of 28.7% between 2018 and 2025. Thus, it is essential that we establish methods to handle the enormous amounts of heterogeneous data generated by IoT devices and to integrate and scale the applications that run distributed computing components, systems, and platforms.

Therefore, Distributed Computing (DC) applications along with the IoT field are essential technical directions that enable e-health, hospitals/intelligent homes/cities, intelligent industries, intelligent supply chains, automation, and a variety of other computing and networking environments.

How to design efficient system architectures, transmission strategies, and protocols for DC-based IoT and how to efficiently analyze and evaluate the system performance are important issues to address. This Special Issue intends to collect research from academia and industry, with an emphasis on addressing all these topics and inviting contributions from worldwide leading researchers. Both original research and review articles are welcome.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

1. Quality of Experience/Quality of Service for IIoT-based DC.
2. Cloud, edge, fog, and dew computing for IIoT.
3. Networked computing architectures and infrastructures for IIoT-based DC.
4. Location Aware/Energy-efficient solutions for IIoT-based DC.
5. Mobility management in DC.
6. Security, Privacy, and Trust in scalable DC.
7. Transmission strategies in IIoT-based DC.
8. Resource allocation in IIoT-based DC.
9. Advances in Soft-computing for DC-based IIoT Applications.
10. Offloading/Pre-Push strategies in DC-based IIoT.
11. New data collection schemes and enhanced monitoring using DC.

Dr. Muhammad Shiraz
Dr. Qaisar Shaheen
Guest Editors

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