Advances and Challenges in the Next-Generation Internet of Things (IoT)

Dear Colleagues,

Over the last decade, significant and exciting advances have been achieved in the Internet of Things (IoT) research community. The next-generation IoT will empower a broad spectrum of applications and redefine the challenges and frontiers of IoT research. Therefore, this Special Issue will be dedicated to recent advances in the next-generation IoT.

This Special Issue is an interdisciplinary forum that brings together academic, industrial, and government researchers and practitioners to discuss issues, innovations, and new directions in developing a next-generation IoT. We would like to draw special attention to the following growth areas that have recently reshaped our field, including, but not limited to:

• Machine learning and edge AI;
• AR/VR and metaverse;
• digital twins for networked systems;
• IoT security and privacy;
• network protocols for IoT;
• wearable or embedded networked frontends;
• signal processing for IoT;
• Industrial IoT (IIoT) systems;
• IIoT network protocols;
• localization and tracking;
• and deployment experiences.

Dr. Chaojie Gu
Dr. Zhiguo Shi
Dr. Rongxing Lu
Guest Editors

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