Advanced Hardware Implementations for IoT Systems and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

The last few years have witnessed the rapid emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT), and further exponential growth is expected to take place in the coming decade. The possible application domains of IoT systems are virtually limitless, including connected health, smart homes, smart cities, industrial automation, and many more.
In this context, electronics will play a major role in the realization of key enabling technologies that are essential to the efficient implementation of such IoT systems. Indeed, advances in topics such as micro-, nano-, and bio-electronics are paramount to the realization of a wide range of miniaturized sensors; low-energy signal processing and computing devices; and low-power, low latency, highly reliable wireless connectivity.
The purpose of this Special Issue is to disseminate recent works on hot topics appealing to a wide audience on cross cutting issues related to the above. We are especially interested in contributions related but not necessarily limited to the following elements of IoT systems:

• Micro- and nano-electronics devices and materials for IoT components, e.g., advanced silicon CMOS technology generations (10 nm or less), molecular electronics, nanowires, and nanotubes;
• Bio-electronics devices and techniques, e.g., biosensors, micro/nanopatterning, and bioimpedance designed or optimized for IoT systems;
• Resource and interference management in wireless communication technologies for the IoT, both cellular (e.g., NB-IoT, LTE Cat M1) and non-cellular (e.g., LoRa, SigFox);
• Prognostics and health management for the IoT components and applications;
• IoT applications and business cases that demonstrate or exploit state-of-the-art key enabling technologies.

This is an open call. We will consider both new papers and extended conference papers (in particular but not limited to ICESI 2019, http://icesi2019.globalconf.org/).

The authors of a paper previously published in conference proceedings should (1) clearly refer to their conference paper in the introduction of their journal paper and (2) extend their conference paper by at least 50%. There are no page limitations for this journal.
Equal weight will be given to all papers during the review process.

Prof. Dr. Yannick Le Moullec
Dr. Jean-Philippe Diguet
Guest Editors

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