Edge Computing in IoT
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Computer Science & Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 June 2020) | Viewed by 19708
Special Issue Editor
Interests: Internet of Things; context-awareness; edge/fog/cloud computing; social networks; data engineering; machine learning; networking and communications
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Internet of Things (IoT) evolution has dominated several application domains the last decade and is expected to proliferate further. The population of IoT connected devices has reached 30 billion and is foreseen to exceed 60 billion in five years. This fact greatly promotes the added-value potential of IoT but introduces several challenges, such as efficient handling of massive volumes of data constantly generated by IoT devices. The cloud-based deployments of IoT systems often fail to meet the increasing requirements of their clients, especially regarding the delivery of real-time services and high QoE, preserving the security and privacy of the entire system. This has led to IoT deployments that move data handling operations towards the edge of the network, giving rise to IoT solutions based on edge computing. This shift enables data processing and storage to be performed in a distributed fashion, close to the data sources, thus addressing network bandwidth limitations, high latency problems, and privacy matters. However, there are still a lot of challenges that need to be tackled before IoT systems can exploit the edge computing paradigm in full, such as heterogeneity and resource constraints of most IoT devices, performance, scalability, and privacy.
This Special Issue aims to cover the most recent technical advances with regards to edge computing in IoT, including emerging models, architectures, strategies and protocols, systems, applications, test-beds, and field deployments for edge computing-based IoT.
Topics of interest to this Special Issue include but are not limited to the following:
• Architectures, models, and protocols for edge computing in IoT;
• Resource allocation and management for edge computing in IoT;
• Data processing, distribution, management, and storage in edge computing-based IoT;
• Computation offloading in edge computing-based IoT;
• Security, privacy and trust in edge computing-based IoT;
• AI and machine learning for edge computing in IoT;
• Performance evaluation for edge computing in IoT;
• Services and applications in edge computing-based IoT.
Prof. Dr. Ioanna Roussaki
Guest Editor
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