Emerging Topics in Wireless Communications for Future Smart Cities

Dear Colleagues,

The concept of the smart city has emerged in recent years as a futuristic vision of cities, building sustainable ecosystems while promoting citizen welfare and economic growth. A smart city fosters the use of advanced ubiquitous ICT technologies to smartly and efficiently monitor and manage its critical assets such as energy, water, and transportation infrastructure. Building smart cities, however, strongly depends on various enabling advanced technologies, such as wireless sensing technologies, the Internet of Things (IoT), 5G networks, connected vehicles, the cloud, etc. The myriad of novel applications expected to emerge in smart cities introduces unique challenges for the wireless communication technologies underpinning them in terms of scalability, robustness, security, energy-efficiency, and latency requirements. Moreover, the heterogeneity of the used wireless devices, ranging from tiny wearable sensors and IoT devices to connected vehicles, in terms of processing and storage capabilities, energy supply, and transmission rate and range add further complications to the above challenges.

This Special Issue is, therefore, soliciting original contributions presenting solutions, models, prototypes, and novel applications in relation to the above technologies and their associated challenges.

This Special Issue will also provide a great opportunity for authors of selected papers presented at the IFIP Wireless Days 2019 conference to submit extended versions of their manuscripts to a broader audience.

Dr. Soufiene Djahel
Dr. Celimuge Wu
Dr. Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul
Prof. Dr. Claudio Pallazi
Guest Editors

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