Networking Technologies for Cyber-Physical Systems

Dear Colleagues,

Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) are engineered intelligent systems based on the seamless integration of networking, computing, and physical processes. Advances in CPSs will enable critical innovations for dramatically improved system performance (capability, usability, adaptability, scalability, resiliency, etc.) in a broad range of application domains, including agriculture, environment, healthcare, energy, manufacturing, transportation, and civil infrastructure, among many others. CPSs are fundamentally data-centric and network-based. Specifically, CPSs depend heavily on real-term data exchange between computational and physical components through the sensors and actuators embedded in physical processes, and on network-based data sharing among distributed sensing, processing, and control components as well as cloud computing resources.

As CPSs are being applied to an increasing number of diverse application domains, a wide range of networking technologies have been employed to meet different and often conflicting design requirements. With this Special Issue, we expect to motivate further research and development efforts in innovative CPS networking technologies, and to provide a unique opportunity to allow researchers from different domains to collaborate in research and share new research findings. We invite researchers to contribute original research articles focused on the state-of-the-art CPS networking technologies. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Design, simulation, implementation, and analysis of CPS networking technologies;
• Networking technologies empowered by machine learning and artificial intelligence;
• Network-enabled collaborative sensing, processing, and control;
• Distributed real-time learning and decision for CPS networks;
• Timing and synchronization for CPS networks;
• Convergence of networking technologies for CPS and Internet of Things;
• Convergence of sensor networks and CPSs;
• Networking technologies for integration of edge computing in CPSs;
• Experimental research, testbed development, and empirical performance studies;
• In-depth surveys of the current state-of-the-art, challenges, and future directions.

Dr. Xinrong Li
Guest Editor

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• cyber-physical systems
• Internet of Things
• edge computing
• sensor networks