Intelligent Cloud, Fog, and Edge Computing in the Internet of Things (IoT)

Dear Colleagues,

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not limited to the cloud anymore, with many applications and services being distributed between the edge, the fog, and the cloud. This increasingly complex architecture is driven by privacy concerns, to avoid compromising sensitive data due to potential leaks when communicating on the internet, computation resource availability on the edge and in the fog, and latency–accuracy trade-off of inference models. It is not clear what the best design approach is, so research is needed to study this new computation paradigm in intelligent systems. This issue aims to establish best practice on these topics:

• Distributed training of machine learning models in heterogeneous systems;
• Efficient mapping of computations to the edge, fog, and cloud;
• Adaptive offloading of computation to the fog and cloud;
• Data-driven decision making in the cloud–fog–edge continuum;
• Collaborative training and inference across distributed devices.

Dr. Valentin Radu
Dr. Emilian Radoi
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sensors is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.