Internet of Multimedia Things (IoMT): Opportunities, Challenges and Solutions

Dear Colleagues,

Internet of Things (IoT) characteristics support multimedia communications; however, multimedia applications are bandwidth-hungry and delay-sensitive. The rapid growth of multimedia traffic in IoT has led the way to innovating new techniques to meet its requirements. Internet of multimedia things (IoMT) devices require higher bandwidth, bigger memory, and faster computational resources to process data. Typical communications include multipoint-to-point and multipoint-to-multipoint scenarios. Real-world multimedia applications include emergency response systems, traffic monitoring, crime inspection, smart cities, smart homes, smart hospitals, smart agriculture, surveillance systems, Internet of bodies (IoB), and Industrial IoT (IIoT). Dynamic networks, heterogeneous devices and data, strict Quality of Service (QoS), and delay sensitivity and reliability requirements over resource-constrained IoMT pose humongous challenges for multimedia communication in IoT.

This Special Issue aims to bring together academia and industrial researchers to explore opportunities for IoMT, study its impact on the solution of the aforementioned challenges, and propose viable solutions. We solicit papers covering various topics of interest that include but are not limited to the following:

• IoMT architectures and technologies
• IoMT Applications
• IoMT communications and computing
• IoMT Big Data analytics
• Energy-critical IoMT
• IoMT routing protocols
• IoMT MAC protocols
• Machine Learning for IoMT
• IoMT security
• SDN-based IoMT solutions
• Cross-layer protocols for IoMT
• Use cases for IoMTs

Prof. Yousaf Bin Zikria
Prof. Muhammad Khalil Afzal
Prof. Sung Won Kim
Guest Editors

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