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Artificial Intelligence and Edge Computing in IoT-Based Applications

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Internet of Things".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 January 2026 | Viewed by 3694

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School of Information and Communication Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunication,100876 Beijing, China
Interests: IoT; future network; TSN; edge computing
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Dear Colleagues,

The integration of edge computing along with artificial intelligence technology has great potential to gather and process large amounts of IoT data, maximize the potential for rapid, real-time data analysis and intelligent decision-making, and deliver a variety of low-latency, reliable, intelligent, and time-sensitive services.

This Special Issue aims to focus on all aspects of research relevant to artificial intelligence and edge computing technologies in IoT applications. This Special Issue invites research and review papers that report on novel contributions with respect to cloud–edge collaboration, federated learning, the utilization of a large language model (LLM), and related innovative applications within the IoT.

Dr. Fangmin Xu
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • Internet of Things
  • artificial intelligence
  • network architecture
  • resource management
  • cyber security
  • edge computing

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UAV-Enabled Maritime IoT D2D Task Offloading: A Potential Game-Accelerated Framework
by Baiyi Li, Jian Zhao and Tingting Yang
Sensors 2025, 25(18), 5820; https://doi.org/10.3390/s25185820 - 18 Sep 2025
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Maritime Internet of Things (IoT) with unmanned surface vessels (USVs) faces tight onboard computing and sparse wireless links. Compute-intensive vision and sensing workloads often exceed latency budgets, which undermines timely decisions. In this paper, we propose a novel distributed computation offloading framework for [...] Read more.
Maritime Internet of Things (IoT) with unmanned surface vessels (USVs) faces tight onboard computing and sparse wireless links. Compute-intensive vision and sensing workloads often exceed latency budgets, which undermines timely decisions. In this paper, we propose a novel distributed computation offloading framework for maritime IoT scenarios. By leveraging the limited computational resources of USVs within a device-to-device (D2D)-assisted edge network and the mobility advantages of UAV-assisted edge computing, we design a breadth-first search (BFS)-based distributed computation offloading game. Building upon this, we formulate a global latency minimization problem that jointly optimizes UAV hovering coordinates and arrival times. This problem is solved by decomposing it into subproblems addressed via a joint Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) and Successive Convex Approximation (SCA) approach, effectively reducing the time between UAV arrivals and hovering coordinates. Extensive simulations verify the effectiveness of our framework, demonstrating up to a 49.6% latency reduction compared with traditional offloading schemes. Full article
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Hybrid CNN-GRU Model for Real-Time Blood Glucose Forecasting: Enhancing IoT-Based Diabetes Management with AI
by Reem Ibrahim Alkanhel, Hager Saleh, Ahmed Elaraby, Saleh Alharbi, Hela Elmannai, Saad Alaklabi, Saeed Hamood Alsamhi and Sherif Mostafa
Sensors 2024, 24(23), 7670; https://doi.org/10.3390/s24237670 - 30 Nov 2024
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For people with diabetes, controlling blood glucose level (BGL) is a significant issue since the disease affects how the body metabolizes food, which makes careful insulin regulation necessary. Patients have to manually check their blood sugar levels, which can be laborious and inaccurate. [...] Read more.
For people with diabetes, controlling blood glucose level (BGL) is a significant issue since the disease affects how the body metabolizes food, which makes careful insulin regulation necessary. Patients have to manually check their blood sugar levels, which can be laborious and inaccurate. Many variables affect BGL changes, making accurate prediction challenging. To anticipate BGL many steps ahead, we propose a novel hybrid deep learning model framework based on Gated Recurrent Units (GRUs) and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), which can be integrated into the Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled diabetes management systems, improving prediction accuracy and timeliness by allowing real-time data processing on edge devices. While the GRU layer records temporal relationships and sequence information, the CNN layer analyzes the incoming data to extract significant features. Using a publicly accessible type 1 diabetes dataset, the hybrid model’s performance is compared to that of the standalone Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), CNN, and GRU models. The findings show that the hybrid CNN-GRU model performs better than the single models, indicating its potential to significantly improve real-time BGL forecasting in IoT-based diabetes management systems. Full article
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