Middleware Solutions for Wireless Internet of Things
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensor Networks".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 January 2019) | Viewed by 71236
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Interests: wireless sensor and actuator networks; middleware for sensor and actuator networks; vehicular sensor networks; edge computing; fog computing; online stream processing of sensing dataflows; IoT and big data processing; pervasive and mobile computing; cooperative networking; cyber physical systems for Industry 4.0
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Interests: IIoT; blockchain; software-defined networking; location/context awareness
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Interests: cyber-physical systems; security and privacy; smart environments (smart city, smart grid, smart healthcare); wireless and sensor networks; mobile and pervasive computing; data analytics; parallel, distributed, and cloud computing; social networks; systems biology; applied graph theory and game theory
Interests: distributed computing; mobile and pervasive computing; wireless sensor networks; cloud computing; big data
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The proliferation of powerful but cheap devices, together with the availability of a plethora of wireless technologies, has pushed for the spread of the Wireless Internet of Things (WIoT), and is typically much more heterogeneous, dynamic, and general-purpose if compared with the traditional Internet of Things. The WIoT is characterized by the dynamic interaction of traditional infrastructure devices, e.g., sensors and actuators, provided by municipalities in Smart Cities, and other portable devices, such as smartphones, opportunistically integrated to dynamically extend and enhance the WIoT environment.
A key enabler of this vision is the advancement of software and middleware technologies in various mobile-related sectors, ranging from the effective synergic management of wireless communications to mobility/adaptivity support in operating systems and differentiated integration and management of devices with heterogeneous capabilities in middleware, from horizontal support to crowdsourcing in different application domains to dynamic offloading to cloud resources, only to mention a few.
Overall, this delves into deployment scenarios providing a set of services that can significantly change over their lifetime, supported by smartphones providing additional sensing/actuating capabilities, networking/computing resources, and services. Eventually, the WIoT can be characterized by the lack of an administrative controller in charge of selectively allowing/denying devices willing to join the network with provided networking/service capabilities, or the presence of multiple administrative controllers that should interact in a federated manner.
In this Special Issue, articles regarding the use of technologies, methodologies, and applications for WIoT environments characterized by a heterogeneous, distributed, and dynamic nature are invited. Authors are encouraged to submit articles that describe original research and present results that advance the state-of-the-art in the field and report about experiences based on real-world use cases and deployments, including survey/tutorial manuscripts.
Prof. Paolo Bellavista
Prof. Dr. Carlo Giannelli
Prof. Sajal K. Das
Prof. Jiannong Cao
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Keywords
- middleware, architectures, and protocols for the WIoT
- things/edge/fog/cloud continuum for the WIoT
- middleware for WIoT data processing and dispatching
- middleware for latency and reliability constrained WIoT
- dynamic service composition and adaptation
- support for containerization
- overlay networking for dynamic and distributed management
- heterogeneous device and connectivity management
- software defined networking
- infrastructure-based and device-to-device communication
- wireless access networks for IoT
- inter-domain joint management and federation
- energy-efficient applications, services, and middleware
- mobile crowdsourcing and people-centric collaborative sensing
- integration of WIoT and Smart City environments
- WIoT and Industry 4.0
- WIoT to support end-user mobile companions
- interoperability and open interfaces for integration
- trustworthiness, security, and privacy
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