Next Generation Technologies for Sensor Networks and Internet of Things

Dear Colleagues,

Sensors and their networking allow the monitoring of physical objects and/or events, whereas the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm enables the inter-communication of everyday objects and humans. There is a significant overlap between the targets of these topics, including the critical objective of low-cost, low-power communication and networking solutions. This is especially important to justify the economic feasibility of employing such solutions in billions of objects, as well as to reduce the maintenance cost by increasing the lifetime of the batteries and/or energy harvesting methods used.

Along this line, there has been a tremendous effort from both the industrial and scientific communities developing disruptive solutions, such as Low Power WAN (LP-WAN), high-efficiency energy harvesting methods/materials, alternative communication media (e.g., visible light communication, molecular communication), etc. In this Special Issue, we will cover the studies that evaluate and/or improve such disruptive solutions, or that propose promising ideas for the next generation communication/networking technologies for wireless sensor networks (WSN) and/or IoT.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• LP-WAN technologies including LoRaWAN, NB-IoT, etc.

• 5G and Beyond 5G access technologies for IoT/WSN

• Software-defined networking for IoT/WSN

• Mobile Edge Computing, multi-access edge computing, fog computing for IoT/WSN

• Energy efficiency and energy harvesting for IoT/WSN

• Novel security solutions for IoT/WSN

• Licensed, Unlicensed, and Mixed Spectrum Systems

• IPv6 over Networks of Resource-constrained Nodes (6lo), IPv6 over the TSCH mode of IEEE 802.15.4e (6TiSCH), Routing Over Low power and Lossy networks (ROLL) solutions including 6LoWPAN, IPv6 over Bluetooth Low Energy

• Future Internet architectures and IoT

• Standardization in communication and networking for IoT/WSN, e.g., WoT, oneM2M, CoAP, etc.

• Named Data Networking for IoT/WSN

• Energy-autonomous WSN/IoT solutions

• Wake-up radio systems

Dr. Ilker Demirkol
Guest Editor

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