Recent Trends and Advances in Wireless Sensor Networks and the Internet of Things

Dear Colleagues,

The ability of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) along with the Internet of Things (IoT) to support a practically endless variety of human activities places both of them among the most rapidly developing domains of Technology with a continuously growing range of applications.

On the other hand, their utilization is obstructed because of not only the limited resources of sensor nodes in terms of energy supply, memory and processing, but also the inborn restrictions of wireless communications, regarding power, speed, and capacity of communication channels and their vulnerability to interferences and intrusion. Thus, numerous challenges arise. At the same time, emerging advances in various sectors of Science and Technology seem to be promising to support and enhance the operation of WSNs and IoT, thus triggering corresponding research trends.

The aim of this Special Issue is to house research works related with the state of the art, standards, experimentations, implementations, applications, new research proposals, and case studies regarding WSNs and IoT. Invited papers have to be original and neither published nor under review in any other conference or journal. Potential topics of this special issue include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Energy Sustainability in WSNs and IoT;
• Energy harvesting/Energy transfer methods in WSNs and IoT;
• Energy-efficient routing protocols;
• Data analytics in WSNs and IoT;
• Artificial Intelligence/Computational Intelligence for WSNs and IoT;
• Cloud computing, edge computing, and fog computing for WSNs and IoT;
• Sensing technologies and systems for wearables and implants;
• WSNs and IoT in Industry 4.0;
• 5G communication networks and mobile networks for WSN and IoT;
• Optimization algorithms for WSNs and IoT.

Prof. Dr. Dionisis Kandris
Dr. Eleftherios Anastasiadis
Guest Editors

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• Wireless Sensor Networks
• Internet of Things
• communication networks