Networking, Computing and Immersive Technologies for Smart Environments

Dear Colleagues,

Smart environments encompass a large set of technologies including computer networking, wireless communication, computational infrastructures, sensors’ design, sensors’ networks, and algorithm design aimed to provide information-related services in diverse environments ranging from cities, industrial facilities, and agricultural and farming units, to cultural heritage sites and homes. Services in such environments have often to be provided on-site and present user-friendly interfaces, thus making immersive technologies (virtual, augmented, mixed, and cross reality) a suitable option. In addition, immersive applications can be further integrated in a smart environment using ubiquitous user interfaces and wearable equipment.

In this context, emerging high-performance technologies such as cloud computing, 5G, and network functions virtualization co-exist with low-cost computational services and networking approaches including fog computing, wireless networks, and sensor devices. Both sets of technologies and approaches are employed to provide, combined or independently, (i) real-time response and reliable communication in delay-sensitive applications and mission-critical applications and (ii) dispersed network access, distributed data collection, and distributed computational offloading for varying, conventional or immersive, applications from industrial automation and agriculture to art performances, video games, and home entertainment.

This Special Issue is devoted to works identifying challenges in the described field as well as theoretical and experimental approaches to tackle them. Researchers and practitioners are invited to share their research experiences and works.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Immersive technologies
• Ubiquitous user interfaces
• Cloud/fog computing
• Network protocols
• Wireless communication
• Wireless sensor networks
• Algorithm design
• Distributed applications
• Multilayered hardware/software architecture
• Low‐cost IoT/IoE implementations
• Smart Tourism/Smart City applications

Prof. Dr. Konstantinos Oikonomou
Dr. Vasileios Komianos
Guest Editors

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