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IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine
Special Issue on Internet of Things: the "Next Big Thing" in
Communications?
Manuscript Due March 15th, 2010
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Call for Papers

Internet of Things: the "Next Big Thing" in Communications?

Special Issue of IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine

In the last few years, a stimulating idea is fast emerging in the
wireless scenario: the pervasive presence around us of a variety of
"things" or "objects", such as devices, sensors, actuators, mobile
phones, which, through unique addressing schemes, are able to interact
with each other and cooperate with their neighboring "smart"
components to reach common goals. This novel paradigm, named "The
Internet of Things", continues on the path set by the concept of smart
environment and paves the way to the deployment of numerous
applications with a significant impact on many fields of future
every-day life. In this context, logistics, Intelligent Transportation
Systems, Business/Process management, assisted living, e-health are
only a few examples of possible application fields in which this novel
paradigm will play a leading role.
How to implement this novel paradigm and how effective its
introduction into citizens' every-day life is, still remains to be
investigated. Key objectives of any R&D activity in the field are:
efficient and effective wireless spectrum utilization, full
interoperability of "smarts" devices, their adaptation and autonomous
behavior, as well as trust, privacy, and security guarantees.
From a wireless communications and networking perspective, the
Internet of Things idea raises several challenging issues to address
and technological nodes to untie.
Which major technological innovations and developments are still
required to enable a level of "ambient intelligence", characterized by
the integration of wired and wireless "smart" components? Which
sustainable standards, technologies, global communication protocols,
and algorithms at the various layers of the system protocol stack
(from the physical to the application layer) shall be introduced with
the aim of allowing a vast amount of information to be shared amongst
things and people when wireless links and technologies are involved?
Which is the role of widely accepted wireless communications paradigms
for peer to peer communications, machine-to-machine communications,
and machine-to-network communications in a IoT perspective? Could the
use of middleware mechanisms represent a feasible and effective
solution to the problem of integrating Radio Frequency devices and
wireless sensors into a common IoT framework? Are the proposed trust,
privacy, and security models able to make people trust in these novel
technologies instead of being afraid of an external surveillance and,
more relevantly, are they still effective when involved "things"
communicate wirelessly?
An attempt to provide a partial answer to these and many other related
questions will form the main scope of the present special issue. More
specifically we are interested in the wireless communications and
networking aspects involved by the introduction of the Internet of
Things concept, and therefore solicit papers covering a variety of
topics including, but not limited to:
* Internet of Things infrastructures, communication systems, network
architectures
* Mobile Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks
* Network management, distributed processing (e.g. access,
scheduling, radio resource management, etc.), scalability, and
cooperation issues in integrated wired-wireless scenarios for the
Internet of Things
* Internet of Things enabling ubiquitous and wireless
technologies
* Security and privacy management for wirelessly communicating
"things" and users
* RFID technology and RFID middleware
* Electromagnetic aspects related to the Internet of Things
* Machine-to-machine and machine-to-network communications in the
presence of wireless links
* Inter-vehicle communications and seamless connectivity
* Location and tracking through navigation sensors
* Internet of Things applications in research projects
* Standardization and regulation (e.g. spectrum allocation and radio
frequency exposure protection) issues for the Internet of
Things

Submission of original contributions is solicited on the above topics
as well as others relevant to the "Internet of Things" concept.
All submissions should adhere to the style of IEEE Wireless
Communications Magazine. Guidelines for prospective authors can be
found on-line at
[1]http://www.comsoc.org/livepubs/pci/info/sub_guidelines.html.
Electronic submissions in Postscript or PDF format are strongly
encouraged and should be sent by e-mail to the address
[2]antonio.iera@unirc.it.
Time Schedule
Manuscript Due March 15th, 2010
Acceptance Notification June 15th, 2010
Final Manuscript Due August 15th, 2010
Publication Date December, 2010
Guest Editors
Antonio Iera
University "Mediterranea" of Reggio Calabria
Department D.I.M.E.T.
Via Graziella (Feo di Vito)
89100 - Reggio Calabria, ITALY
Phone: +39-0965-875286
E-mail: [3]antonio.iera@unirc.it
Giacomo Morabito
University of Catania
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica e delle Telecomunicazioni
V.le A. Doria, 6
95125 - Catania, ITALY
Phone: +39-095-7382355
E-mail: [4]giacomo.morabito@diit.unict.it
Christian Floerkemeier
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Auto-ID Lab
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Phone: +1-617-324-1984
E-mail: [5]floerkem@mit.edu
Jin Mitsugi
Keio University
Faculty of Environment and Information
5322 Endo Fujisawa
Kanagawa 252-8520, JAPAN
Phone: +81-3-3516-0620
E-mail: [6]mitsugi@sfc.wide.ad.jp

References

1. 3D"http://www.comsoc.org/livepubs/pci/info/sub_guidelines.html"
2. 3D"mailto:antonio.iera@unirc.it"
3. 3D"mailto:antonio.iera@unirc.it"
4. 3D"mailto:giacomo.morabito@diit.unict.it"
5. 3D"mailto:floerkem@mit.edu"
6. 3D"mailto:mitsugi@sfc.wide.ad.jp"
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