ACM Transactions on
Internet Technology
/Special issue on Evolution of IoT Networking Architectures/

Guest Editors
Rute C. Sofia (mailto:rute.sofia@ulusofona.pt), COPELABS, University
Lusofona
Eve M. Schooler (mailto:eve.m.schooler@intel.com), Intel
Chris Winkler (mailto:chris.winkler@siemens.com), Siemens AG
Dirk Kutscher (mailto:ietf@dkutscher.net), University of Applied
Sciences Emden/Leer

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To support the sheer number of entities connecting to the /Internet of
Things (IoT)/, emerging IoT networks must support the stewardship of
large amounts of data, in-network and in-flight computation/AI,
distributed storage, and rich queries. While today's IoT uses standard
IP-based messaging, its shortcomings have led to proposed extensions for
constrained environment operation, publish-subscribe middleware,
data-centric routing, among other technologies. This special issue aims
to present the most leading-edge research on:

* *Next-generation IoT network architecture & protocols*, including
improved support for QoS/QoE, increased mobility, streaming media,
and integrated security; a path from client/server centralized
models to a fully distributed comms architecture; edge data producer
disruption.

* *Cross-layer design*, enabling real-time & near-real-time data
delivery and synchronization; support for efficient multi-party
communication; collective behaviors (e.g., crowd sensing,
crowdsourcing, resource federation); impacting low-power design; the
wireless & mobile edge.

* *Novel approaches to Edge networking for IoT*, such as distribution
& orchestration of network functions to best support data processing
and aggregation; seamless interoperation of static and mobile edge
infrastructure & devices; resilience and dynamic adaptation; data
caching and migration; autonomous operation vs opportunistic
connectivity; the proliferation and peering of "edges".

* *IoT communication interoperability*, such as proposals to
articulate in a distributed and self-organizing way communication
between different communication protocols; support for a large
variety of heterogeneous and constrained devices; discovery &
directory services

* *Network measurement & performance*, to assist in understanding,
exposing and comparing the performance of current IoT resources,
infrastructure and protocols in a variety of scenarios, including
industrial & consumer IoT.

* *IoT Privacy, security and trust challenges*, including data
security, user privacy, distributed trust models, attestation,
privacy- and policy-preservation, encrypted search, access control
and policy management.

*Submission*

Refer to: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/toit

Please select "Special Issue on Evolution of IoT Networking
Architectures" in the TOIT Manuscript Central Website

*Deadlines*

Submissions: June 30, 2019
First decisions: October 15, 2019
Revisions: November 11, 2019
Final decisions: January 31, 2020
Final (Camera-ready): February 29, 2020
Publication: May 2020

*ACM TOIT Editor-in-Chief*
Professor Ling Liu (mailto:ling.liu@cc.gatech.edu)
Department of Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology


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