CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Section in IEEE Access
The Plethora of Research in Internet of Things (IoT)

Submission Deadline: February 28, 2016

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of "The Plethora of Research in Internet of Things (IoT)"

The plethora of research, standardization and developments in Internet of Things has increased enormously in recent years. This is due to the vast scope Internet of Things (IoT). Internet of Things refers to the world wide network of interconnected objects, which allow people or things to be connected anytime, anyplace, with anything and anyone, using any path, any network and any service. The application areas of Internet of Things are numerous, ranging from smart cities to vehicular networks and from cyber physical systems, smart grids to green Internet of Things. In this special section, we want to discuss the most recent advances in the interdisciplinary research areas encompassing the Internet of Things domain. This special section will bring together researchers from diverse fields and specializations, such as communications engineering, computer science, electrical and electronics engineering, educators, mathematicians and specialists in areas related to Internet of Things. In this special section, we invite researchers from academia, industry, and government to discuss challenging ideas, novel research contributions, demonstration results, and standardization efforts on the Internet of Things and related areas.

Topics of interest include, but not limited to the following:

Internet of Things and Communication Technologies and Networks
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Software Defined Network (SDN) and IoT
Cognitive Radio Based Internet of Things
Machine to Machine (M2M)/Devices-to-Devices communications and IoT
5G networks and IoT
Internet of Things and Vehicular Networks
Wireless Sensor Networks and Internet of Things
IoT on eHealth/mHealth and Ambient Assisted Living
Internet of Things and Body Area Networks
Green communications for Internet of Things
Factory of Things and Internet of Things
Named Data Networking and Internet of Things
Internet of Things and Cyber Physical Systems
Communication technologies in HAN, NAN, and WAN
Communication architectures for IoT
Physical and MAC layer protocols for IoT
Multi-hop communication to support IoT
Internet of Things and smart grid
Quality of Services (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE) in IoT
Sensor web services for IoT
Sensors and intelligent electronic devices (IEDs) for IoT


Internet of Things and Social networking
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Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) and IoT
Mobile services for IoT applications
Social media data integration for smart utility applications
Case studies about social networking applications in IoT
Online social networks and IoT
Cloud computing, social networks, and IoT
Data fusion techniques and IoT
Big data and IoT


Security and Privacy for Internet of Things
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Physical/MAC/Network Attacks in Internet of Things
Cross-layer attacks in IoT
Security with QoS optimization in IoT
Privacy based channel access in IoT
IoT privacy and security issues
IoT forensic science
Wireless sensor network for IoT security
Big data and information integrity in IoT
Communication security in IoT
Intrusion detection in IoT
Security standards in IoT
Cryptography, key management, and authorization for IoT


Multidisciplinary Topics for Internet of Things
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Smart cities and Internet of Things
Network architecture and system design in IoT
Addressing and naming in IoT
Programming models for the IoT
Integration with existing standards and protocols
Intelligent systems based on connected vehicles
Smart things networks for real world data management
Data management in IoT
Context-awareness for IoT
IoT traffic characterization
Modeling and simulation of large-scale IoT scenarios
Testbed, prototype, and practical systems for IoT use cases
Pervasive applications built on top of the IoT
Personalized healthcare through IoT


We highly recommend the submission of multimedia with each article as it significantly increases the visibility and usage of articles.

GUEST EDITORS OF THE SPECIAL SECTION
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* Abderrezak Rachedi, Associate Editor and Lead Guest Editor
University Paris Est, France
Email: rachedi@univ-mlv.fr

* Mubashir Husain Rehmani
COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan
Email: mshrehmani@gmail.com

* Joel J.P.C. Rodrigues,
University of Beira Interior, Portugal
Email: joeljr@ieee.org

* Soumaya Cherkaoui
Sherbrooke University, Canada
Email: soumaya.cherkaoui@usherbrooke.ca


IEEE Access Editor in Chief: Michael Pecht,
Professor and Director, CALCE, University of Maryland


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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Submit manuscript to: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ieee-access

We also highly recommend the submission of multimedia with each article as it significantly increases the visibility and usage of articles.

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Mubashir Husain Rehmani
Editor, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials
Associate Editor, IEEE Communications Magazine
Associate Editor, IEEE Access
Associate Editor, Elsevier CAEE and JNCA Journals
Associate Editor, Springer Wireless Networks
Associate Editor, AHSWN Journal and JCN Journal
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering
COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Wah Cantt, Pakistan
Tel: +92-333-3052764
https://sites.google.com/site/mshrehmani/
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