Internet of Things

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the network of physical objects or "things" embedded with electronics, software, sensors, and connectivity, which enables it to achieve greater value and service by exchanging data with the manufacturers, operators, and other connected devices. However, the supports from clouds are often inefficient for the intensive computations and mass storage, such as the limitations of energy, storage, processing, and communication capabilities. This demand motivates the research of using Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) technologies in IoT. As an emerging technology, MCC integrates multiple technologies for maximizing capacity and performance of the existing infrastructure. The crucial value of implementing MCC is to provide rich computational resources for mobile users and network operators, as well as cloud service providers.

Recent networking and virtualization technologies have made a broad range of software and computing resources are available through the Internet by the devices in IoT. Many issues in MCC and IoT must be further investigated, addressed, and explored in research, such as corporate level applications, service discovery availability, security, and expansions of interfaces to the existing systems.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

Trends and challenges of MCC and IoT

Novel architecture designs and evaluations of MCC and IoT

Novel mobile cloud applications and services for IoT

Modeling, analysis, and optimization of MCC and IoT

Security, privacy, and reliability issues of MCC and IoT

Energy efficient designs of architecture and device in IoT

Quality of Service (QoS) of MCC and IoT

Computation, storage, and network virtualization in MCC

Hot topics as wearable computing, Internet of vehicles, and environmental monitoring

IoT access network technologies and capillary networks;

Channel and traffic models;

Spectrum management for M2M/IoT radio communications;

RFID, sensors, actuator technologies;

IoT network infrastructure;

IoT protocols;

IPv6 and wireless sensor networks;

Applications of the IoT;

IoT architectures and system;

IoT networking and communication;

Circuit and system design for smart objects in the IoT;

Security, trust, and privacy issues for devices and services;

Naming, address management and end-to-end addressability;

Cloud computing interworking;

Semantic technologies;

Smart grids and smart spaces

- IoT secure access network technologies and capillary networks;

- secure channel and traffic models;

- secure spectrum management for M2M/IoT radio communications;

- security of RFID, sensors, actuator technologies;

- IoT secure network infrastructure;

- IoT security protocols;

- privacy in applications of the IoT;

- IoT networking and communication security;

- circuit and system design for secure smart objects in the IoT;

- security, trust, and privacy issues for devices and services;

- naming, address management and end-to-end addressability;

- methods for secure by design IoT;

- methods for IoT security analysis and audit;

- privacy and anonymization techniques in IoT;

- secure cloud of things;

- trust management architectures;

- lightweight security solutions;

- authentication and access control in IoT;

- identification and biometrics in IoT;

- liability and policy enforcement in IoT;

- security of Big data in IoT;

- cyber physical systems security;

- cyber attacks detection and prevention;

- embedded platforms for cryptography (implementations for performance-optimized, resource constrained, energy-efficient platforms);

- hardware security primitives;

- secure pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing Software and Systems;

- new Privacy and Security Techniques for Embedded Software and Systems; and

- ethics and legal considerations in IoT.