Call for Papers

The proliferation of new services in the mobile market is driving the QoS requirements ever higher (in terms of performance indicators spanning throughput, delays, network coverage etc.). Meanwhile, a multitude of battery-hungry mobile devices are either connected to the Internet or are about to be. Following this trend, physical objects along with services are gaining a central role, shaping the Internet of Things. At larger scales, buildings and whole cities are also becoming smarter, embracing a wide range of technologies to enhance and improve the quality of everyday living, contributing at the same time to the global target of reducing energy consumption.

Involved technologies within the IoT span from WSAN (Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks), and M2M communication, to security frameworks and service models, while next generation wireless access networks will be composed of flexible, multi-tier, and scalable heterogeneous architectures, incorporating small cells, offloading techniques, and optimized protocols for cellular IoT. Thus, an important challenge in future wireless communications is how to design and run cost efficient networks to optimize the key performance indicators supporting the requirements of these services.

The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers focusing on resource management and optimization within the context of heterogeneous wireless networking. The technical focus will be on the communication aspects, key enabling technologies, algorithms, and protocols in future HetNets for IoT, especially M2M communications and offloading, as well as applications with a core focus on Intelligent Transportation System (ITS).

The technical topics of interest to the workshop include, but are not limited to:

• Architectures and protocols optimization for IoT

• Cellular IoT

• Performance modeling of future networks

• Resource management mechanisms for heterogeneous networks

• Quality of service in future heterogeneous wireless networks

• Optimized and robust dynamic spectrum access

• Scalability, robustness and energy efficiency

• Co-existence issues of future heterogeneous networks

• Heterogeneous network simulation models and techniques

• Data processing, mining, fusion, storage, and management techniques

• Case studies, prototypes, and test-beds of smart services and applications, including:

• Smart Cities

• Intelligent Building Management

• Intelligent Transportation Systems

• Smart metering, and multiservice metering

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