Special Issue Editor
Dr. Rute C. Sofia E-Mail Website
Guest Editor
Fortiss, Guerickestraße 25, 80805 München, Germany
Interests: IoT; wireless; network architectures; cellular; network protocols; mobility management and estimation
Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Internet services and networking architectures have evolved steadily to accommodate technological changes and the development of novel services on the Internet. With the expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT), there is now a complete entanglement of the Internet into different realms of our daily lives. Things are becoming increasingly mobile and heterogeneous in terms of computational and storage capabilities, as well as in terms of power. Furthermore, new IoT technologies are expanding the reach of services over large distances, and into new realms, such as space.

These new possibilities open up a myriad of new business possibilities, and in the context of Industrial IoT (IIoT), they are the basis for a new Industrial Revolution. IIoT data will be generated from a gazillion smart devices over very large distances, sustaining a global and wide digitalization, greater efficiency, and improved productivity, among other benefits.

This Special Issue is aimed at archiving the most recent developments on networking architectures and protocols for Industrial IoT. Potential topics include but are not limited to:

- Networking protocol performance;

- Protocol interoperability aspects;

- Automated IoT onboarding mechanisms;

- Determinism in IIoT wireless environments;

- Semi-automated brownfield devices integration;

- Delay Tolerant Networking in IIoT;

- Information-centric networking in IIoT;

- Serverless cloud-edge computing mechanisms;

- AI operationalization in IIoT;

- Decentralized security mechanisms for IIoT.

Dr. Rute C. Sofia
Guest Editor

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