Journal: Sensors (MDPI) - ISSN 1424-8220, IF 2.677
Special Issue: Middleware Solutions for Wireless Internet of Things
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 January 2019
Special Issue Website: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/Middleware_Solutions_for_Wireless_IoTs

In this Special Issue, articles regarding the use of technologies, methodologies, and applications for Wireless Internet of Things (WIoT) environments characterized by a heterogeneous, distributed, and dynamic nature are invited. Authors are encouraged to submit articles that describe original research and present results that advance the state-of-the-art in the field and report about experiences based on real-world use cases and deployments, including survey/tutorial manuscripts.
Full description available at the following link: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/Middleware_Solutions_for_Wireless_IoTs#info

Keywords:
- middleware, architectures, and protocols for the WIoT
- things/edge/fog/cloud continuum for the WIoT
- middleware for WIoT data processing and dispatching
- middleware for latency and reliability constrained WIoT
- dynamic service composition and adaptation
- support for containerization
- overlay networking for dynamic and distributed management
- heterogeneous device and connectivity management
- software defined networking
- infrastructure-based and device-to-device communication
- wireless access networks for IoT
- inter-domain joint management and federation
- energy-efficient applications, services, and middleware
- mobile crowdsourcing and people-centric collaborative sensing
- integration of WIoT and Smart City environments
- WIoT and Industry 4.0
- WIoT to support end-user mobile companions
- interoperability and open interfaces for integration
- trustworthiness, security, and privacy

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http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/instructions

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Prof. Paolo Bellavista
Dr. Carlo Giannelli
Prof. Sajal K. Das
Prof. Jiannong Cao
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