* Call for Papers *

By leveraging the global interconnection of billions of tiny smart
objects, the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm is fostering the idea
of pervasive Smart Environments (SEs) and Smart Urban Ecosystems,
where all the data gathered by the ``Things'' can be elaborated and
used to improve the livability, the safety and the security of the
environment, and to make inhabitants lives easier. However, despite
the research advancements in recent years, many open issues still
prevent the full realization of such vision.

To meet the requirements of SEs, telecommunication systems should
support significantly high data rates, traffic capacity, connection
density, energy efficiency, as well as small latency. Being massively
distributed into the environment, smart objects may generate, collect,
exchange and process big data, provide distributed services, offer
computational resources, and cooperate to perform some tasks locally,
as well as to delegate their execution to more powerful nodes in the
cloud or at the network edge. In addition to the traditional
pull-based data delivery, push-based and publish/subscribe traffic
patterns must be supported. To accommodate newly emerging more
demanding services the network infrastructure should be agile, cost
effective and possibly softwarized. The satisfaction of security and
privacy requirements will play a fundamental role in the SEs; indeed,
without effective mechanisms, attacks and malfunctions in the IoT will
outweigh any of their benefits.

The PERSIST-IoT workshop aims to solicit a collection of innovative
papers reporting the most recent advancements in the fields of smart
architecture, protocols and practical implementations enabling IoT for
smart environments. Topics of interests include, but are not limited
to the following:

· Models of network component interactions on smart environments;
· Distributed sensing and control in smart environments;
· Mobile-aware cloud computing models, infrastructures, and
approaches for smart environments;
· Mobile edge computing for smart environments;
· Crowdsourcing in smart environments;
· IoT architecture and middleware;
· Novel communication protocols for M2M/MTC communication;
· Novel networking paradigms (e.g., ICN, SDN) for IoT;
· Energy efficient solutions for IoT;
· Device-2-device communications (D2D);
· Reliability, security, privacy and trust in smart environment ecosystems;
· Business models to promote user collaboration and resource
sharing in smart environments;
· Testbeds demonstrating the feasibility of smart environments;
· Applications, business, standards, and social issues.

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* Important dates *

Abstract Registration: January 7, 2020
Submission Deadline: January 15, 2020
Notification of Acceptance: February 15, 2020
Camera Ready: March 6, 2020

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* Submission instructions *
Submissions will be accepted through EDAS
(https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=26855).
All submissions must be written in English and be at most six (6)
printed pages in length, including figures.
Accepted papers will be published on IEEE Xplore.

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* Commitee *

TPC Co-Chairs

Valeria Loscri’ - Inria Lille-Nord Europe / FUN, France
Giuseppe Ruggeri -University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy
Syed Hassan Ahmed-JMA Wireless, USA
Ivan W. H. Ho - The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Publicity Chair

Marica Amadeo - University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy

TPC Members

Anna Maria Mandalari- Imperial College, London, UK
Antoine Gallais - Inria Lille - Nord Europe, University of Strasbourg, France
Antoine O. Berthet- Ecole Supèrieure d'Electricité (SUPELEC), France
Antonella Molinaro- University of Reggio Calabria, Italy
Antonio Iera- University of Reggio Calabria, Italy
Chaker Abdelaziz Kerrache - University of Ghardaia, Algeria
Claudia Campolo- University of Reggio Calabria, Italy
Juan Carlos Cano- Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Luca Bedogni- Dipartimento di Informatica - Scienza e Ingegneria,
University of Bologna, Italy
Marica Amadeo- University of Reggio Calabria, Italy
Massimo Condoluci- Ericsson AB, Kista, Sweden
Nathalie Mitton- Inria Lille-Nord Europe / FUN, France
Nicola Zema- LRI (Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique),
Université Paris-Sud
Olga Vikhrova– University of Reggio Calabria, Italy
Yun Hou -Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong
(THEi), Hong Kong
Lingfu XIE- Ningbo University, China
Safdar Hussain Bouk- Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and
Technology (DGIST) Korea
Muhammad Azfar Yaqub - COMSATS Institute of Information Technology,
Islamabad, Pakistan
Muhammad Toaha Raza Khan - Kyungpook National University, Korea
Carlos Borrego Iglesias - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

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