Advanced Technologies and Communication Solutions for Internet of Things

Abstract

Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the important issues to describe several technologies and research disciplines that enable the IoT to reach out into the real world of physical objects. IoT is also a novel paradigm that is rapidly gaining in the scenario of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and Wireless Telecommunications. The basic idea of this concept is the pervasive presence around our lifestyle of a variety of things or objects [1–3]. Tremendous advances in processing, wireless sensor networks, mobile communication, and systems/middleware technologies are leading to new paradigms and platforms for computing environment. There might be many issues to realize and provide intelligent services and much effort and enormous attention have been focused on the IoT. The research area poses challenges such as the advanced technologies for sensors and actuators, identifications with objects in IoT, interoperable serviceoriented technologies to share real-world data among heterogeneous devices, interoperable middleware, networking technologies for wired and wireless networking to interconnect things, application services that store, integrate, and process in real-time variable data streams from devices, infrastructure for storage and computing capabilities for IoT application services and for processing big data, quality of service assurance for efficient resource management to allocate, track, and resource utilization, scalablemanagement of network, computing, and storage capacity across multiple objects, advanced security, privacy, authentication, trust and verification with the IoT applications, and numerical analysis and simulation technologies for IoT application with wireless sensor networks. The topics have been more aggressively covered by journals in the advanced technologies and application of the related wireless sensor networks and wireless telecommunications with the IoT [1–3]. This special issue discusses the following: advanced technologies for sensors and actuators; interoperable service-oriented technologies; interoperablemiddleware; networking technologies forwired and wireless networking to interconnect things; application services to store, integrate, and process real-time information; infrastructure for IoT application and services and big data processing; quality of service for efficient resource management; scalable management of network, computing, and storage capacity across multiple objects; advanced security, privacy, authentication, trust, and verification with the IoT applications; software defined networking and the opportunities in the development of IoT applications; numerical analysis and simulation technologies for IoT application with wireless sensor networks.