Internet of Things (IoT) for Next-Generation Smart Systems

Dear Colleagues,

Cyber–physical smart Systems (CPSS) rely on three primary components:

• Cyber component: This component integrates intelligent applications that transform information into knowledge;
• Physical component: This component comprises devices such as sensors, controllers, and actuators that convert data into information;
• Communication/networking component: This component, utilizing IoT protocols and technologies, facilitates connectivity between the other two components.

This Special Issue looks at the latest advancements in CPSS, with a focus on IoT mechanisms that support the deployment of intelligent device-interacting applications. It examines the placement of smart applications, whether on the cloud, the edge, or the devices themselves, and how this positioning influences the nature and type of communication mechanisms as well as sensing, control, and actuation capabilities. Topics include, but are not limited to the following:

• Distributed intelligence: cloud vs. fog vs. mist computing;
• IoT low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) physical layers to support distributed intelligence: LoRa, NB-IoT, LTE-M, and 5G RedCap;
• IoT wireless personal area network (WPAN) physical layers to support distributed intelligence: IEEE 802.15.4, BLE, and ITU G.9903;
• IoT routing and IP adaptation to support distributed intelligence;
• IoT protocol stack virtualization;
• IoT software-defined networks;
• Cyber-physical smart system architectures: representational state Transfer (REST) vs. event-driven architectures (EDA)

Dr. Rolando Herrero
Guest Editor

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• IoT
• cyber–physical systems
• ML
• TinyML
• cloud
• mist
• fog
• edge
• LPWAN
• WPAN