Smart Environments and Urban Networking

Dear Colleagues,

Continuous and unplanned urbanization has recently been considered as a major challenging factor in the fields of transport and mobility, health and wellness, safety and security, energy and environment, and communication and society. As ubiquitous computing is increasingly revolutionizing the way that people interact and socialize, we strongly believe that the inclusion of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) within the public and the private entities of highly populated cities will pave the way towards sustainable smart environments. Although ICTs play a critical and potential role in empowering next-generation smart-environments, and, more specifically, smart city applications, they bring up a number of technical and environmental challenges that need to be tackled.

The Special Issue on “Smart Environments and Urban Networking” aims to uphold the research activities in this area and to provide a platform for discussion on basic and potential challenges faced when considering the integration and the interoperation of ICTs in dynamic and hybrid urban environments. It contains expanded versions of selected papers presented in the IEEE WiMob 2016 Workshop on Smart Environments & Urban Networking, (SEUNet 2016), which was held in New York, USA, on 17 October 2016.

Topics of Interest

The topics include but are not limited to:

• Social Internet of things for smart environments and urban networking
• Big data and data mining for smart environments and urban networking
• Enabling wireless and mobile communication technologies for smart environments and urban networking
• Cloud computing infrastructures, cellular networks and M2M technologies in smart environments and smart cities applications
• Routing, mobility management, data collection, data dissemination, QoS and QoE support in smart environments and smart cities applications and services
• Communication protocols, services and architectures for smart environments and urban networking
• Smart environments modeling, simulation, implementation and testbed
• Distributed, pervasive and ubiquitous sensing, monitoring and control for smart environments and urban networking
• Congestion management and cooperative mobility applications for smart environments and urban networking
• Wireless body area networks for smart health, smart home and urban networking
• Energy management and green networking
• Safety, security, data privacy, reputation and trust management in smart environments and urban networking
• Human computer interaction and social computing for smart environments applications
• E-government services for smart cities and urban networking
• Software-defined networks and network function virtualization for smart environments and urban networking
• User-oriented visual languages for smart environments and urban networking
• Citizen-centric platforms and online public services for smart government applications
• Interworking architecture design for smart environment and urban networking
• Parking, electric vehicle charging, public transport and on-demand taxi applications for smart transport and urban networking
• MIMO and multi-antenna communications for smart environments and urban networking
• Machine learning mechanisms for smart environments and urban networking

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Haidar Safa
Dr. Saida Maaroufi
Guest Editors

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• Smart Cities
• Smart Transport
• Smart Health
• Smart Home
• Internet of Things
• Mobile/Vehicular Social Networks
• Software Defined Networking