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Optical Technologies for IoT, Smart Industry, and Smart Infrastructures
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Optical Technologies for IoT, Smart Industry, and Smart Infrastructures

A special issue of Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks (ISSN 2224-2708). This special issue belongs to the section "Big Data, Computing and Artificial Intelligence".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2018) | Viewed by 30244

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Slavisa Aleksic

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Institute of Communications Engineering, Leipzig University of Telecommunications (HfTL), Gustav-Freytag-Str. 43-45, 04277 Leipzig, Germany
Interests: telecommunications; optical networks; networking; smart infrastructures; energy efficiency

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The concept of a smart city is currently receiving significant attention, not only from research and development, but also from public authorities and private companies. The main prerequisite for implementing smart city applications and systems is an efficient and reliable smart infrastructure, which is based on an integration of basic infrastructure like roads, railways, metro, trams, electricity grids, water distribution systems, and other constructed facilities, with distributed smart sensing systems, information technology, and communication networks. Similarly, the fourth industrial revolution is driven by recent developments in information and communication technology (ICT) and promises to radically alter the face of industry in the coming decades. With a widespread implementation of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication and the Internet of Things (IoT) the traditional boundaries will disappear. An effective IoT-network is a key factor in delivering an integrated and intelligent smart infrastructures and systems.

Optical technology will play a significant role in developing and implementing reliable, high-performance, and efficient smart infrastructures and systems. On the one hand, there are many ways to utilize optical effects and materials to build reliable, efficient, and precise sensors, and on the other, advanced short- and long-distance optical communication systems are able to provide future-proof links and networks to optimally support future IoT and other applications and services.

This Special Issue aims to publish original, significant, and visionary papers describing novel research on optical technologies, systems, and networks for application in distributed and smart sensing systems, M2M, IoT, smart industries, smart infrastructures, and smart cities. Submissions of current and original research results from experts in academia and industry worldwide are strongly encouraged.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Sensors based on optical materials and technologies

  • Novel methods and structures  for building optical sensors
  • Applications of optical sensors
  • Optical sensor networks
  • Optical sensors for measuring strain, temperature, tilt, force, acceleration, rotation, humidity, vibration, velocity, humidity, electric, magnetic and acoustic fields, etc.
  • Characterization of optical sensors

Optical communication systems and networks for IoT, smart industry, and smart infrastructures

  • Optical transmission technologies for smart systems and infrastructures
  • Optical networks for industry applications
  • Optical wireless communications with application in smart industry and infrastructures
  • Advanced concepts for optical networks providing high flexibility, adaptability, reliability, dynamics, and energy efficiency
  • Availability and reliability of optical systems and networks
  • Methods for optical network slicing, software defined networking (SDN), and network function virtualization (NFV)
  • Optical cloud networks
  • Optical private networks for vertical markets
  • Optical network concepts and technologies for critical infrastructures
  • Optical wireless backhaul/fronthaul
  • Short-range optical communication systems and networks

Prof. Slavisa Aleksic
Guest Editor

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Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2000 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • optical sensors
  • sensor networks
  • optical communications
  • optical networks
  • optical wireless communications
  • smart industry
  • smart infrastructure
  • Internet of Things
  • critical infrastructures
  • advanced network concepts

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Control of Power Electronics through a Photonic Bus: Feasibility and Prospects
by Paolo Savio, Anantaram Varatharajan, Erasmo Vizzaccaro, Sherif Abdelfattah, Giuseppe Franco, Silvio Abrate, Gianmario Pellegrino and Vittorio Curri
J. Sens. Actuator Netw. 2018, 7(4), 53; https://doi.org/10.3390/jsan7040053 - 03 Dec 2018
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The ubiquitous diffusion of Power Electronic Converters (PECs) in many fields of application including traction and energy conversion suggests the possibility of new and better integration of advanced power conversion and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) services. This work investigates the possible advancements [...] Read more.
The ubiquitous diffusion of Power Electronic Converters (PECs) in many fields of application including traction and energy conversion suggests the possibility of new and better integration of advanced power conversion and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) services. This work investigates the possible advancements in the use of optical communication links made of plastic optical fibers for control of PECs. The optical communication link connects the switching control to the converter control, following the line of separation between the expertise of power electronic and control engineers. Control wise, a PEC is a black box compatible with any off-board controller, now immune from the Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) produced by the power switches. The redundant optical link is ready for the high switching and sampling frequencies, made possible by relying on SiC power semiconductor devices (100+ kHz). Distributed control of multiple PEC units and advanced telemetry for diagnostics and prognostics are targeted. A proof-of-concept demonstrator is presented and tested. Moreover, the possible evolution towards a power electronic cloud with remote management and orchestration is described. Full article
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A Joint Routing and Channel Assignment Scheme for Hybrid Wireless-Optical Broadband-Access Networks
by Amitangshu Pal and Asis Nasipuri
J. Sens. Actuator Netw. 2018, 7(4), 44; https://doi.org/10.3390/jsan7040044 - 16 Oct 2018
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In this paper, we investigate mechanisms for improving the quality of communications in wireless-optical broadband access networks (WOBAN), which present a promising solution to meet the growing needs for capacity of access networks. This is achieved by using multiple gateways and multi-channel operation [...] Read more.
In this paper, we investigate mechanisms for improving the quality of communications in wireless-optical broadband access networks (WOBAN), which present a promising solution to meet the growing needs for capacity of access networks. This is achieved by using multiple gateways and multi-channel operation along with a routing protocol that effectively reduces the effect of radio interference. We present a joint route and channel assignment scheme with the objective of maximizing the end-to-end probability of success and minimizing the end-to-end delay for all active upstream traffic in the WOBAN. Performance evaluations of the proposed scheme are presented using ns-2 simulations, which show that the proposed scheme improves the network throughput up to three times and reduces the traffic delay by six times in presence of 12 channels and four network interface cards (NICs), compared to a single channel scenario. Full article
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Improving Animal-Human Cohabitation with Machine Learning in Fiber-Wireless Networks
by Sandeep Kumar Singh, Francisco Carpio and Admela Jukan
J. Sens. Actuator Netw. 2018, 7(3), 35; https://doi.org/10.3390/jsan7030035 - 09 Aug 2018
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In this paper, we investigate an animal-human cohabitation problem with the help of machine learning and fiber-wireless (FiWi) access networks integrating cloud and edge (fog) computing. We propose an early warning system which detects wild animals near the road/rail with the help of [...] Read more.
In this paper, we investigate an animal-human cohabitation problem with the help of machine learning and fiber-wireless (FiWi) access networks integrating cloud and edge (fog) computing. We propose an early warning system which detects wild animals near the road/rail with the help of wireless sensor networks and alerts passing vehicles of possible animal crossing. Additionally, we show that animals’ detection at the earliest and the related processing, if possible, at sensors would reduce the energy consumption of edge devices and the end-to-end delay in notifying vehicles, as compared to the scenarios where raw sensed data needs to be transferred up the base stations or the cloud. At the same time, machine learning helps in classification of captured images at edge devices, and in predicting different time-varying traffic profiles— distinguished by latency and bandwidth requirements—at base stations, including animal appearance events at sensors, and allocating bandwidth in FiWi access networks accordingly. We compare three scenarios of processing data at sensor nodes, base stations and a hybrid case of processing sensed data at either sensors or at base stations, and showed that dynamic allocation of bandwidth in FiWi access networks and processing data at its origin lead to lowering the congestion of network traffic at base stations and reducing the average end-to-end delay. Full article
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A Survey on Optical Technologies for IoT, Smart Industry, and Smart Infrastructures
by Slavisa Aleksic
J. Sens. Actuator Netw. 2019, 8(3), 47; https://doi.org/10.3390/jsan8030047 - 17 Sep 2019
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In the Internet of Things (IoT), a huge number of sensors, actuators and other equipment for data acquisition and processing will be interconnected by means of an omnipresent communication network able to efficiently support heterogeneous transmission technologies and applications. On the one hand, [...] Read more.
In the Internet of Things (IoT), a huge number of sensors, actuators and other equipment for data acquisition and processing will be interconnected by means of an omnipresent communication network able to efficiently support heterogeneous transmission technologies and applications. On the one hand, advanced optical communication systems, which already play a significant role in modern networks, are currently evolving to meet very high requirements of modern applications. On the other hand, there are already many ways to utilize optical components and effects for building precise, efficient, and reliable sensors. Thus, optical technologies have the potential to greatly help in realizing future smart infrastructures and systems. This paper gives an overview of currently available and emerging optical technologies for sensing and communication applications and reviews their possible application in the context of the IoT for realizing smart systems and infrastructures. Full article
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