Empowering IoT with AI: AIoT for Smart and Autonomous Systems
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Computer Science & Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 March 2025 | Viewed by 852
Special Issue Editors
Interests: computer networking; edge intelligence; federated learning
Interests: network intelligence; federated learning; machine learning
Interests: integrated air–ground networks, UAV networks, wireless energy transfer, and optimization
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Internet of Things (IoT) is revolutionizing daily life, but artificial intelligence (AI) truly unlocks its full potential. Three pivotal emerging technologies—AI, 5G networks, and big data—are enhancing IoT, culminating in the Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT). The primary objective of AIoT is to bring intelligence to the edge, enabling devices to recognize data, evaluate their environments, and determine optimal actions. Through AI, IoT devices have evolved into sophisticated machines capable of autonomous analytics and independent decision making, far surpassing their initial roles as mere data transmitters.
Nonetheless, the integration of IoT and AI in the context of smart and autonomous systems introduces critical challenges for the research community. A crucial step in realizing the full potential of AIoT is fostering collaboration among massive distributed devices. Without such collaboration, AIoT systems may encounter issues such as inefficient energy use, security vulnerabilities, and inconsistent performance. Another essential aspect is the seamless integration of AIoT with other cutting-edge technologies. Both academia and industry must prioritize bridging the gap between AIoT with 5G networks, edge computing, blockchain, digital twin, and other emerging technologies to achieve comprehensive convergence.
This Special Issue seeks high-quality contributions from experts in academia and industry in the fields of AIoT, machine learning, 5G networks, and big data. We solicit high-quality original papers on the development of AI models for IoT systems and the presentation of pioneering approaches and applications.
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Novel AIoT architectures and frameworks;
- Integration and application of 5G networks with AIoT;
- Security and privacy solutions for AIoT against malicious attacks;
- Intelligent edge/fog/cloud computing;
- Integration of large language model (LLM)/large vision model (LVM) and AIoT;
- AIoT-Enabled Semantic Communication;
- Distributed Collaborative Learning in AioT;
- Robust distributed AIoT design in smart and autonomous system;
- Interplay between digital twin and AIoT over networks;
- Novel methods for AIoT solutions with limited communication/computation resources;
- AI-driven applications in smart homes, smart cities, and smart industries.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Zijian Li
Dr. Zihan Chen
Dr. Jiahui Li
Dr. Longyu Zhou
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- artificial intelligence of things
- edge computing
- 5G networks
- security and privacy
- AI-driven applications
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