Emerging Solutions and Technologies for Smart Cities Systems

A special issue of Information (ISSN 2078-2489).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2019) | Viewed by 330

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Carleton University and Gnowit Inc., Ottawa, ON, Canada
Interests: networking and communications; connected vehicles; IoT; blockchain; Big Data; ML and AI
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School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, ON, Canada
Interests: wireless network management; cloud network management; data replication in cloud networks; service-specific overlay networks

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College of Technological Innovation, Zayed University, Dubai, UAE
Interests: Internet of Things (IoT); energy optimization and energy harvesting networks; routing and MAC protocols in MANETs and WSN; quality of service (QoS) and cross layer design; BlockChains technologies
College of Computer Information Technology at the American University in the Emirates, Dubai, UAE
Interests: wireless sensor networks; computer networks; intelligent transportation systems network and information security; wearable computing; security intelligence

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Smart cities encompass all aspects of modern day life, transportation, healthcare, entertainment, work, businesses, social interactions, governance, etc. It is therefore necessary to engineer smart cities as complex systems of systems supported by a converged ubiquitous infrastructure. A key challenge in the realization of smart cities is to create an ecosystem of digital infrastructures that are able to work together and enable dynamic real-time interactions between various smart city subsystems. With this background, this workshop invites submissions that propose state-of-the-art solutions for smart cities systems engineering.

A particular focus of this Special Issue are the studies that involve cloud computing, fog computing, and mobile edge computing technologies. Original articles including modeling and empirical studies and development, as well as relevant surveys, are welcome. The topics of interest of the workshop include but are not limited to:

* IoT-based developments for smart cities engineering;

* Big data technologies for smart cities;

* Modeling and analysis of smart city technologies and systems;

* Mobile applications for smart cities;

* Analytics for smart cities;

* Cloud computing based approaches for smart city engineering;

* Fog and edge computing based approaches for smart city engineering;

* Cloudlet-based approaches for smart city engineering;

* Studies focused on communication networks for smart cities;

* Information management for smart cities;

* Smart buildings, smart homes, and smart energy grids;

* Transportation, healthcare, and governance for smart cities;

* Security and privacy of smart city systems.

Dr. Moayad Aloqaily
Dr. Ismaeel Al Ridhawi
Dr. Ouns Bouachir
Dr. Razi Iqbal
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • Smart city components
  • Analytics for smart cities
  • IoT
  • Big data
  • Vehicular cloud
  • Connected vehicles
  • Transportation, healthcare, and governance

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