Dear Colleagues,

The Internet of Things (IoT) and its interplay with mobile computing is growing fast and will power a plethora of future applications in domains, such as manufacturing, healthcare, agriculture, and smart cities, among others. Thanks to advancements in hardware and software technologies, such as the introduction of dedicated onboard graphics processing units (e.g., Google Pixel with Qualcomm Adreno 530 GPU), advanced machine learning and deep learning algorithms on mobile devices (enabling federated learning), and access to contextualised information from IoT sensors, the computing capability of multisensory smart mobile devices with internet connectivity has dramatically improved. IoT devices (e.g., wearables, RFID tags, energy monitors, environmental sensors) located in the proximity of mobile users can improve overall user experience, perception, and knowledge and help to make better decisions. An increasing number of research works are exploring the interplay between mobile computing and IoT to enable the facilitation and development of more fine-grained, personalised, and enriched services.

While mobile computing for IoT is of enormous potential, it also faces several challenges. These include (1) a lack of optimal solutions for performing computationally expensive operations and data integration from various IoT devices and sensors on mobile phones, (2) handling issues regarding IoT device heterogeneity and real-time sensing to build fault-tolerant solutions and models, (3) addressing security and privacy concerns when integrating data from IoT mobile computing for sensitive applications, (4) handling uncertainty in data and context, and (5) a lack of scalable architectures to support distributed learning among IoT devices, mobile devices, edge, and cloud.

This Special Issue aims to bring together researchers and application developers working on the intersection of IoT and mobile computing developing next-generation applications, algorithms, frameworks, and solutions to support the growth of IoT data analytics using mobile devices. We also welcome high-quality research, work in progress, quality review articles, real-world experiments, and deployment use case papers that address the challenges and gaps in the current state of the art in the aforementioned areas.

Potential research topics of interest include (but are not necessarily limited to these):

• Smart IoT sensors (e.g., wearables, smart devices) for IoT mobile computing;
• Architectures, protocols, frameworks and applications of IoT mobile computing;
• Machine learning and deep learning for IoT mobile computing;
• Distributed learning for IoT mobile computing;
• Methods and techniques to support real-time data analytics for IoT mobile computing;
• IoT mobile crowd-sensing;
• Middleware platforms for IoT mobile computing;
• Social IoT computing
• Security and privacy for IoT in mobile computing;

Application use-cases reporting outcomes of real-world case studies that demonstrate IoT Mobile Computing include but are not limited to:

• Digital health;
• Industry 4.0;
• Digital agriculture;
• Smart cities.

Dr. Prem Prakash Jayaraman
Dr. Abdur Rahim Mohammad Forkan
Dr. Ali Hassani
Guest Editors

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