Edge Computing for Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems

Dear Colleagues,

Edge computing is a critical component of the Internet of Things paradigm in many scenarios and smart applications to provide better resources close to the data generation and support real-time decision making. While edge computing exhibits high dynamics in many of its architectural aspects, it creates unprecedented opportunities for IoT applications and smart services to balance between computing and storage resources, time constraints and network bandwidth. The continuous revolution in wireless communication technologies also unleashes the full potential of distributed systems, where data transfer and communications between edge devices and supporting computing infrastructures are increasingly improving. This special issue focuses on the integration of edge computing with the Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical systems in different application domains. We invite submissions of the innovative ideas, interesting research challenges on the convergence of edge computing and IoT scenarios, communication and computing design aspects of edge computing, and novel solutions to resource limitations on the edge. Topics includes, but are not limited to:

• Novel communication protocols for IoT-edge based applications
• Reliability, availability, and scalability in IoT-edge computing
• Energy efficiency of IoT-edge computing
• Mobile and federated IoT-edge computing
• Artificial intelligence/machine learning at the edge
• Edge storage for IoT applications
• Co-existence of edge and fog computing
• Application deployment on edge computing
• Privacy preserving methods for smart devices and edge infrastructure
• Cooperative aerial edge computing and communication systems
• Cooperative internet of things on the edge
• Blockchain-enabled edge computing systems
• Context-aware architectures in distributed mobile systems
• Quality of Service (QoS) on the edge
• Applications of vehicular networks, V2V and V2I communications
• Performance evaluation of IoT techniques and models on the edge

Dr. Khalid Elgazzar
Dr. Mohsen Amini Salehi
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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• Edge Computing
• Internet of Things
• Cyber-Physical systems