Workshops

The extended version of selected papers will be published in a special issue of the MDPI Sensors Journal.

CoWireless: Workshop on Recent Advances in Wireless Coexistence for Heterogeneous IoT

The unprecedented prosperity of IoT brings explosive development of wireless devices as well as the rich diversity of wireless technologies. Wireless coexistence for heterogeneous IoT has become an attractive and highly visible research area. Early works usually focus on surviving cross-technology interference by avoiding, tolerating or resolving interference. Emerging techniques, such as cross-technology communication and backscatter communication, enable the direct communication between incompatible technologies and push the limit of existing technologies. They shed the light on achieving the ubiquitous interconnection of heterogeneous IoT and bring new research opportunities. The Workshop on Recent Advances in Wireless Coexistence for Heterogeneous IoT (CoWireless 2019) focuses on the fundamental problems as well as the applications of wireless coexistence, including the architecture, design, implementation, and measurement of wireless coexistence for heterogeneous IoT systems, cross-technology communication, coordination and cooperation of heterogeneous technologies, and other issues related to wireless coexistence.

CISC 2019: The Second International Workshop on Crowd Intelligence for Smart Cities: Technology and Applications

Cities are experiencing significant challenges in many aspects such as efficient energy management, economic growth and development, security and quality of life of their citizens. In particular, in the era of big data, mobile internet, social network, and cloud computing, we are now provided with good opportunities to leverage the crowd intelligence, i.e., cooperation of the massive individual intelligence, to better sense and manage the city.

After the successful hosting of the first CISC (July, 2016, in France), the objective of the second CISC (CISC 2019, in China) is to further bring together researchers and practitioners both from academia and industries with the goal to discuss, identify and share experiences surrounding construction of smart city systems, city context analysis, its applications and deployment experiences based on the crowd intelligence. We hope that the workshop will contribute to establish a research community in the smart city research area with a focus on the crowd intelligence.

The First International Workshop on 6LoWPAN for the Internet of Things

6LoWPAN is an open IETF standard to realize the ubiquitous connectivity among everyday IoT devices. The use of this end-to-end, IP-based paradigm enables local IoT networks to connect with each other simply using IP routers. 6LoWPAN has been adapted and used over a variety of low power wireless networking media including IEEE 802.15.4 and others. 6LoWPAN also draws attention from the industry, like the Thread Group. While promising, there are still key challenges when deploying them in scale, including future long range LPWAN support, diverse, massively deployed sensors support, security and data privacy. These problems lie at the heart of the overall effort to scale up the IoT devices to satisfy an ever-growing user demand. With these problems in mind, this workshop intends to discuss the current research trends of 6LoWPAN, identify and provide ideas to solve these key problems, and raise the global interest in this newly emerging technology.

Security, Reliability, and Resilience in Wireless Sensor Networks

The workshop focuses on the challenges in the deployment and operation of wireless sensor network as follows. First, heterogeneous network topologies in energy distribution network bring technical challenges in design and management of the sensor networks. Second, how to measure and analyze the traffic of wireless sensor network in order to manage it more effectively still need to be studied. Third, quality of service necessities causes challenges for big data transmission optimization in wireless sensor network. Forth, how to protect wireless sensor network reliability and enhance system resilience in complex environments is one of the bottlenecks. Finally, resource constraints of wireless sensor network increase security, safety and resilience concerns related to their utilization in real application.

We invite researchers to contribute original research articles as well as comprehensive review articles that seek to understand the various techniques addressing those challenges and providing future improvements for wireless sensor network.

The 1st workshop on Low Power Wide Area Networks for Internet of Things (LPNET)

Low power wide area networks for Internet of Things (e.g., LoRa, NB-IoT) have attracted increasing research interest and efforts recently. Despite its rapid increasing, there are also many challenges and unsolved problems for this area towards large scale real applications. This workshop aims to bring researchers from both academia and industry together to explore the challenges and opportunities in design, development, implementation and deployment of low power networks for Internet of Things.

The First International Workshop on Distributed Fog Services Design (DFSD 2019)

Smart spaces, such as smart cities and smart buildings, are proliferating into a massive scale, thereby, Internet of Things (IoT) data, services and applications are being pressed to move to the Cloud. IoT Cloud integration can enable ubiquitous cyber-physical services and powerful processing of IoT data beyond the capabilities of individual things. This has been recently extended from the core of the network to the edge of the network (i.e., Fog Computing) to address better mobility support, location-awareness and low latency. Therefore, IoT applications will be further distributed throughout the network, including routers and dedicated computing nodes. With this new trend in sight, developing applications using cloud and fog computing resources introduces many challenges with respect to programming, networking, and service abstraction and distribution. In particular, in large-scale IoT applications with massive number of services, the way to model, develop and distributed services at device-, fog-, and cloud-levels is a top priority design challenge in this area.

This workshop aims to bring together experts from academia and industry who are working in distributed service computing aspects of fog platforms. The goal is to present and explore novel approaches and recent results of the research community and the industry bodies, and debate on and discuss priorities and challenges in the research agenda.