M2M-CN 2012 - The International Workshop on Machine-to-Machine Communications and Networking (M2M-CN 2012)

Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Communications and Networking enables intelligent interconnecting of physical things or objects and eventually creates Internet-of-Things (IoT) or Web of Things. M2M allows bi-directional communications and networking among devices, network, and back-end data centers and applications through wireless and/or wired communication approaches. M2M covers a wide scope of technologies including sensing, communications, computing and control, which together can build feasible complex cyber-physical systems to support diverse applications. Recently, many M2M applications such as smart grid, smart home, e-Healthcare, intelligent transportation and remote monitoring are become possible and even in deployment, thanks to recent technologies advances in areas such as sensing, networking protocols and actuating control. To this end, M2M has attracted tremendously global attention from academia, industries and governments. Organizations such as IEEE, IETF, 3GPP and ETSI have started to M2M-reated standards from different aspects.
The IEEE Int'l Workshop on Machine-to-Machine Communications and Networking (M2M-CN), in conjunction with IEEE iThings 2012 is a new event particularly focusing on all aspects of networking, that aims at providing a forum that brings together researchers from academia as well as practitioners from industry and government to meet and exchange ideas on recent research work, point out the directions for future research, and seek collaboration opportunities on all aspects of the M2M enabling technologies. The goal of this workshop is to promote borderless discussions and identify suitable technical solutions, in particular communications and networking technologies, to enable effective and efficient M2M system design and implementations.
We are looking for papers that present new techniques, introduce new methodologies, propose new research directions, or discuss strategies for resolving open problems spanning all aspects of M2M. The focus will cover both the system-level solutions like software/hardware architectures, and the protocol-level solutions. Furthermore, application-oriented demos and prototypes are also highly encouraged.