M2MCIP 2013 - 1st IEEE Workshop on Machine to Machine Communications Interfaces and Platforms (M2MCIP 2013)

Smarter and greener environments are essential to address economic, social, and environmental challenges due to the increase in urbanization, requiring informed decisions based on Internet of Things (IoT) generated data. Rapidly, more and more devices are being added to the networks. Estimations show that by the end of 2020 there will be 50 billion connected devices to the IoT world-wide. Almost any kind of these devices will be allowed to seamlessly integrate into a large-scale Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication environment. In contrast to human-to-human and human-to-machine communication (which mainly involves multimedia sessions, web browsing, and remote control), M2M provides the opportunity of deploying completely new services. In M2M, smart devices are connected through the networks to novel service platforms in a self-controlled system; however, the current communication networks still being designed to support human-to-human communication, focus on the optimization of the communication between devices under direct human control. Recognizing the need for reliable network infrastructures, various standards developing organizations have recently promoted several standardization activities in the M2M domain, which need continuous research input. Open M2M platforms are being developed to implement middleware aiming to provide services for heterogeneous requirements, thus avoiding vendor-locking stove-pipe solutions, acting as a horizontal convergence layer supporting multiple vertical application domains such as transport and logistics, utilities, automotive, eHealth, etc. which may be deployed independently or as part of a common platform.
M2MCIP provides a platform for researchers and practitioners to address and discuss challenges and proposed solutions to the open and upcoming issues in M2M, as state-of-the-art solutions and work in progress.
Topics of the workshop will cover, but not be limited to:
M2M Modelling and Design
M2M Platforms and Frameworks
M2M aspects of Smart Energy, Utility Providers, Smart Homes, Smart Anything
M2M Privacy and Security, Identification and Authentication
M2M Gateways
M2M Application Interfaces
M2M Medium Access Protocols
M2M Performance and Scalability aspects
M2M Reliability and Affordability
M2M Standardisation progress
M2M Mobility aspects
Autonomic communication methods for end-to-end M2M communication
M2M Emerging technologies
Context-awareness aspects of M2M communication
Integration of Delay-Tolerant Networks into M2M platforms
M2M Crowd Sensing integration and opportunistic information transmission
Communication aspects of services in the Internet of Things
Industrial requirements for M2M and upcoming business cases
Experimental Testbeds for M2M communication and integration, deployment and federation
Paper Submission
Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or experiences. Late-breaking advances and work-in-progress reports from ongoing research are also encouraged to be submitted to this workshop. Authors are requested to submit papers limited to 8 pages in IEEE 8.5x11 conference format, and formatted in accordance with the IEEE Computer Society author guidelines.
The templates can be found here: [Will be published on IEEE LCN website]
All papers must include title, complete contact information for all authors, abstract, and keywords on the cover page. IEEE reserves the right to remove papers from IEEE Xplore that are not presented at the conference.
Please submit your paper electronically in PDF format to EDAS [ http://edas.info/N14607 ]
Direct your questions to the Workshop Chairs.
Publication
Papers are published in the LCN-workshops proceedings (CD) and in IEEE Xplore.