M2MC 2013 - The 2th International Workshop on Machine-to-Machine Communications (M2MC 2013)

As a new business concept, Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications are born from original telemetry technology with the intrinsic features of automatic data transmissions and measurement from remote sources typically by cable or radio. M2M includes a number of technologies that need to be combined in a compatible manner to enable its deployment over a broad market of consumer electronics, and it offers a potential solution to the already saturated telecommunications market, with new services and applications, such as e-healthcare, smart city, smart grid, intelligent transportation, remote monitoring, and logistics. Such services and applications open a mass market and several business opportunities. With the capabilities of decision-making and autonomous control, M2M systems can be upgraded to Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). This requires development of novel solutions to efficiently serve a huge number of devices that interact autonomously at a global level. It also opens a wide research area for future M2M communications, including investigations on scalability, wide-area coverage, cloud computing, energy-efficiency, heterogeneity, cooperation, intelligent real-time control, and security.
Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press (indexed by EI). Distinguished selected papers accepted and presented in MSN2013, after further extensions, will be published in special issues of the several SCI Indexed journals.
--Call for Papers
This workshop aims to gather researchers, engineers and practitioners, both from academia and industry, as well as end users, to present and debate advanced M2M communication systems, technologies, and applications. Specifically, but not exclusively, the workshop proposes to address the following issues related to M2M:
Scalable system architecture and components
Radio access technologies and protocols
Device, resource, data, and service management for M2M
Cloud support for M2M applications
Security, trust and privacy of M2M devices and services
Internetworking protocols and mechanisms
Semantic technologies for M2M
Channel and traffic models
M2M in vehicular ad-hoc network, smart robots, smart grid, home networks, healthcare, and manufacturing systems
Sensing, computing, and controlling technologies for M2M
Cyber-physical systems, cyber-transportation systems
--Workshop Organization
Chair: Jiafu Wan, South China University of Technology, China
Co-Chair: Min Chen, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Co-Chair: Honggang Wang, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA