IoMT 2016 - Special Issue on Applications of Internet of Mobile Things

In recent years, Internet of Mobile Things (IoMT) has become more and more popular. The three layers in IoMT are sensor, networking, and application layers. For sensor and networking layers, the rise of mobile technology advancements (e.g., wireless sensor networking, smart mobile device, Long-Range Signaling and Control (LRSC), and Long Term Evolution (LTE)) has led to a new wave of machine-to-machine (M2M), machine-to-human (M2H), human-to-human (H2H), and human-to-machine (H2M) communications. For application layer, several mobile-based applications for mobile devices have been designed and developed to detect environmental changes and send instant updates to a cloud computing server farm via mobile communications and middleware for big data analyses.
Multiple international organizations such as oneM2M and the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) have established specifications of M2M communication and provided some use cases across multiple disciplines including energy, enterprise, healthcare, public services, residency, retail, and transportation. To illustrate the usefulness of such technologies, for instance, on-board units in cars can instantly detect and share information about the geolocation of the car, speed, following distance, and gaps with other neighboring cars.
Such information can also be uploaded to a cloud computing server farm for obtaining the traffic information estimation to road users. However, several applications and research areas of IoMT have not been discussed and investigated. Therefore, designing and implementing the mobile communications (e.g., ZigBee, WiFi Direct, LTE Direct, etc.) and middleware technique (e.g., RESTful, Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP), Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT), etc.) are outstanding issues for the instant collection and analyzation of big data from sensors and smart mobile devices that require further research and development. This special issue will solicit papers on various disciplines of IoMT.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
IoMT Applications of Agriculture
IoMT Applications of Energy
IoMT Applications of Enterprise
IoMT Applications of Finance
IoMT Applications of Healthcare
IoMT Applications of Industry
IoMT Applications of Public Services
IoMT Applications of Residency
IoMT Applications of Retail
IoMT Applications of Transportation
Sensing Techniques for IoMT
Communication Techniques for IoMT
Middleware Techniques for IoMT
Data Analysis Techniques for IoMT
Authors can submit their manuscripts via the Manuscript Tracking System athttp://mts.hindawi.com/submit/journals/jece/commun....
Manuscript Due Friday, 2 October 2015
First Round of Reviews Friday, 25 December 2015
Publication Date Friday, 19 February 2016
Lead Guest Editor
Chi-Hua Chen, Chunghwa Telecom Co., Taipei, Taiwan
Guest Editors
Hsu-Yang Kung, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Pingtung County, Taiwan
Feng-Jang Hwang, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Eyhab Al-Masri, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada