CIT 2016 - Workshop on Convergent Internet of Things

The Internet of Things (IoT) has been explored and implemented in a number of variations with significant
efforts from academia and industry. Currently, mainstream IoT directions are drifting towards application
specific solutions and the development of proprietary versions of IoT. Under the premise of ubiquitous Internet
access and IPv6 connectivity, many IoT variants have evolved without considering interoperability across the
spectrum of existing and operable infrastructures, nor the impact on underlying networking infrastructures and
ensuing performance. We invite original work that aims at a convergent view of IoT, one that specifically adopts
heterogeneous architectures, and inherently builds upon interoperability with existing connected infrastructures.
This encompasses work on resource identification, calibration, profiling, and utilization in a dynamic IoT
framework. We invite original contributions that address crowd-based IoT infrastructures, encompassing
incentive schemes, and collaboration and cooperation schemes, to ensure maximal utility of ubiquitously
accessible smart resources. We strongly encourage results from industry and academia, and solicit research
that facilitates functional scalability for a truly survivable version of IoT.
Topics of Interest
Specific topics include, but are not limited to:
? Convergent paradigms in the Internet of Things
? Heterogeneous architectures for the Internet of Things
? Crowd-based IoT infrastructures
? IoT systems collaboration and cooperation mechanisms
? IoT Interoperability issues
? Device-2-Device interaction across application domains
? Ad hoc resource management in the Internet of Things
? Resource identification, discovery, and profiling in heterogeneous IoT
? Resource sharing and actuation conflicts resolution
? IoT services orchestration and scheduling
? IoT infrastructures for Big Data management and communication
? Innovative IoT incentive schemes
? Legal and governance frameworks for IoT regulation