IoT 2017 - Wireless Access Technologies and Architectures for Internet of Things (IoT)

The Internet-of-Things (IoT) will revolutionize industry and our lives. Future IoT networks will need to provide low latency and high reliability communications for multiple vertical industries including transport, healthcare, manufacturing, agriculture and energy. Wireless technologies will be the most cost-effective and scalable solution for enabling the intensive acquisition of information from fixed and mobile IoT devices. However, many open questions still need to be addressed to overcome fundamental constraints of radio spectrum, power, and transmission distance to support secure wide area coverage and ultra-reliable low latency communications for IoT devices. Furthermore, it is expected that each vertical industry will need to share a common IoT platform and there are formidable challenges in unifying existing networks. These include massive computational complexity and transmission latency for data processing and management of massive number of terminals from multiple vertical industries, which are not adequately addressed in the latest 5G wireless network standard. As such, there is a need to redesign wireless access technologies and architectures with reconfigurable software-defined networks to facilitate a flexible and highly-scalable common IoT platform.
This workshop is designed to bring together academic and industrial researchers in an effort to identify and discuss the major technical challenges and recent breakthroughs related to wireless IoT networks.
Topics
IoT applications for Smart City and Smart Industry
Wireless and network security
Dynamic spectrum and massive access management
Cooperative communications and interference mitigation
Cognitive radio technology
IoT network economics and pricing
IoT architectures, protocols, and resource allocation algorithms for multiple vertical industries
Wireless network domain technologies for vertical industries (LTE/LTE-A, WSN, VANET, RFID, WiFi, Zigbee)
Wireless network architectures for vertical industries (Virtualisation, Cloud radio access networks)
Device-to-device (D2D), Machine-to-Machine (M2M), and Machine-to-Cloud (M2C) communications
Energy-Harvesting and Wireless Power Transfer
Performance evaluation of wireless IoT technologies
Software-based reconfigurable wireless networks
IoT Prototyping and experimental results