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Empowering the Future Generation Cloud Systems for Internet of Things

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Internet of Things".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 October 2023) | Viewed by 3574

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School of Electronic Engineering, Soongsil University, Seoul 06978, Republic of Korea
Interests: cloud computing; IoT; machine learning; mobile networks; computer networks; future generation networks

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Guest Editor
School of Electronic Engineering, Soongsil University, Seoul 06978, Republic of Korea
Interests: IoT; blockchain; cloud computing; machine learning; future generation networks

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Guest Editor
School of Automation, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing 400065, China
Interests: IoT; computer network reliability;computer network security; software defined networking; radio networks

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

With significant advances in sensing and communication technologies, the Internet of Things (IoT) plays an increasingly important role in connecting the physical and digital worlds in various domains, such as smart city, healthcare, intelligent transportation, forest protection, and environmental monitoring. However, there are still many challenges for current IoT systems to effectively handle billions of devices with huge data generated from IoT devices to ensure low latency, energy efficiency, and so on. The convergence of technologies—from edge computing to cloud, the Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain, and Artificial Intelligence (AI)—potentially contributes toward addressing the above issues and blurring the lines between the physical and digital worlds.

In this Special Issue, we seek state-of-the-art approaches, methodologies, and key technologies in the design, development, deployment and innovative use of edge, cloud, AI, and blockchain for the Internet of Things.

Topics include but are not limited to the following:

  • Novel theories, concepts, and paradigms of the convergence of IoT, AI, blockchain, and edge–cloud;
  • Architecture design between cloud/fog/edge for the IoT;
  • Distributed computing architectures/algorithms/models for the IoT;
  • Framework, algorithms, and protocol design for IoT cloud;
  • Management—scheduling, energy, resource scaling, deployment, orchestration, monitoring, benchmarking, and metering for IoT cloud;
  • Dynamic resource provision and consuming for IoT cloud;
  • Machine learning, AI, and other innovative approaches for IoT cloud/fog/edge communication;
  • Models of convergence technologies for mission-critical applications such as smart grid, healthcare, connected vehicles, etc.;
  • Distributed ledger technology (DLT), blockchain, and smart contract for IoT cloud;
  • Blockchain-based serverless edge computing for the IoT;
  • Trustless systems for data ownership and data management in IoT cloud;
  • Digital twin and metaverse using IoT cloud;
  • Security, privacy, and trustworthiness for IoT cloud.

Prof. Dr. Younghan Kim
Dr. Ngoc-Thanh Dinh
Prof. Dr. Min Wei
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • Internet of Things
  • cloud
  • edge
  • AI
  • machine learning
  • blockchain
  • metaverse
  • convergence technologies

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Optimal Resource Provisioning and Task Offloading for Network-Aware and Federated Edge Computing
by Avilia Kusumaputeri Nugroho, Shigeo Shioda and Taewoon Kim
Sensors 2023, 23(22), 9200; https://doi.org/10.3390/s23229200 - 15 Nov 2023
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Compared to cloud computing, mobile edge computing (MEC) is a promising solution for delay-sensitive applications due to its proximity to end users. Because of its ability to offload resource-intensive tasks to nearby edge servers, MEC allows a diverse range of compute- and storage-intensive [...] Read more.
Compared to cloud computing, mobile edge computing (MEC) is a promising solution for delay-sensitive applications due to its proximity to end users. Because of its ability to offload resource-intensive tasks to nearby edge servers, MEC allows a diverse range of compute- and storage-intensive applications to operate on resource-constrained devices. The optimal utilization of MEC can lead to enhanced responsiveness and quality of service, but it requires careful design from the perspective of user-base station association, virtualized resource provisioning, and task distribution. Also, considering the limited exploration of the federation concept in the existing literature, its impacts on the allocation and management of resources still remain not widely recognized. In this paper, we study the network and MEC resource scheduling problem, where some edge servers are federated, limiting resource expansion within the same federations. The integration of network and MEC is crucial, emphasizing the necessity of a joint approach. In this work, we present NAFEOS, a proposed solution formulated as a two-stage algorithm that can effectively integrate association optimization with vertical and horizontal scaling. The Stage-1 problem optimizes the user-base station association and federation assignment so that the edge servers can be utilized in a balanced manner. The following Stage-2 dynamically schedules both vertical and horizontal scaling so that the fluctuating task-offloading demands from users are fulfilled. The extensive evaluations and comparison results show that the proposed approach can effectively achieve optimal resource utilization. Full article
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A Bibliometric Review of the Evolution of Blockchain Technologies
by Sergi López-Sorribes, Josep Rius-Torrentó and Francesc Solsona-Tehàs
Sensors 2023, 23(6), 3167; https://doi.org/10.3390/s23063167 - 16 Mar 2023
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Bitcoin was created in 2008 as the first decentralized cryptocurrency, providing an innovative data management technology, which was later named blockchain. It ensured data validation without intervention from intermediaries. During its early stages, it was conceived as a financial technology by most researchers. [...] Read more.
Bitcoin was created in 2008 as the first decentralized cryptocurrency, providing an innovative data management technology, which was later named blockchain. It ensured data validation without intervention from intermediaries. During its early stages, it was conceived as a financial technology by most researchers. It was not until 2015, when the Ethereum cryptocurrency was officially launched worldwide, along with its revolutionary technology called smart contracts, that researchers began to change their perception of the technology and look for uses outside the financial world. This paper analyzes the literature since 2016, one year after Ethereum, analyzing the evolution of interest in the technology to date. For this purpose, a total of 56,864 documents created between 2016 and 2022 from four major publishers were analyzed, providing answers to the following questions. Q1: How has interest in blockchain technology increased? Q2: What have been the major blockchain research interests? Q3: What have been the most outstanding works of the scientific community? The paper clearly exposes the evolution of blockchain technology, making it clear that, as the years go by, it is becoming a complementary technology instead of the main focus of studies. Finally, we highlight the most popular and recurrent topics discussed in the literature over the analyzed period of time. Full article
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