Dear researching IoTlers,
I'd like to make some advertisement for the following Special Issue of the
MDPI Sensors Open Access Journal:
Special Issue "Internet of Things (IoT) Operating Systems Management:
Opportunities, Challenges, and Solution"
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/Operating_System
The deadline for submission is 1 September 2018.
Special Issue Information
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The ‘Thing’ in the Internet of Things is a piece of equipment having a
combination of sensing, actuating, storage, or processing capabilities. These
IoT devices possess unique characteristics, such as small memory, scarce
energy resources, and limited processing power. Moreover, their ability to
communicate with each other, or to the cloud, is typically very limited in
terms of bandwidth and data rates. Due to these limitations, IoT devices need
to manage their resources efficiently. Additionally, densification,
randomness, and uncertainty make IoT device resource management a challenging
task. An operating system (OS) acts as a resource manager for this complex IoT
system. To handle the limited processing power and memory, an OS requires an
effective process and memory management mechanism. IoT devices are often
battery operated and are mostly deployed in remote, and frequently-harsh
environments. Thus, efficient energy management in an OS is highly important.
The main objective of an IoT system is to connect the physical world with
services in the cloud in order to provide new services. Interactions with the
physical world may happen through sensing operations, controlling actuators,
or a combination of both. Collected data can be transferred directly to the
cloud, preprocessed locally on IoT devices or in a distributed manner among
the lower power nodes. To achieve this, the communication design, signal
processing, data transmission, data reception, and radio sleep/wakeup
mechanisms, e.g., radio duty cycling (RDC), need to be efficient in term of
energy and communication. Further, an IoT OS may need to store, catalog and
retrieve data using a file system. In order to cater to the vastly differing
needs of IoT scenarios, IoT networks consist of a huge heterogeneity, both in
terms of software and hardware. Tiny sensing nodes may operate purely by
relying on energy harvesting mechanisms, infrequently sending sensor data to
more powerful nodes, remaining in deep sleep modes for most of the time, while
gateway nodes may be connected to a fixed power supply, relay sensor data from
thousands of sensor nodes, and is responsible for management services, such as
address assignment or computing routing information. Hence, resources managed
by the OS can be very different and require very diverse policies.
Consequently, the mechanisms, strategies, and data structures for IoT
operating systems pose completely new challenges that require novel OS
concepts and implementations.
This Special Issue focuses on the most recent advancement in interdisciplinary
research areas encompassing IoT OSs, process, memory, energy, communication
and file management. This Special Issue will bring together researchers from
diverse fields, such as communication engineering, computer engineering,
computer science, electrical and electronics engineering, bio-informatics, and
mathematics. Through this Special Issue, we invite researchers from industry,
academia and government organizations to discuss innovative ideas and
contributions, demonstrate results and share standardization efforts on the
IoT OSs and related areas.
Topics of interest include, but not limited to the following:
Process Management
(Real-time) Scheduling
Threading Model
Programming Model
Synchronization
Memory Management
Storage Allocation
Sharing and Distributed Memory
Fragmentation Prevention
Dynamic Buffer Handling
Energy Management
Efficient Usage of Hardware Sleep Modes
Sleep Cycle Management
Hibernating
Communication Management
Protocol Design
In-network Caching Strategies
Network Management
Medium Access Control (MAC) Layer Protocols
Radio Duty Cycling Protocols
File Management
Organization
Storage
Peripheral Devices
Sensor and Actuator (Auto)Configuration
Device Driver Initialization
Shared Buses
Guest Editors
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Dr. Yousaf Bin Zikria
Dr. Sung Won Kim
Dr. Oliver Hahm
Dr. Muhammad Khalil Afzal
Dr. Mohammed Y Aalsalem
Manuscript Submission Information
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Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and
logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the
submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers
will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the
journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue
website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications
are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words)
can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under
consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings
papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind
peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for
submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page.
Sensors is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal
published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript.
The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access
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and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to
publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
Process Management
Memory Management
Energy Management
Communication Management
File Management
Peripheral Devices
Cheers,
Oleg
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