The Internet of Everything (IoE), a superset of the Internet of Things (IoT), uses a collection of technologies allowing sensors, actuators, people, and other virtual entities to attach to the internet. IoE also denotes a dynamic global network infrastructure with self-configuring capabilities, where users, data, processes, and things have identities, physical attributes, abstract personalities, intelligence, and network interfaces. Gartner and Cisco predict 21 billion Internet-connected devices by 2020, growing to 500 billion by 2030. As IoE popularity soars, applications often require dynamic, high-speed network access, security, and autonomous application support.
In parallel, 5G communications efforts currently underway address many related issues associated with IoE network access. Worldwide, 5G networks power the future wave of IoE connected devices. IoE-centric applications hosted on 5G heterogeneous networks (HetNets) require trusted nodes and network security, while managing sensitive information, establishing IDs, ownership, performing system updates, exchanging services, and interpreting contracts.
This special issue describes emerging research enabling 5G systems to support the future convergence of autonomy, security, and heterogeneity in the Age of IoE Applications. It also addresses the formidable challenges arising from the joint combination of 5G and IoE-centric applications. IoE applications place increasing emphasis on autonomous operation, necessitating new models of transactional security between things. This issue also addresses the obligation to secure high-value things (information, assets, and complex cyber-systems), the autonomy of networked-things, Financial Technology (FinTech), the Internet of Vehicles (IoV), and future Zero-Carbon Smart-Grids.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
Security at the physical layer
5G security systems for IoE applications
Physical layer security for 5G systems
Privacy in 5G network systems
Quantum information system integrated with 5G cellular
Quantum key distribution integrated with 5G cellular
Application layer security
The merging of blockchains with 5G
Digital signatures
Cryptocurrency applications on 5G networks
Blockchain applications for 5G networks
Information value in 5G network security
Cloud hosting
Distributed blockchains for the IoE
Centralized radio access networks (C-RAN) for IoE
Virtual systems in cloud-based 5G
Cloud virtualization in IoE networks
Big data application for the IoE
Integrated deep learning in 5G networks
Utilization of deep learning for 5G network systems
IoE systems optimized with big data
Applying big data in 5G network systems
IoE middle layer software on 5G networks
Autonomous networks
5G self-organizing networks (SON)
Self-organizing IoE objects
Autonomous systems of robot IoE
Social networks of things and users
5G IoE networks
Narrowband 5G for IoE
Network function virtualization for IoE
Fog-based IoE/5G
Internet of vehicles (IoV) applications on 5G networks
Technical challenges in heterogeneous 5G networks
Interference management in dense 5G networks
5G software defined radio (SDR) system supporting IoE
Authors can submit their manuscripts through the Manuscript Tracking System at
https://mts.hindawi.com/submit/journals/wcmc/5gna/.
Submission Deadline Friday, 22 June 2018
Publication Date November 2018
Papers are published upon acceptance, regardless of the Special Issue publication date.
Lead Guest Editor
Brian Kelley, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, USA
Guest Editors
Paul Cotae, University of the District of Columbia, Washington, USA
Ali Imran, University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA
Nicholas Peters, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, USA
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/wcmc/si/185986/cfp/
