[Tccc] ICCCN 2013 Call for Papers -- extended deadline...

Luis Sanchez lsanchezattlmat.unican.es
Wed Feb 27 12:35:37 EST 2013



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*Special Session on Internet of Things in Smart Cities*
Global Wireless Summit (GWS'13)

Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA

June 24 -- 27, 2013


Recent studies have predicted that by 2050 seventy percent of the world 
population will live in urban areas, while more than a half of the 
world's population already lives in cities. Different urban-environment 
stakeholders (technicians, city planners, politicians, researchers, 
etc.) are urged take measures aimed at guaranteeing the fulfillment of 
some key quality criteria related to the sustainability and efficiency 
in the city domain. From a pure engineering approach the city represents 
a unique ecosystem for testing and assessing new services and 
technologies, Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) in 
particular. The fact that cities represent a strategic meeting point 
between the citizens (urban society) and the technology provides us with 
an additional dimension that can be exploited for continuous 
crowd-sourced creativity scenarios.
 From the technology standpoint, fuelled by the recent emerging of a 
variety of enabling device technologies on the market, such as Radio 
Frequency Identification (RFID), Near Field Communication (NFC) and 
embedded sensor and actuator nodes, the Internet of Things (IoT) has 
stepped out of its infancy and is at the verge of becoming the next 
major extension to the current fixed and mobile networking 
infrastructures and an integral part of the Smart City scenario. If such 
a scenario unfolds, it is not hard to conclude that the design of the 
IoT and its architecture will be strongly influenced by the requirements 
of the Future Internet (FI). The scale, heterogeneity and constraints of 
the IoT devices and the distinct nature of envisaged interactions pose 
significant challenges for their successful integration into the FI 
architecture.
This Special Session focuses on IoT technologies, allowing for smart 
city rollouts, deployments and growth. Part of the scope of IoT 
technologies has been already deeply studied but others are already 
coming and their composition and application in the area of smart cities 
has not been almost tackled. The remarkable expansion in work in this 
area, which is mainly attributed to the unique timing between the 
unquestionable need for making cities more efficient, and an enormous 
set of ICT technologies having become available and affordable. As of 
today, however, some major issues remain to be tackled, which pertain to 
technologies, their integration and interaction, architectures, 
applications, services, privacy, to name a few.
In the light of the above, the main purpose of this Special Session is 
threefold:
.    to obtain a coherent and concise synthesis from the abundance of 
recently emerged material in the area of IoT technologies and 
architectures,
.    to promote unprecedented approaches in analyzing, designing and 
optimizing smart city scenarios through the use of IoT technologies and 
architectures, and
.    to identify open issues which remain as a challenge towards using 
IoT technologies in smart city markets.

Topics of Interest:
Given all above, the technical topics of interest in the area of ICT for 
Smart Cities include, but are not limited to:
.    architecture designs (heterogeneous technologies, enormous data 
streams, etc.)
.    smart city control platforms (use of diverse data streams, 
sensing/control/notification, etc.)
.    city data storage, ownership and access methods (crowdsourcing, 
cloud approaches, etc.)
.    experimentation testbeds and experiences making use of IoT 
technologies over a smart city scenario
.    business, service and billing approaches (business models, 
exploitation approaches, etc.)
.    privacy issues (escrow-type approaches, ensuring citizens, etc.)
.    innovative applications (unprecedented use of smart city streams, 
new applications, etc.)

Important Dates:
Paper submission: April 7, 2013
Acceptance notification: April 28, 2013
Camera ready submission: May 5, 2013

Special Session Organizer:
Luis Sanchez (University of Cantabria, Spain)

Submission guidelines
Papers can be submitted through EDAS at http://edas.info/N13329
Using the appropriate Special Session Track (SS12: Internet of Things 
and Smart Cities)



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