CALL FOR PAPERS
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- The 44th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
(IECON 2018)
- Special Session on Emerging Wireless Technologies for Industrial Internet
of Things
- October 21-23, 2018
- Washington D.C, USA

*http://www.iecon2018.org/ <http://www.iecon2018.org/>*

Submission Link: *http://submit.ieee-ies.org/submit/iecon18/
<http://submit.ieee-ies.org/submit/iecon18/>* and choose the Special
Session on Emerging Wireless Technologies for Industrial Internet of Things

SCOPE of the Special Session
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The IoT paradigm is envisaged to permeate into the industrial manufacturing
and production, leading to Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). There are
many emerging wireless technologies, such as LoRa, Sigfox, Weightless,
NB-IoT and LTE Cat M1, which can be applied to the current and future IIoT
applications. However, there are many challenges and research gaps that
still need to be addressed to improve the performance of these emerging
wireless technologies. Furthermore, there are many enabling technologies,
such as software-defined networking and cloud and fog computing, that can
be utilized to overcome many challenges associated with these emerging
wireless technologies. Researchers are invited to submit original research
contributions in all related areas.

Topics of interests include the following topics, but are not limited to:

- IIoT analytics architectures, algorithms and applications
- Simulation, testbeds, prototypes, field trails, and other performance
analysis of the emerging wireless technologies for IIoT
- Concepts and business models for IIoT computing and communication
- Software-defined IIoT architecture, controller, security and
standardization
- Edge, fog and cloud computing for IIoT;
- Energy efficiency and energy harvesting for IIoT; and
- Lightweight IIoT security protocols for emerging wireless technologies

ORGANIZED AND CO-CHAIRED BY
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Dr. Adnan M. Abu-Mahfouz (a.abumahfouz@ieee.org), CSIR, South Africa
Dr. Gerhard P. Hancke (g.hancke@ieee.org), University of Pretoria, South
Africa
Dr. Lei Shu (lei.shu@ieee.org), Nanjing Agricultural University, China
Dr. Chunsheng Zhu (cszhu@ece.ubc.ca), The University of British Columbia,
Canada

AUTHOR'S SCHEDULE
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- *Deadline for submission of special session papers: May 21, 2018*
- Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2018
- Deadline for submission of final manuscripts: September 7, 2018

SUBMISSION
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Submission Link: *http://submit.ieee-ies.org/submit/iecon18/
<http://submit.ieee-ies.org/submit/iecon18/>* and choose the Special
Session on Emerging Wireless Technologies for Industrial Internet of
Things. For more information, please visit http://www.iecon2018.org
/forAuthors.html.


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