Special Issue 
IEEE JSAC issue on Design and Analysis of Communication Interfaces for Industry 4	

Call for Papers 

The fourth industrial revolution also referred to as Industry 4.0 aims to integrate advanced manufacturing techniques with the Internet-of-Things (IoT) to create an agile digital manufacturing ecosystem. The key idea is to provide a higher level of automation by combining technologies such as Industrial IoT (IIoT), cloud computing, machine learning (ML) and advanced robotics to enable the creation of interconnected, responsive, intelligent and self-optimizing manufacturing processes and systems. The increased automation can: 

Significantly enhance operational efficiency through real-time process analytics or even end-to-end process control. 

Significantly enhance overall productivity by realizing zero-downtime through proactive maintenance via the implementation of ‘digital twins'. 

Implementation of either real-time process analytics or digital twining is geared to generate a huge volume of heterogeneous data flows. Consequently, the design of communication interfaces to support inter-connectivity must be optimized to enable convergence between legacy operations technology (OT) and next-generation IIoT. 

This special issue solicits original research papers focused on Design and Analysis of: 

Ultra-reliable Low-Latency Connectivity Interfaces for IIoT Networks 

Spectrum Management and Coexistence Issues for IIoT Networks 

Architecture and Protocols for IIoT Networks 

Novel ML methods for implementing Self-X capabilities in IIoT Networks 

Resource Allocation and Management for IIoT Networks 

Security, Privacy and Trust issues in IIoT deployments 

Interoperability and Convergence Issues for legacy OT and IIoT Networks 

Application and Deployment Specific Issues for IIoT Networks 

Submission Guidelines 

All submissions have to be prepared according to the Information for Authors as published in the Journal website and must be submitted via EDAS. 

Important Dates 

Manuscript Due: 1 July 2019 
Acceptance Notification: 30 September 2019 
Final Manuscript Due: 15 November 2019 
Expected Publication of the Special Issue: First/Second Quarter 2020 

Guest Editors 

Syed A. R. Zaidi 
University of Leeds, UK 

Muhammad Zeeshan Shakir 
The University of West of Scotland, UK 

Antonio J. Jara 
University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland 

Yunchuan Sun 
Beijing Normal University, China 

Rohit Ail 
Samsung Technology Research, UK 

Houbing Song 
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA 

Sid Chi-Kin Chau 
Australian National University, Australia 
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