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IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering 
Special Issue on Data-Driven IoT for Smart Cities

GUEST EDITORS:

Hongbo Jiang, Hunan University, P. R. China. Email: hongbojiang2004@gmail.com
Liang Cheng, Lehigh University, U.S.A. Email: cheng@lehigh.edu
Arun Iyengar, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, U.S.A. Email: aruni@us.ibm.com
Edith Ngai, Uppsala University, Sweden. Email: edith.ngai@it.uu.se

TOPIC SUMMARY:

Developing smart cities to better support growing urban population is a global and complex challenge and 
involves interdisciplinary fields. Instead of traditional Internet of Contents in human-to-human and human-to-machine 
communications, the Internet of Things with communications among massive numbers of sensors will dominate the 
network traffic. Every day, all these smart things are generating massive data calculated in ZettaBytes. 
As our cities become smarter, we face brand new opportunities and challenges. Due to inherent characteristics 
of geodistribution in big data generated by networked sensors deployed for IoT applications, the “smartness” 
of infrastructure in future smart cities requires intelligent data sensing, fusion and mining for monitoring and 
actuation to ensure infrastructure reliability and public safety. To make current networks and services more 
efficient with the use of cutting-edge technologies, this issue emphasizes on Internet of Things (IoT) and 
Data Processing for smart cities.

The topics of interest for this special issue include, but are not limited to:

    IoT data management in smart cities
    Data analytics and machine learning for smart cities
    Smart transport and mobility in smart cities
    Network science for smart cites
    Fog/edge computing with IoT for smart cities
    Security and data privacy for smart cities
    Smart communications in IoT for smart cities such as M2M, D2D, and 5G
    Novel algorithms, models, frameworks, architectures, platforms in data-driven IoT for
    smart cities

IMPORTANT DATES:

    Manuscripts due: 11/01/2019
    Peer reviews to authors: 2/1/2020
    Revised manuscripts due: 3/15/2020
    Second-round reviews to authors: 5/15/2020
    Final accepted manuscript due: 6/30/2020

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Prospective authors are invited to submit their manuscripts electronically, adhering to the 
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Note that the page limit is the same as that of regular papers. Please submit your papers through the online system 
(https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tnse-cs) and be sure to select the special issue or special section name. 
Manuscripts should not be published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. 
Please submit only full papers intended for review, not abstracts, to the ScholarOne portal. 
If requested, abstracts should be sent by e-mail to the Guest Editors directly.
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