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IoTIP-16 - 4th International workshop on Internet of Things - Ideas and Perspectives 
May 28th,2016 – Washington, DC, USA 
In conjunction with IEEE DCOSS 2016 
https://iotip2016.hds.utc.fr/ 



CALL FOR PAPERS 



Slowly but steadily the Internet of Things (IoT) is penetrating and transforming our lives. The first stage of the IoT evolution consisted in the deployment of RFID tags for facilitating routing, taking inventory and loss prevention of goods. After that we witnessed the first wave of RFID and sensor network integration toward vertical-market applications. Nowadays, new generations of RFID tags, in particular active RFID tags, often include built-in sensing capabilities. Whereas, applications based on sensor networks often require means for unique
identification and discovery of objects, which are monitored by the sensor network. The convergence of sensing and identification technologies, together with communication and computation systems, enables us to gain impressive awareness about the state of the real world and will drastically change the way we interact with our environment. Urban planning, smart cities, intelligent shopping, smart meters, home automation, security and surveillance, industrial applications like process industry automation, supply chain, smart product management and agricultural applications are examples of potential applications for real-world systems. Even though the advent of the IPv6/6LoWPAN protocol suite solved several technical issues, many challenges are still open in the research and development communities concerning the choice of communication paradigms, architectures and technology. 
The main focus of this workshop is on technologies, applications and paradigms of the IoT that are
already deployed or are under investigation and that belong to the second stage of the IoT evolution. 
The next step in the evolution of the IoT is its characterization as the underlying technological layer needed to shape and substantiate higher layer concepts such as semantic web and personalization. In fact, the IoT is the enabling technology to allow virtual and physical worlds to converge in what has already been defined as Web 3.0. If, currently, the IoT is the most suited companion of blogging, podcasting, tagging and social networking, we can imagine that its evolution will foster the rise of statistical, machine-constructed semantic tags and algorithms through the construction and exploitation of semantic databases empowered by distributed and cloud computing. The integration of the IoT with semantic databases, capable of delivering accurate information about the nature and the state of every physical object will introduce a staggering amount of new applications
opportunities as well as potentially lead to an ultimate “Big brother scenario”. Therefore, a particular interest will have to be given to appropriate security and privacy control mechanisms. 
The secondary focus of this workshop is on IoT vision and perspective towards Web 3.0. 

IoTIP features two tracks: 

Current ideas: for technical works currently under investigation; 
Future perspectives: for vision papers envisaging possible future technologies, paradigms and applications for IoT. 


Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: 

IoT paradigms, architectures, applications and technologies 
IoT systems and components 
IoT for semantic web and personalization 
Tools for developing IoT applications 
Blogging, Podcasting, Tagging and Social networking through the IoT 
Cloud vs distributed computing for the IoT 
Device to device communications for the IoT 
Security and
privacy control mechanisms 
Performance assessment and management (QoS, scalability, reliability, etc) 
PHY layer, Spectrum management for IoT radio communications 
MAC protocols (e.g., scheduling, power control etc.) for IoT 
Mobility management 
Naming, address management and End-to-End Addressability 
Object, device and service management 
RFID, sensors, actuator technologies 
Middleware 
Sustainable design and technologies (e.g. energy-efficiency) 
Test-beds and field trials 
Standardization and regulatory issues 


Submission guidelines 
Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate current research on IoTIP research topics. Standard IEEE conference templates for LaTeX/Word formats can be found at: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html . 
Papers should be submitted through Easychair at the following address: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iotip2016 . 

All submissions should be written in English using 10 point font and be six (6) printed pages long maximum using 10 point font and including figures and tables. The papers should be submitted to one of the two tracks: 

Current ideas: for technical works currently under investigation; 
Future perspectives: for vision papers envisaging possible future technologies, paradigms and applications for IoT. 

Authors must suggest their preferred track for their paper at the time of submission. The workshop chairs, however, reserve the right to switch papers between tracks if they deem them a better fit for another track. 

Please note that the proceedings of this workshop will appear in IEEEXplore and will be included in DCOSS conference proceedings. 
Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for publication in IEEE IoT Journal. 

Important dates 
Submission Deadline : April 06th, 2016 
Acceptance Notification : April 07th, 2016 
Camera Ready : April 08th, 2016 
Workshop Date : May 28th, 2016 


Workshop chairs: 

Nathalie Mitton, Inria Lille – Nord Europe, France 
Enrico Natalizio, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France 

Publicity chair: 

Cristanel RAZAFIMANDIMBY, Inria Lille – Nord Europe, France 

Program committee members (tentative): 

Yacine Challal, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France 
Hakima Chaouchi, Institut Mines-Telecom, France 
Milan Erdelj, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France 
Ranjan Dasgupta, Tata Consultancy Services Limited, India 
Ali Hazmi, Tampere University of Technology, Finland 
Antonio Iera, Università “Mediterranea” di
Reggio Calabria, Italy 
Abdelmajid Khelil, Huawei European Research Center, Germany 
Srdjan Krco, Ericsson/University of Belgrade, Serbia 
Thomas D.C. Little, Boston University, USA 
Valeria Loscrì, Inria Lille – Nord Europe, France 
Nathalie Mitton, Inria Lille – Nord Europe, France 
Symeon Papavassiliou, NTUA, Greece 
Enrico Natalizio, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France 
Giuseppe Ruggeri, Università “Mediterranea” di Reggio Calabria, Italy 
Anna Maria Vegni, Università degli Studi di Roma Tre, Italy 
Konrad Wrona, NC3A, Netherlands 


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