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| CALL FOR PAPERS |

| IEEE INTERNET OF THINGS JOURNAL: SPECIAL ISSUE ON |

| Internet of Things over LTE/LTE-A Network: |

| Theory, Methods, and Case Studies |

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With the global deployment in the fourth-generation (4G) cellular

networks, long term evolution (LTE) and LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) have

become key technologies to enable Internet of Things (IoT)

applications. To accommodate various streaming data of IoT

applications, LTE/LTE-A standards have defined several

quality-of-service (QoS) classes for different traffic

characteristics, in terms of traffic bit-rate, tolerable delay and

packet loss rate. Moreover, to meet the stringent power-saving

requirements for IoT devices, LTE/LTE-A standards also have defined

the discontinuous reception/transmission (DRX/DTX) mechanism to

allow devices to turn off their radio interfaces and go to sleep

when no data need to be received or transmitted from/to the evolved

Node B (eNB). Clearly, the convergence of IoT and 3GPP LTE network

can considerably benefit both sides. IoT devices could efficiently

transfer their data using LTE/LTE-A networks, while the LTE/LTE-A

operators may develop more value-added IoT services. Despite such

promising future, there are still many challenges for IoT over

LTE/LTE-A network. This special issue aims to help both industry

and academia research communities to better understand the recent

progress and potential research directions on the path towards the

future of IoT over LTE/LTE-A.

Topics of interests include (but are not limited to) the following

categories:

* Future IoT concepts, applications and services for LTE/LTE-A networks

* Energy efficient IoT with LTE DRX/DTX fine tune

* QoS provisioning and cross-layer design for Internet of Things over 4G cellular network

* LTE Security and privacy enhancement for Internet of Things

* Hierarchical LTE IoT architectures and eNB IoT Gateway

* Novel traffic modeling and resource/mobility management for LTE/LTE-A IoT

* Commercial model and case study of LTE/LTE-A IoT System

* Data-centric, protocol-centric and technology-centric approaches for the design of IoT in LTE/LTE-A

* Data fusion and aggregation for IoT over LTE/LTE-A

* Novel pricing, billing and charging schemes for LTE/LTE-A IoT system

* Successful testbeds and trials of LTE/LTE-A IoT system

* Current and future standardization activities related to cellular IoT

IMPORTANT DATES

- Submissions Deadline: March 15, 2015

- First Reviews Due: June 15, 2015

- Revision Due: July 15, 2015

- Second Reviews Due/Notification: August 15, 2015

- Final Manuscript Due: August 30, 2015

- Publication Date: October 20

SUBMISSION

The special issue seeks submission of papers that present novel

original results and findings on Internet of Things over LTE/LTE-A

Network. Solicited original submissions must not be currently under

consideration for publication in other venues. Author guidelines

and submission information can be found at

http://iot.ieee.org/journal. All manuscripts should be submitted

through Manuscript Central: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/iot.

GUEST EDITORS

+ Kejie Lu (kejie.lu@upr.edu)

University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, USA

+ Sastri Kota (sastri.kota@gmail.com)

SoHum Consultants, USA

+ Bo Rong (bo.rong@crc.ca)

Communications Research Centre, Canada

+ Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues (joeljr@ieee.org)

University of Beira Interior, Portugal

+ Hussein T. Mouftah (mouftah@site.uottawa.ca)

University of Ottawa, Canada

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