Call for Papers
IEEE WCNC 2012
International Workshop on Internet of Things (IoT) Enabling Technologies
Embracing Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Communications and Beyond
Paris, France, 1 April, 2012

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a novel design paradigm rapidly
gaining wide global attention from academia, industries, and
governments. The fundamental concept is to emphasize the ubiquitous
computing among global networked machines and physical objects,
denoted as things, such as RFID tags, sensors, actuators,
machine-to-machine (M2M) devices, mobile phones, etc. Several enabling
technologies shape the materialization of this paradigm, including
wireless/wired sensing, extremely heterogeneous networking of
constrained and mobile devices, radically novel network architectures,
computing and control, thus building together a feasible complex cyber
physical systems (CPS) to support diverse applications, including
smart grid, e-health, intelligent transportation, and logistics, etc.

IoT-ET 2012 is a new event focusing on key enablers for IoT,
especially M2M communications and networking, that aims at providing a
forum that brings together researchers from academia, practitioners
from industry, standardization bodies, and government to meet and
exchange ideas on recent research work, point out the directions for
future research, and seek collaboration opportunities on all aspects
of the IoT enabling technologies. We are looking for papers that
present new techniques, introduce new methodologies, propose new
research directions, or discuss strategies, including standardization
and regulation for resolving open problems spanning all aspects of an
IoT system, such as scalability, wide-area coverage, sustainability,
energy-efficiency, spectral-efficiency, heterogeneity, cooperation,
and security. Furthermore, application-oriented demos and prototypes
are also highly encouraged.

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Scope and Objectives:

* System architecture and components
* Performance assessment and management (QoS, scalability, reliability)
* Radio/wireline, long/short range access network technologies
* Channel and traffic models
* Real-time and historical data management
* RFID, sensors, actuator technologies
* Human-device interactions
* Security, trust, and privacy issues for devices and services
* Middleware
* Spectrum management for M2M/IoT radio communications
* Mobility management
* Naming, address management and End-to-End Addressability
* Object, device and service management
* Cloud computing interworking
* Semantic technologies
* Applications, services, and business models
* Sustainable design and technologies (e.g. energy-efficiency)
* Test-beds and field trials
* Standardization and regulatory issues

Important Dates
Submission deadline: 24 Oct 2011
Acceptance Notification: 6 Jan 2012
Camera-ready: 30 Jan 2012
Workshop date: 1 Apr 2012

General Chairs
Angeliki Alexiou (University of Piraeus, Greece)
Djelal Raouf (Sagemcom, France)
Yan Zhang (Simula Research Lab, Norway)
Harold Liu (IBM Research, China)

Steering Committee
Carles Anton-Haro (CTTC, Spain)
Srdjan Krco (Ericsson, Ireland)
Wenjie Wang (PPLive, China)
Dan Wang (Hong Kong Polytech Univ., China)

TPC Chairs
Xu Li (INRIA, France)
Erwu Liu (Tongji University, China)
Stephan Saur (Alcatel-Lucent)
Alexandru Petrescu (CEA, France)

Publicity Chair
Peter Rost (NEC Laboratories Europe)