Copelabs was awarded the classification of "Good" by the international review panel appointed by the Portuguese Science Foundation (FCT), in the last evaluation exercise launched in 2018. Copelabs will receive around 200k € for the period 2020-2023. This means that Copelabs is the only 100% private institution (with no connection/partnership to public Universities) in the areas of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering that will receive the FCT strategic funding.
22.05.2019: Prof. Marko Beko was elected Principal Researcher on the meeting of Scientific Council of Copelabs held on May 22nd 2019
10.2019: Dr. Many Afonso, from Biometris group, Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands, visited COPELABS on October 27th 2019, and interacted with the resident researchers and PhD students.
09.2019: Dr. Marko Vukolic, from IBM Zurique and a member of Blockchain Security & Applications Group, visited COPELABS on September 27th 2019, and interacted with the resident researchers Marko Beko. Pedro Sá Costa and José Faisca.
02.2019: ACM TOIT Special Issue on the Evolution of IoT Network Architectures.
To support the sheer number of entities connecting to the /Internet of Things (IoT)/, emerging IoT networks must support the stewardship of
large amounts of data, in-network and in-flight computation/AI, distributed storage, and rich queries. While today's IoT uses standard IP-based messaging, its shortcomings have led to proposed extensions for constrained environment operation, publish-subscribe middleware,
data-centric routing, among other technologies. This special issue aims to present the most leading-edge research on:
- Next-generation IoT network architecture & protocols*, including improved support for QoS/QoE, increased mobility, streaming media, and integrated security; a path from client/server centralized models to a fully distributed comms architecture; edge data producer disruption.
- Cross-layer design*, enabling real-time & near-real-time data delivery and synchronization; support for efficient multi-party communication; collective behaviors (e.g., crowd sensing, crowdsourcing, resource federation); impacting low-power design; the wireless & mobile edge.
- Novel approaches to Edge networking for IoT*, such as distribution & orchestration of network functions to best support data processing
and aggregation; seamless interoperation of static and mobile edge infrastructure & devices; resilience and dynamic adaptation; data caching and migration; autonomous operation vs opportunistic connectivity; the proliferation and peering of "edges".
IoT communication interoperability*, such as proposals to articulate in a distributed and self-organizing way communication between different communication protocols; support for a large variety of heterogeneous and constrained devices; discovery & directory services.
- Network measurement & performance*, to assist in understanding, exposing and comparing the performance of current IoT resources, infrastructure and protocols in a variety of scenarios, including industrial & consumer IoT.
- IoT Privacy, security and trust challenges*, including data security, user privacy, distributed trust models, attestation, privacy- and policy-preservation, encrypted search, access control and policy management.
Guest Editors
Rute C. Sofia (mailto:rute.sofia@ulusofona.pt), COPELABS, University
Lusofona
Eve M. Schooler (mailto:eve.m.schooler@intel.com), Intel
Chris Winkler (mailto:chris.winkler@siemens.com), Siemens AG
Dirk Kutscher (mailto:ietf@dkutscher.net), University of Applied
Sciences Emden/Leer
*Submission*
Refer to: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/toit
Please select "Special Issue on Evolution of IoT Networking
Architectures" in the TOIT Manuscript Central Website
*Deadlines*
Submissions: June 30, 2019
First decisions: October 15, 2019
Revisions: November 11, 2019
Final decisions: January 31, 2020
Final (Camera-ready): February 29, 2020
Publication: May 2020