Scope

IoTaaS is endorsed by the European Alliance for Innovation, a leading community-based organization devoted to the advancement of innovation in the field of ICT. The 4th International Conference on IoT as a Service (IoTaaS) aims to contribute to the discussion on the challenges posed by Internet of Things (IoT). The IoTaaS conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in IoT from academia and industry. IoTaaS attendees will present novel ideas, exchange points of view, and foster collaborations. In 2018, the city of Xi’an, a famous historical and cultural city of China, will host IoTaaS 2018. The conference will consist of technical symposia, tutorials, posters, demos, and workshops. All submissions to this conference will be subject to rigorous peer review before included in the technical sessions.

Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Networking and Communications Technologies for IoT

Network architectures
Ultra-dense networking technology
Routing algorithms and protocols
Multiple access control technology
PHY technology
New waveform
5G enabling IoT technology
802.11 based IoT technology
M2M and V2X
IoT Standardization
Ad Hoc networking
Key technologies for NB-IoT
QoS guarantee technology
Multi-media technology
Information acquisition and processing technology based on artificial intelligence (AI)
Big data
Cloud computing, fog computing, and edge computing
Green Networking
Sensor networking

IoT as a service

Smart objects as a service
IoT marketplace: for offering IoT based applications and services
API economy: for easier and tighter integration
Semantic Web technologies for IoT: registry, storage
IoT delivery platforms: existing and emerging platform and architectures for exposing and interacting with IoT
Federated IoT support
Non Functional Requirements (NFR) for IoT : security, scalability, responsiveness and more
Standardization: standard areas needed Business models
IoT DevOps
IoT context based analytics
IoT application deployment success stories
Mobile First IoT: mobile backend as a services (MBaaS) and smartphone as data prosumers

Publication

All registered papers will be submitted for publication by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library.

Proceedings will be submitted for publication in leading indexing services, Ei Compendex, ISI Web of Science, Scopus, CrossRef, Google Scholar, DBLP, as well as EAI’s own EU Digital Library (EUDL).

Authors of selected best accepted and presented papers will be invited to submit an extended version to