ICNSC 2017

While still in his infancy, the IoT domain already lists a number of solutions implemented, ranging from devices to platforms. However, the heterogeneity at all levels of those solution is preventing different solutions to interoperate effectively, despite a large number of efforts in the development of a unique reference standard for IoT systems technology. The situation is likely to worsen in the near future, as lack of interoperability causes major technological and business-oriented issues such as impossibility to plug non-interoperable IoT devices into heterogeneous IoT platforms, impossibility to develop IoT applications exploiting multiple platforms in homogeneous and/or cross domains, slowness of IoT technology introduction at large-scale, discouragement in adopting IoT technology, increase of costs, scarce reusability of technical solutions, security and privacy problems, user dissatisfaction.

This Special Session aims at investigating such lack of interoperability in the IoT realm by welcoming paper submissions providing innovative research as well as technical contributions on providing solutions to interoperability, integration, and interconnection of heterogeneous IoT systems, at any specific level (device, networking, middleware, application services, data and semantics) and at global platform level.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Interoperable and open IoT architectures
• Service Virtualization in the IoT
• Integration methods for heterogeneous IoT platforms
• Interconnection of heterogeneous IoT devices
• Enabling communication technologies (5G, SDN, Fog computing) for IoT interoperability
• Software engineering for IoT systems development
• Interoperable wearable devices and body area networks
• Interoperable and open Big Data models for IoT
• Matching non-interoperable IoT ontologies and semantics
• Security, privacy and trust in IoT systems integration/interconnection
• Standard interoperability mechanisms for the IoT
• Interoperability use cases in IoT application domains (m-Health, transportation and logistics, smart factory, smart grid, smart home and buildings, smart cities, etc)