PRSIoT 2022 : Special Issue: Performance, Reliability and Scalability of IoT Systems

Dear Colleagues,

The development of IoT systems poses serious problems in terms of quality of service (QoS) assurance. The availability of massive amounts of data collected by heterogenous sensors, the need for their analysis, and the demand of quick reactions at the occurrence of certain events make the design of such systems quite challenging. In many cases, these requirements conflict with the need for low-cost and low-power consumption of most of the devices. Furthermore, the scalability of the devised solutions must be considered, since workloads may depend on many unpredictable factors that can generate peaks of resource demands. This can undermine the availability of the services due to saturation of the system’s service capacity.

For these reasons, performance and reliability modeling, analysis, and simulation as well as on-field measurements play crucial roles in the design of IoT systems.

This Special Issue welcomes either methodological, applicative or experimental contributions with respect (but not limited) to the following areas of interest:

Performance and scalability of the communication protocols;
Reliability of communication systems and of systems in general;
Data offloading policies;
Quantitative analysis of interactions with fog computing and cloud architectures;
Workload characterization in IoT;
Design of new energy-aware communication protocols for sensor nodes;
Development of models for the early evaluation of IoT system performance and reliability properties.

Keywords:

IoT
performance evaluation
reliability analysis
sensor networks
fog computing

Prof. Andrea Marin
Prof. Dieter Fiems
Guest Editors