Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are the key components of the emerging Internet-of-
Things (IoT) paradigm. They are now ubiquitous and used in a plurality of application …

Smart embedded objects will become an important part of what is called the Internet of
Things. However, the integration of embedded devices into the Internet introduces several …

Massive diffusion of constrained devices communicating through low-power wireless
technologies in the future Internet of Things (IoT) will require in many scenarios the …

In recent times, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are broadly applied in the Industrial
Internet of Things (IIoT) in order to enhance the productivity and efficiency of existing and …

Enabling automatic, efficient and scalable discovery of the resources provided by
constrained low-power sensor and actuator networks is an important element to empower …

Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications emerge to achieve ubiquitous communications
among all the networked devices. One challenging problem in M2M applications is to …

Mist computing extends the Internet of Things computing infrastructures to the IoT devices at
the edges of the networks. The dynamic characteristics of the IoT environments and …

Network coding can be very useful in achieving a balance between energy efficiency and
end-to-end packet error in sensor networks, particularly if only a subset of the nodes act as …

M2M communication is expected to occur at a global level and for this reason federations of
device networks are also expected. In such large scale environments, a critical issue is how …

A Pervasive-computing-enriched smart home environment, which contains many embedded
and tiny intelligent devices and sensors coordinated by service management mechanisms …