Upcoming Special Issues
- Special issue on Recent Advances of Security, Privacy, and Trust in Mobile Crowdsourcing
Submission Deadline: June 15, 2023
Guest Editors: Kan Yang, Rongxing Lu, Mohamed Mahmoud, Xiaohua Jia - Special issue on IoT Systems for Extreme Environments
Submission Deadline: June 1, 2023
Guest Editors: Krishna Kant, Alireza Jolfaei, Klaus Moessner - Special issue on Cloud-Edge-Terminal Collaboration Enabled AIoT: Services, Technologies, and Applications
Submission Deadline: May 15, 2023
Guest Editors: Dapeng Wu, Shaoen Wu, Danda B. Rawat, Changqing Luo - Special issue on Smart Blockchain for IoT Trust, Security and Privacy
Submission Deadline: November 15, 2022
Guest Editors: Xiaokang Zhou, Zheng Yan, Yan Zhang, Stephen Yau - Special issue on Towards Intelligence for Space-Air-Ground Integrated Internet of Things
Submission Deadline: November 1, 2022
Guest Editors: Bangkui Fan, Tony Q.S. Quek, Shiqi Gong, Chengwen Xing, Lian Zhao - Special issue on Symbiotic Active/Passive Communications for the Internet of Things (IoT)
Submission Deadline: October 15, 2022
Guest Editors: Lu Lv, Yinghui Ye, Rose Qingyang Hu, Zhiguo Ding, Sumei Sun - Special issue on Smart Cities and Systems: Theories, Tools, Trends, Applications, Challenges, and Opportunities
Submission Deadline: October 1, 2022
Guest Editors: Amir H. Gandomi, Mahmoud Daneshmand, Amrit Mukherjee, Kathy Grise - Special issue on Green IoT for Future Space-Air-Ground-Ocean Integrated Networks and Applications
Submission Deadline: April 15, 2022
Guest Editors: Bo Rong, Mohamed Cheriet, Jon Montalban, Lei Shi, Yi Qian - Special issue on Intrusion Detection for the Internet of Things
Submission Deadline: April 1, 2022
Guest Editors: Elisa Bertino, Kui Ren, Antonino Rullo - Special issue on the IoT for Power Grids
Submission Deadline: December 15, 2021
Guest Editors: Liuqing Yang, Wentao Huang, Vassilios G. Agelidis, Dongliang Duan, Yang Cao - Special issue on Empowering the Future Generation Systems: Opportunities by the Convergence of Cloud, Edge, AI, and IoT
Submission Deadline: October 15, 2021
Guest Editors: Farshad Firouzi, JaeSeung Song, Mahmoud Daneshmand, Kunal Mankodiya - Special issue on Knowledge and Service Oriented Industrial Internet of Things: Architectures, Challenges and Methodologies
Submission Deadline: October 1, 2021
Guest Editors: Dapeng Wu, Shaoen Wu, Danda B. Rawat, Paulo R. L. Gondim, Periklis Chatzimisios, Jinbo Xiong - Special issue on AI and Blockchain powered IoT sustainable computing
Submission Deadline: September 15, 2021
Guest Editors: Yulei Wu, Ning Zhang, Zheng Yan, Mohammed Atiquzzaman, Yang Xiang - Special issue on Aerial Computing for the Internet-of-Things (IoT)
Submission Deadline: September 1, 2021
Guest Editors: Quoc-Viet Pham, Ming Zeng, Qing Yang, Octavia A. Dobre, Zhiguo Ding, Lingyang Song - Special issue on Cloud/Fog/Edge-enabled Big Data Intelligence for IoE
Submission Deadline: July 15, 2021
Guest Editors: Weishan Zhang, Paolo Bellavista, Jiehan Zhou, Chunsheng Zhu, Liming Chen, Mahmoud Daneshmand - Special issue on When Blockchain Meets 5/6G – Enabling Endogenously Secure IoT
Submission Deadline: July 1, 2021
Guest Editors: Dongxiao Yu, Jian Ren, Qing Yang, Sasu Tarkoma, Madhuri Siddula, Falko Dressler - Special issue on Advanced Communications, Control and Computing for Industrial Internet of Things
Submission Deadline: June 15, 2021
Guest Editors: Yonghui Li, Wanchun Liu, Daniel E. Quevedo, Vincent Lau, Petar Popovski - Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence-Based Systems for Industrial Internet of Things and Industry 4.0
Submission Deadline: May 1, 2021
Guest Editors: Sudip Misra, Vincent Wong, Ashutosh Dutta, Robert S. Fish, Rajeev Shorey - Special Issue on Sustainable Solutions for the Internet of Things
Submission Deadline: April 15, 2021
Guest Editors: Pietro Manzoni, Ruidong Li, Silvia Figueria, Marco Zennaro - Special Issue on Graph-powered Machine Learning for Internet of Things
Submission Deadline: April 1, 2021
Guest Editors: Zhipeng Cai, Suparna De, Michal Kedziora, Chaokun Wang - Special Issue on Blockchain-enabled Internet of Things
Submission Deadline: March 15, 2021
Guest Editors: Bin Cao, Lei Zhang, Tony Q.S. Quek, Sichao Yang - Special Issue on Next-generation IoT for FinTech: Trends and Challenges
Submission Deadline: March 1, 2021
Guest Editors: Amir H. Gandomi, Mahmoud Daneshmand, Schahram Dustdar, Amrit Mukherjee - Special Issue on Emerging Safety, Efficiency, and Security of Embedded Software and Systems on Internet of Things
Submission Deadline: February 15, 2021
Guest Editors: Yier Jin, Song Han, Abusayeed Saifullah, Wenjing Lou, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi - Special Issue on Cybertwin-driven 6G: Architectures, Methods and Applications
Submission Deadline: February 1, 2021
Guest Editors: Quan Yu, Miao Wang, Haibo Zhou, Jianbing Ni, Jiacheng Chen, Sandra Céspedes - Special Issue on Security, Privacy, and Trustworthiness in Intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet-of-Things
Submission Deadline: January 15, 2021
Guest Editors: Shiyan Hu, Shui Yu, Helen Li, Vincenzo Piuri - Special Issue on Secure Data Analytics for Emerging Internet of Things
Submission Deadline: January 1, 2021
Guest Editors: Sachin S Shetty, Uttam Ghosh, Schahram Dustdar, Jhing-fa Wang - Special Issue on M2M/IoT Services over Satellite Networks
Submission Deadline: December 15, 2020
Guest Editors: Tomaso de Cola, Igor Bisio, Song Guo, Frank Zimmer, Wen Cheng Chong, Mianxiong Dong - Special Issue on Connected Smart Sensors Systems for Water Quality Monitoring
Submission Deadline: December 1, 2020
Guest Editors: Libu Manjakkal, Hanumant Singh, Mehmet Yuce, Ravinder Dahiya - Special Issue on Information-Centric Wireless Sensor Networking (ICWSN) for IoT
Submission Deadline: November 15, 2020
Guest Editors: Byung-Seo Kim, Spyridon Mastorakis, Janos Tapolcai, Muhammad Khalil Afzal, Chi Zhang - Special Issue on Methods and Infrastructures for Data Mining at the Edge of Internet of Things
Submission Deadline: November 1, 2020
Guest Editors: Giancarlo Fortino, Rajkumar Buyya, Min Chen, Francisco Herrera - Special Issue on Towards Intelligent Internet of Medical Things and Its COVID-19 Applications and Beyond
Submission Deadline: October 15, 2020
Guest Editors: Xiping Hu, Edith C. H. Ngai, Ginevra Castellano, Bin Hu, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, JaeSeung Song - Special Issue on Enabling Massive IoT with 6G: Applications, Architectures, Challenges and Research Directions
Submission Deadline: October 1, 2020
Guest Editors: Shahid Mumtaz, Anwer Al-Dulaimi, Varun G Menon, Muhammad Ikram Ashraf, Mohsen Guizani - Special Issue on Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks for Internet of Vehicles
Submission Deadline: September 15, 2020
Guest Editors: Tingting Yang, Ning Zhang, Mai Xu, Mehrdad Dianati, Fei Richard Yu - Special Issue on Internet of Things for Smart Health and Emotion Care
Submission Deadline: September 1, 2020
Guest Editors: Min Chen, Kai Hwang, Haiyang Wang, Victor C. M. Leung, Iztok Humar - Special Issue on Intelligent Blockchain for Internet of Things
Submission Deadline: August 15, 2020
Guest Editors: Yan Zhang, Zhihong Tian, Davor Svetinovic, Yongxu Zhu, Danny H.K. Tsang - Special Issue on 6G-Enabled Internet of Things
Submission Deadline:August 1, 2020
Guest Editors: Qilian Liang, Tariq S. Durrani, Jing Liang, Jinhwan Koh, Xin Wang - Special Issue on Age of Information and Data Semantics for Sensing, Communication and Control Co-Design in IoT”
Submission Deadline: July 15, 2020
Guest Editors: Sheng Zhou, Zhiyuan Jiang, Anthony Ephremides, Nikolaos Pappas, Luiz DaSilva - Special Issue on Industrial Security for Smart Cities
Submission Deadline: July 1, 2020
Guest Editors: Huimin Lu, Pin-Han Ho, Mohsen Guizani - Special Issue on AI‐driven IoT Data Monetization: A Transition From “Value Islands” To “Value Ecosystems”
Submission Deadline: June 15, 2020
Guest Editors: Farshad Firouzi, Mahmoud Daneshmand, Cesare Pautasso, Bahar Farahani - Special Issue on Blockchain Enabled Edge Computing and Intelligence
Submission Deadline: June 1, 2020
Guest Editors: Qinghua Lu, Hans-Arno Jacobsen, Sumi Helal, Jiehan Zhou - Special Issue on Robustness and Efficiency in the Convergence of AI and IoT
Submission Deadline: May 15, 2020
Guest Editors: Meikang Qiu, Bhavani Thuraisingham, Mahmoud Daneshmand, Huansheng Ning, Payam Barnaghi - Special Issue on AI-Enabled Internet of Dependable and Controllable Things
Submission Deadline: May 1, 2020
Guest Editors: Wei Yu, Wei Zhao, Anke Schmeink, Houbing Song, Guido Dartmann - Special Issue on Smart IoT System: Opportunities by Linking Cloud, Edge, and AI
Submission Deadline: April 15, 2020
Guest Editors: Wangdong Yang, Laurence T. Yang, A. T. Chronopoulos - Special Issue on Blockchain and Edge Computing Techniques for Emerging IoT Applications
Submission Deadline: April 1, 2020
Guest Editors: Victor C. M. Leung, Xiaofei Wang, F. Richard Yu, Dusit Niyato, Tarik Taleb, Sangheon Pack - Special Issue on Internet of UAVs over Cellular Networks
Submission Deadline: March 15, 2020
Guest Editors: Merouane Debbah, Hongliang Zhang, Walid Saad, Lingyang Song - Special Issue on High-Confidence City IoT for Collaborative Smart City Services
Submission Deadline: March 1, 2020
Guest Editors: Dongxiao Yu, Xiuzhen Cheng, Falko Dressler, Dariusz R. Kowalski, Weifeng Lv - Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence Powered Edge Computing for Internet of Things
Submission Deadline: December 15, 2019
Guest Editors: Lei Yang, Xu Chen, Samir M. Perlaza, Junshan Zhang - Special Issue on Internet of Food: Emerging Trend and Challenges
Submission Deadline: December 1, 2019
Guest Editors: Luigi De Russis, Masahiko Inami, Ramesh Jain, Marianna Obrist - Special Issue on Internet of Things for Smart Ocean
Submission Deadline: November 1, 2019
Guest Editors: Bin Lin, Lian Zhao, Himal A. Suraweera, Tom H. Luan, Dusit (Tao) Niyato, Hoang Dinh - Special Issue on Software Engineering Research and Practices for the Internet of Things
Submission Deadline: October 15, 2019
Guest Editors: Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Shah Rukh Humayoun, Rodrigo Morales, Rubén Saborido - Special Issue on Deep Reinforcement Learning for Emerging IoT Systems
Submission Deadline: October 1, 2019
Guest Editors: Jia Hu, Peng Liu, Hong Liu, Obinna Anya, Yan Zhang - Special Issue on Data Science for the Internet of Things
Submission Deadline: September 15, 2019
Guest Editors: Francesco Piccialli, Salvatore Cuomo, Nik Bessis, Yuji Yoshimura - Edge-Cloud Interplay based on SDN and NFV for Next-Generation IoT Applications
Submission Deadline: September 1, 2019
Guest Editors: Sahil Garg, Song Guo, Vincenzo Piuri, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, Balasubramanian Raman - Trust-Oriented Designs of Internet-of-Things for Smart Cities
Submission Deadline: August 15, 2019
Guest Editors: Meng Shen, Ke Xu, Xiaojiang Du, Martin J. Reed, Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Lan Zhang, Rashid Mijumbi - Emerging Trends and Challenges in Fog Computing for IoT
Submission Deadline: August 1, 2019
Guest Editors: Constandinos Mavromoustakis, Mithun Mukherjee, George Mastorakis, Houbing Song, Maria Gorlatova, Mohammad Aazam - Internet of Things for Connected Automated Driving
Submission Deadline: July 15, 2019
Guest Editors: Dongpu Cao, Li Li, Clara Marina, Long Chen, Yang Xing, Weihua Zhuang - Privacy and Security in Distributed Edge Computing and Evolving IoT
Submission Deadline: July 1, 2019
Guest Editors: Alireza Jolfaei, Pouya Ostovari, Mamoun Alazab, Iqbal Gondal, Krishna Kant - Joint Cloud and Blockchain for Internet of Things
Submission Deadline: June 15, 2019
Guest Editors: Hao Yin, Huaimin Wang, Xu Zhang, Yan Luo, Gabriel Ghinita - Nature-Inspired Approaches for IoT and BD
Submission Deadline: November 1, 2018
Guest Editors: Mahmoud Daneshmand, Rashmi Jha, Devinder Kaur, HuanSheng Ning, Calvin Robinson, Herb Schilling - Low-latency High-reliability Communications for IoT
Submission Deadline: October 15, 2018
Guest Editors: Zheng Ma, Ming Xiao, Yue Xiao, Zhibo Pang, Branka Vucetic, H. Vincent Poor - Secure Embedded IoT Devices for Resilient Critical Infrastructures
Submission Deadline: October 1, 2018
Guest Editors: Cristina Alcaraz, Mike Burmester, Jorge Cuellar, Xinyi Huang, Panayiotis Kotzanikolaou, Mihalis Psarakis - Enabling a Smart City: Internet of Things Meets AI
Submission Deadline: September 15, 2018
Guest Editors: Xiaohua Tian, Yu Cheng, Devu Manikantan Shila, Adam Wolisz - Internet-of-Things for Smart Energy Systems
Submission Deadline: September 1, 2018
Guest Editors: Sid Chi-Kin Chau, Hans-Peter Schwefel, Vincent Wong, Angela Yingjun Zhang - Security and Forensics of Internet-of-Things: Problems and Solutions
Submission Deadline: August 15, 2018
Guest Editors: Virginia N. L. Franqueira, Pedro Inácio, Aleksandra Mileva, Mauro Conti, Ville Leppänen, Raul H. C. Lopes - RRCPS: Reliable and Resilient Cyber-Physical Systems
Submission Deadline: August 1, 2018
Guest Editors: Kyungtae Kang, Insup Lee, Kai Liu, Man-Ki Yoon, Kyung-Joon Park - Spectrum and Energy Efficient Communications for Internet of Things
Submission Deadline: July 15, 2018
Guest Editors: Qilian Liang, Tariq S. Durrani, Xuemai Gu, Jinhwan Koh, Yonghui Li, Xin Wang - Towards Securing Internet of Connected Vehicles from Virtual Vehicle Hijacking
Submission Deadline: July 1, 2018
Guest Editors: Yue Cao, Houbing Song, Omprakash Kaiwartya, Naveed Ahmad, Sinem Coleri Ergen - Advanced Computational Technologies in Mobile Edge Computing for Internet of Things
Submission Deadline: June 15, 2018
Guest Editors: James Park, Vincenzo Piuri, Hsiao-Hwa Chen, Yi Pan - The Convergence of Blockchain and IoT: Opportunities, Challenges and Solutions
Submission Deadline: June 1, 2018
Guest Editors: Qing Yang, Rongxing Lu, Chunming Rong, Yacine Challal, Maryline Laurent, Shengling Wang - Emerging Computing Offloading for IoTs: Architectures, Technologies, and Applications
Submission Deadline: May 15, 2018
Guest Editors: Jiannong Cao, Deyu Zhang, Haibo Zhou, Peng-Jun Wan
Past Special Issues
The list of previous Special Issues can be found here.
Special Issues
The IEEE IoT-J is soliciting special issue proposals on timely and significant technical topics with broad interests. A special issue proposal should have enough content to address: background and motivation, significance and relevance to the IEEE IoT-J, technical scope of the proposal, the plan for advertising the Call for Papers (CFP), the plan for handling paper review process, tentative schedule, a list of potential authors, a list of guest editors and their short biographies with emphasis on their experience in the proposed topic and relevant editorial experience, and one-page CFP draft. Pease refer to the IEEE IoT-J’s guest editor guidelines for details. Guest editors, who are interested in organizing a special issue, are invited to submit a proposal to the Editor-in-Chief, Honggang Wang.