Introduction to the Special Issue on Evolution of IoT Networking Architectures

We are pleased to bring to you the ACM ToIT Special Issue on “Evolution of IoT Networking Architectures.” The Internet of Things (IoT) has resulted in environments that must manage large amounts of data generation, the placement and migration of computation and storage, and the need to support distributed queries and ubiquitous analytics. This special issue has gathered leadingedge scientific research and insights on the impact the IoT has had on the evolution of communication architectures and protocols; how best to support diverse communication requirements in the context of different IoT scenarios, ranging from industrial to consumer-based IoT; how to adequately define and address interoperability, within and across different layers in the network architecture, leveraging cross-layer design; and, finally, how to design a more unified next generation Internet architecture and end-to-end protocol stack, given …