The IPSN and IoTDI conferences are collaborating on fostering synergies within the wider research community around IoT and networked sensing, in particular, given their co-location in CPS-IoT Week. The following guidelines are offered to prospective authors.
IoTDI’s core identity stems from envisioning the future of IoT (including applications and infrastructure/network support) and emphasizing topics that are core to that future. Examples include Edge AI, IoT security, digital twins, support for AR/VR, and back-end support for IoT data. A paper whose authors believe they address a topic that is core to IoT falls is in scope of IoTDI. If an argument for “core IoT topic” is tenuous, the following rules of thumb apply:
Contributions with a holistic, end-to-end, or cross-device perspective (e.g., load balancing, computational offloading, federated learning, multi-vantage/multimodal IoT data processing, sensor/edge communication) and those applying to network segments from the IoT gateway to the cloud (e.g., network protocols to support IoT applications, cloud support for IoT intelligence) are suitable for IoTDI.
Contributions of embedded nature and applying to individual network segments from the IoT gateway to field devices are suitable for IPSN. Examples include localization, low-power wireless networking, and embedded signal processing.
These guidelines are not a guarantee of how the two conference technical program committees would rate any individual paper, nor are they an attempt to isolate the two conferences. Some topics may be argued to fall in scope of both conferences. As such, these topics serve as avenues for exploring shared interests, promoting collaboration, and allowing idea cross-pollination between them.