The Internet-of-Things (IoT) will revolutionize industry and our lives. Future IoT networks will need to provide low latency and high reliability communications for multiple vertical industries including transport, health, manufacturing, agriculture and energy. Wireless technologies will be the most cost-effective and scalable solution for enabling the intensive acquisition of information from massive numbers of fixed and mobile IoT devices. However, many open questions still need to be addressed to overcome fundamental constraints of radio spectrum, power, and transmission distance to support wide area coverage and ultra-reliable low latency communications for IoT devices. Furthermore, it is expected that each vertical industry will need to share a common IoT platform and there are massive challenges in unifying these networks. These include massive computational complexity and transmission latency in processing massive amounts of information and managing massive number of terminals from multiple vertical industries, which are not adequately addressed in the latest 5G wireless network standard. As such, there is a need to redesign wireless access technologies and architectures with reconfigurable software-defined wireless networks to facilitate a scalable and flexible common IoT platform, feasible due to recent advances in Software Defined Radio (SDR) and Networking (SDN) as well as Network Function Virtualisation (NFV).
This workshop is designed to bring together academic and industrial researchers in an effort to identify and discuss the major technical challenges and recent breakthroughs related to wireless IoT networks.