<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">Special Issue on “Machine 2 Machine Communications: Applications, Architectures and Protocols”</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (indexed in SCI/JCR) http://www.itiis.org</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">1. INTRODUCTION</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">The next generation networks will
have to support various communication technologies and integrate different devices. M2M (Machine to Machine) which covers various technologies, including sensing, communications, computing, data processing and control technologies support diverse devices to commutate with each other becomes an indispensable component for next generation network, e.g. IoT (Internet of Thing) and cyber‐physical systems. Nowadays, M2M is widely applied to lots of applications and serves, even led to M2H (Machine to Human) and M2S (Machine to System) in the future. On the other hand, it illustrates the automatic end-to-end systems that provide smart and convenient services to users. Therefore, this special issue aims to address a variety of technical challenges and advanced solutions in the applications, architectures and protocols of Machine 2 Machine communications.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times,
serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">2. SCOPE OF CONTRIBUTIONS</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">This special issue will provide a widespread overview of the design and development in applications, architectures and protocols in the field of the Machine 2 Machine communications. This issue seeks original research papers to provide timely information on this area. We accept only overview papers and tutorial and survey-style papers describing novel ideas and technologies. Specific topics include, but not limited to, the following:</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">[SCOPE AND INTERESTS]</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new
roman', 'new york', times, serif">- Network Architectures for M2M</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">- M2M Applications and System Developments</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">- Sensing, Computing, and Controlling Technologies for M2M</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">- M2M Communication Managements and Operations</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">- M2M Resource Managements</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">- Reliability, Security and Privacy for M2M</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">- M2M Communication Protocols</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span"
face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">- M2M Spectrum Managements</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">- M2M in Vehicular Communications</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">- M2M in Smart Robots M2M in Home Networks</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">- M2M in Cyber-physical Systems</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">- M2M in Healthcare</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">Original, high quality contributions not yet published or not currently under review by other journals or peer-reviewed conferences, are sought. All papers
should be submitted through the KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems journal’s manuscript submission menu in http://www.itiis.org/. A copy of the manuscript should also be emailed to the Guest Editor, Prof. Han-Chieh Chao at hcc@niu.edu.tw as PDF file.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">4. IMPORTANT AUTHOR GUIDE:</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">• Papers should be tutorial in nature and should be written in a way for readers outside the specialty of the paper to understand very easily.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">• Mathematical equations should not be used. For the necessary case only, 3~4 simple equations could be
allowed.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">• NO more than 5000 words are allowed but exceptionally page limitation is NOT applied to survey papers.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">• Figures and tables should be very clear and high resolution.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">• Select the “Special Issue Paper-Machine 2 Machine Communications” in the manuscript type menu of the ScholarOne manuscript submission system.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">5. IMPORTANT DATES:</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">• Submission
Deadline: September 1, 2011 • Review Results: October 31, 2011 • Publication: January, 2012</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">6. Guest Editors</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">• Han-Chieh Chao</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">Institute of Computer Science & Information Engineering National Ilan University, Taiwan</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">E-mail: hcc@niu.edu.tw</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">• Sherali Zeadally</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times,
serif">Department of Computer Science and Information Technology University of the District of Columbia Washington, DC 20008, USA</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">E-Mail: szeadally@udc.edu</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">• Chin-Feng Lai</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">Institute of Computer Science & Information Engineering National Ilan University, Taiwan</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">E-mail: cinfon@ieee.org</font></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div></div></div></body></html>