Call for Articles

In recent years, the Internet of Things (IoT) has become an emerging technology, which is gaining popularity among researchers and practitioners. Due to its multidisciplinary approach, IoT has been phenomenal in revolutionizing many aspects of traditional healthcare paradigms. At the same time, traditional healthcare systems can no longer satisfy the needs of a continuously growing and developing society.

IoT is considered a bridging platform that connects the physical world and the cyberspace so that healthcare applications and services can be obtained with high efficiency and productivity. However, in-depth research efforts on systems, networks, and architectures of IoT for efficient large-scale deployments are still required to fill the gaps between satisfying quality of service requirements and cost-effective implementations and operations. 

IoT and Sensor Networks have emerged as a very effective service in the healthcare industry as the integration of IoT devices with medical applications improves its performance and quality, thus providing high value to patients. In the last two decades, IoT and Sensor Networks have been applied for various e-Health applications and thus improve the diagnostic tools, such as magnetic resonance imaging, and epigenetic and neuropsychological tests.

All submitted papers to this Special Issue (SI) are to focus on state-of-the-art success stories in various aspects of sensor networks and IoT, supported with E-Health Applications, from academic and industry viewpoints.

Topics of Interest

The topics of interests in this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• IoT sensors and architectures for health monitoring
• Ambient Assisted Living IoT for active and healthy aging
• Interoperability and standards for IoT eHealth
• Internet of Things and cyber-physical systems for eHealth;
• Safety, Security, and Ethics in IoT eHealth
• IoT using intelligent sensing technologies for eHealth
• Cloud and Edge computing for IoT eHealth
• Big Data Analytics based IoT technologies in eHealth
• e-Health Services and Applications using IoT
• Exploiting 5G and IoT for eHealth

Submission Guidelines

Manuscripts should conform to the standard format as indicated in the Information for Authors section of the Article Submission Guidelines.

All manuscripts to be considered for publication must be submitted by the deadline through Manuscript Central. Select the “September 2021: Internet of Things for E-Health Applications” topic from the drop-down menu of Topic/Series titles.

Important Dates

Manuscript Submission Deadline: 30 November 2020
Initial Decision: 31 December 2020
Revised Manuscript Due: 28 February 2021
Decision Notification: 31 March 2021
Final Manuscript Due: 30 April 2021
Publication Date: September 2021

Guest Editors

Deepak Gupta
Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology, India

Victor Hugo C. de Albuquerque
University of Fortaleza, Brazil

Sheng-Lung Peng
National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan    

Ashish Khanna
Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology, India

Nguyen Gia Nhu
Duy Tan Universty, Da Nang city, Viet Nam

Oscar Castillo
Tijuana Institute of Technology, Tijuana, Mexico