Program for 2014 IEEE SPS summer school on IoT and M2M

Session Lecturer Title
August 26 (Tuesday), 2014
13:15 - 13:30 Reception
13:30 - 14:00 Hung-Yu Wei Opening
14:00 - 17:20 Jianwei Huang Wireless Network Economics and Games
August 27 (Wednesday), 2014
09:00 - 12:20 Antonio Iera Convergence of IoT and Social Networks Issues
13:30 - 16:50 Joseph Teo Chee Ming Security, Privacy and Trust in IoT and M2M
August 28 (Thursday), 2014
09:00 - 12:20 Mahmoud Daneshmand IoT/M2M Big Data Analytics: from Static to Streaming data
13:30 - 16:50 Chee Wei Tan Optimization and Inference for Cyber Security in Complex Engineered Networks
August 29 (Friday), 2014
09:00 - 12:20 Anna Scaglione Sensor Networking and Decentralized Signal Processing for Energy Management
13:30 - 16:50 Yen-Kuang Chen
Shao-Yi Chien
Distributed Video Signal Processing for Internet-of-Things
*Each talk includes 20 minutes coffee break.


Morning Sesson on August 27 (Wednesday), 2014

Convergence of IoT and Social Networks Issues

Lecturer: Antonio Iera
Full Professor of Telecommunications
Director of Laboratory for Advanced Research into Telecommunication Systems
University Mediterranea, Reggio Calabria
Abstract:
    In the IoT, all that is real becomes virtual (each person and thing has a locatable, addressable, and readable counterpart in the Internet) and the role of any object is to produce and consume services. The IoT paradigm, at its present stage of evolution relies on the presence of new generations of "smart objects" able to discover new services, start new acquaintances, exchange information, connect to external services, exploit other objects' capabilities, and collaborate towards a common goal.
    We are now living the age of the Social Networks, which rule great part of the interactions and communication exchanges among people. Also ongoing is the development of a new generations of social objects, which: are able to mutually interact in an autonomous way with respect to the owners, can easily crawl the IoT made of billions of objects to discover services and information in a trust-oriented way, and are able to advertise their presence to provide services to the rest of the network. This pushes IoT to evolve towards a social IoT where the concepts and technologies typical of social networks are applied to the world of things to foster resource visibility, service discovery, object reputation assessment, source crowding, and service composition.
    Focus of the speech will thus be the convergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Social Network paradigms towards the deployment of a social network in which things are nodes that establish social links as humans do. The speech will follow a holistic approach by capitalizing experiences coming mostly from the research areas of social networking and IoT, to introduce the audience to a unifying paradigm. All the different aspects of the cited topic will be thoroughly addressed by finalizing them to the constitution of the background for the definition of new paradigms for data networking in the future Internet; models that should be based on the way the resources interact each other over the time.
Lecturer's short biography:
    Antonio Iera graduated in Computer Engineering at the University of Calabria, Italy, in 1991 and received a Master Diploma in Information Technology from CEFRIEL/Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in 1992 and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Calabria, Italy, in 1996. From 1994 to 1995 he has been with the Mobile Network Division Research Center, Siemens AG - Munich, Germany and since 1997 with the University Mediterranea, Reggio Calabria, where he currently holds the positions of full professor of Telecommunications and Director of the ARTS (www.arts.unirc.it) - Laboratory for Advanced Research into Telecommunication Systems. He served as TPC member of several IEEE International Conferences and has been co-Guest Editor for different special issues in the IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine. Elevated to the IEEE Senior Member status in 2007. His research interests include: Next generation mobile systems, Advanced Systems for Personal Communications, RFID systems, and Internet of Things.