1st International Workshop on Energy Neutral and Sustainable IoT Devices and Infrastructure
(EN-IoT 2024)
Rationale and Scope
A significant share of the IoT landscape is increasingly dominated by ultra-constrained devices. Due to their massive number and targeted applications, such devices should be maintenance-free, self-sustained/sustainable, cheap, autonomous, and imperceptible.
We refer to such devices as energy-neutral devices (ENDs) and note that they remain partially/fully unsupported by modern connectivity solutions. There are many well-known END technical enablers, including robust energy harvesting and management techniques, efficient energy storage (if any), sustainable materials, advanced backscattering systems, non-RF communication technologies, duty cycling and wake-up protocols, TinyML, and lightweight (and energy-aware) sensing, actuation, computing, and communication protocols.
Many of these require support at the network infrastructure level, while all of them have relevant challenges and open research issues. This workshop focuses on this and on innovative approaches to developing ENDs that operate sustainably within their environmental contexts. Specifically, we aim to discuss typical energy harvesting sources, operational environments, memory and computational resources, and materials selection for ENDs; delve into key END-enabling technologies; and provide insights into specific challenges for the future.
We invite researchers, industry professionals, and innovators to contribute to our workshop, and thus advance the state of the art in sustainable IoT technologies and practices
Topics of Interest
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Design and optimization of ENDs
- Sustainable materials and manufacturing processes for IoT
- Energy harvesting technologies and their integration into IoT systems
- Ultra-low power communication technologies and network protocols
- Environmental impact assessments of IoT systems
- Lifecycle management of IoT devices
- Policy and regulatory considerations for sustainable IoT
- Case studies and applications of sustainable IoT, e.g., in smart cities, transportation, agriculture, and healthcare.
- Technical enablers for ENDs, e.g., energy management for IoT devices, backscattering, duty cycling and wake-up protocols, non-RF communication technologies, wireless power transfer for IoT, TinyML, federated learning in IoT, and application scenarios
- Low-power machine-type communications in 6G
- Ambient IoT standardization advances and perspectives
Submission guidelines
Authors are invited to submit original contributions that have not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers should be prepared using the IEEE 2-column conference style and are limited to 6 pages including references.
They must be submitted electronically in PDF format through EDAS at: https://edas.info/N32567
Papers exceeding page limits, multiple submissions, and self-plagiarized papers will be rejected without further review. All other papers will sustain a thorough single-blind review process.
To be published in the 6GNet 2024 Conference Proceedings and to be eligible for publication in IEEE Xplore, an author of an accepted paper is required to register for the Workshop at the Full Author rate and the paper must be presented in person by one registered co-author.
Important Dates
- Paper Submission Deadline: August 20, 2024 [extended]
- Paper Acceptance Notification: September 9, 2024
- Camera-Ready Papers Due: September 16, 2024
- Workshop Date: October 21, 2024
Camera Ready
If you have received a notification of acceptance email from the workshop co-chairs, please use these instructions to prepare your final camera-ready manuscript.
Please note that:
- IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented at the conference.
- Papers are reviewed on the basis that they do not contain plagiarized material and have not been submitted to any other conference at the same time (double submission). These matters are taken very seriously and the IEEE Communications Society will take action against any author who has been engaged in either practice. Please see the IEEE Web Page on Plagiarism and the IEEE Web Page on Double Submission.
Papers can be of one type: Full paper up to six (6) pages (in Two-Column IEEE Conference Format), including text, figures, and references.
Deadline for the camera ready paper is September 16, 2024. Please refer to EDAS for the exact deadline in your time zone to make sure that you abide by the stipulated deadline.
In order to submit the camera-ready manuscript, please follow the steps below:
1. All submissions must be written in English, with minimum of 10-point font and must follow the IEEE two-column page format, which is available at: https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html
If you are using LaTeX, you need to use the following code as the first line in your LaTeX source file: \documentclass[10pt, conference]{IEEEtran}
2. Address all reviewers’ comments and revise your paper accordingly before submitting your camera-ready version. Also, make sure that all your figures are of high quality (preferably in .eps format) and their content is easily readable.
3. Make sure also that your paper contains no headers, and no page numbers. This information will be added by the editors. Furthermore, thoroughly, proofread your source document to confirm that it will require no further revision.
4. Make sure that the title/author list in EDAS is EXACTLY as in your final camera-ready paper. No change in authors is allowed once the paper is accepted.
5. Do not include any copyright notice in your document, this will be added automatically.
6. Complete the Electronic copyright form for your paper on EDAS.
7. Use IEEE PDF eXpress to check Xplore-compatibility, and generate your PDF compliant version, as detailed below. This is a mandatory step. Non-compliance might result in NOT having your paper published in the IEEE Xplore.
8. Upload to EDAS the PDF eXpress-passed camera-ready version of your paper. Do not upload any other version of the paper except that validated using PDF eXpress.
IEEE PDF eXpress
The final paper must be converted into PDF with settings compliant with the requirements of the IEEE Xplore digital library. To this purpose, the IEEE PDF eXpress web tool should be used. PDF files generated in a different way might not be IEEE Xplore-compliant and could be problematic. All PDFs to be included in IEEE Xplore should be validated through PDF eXpress for an assured Xplore compatibility.
The instructions to generate an IEEE-Xplore-compatible PDF file using the IEEE PDF eXpress PLUS web tool are listed below.
• Create an IEEE PDF eXpress plus account using the following conference ID.
• The first time you access IEEE PDF eXpress plus, please follow the link to “New Users – Clickhere”. The conference ID is 63182X
• Previous usersof PDF eXpress need to follow the above steps, but should enter the same password that was used in previous conferences. Verify that your contact information is valid.
• After logging in, create a new title and enter the exact title of your paper. Then, upload the source files of your camera-ready paper for conversion (e.g. DOC, DOCX, TEX and so on). Alternatively, if your PDF is ready, you can also just check the compliance of your generated PDF file.
• After a few minutes, you will receive the IEEE-Xplore-compatible PDF version of your paper by e-mail. This is the PDF version that you will use to upload your camera ready to EDAS.
• In case you encounter any problems, you can access the Publications Support Center for IEEE PDF eXpress.Edit
Organizers
- Onel L. Alcaraz López (University of Oulu, Finland) onel.alcarazlopez@oulu.fi
- Konstantin Mikhaylov (University of Oulu, Finland) konstantin.mikhaylov@oulu.fi
- Ritesh Kumar Singh (University of Antwerp & IMEC, Belgium) ritesh.singh@imec.be
- Chiara Buratti (University of Bologna, Italy) c.buratti@unibo.it
This event is co-organized in collaboration with Hexa-X-II, SUPERIOT, INTERACT, and 6G Flagship.