ACM SIGCOMM 2022 Workshop on Networked Sensing Systems for a Sustainable Society (NET4us 2022)

Call for Papers

Sustainable environmental sensing systems, as the converging point of several technologies, can have tremendous potential to deliver social value. Multiple industries are progressively investing in environmental sustainability initiatives and technologies to improve quality of life while safeguarding natural resources. For example, the Internet of Things could be a game-changer for sustainability, as reported by the World Economic Forum, which indicated that 84% of IoT deployments are currently addressing, or have the potential to handle, some of the 17 SDGs.

Different challenges need to be addressed, from designing "better" sensing objects, i.e., energy-efficient, low power, and able to communicate via wide-area networks, to turning to the general public for deploying such systems and crowdsourcing data using social sensing or citizen science. With the "Networked sensing systems for a sustainable society" (NET4us) workshop, we aim to present and showcase the latest advances in sustainable networked sensing systems to monitor different urban and rural conditions to improve both people's quality of life and reduce climate change. Therefore, we seek original, unpublished papers addressing key issues and challenges in this growing area.

Topics of Interest

Analysis, simulation, testbed, and measurement campaigns
Converged communication, computing, and storage technologies
Crowd-sensing, human-centric sensing, Citizen science
Data collection, organization and dissemination methods
Digital twins networking and system
Emerging applications (e.g., IoT for Agriculture, Smart City, Smart Energy, Smart Health, Smart Transport, Public Safety, Humanitarian Technologies, Society 5.0)
Enabling communication technologies for IoT (e.g., wireless, optical, acoustic, molecular, quantum)
Energy efficiency, energy harvesting, power management, and green operation
Industrial Network and Industry 4.0
IoT for Open Science
Lightweight security design
Novel Internet of Everything (IoE) paradigms (e.g., Internet of Bio-Nano Things, Internet of Drones, Internet of People)
Rural area sensing and connectivity solutions
Smart objects, cooperative devices, environments, middleware, platforms, and tools
Socio-economic, security and privacy, standardization, policy, and regulatory aspects
TinyML systems and application
Ultra-low-power IoT technologies and embedded systems architectures
Virtualization: Multiple sensors aggregated, or sensors shared by multiple users

Submission Instructions

Submissions must be original, unpublished work, and not under consideration at another conference or journal. The maximum length of the submitted paper must be six (6) pages long, excluding references and appendices, in two-column 10pt ACM format. LaTeX sources can be found at this link. Papers must include author names and affiliations for single-blind peer reviewing by the PC. Authors of accepted submissions are expected to present and discuss their work at the workshop.

Please submit your paper via https://net4us2022.hotcrp.com.

If you have any questions or problems with your submission, please get in touch with Pietro Manzoni (pmanzoni@disca.upv.es).