Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• IoT and SDN in mobile networks

• Fog Computing in wired/wireless and mobile environments

• Fog/Cloud Computing service continuum

• Containerization support for mobile environments

• Security and privacy of mobile-based monitoring systems

• Big data and cloud computing scalable processing of mobile sensors-generated datastreams

• Applications and testbeds in vehicular networks, home networks, and Industrial IoT

• New middleware concepts for mobile devices

• Mobile middleware enabling machine-to-machine communication

• Mobile crowdsourcing and people-centric collaborative sensing

• Smart space/city middleware and applications

• Middleware for mobile cloud computing (e.g., seamless offloading)

• End-to-end architectures for seamless ubiquitous service provisioning and deployment

• Synergic integration of heterogeneous wired and wireless networks

• Opportunistic, delay-tolerant, and store-carry-forward techniques for mobile and wireless networking

• Energy-efficient applications, services, and middleware

• Modeling, simulation, and performance evaluation of mobile wireless systems and services

• Trustworthiness, security, and privacy of mobile and wireless systems

• Impact of IMS, RCS, RCS-e, EPC, LTE, LTE Direct on the evolution of mobile middleware