IEEE Internet Computing provides journal-quality evaluation and review of emerging and maturing Internet technologies and applications. The magazine targets the technical and scientific Internet user communities as well as designers and developers of Internet-based applications and enabling technologies. IC publishes refereed articles on the latest developments and key trends in Internet technologies and applications.

A crossroads between academic researchers and software professionals, the magazine presents novel content from academic and industry experts on a wide range of topics, including applications, architectures, information management, middleware, policies, security, and standards.

In addition to peer-reviewed articles, IC features industry reports, surveys, tutorials, columns, and news.

Special Issue on Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
Submission Date: 2017-08-07

With the recent advances in wireless communication technologies, connected and autonomous vehicles are becoming a cornerstone of the increasingly connected world. Although Internet technologies brought intelligent vehicles innovative services and applications that change the way how people live, work, and entertain, supporting the real-time, safety, stability, reliability, and security requirements of connected vehicular applications is difficult because of the nature of vehicle mobility. As connected and autonomous vehicles become one of the largest mobile cyber-physical systems, extraordinary research challenges are emerging in many areas, including environment perception, edge data analytics, computing platforms, architecture design, cybersecurity, and privacy protection.

The connected and autonomous vehicle research field has been a highly active area of research, development, standardization, and field trials. Throughout the world, many national and international projects in government, industry, and academia are devoted to connected vehicles or autonomous driving vehicles. Multiple relevant industry standards and consortia are being created to prepare for the maturity of these emerging technologies.

This special issue intends to disseminate the latest research results in this exciting research area of connected and autonomous vehicles, providing a snapshot of the current state of the art in such advanced systems. Submitted papers should focus on the general theme of Internet computing. Areas of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:

- (semi-)automated vehicles;
- autonomous/intelligent robotic vehicles;
- vehicle environment perception;
- cooperative driving and cooperative vehicle-infrastructure systems;
- vehicle-to-infrastructure and vehicle-to-vehicle (V2I/V2V) communication;
- wireless in-car networks;
- vehicle system architecture and design;
- vehicular Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure;
- intelligent vehicle software and computing infrastructure;
- edge data analytics for vehicular systems;
- cloud computing applications for vehicular systems;
- geographic information systems (GIS) or intelligent transportation systems (ITS) applications for intelligent vehicles;
- security and privacy issues and protection mechanisms;
- cyber-physical system modeling; and early experience and field trials of connected and autonomous vehicles.

Special Issue on Evolution of Rack-Scale Systems
Submission Date: 2017-10-13

In just the past few years, advances in software and hardware technology have enabled new computing paradigms and new applications making use of rack-scale computing environments. These include super-fast interconnects, new memory devices and architectures, and ever-changing software models. For instance, we recently witnessed a strong shift from virtual machines to containers as the model for deploying software in shared environments.

This special issue will include papers from both industry and academia that encompass the recent evolution of rack-scale systems, in the context of Internet computing. Topics include (but are not limited to) the following:

1.Applications and use cases
- data-intensive analytics and graph processing
- financial, medical, and transportation scenarios

2.Systems software stack
- operating systems
- virtual machines (VMs), containers, unikernels and microservices
- persistency libraries and inter-process communication (IPC) stacks

3.Architecture
- memory/storage architectures
- switches, routers, and software-defined networking
- accelerators

4.Technologies
- nonvolatile memory
- photonic interconnects
- system on a chip

5.Characteristics
- security
- reliability (such as erasure coding)
- scale and performance