The Social Internet of Things (SIoT) has become a hot topic in academic research. It employs the theory of social networks into the different levels of the Internet of Things (IoTs) and has brought new possibilities for the development of IoTs. Essentially, the SIoT is a subset of IoTs. It uses intelligent hardware and humans as the node, a social network as the organization type, the social relationship between things, things and humans, and between humans, formatting research methods and models with social network characteristics to realize the connection, service, and application of the IoTs.

Moreover, SIoT is a form of realization of technology, architecture, and application of the IoTs using social network research methods. It further promotes the integration between real-world and virtual cyberspace, contributes the realization of the IoTs, expands the research scope of the social networking, and provides a new solution for the specific problems of the IoTs. Consequently, there is a tremendous need for researchers to have a comprehensive knowledge of the advances in SIoT.

This special issue is soliciting scientific research papers that can present a snapshot of the latest research status of SIoT.

Dr. Gururaj H L is currently working as Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Vidyavardhaka College of Engineering, Mysuru, India. He holds a Ph.D. Degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi, India in 2019. He is a professional member of ACM and working as ACM Distinguish Speaker from 2018. He is the founder of Wireless Internetworking Group (WiNG). He is a senior member of IEEE and lifetime member of ISTE and CSI. Dr. Gururaj received young scientist award from SERB, DST, and Government of India in December 2016. He has 9 years of teaching experience at both UG and PG level. His research interests include Block Chain Technology, Cyber Security, Wireless Senor Network, Ad-hoc networks, IOT, Data Mining, Cloud Computing and Machine Learning. He is an Editorial Board member of the International Journal of Block chains and Cryptocurrencies (Inderscience Publishers) and Special Editor of EAI publishers. He has published more than 75 research papers including 2 SCI publications in various international journals such in IEEE Access, Springer Book Chapter, WoS, Scopus, and UGC referred journals. He has presented 30 papers at various international Conferences. He has authored 1 Book on Network Simulators. He worked as reviewer for various journals and conferences. He also received Best paper awards at various National and International Conferences. He was honored as Chief Guest, Resource Person, Session chair, Keynote Speaker, TPC member, Advisory committee member at National and International Seminars, Workshops and Conferences.

Dr. Pramod H B is currently working as Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Rajeev Institute of Technology, Hassan, India. He's Completed Ph.D. Degree in Computer Science and Engineering from SVU, India. He has 10 years of teaching experience at both UG and PG level. His research interests include Machine Learning, Wireless Senor Network, IoT, and Social IoT. He was published more than 15 research papers including 1 SCI publications in various international journals, Taylor and Francis and Wiley Book Chapter, WoS, Scopus, and UGC referred journals. And he was published in Govt of India Patent. He worked as reviewer for IEEE Transaction on Network Science & Engineering and Various Conference.

Mr. Gowtham M is currently working as Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, NIE Institute of Technology, Mysuru, India. He's doing his research (Ph.D. Degree) in Computer Science and Engineering at Visvesvaraya Technological University. He has 6.5 years of teaching experience at both UG and PG level. His research interests include Network Security, Wireless Senor Network, Ad-hoc networks, IoT and Cloud Computing. He has published more than 30 research papers including 1 SCI publications in various international journals includes IEEE Transactions and Springer, Elsevier, Taylor and Francis and Wiley Book chapters