It is widely recognised that the next generation of mobile Internet has arrived, bringing with it great technical challenges and immense opportunities to enhance both our personal lives and work environments. The first big change in the transition to a new mobile Internet has been the proliferation of a large and increasingly diverse set of mobile services and applications where mobile data is produced by individuals and corporations using many different types of terminal and platform. Services have changed and multiplied to have the transmission networks over which mobile Internet data is acquired and transmitted.

Mobile Internet data transmission now is likely to originate from or pass through various heterogeneous networks such as wired networks, wireless networks, sensor networks, and Internet of Things. To accommodate this rapid development of next generation mobile Internet services and applications new reliable, trusted, and high performance cognition cloud model-based services for communication, control, and mobile computational services are required.

Using a cognition cloud model to improve next generation mobile Internet functionality will require improvements in the four key areas of communication, control, computing, and applications, specifically, how to provide satisfactory levels of Quality of Experience (QoE) (user-oriented), Quality of Protection (QoP) (user-oriented), and Quality of Service (QoS) (server-oriented) requirements in a manner that satisfies both users and service providers. In next generation mobile Internet these challenges are particularly difficult given the huge diversity of mobile Internet devices (often with limited resources), heterogeneous networks, user diversity, and so on. Combining mobile Internet with a cognition cloud model offers opportunities to solve some of these issues and challenges in the next generation mobile Internet.

This special issue focuses on recent advances in transmission and computing schemes for mobile Internet services which make use of a cognition cloud model. Original, unpublished contributions and invited articles reflecting various aspects of next generation mobile Internet are encouraged.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Architecture of mobile Internet services
• Communication protocols based on cognition cloud models
• Mobile service aware cooperative communication protocols
• High performance QoS/QoE/QoP guarantee schemes with cognition cloud model
• Mobile Internet service aware cloud devices
• Cloud control schemes on mobile wireless sensor networks
• Next generation mobile Internet data processing and computing protocols
• Security policy and enforcement issues for mobile Internet service
• Control platforms and developed models for next generation mobile Internet