Smart Systems for Information Processing in Sensor Networks

Dear Colleagues,

Signal processing has been the prime factor behind modern revolutionary progress in various fields including digital communications, biomedical engineering, control, security, and sensors, among many other disciplines. It deserves the title of the “missing link between disciplines”. For the last three decades, digital signal processing (DSP) has led the revolution of digital communications, which has connected all parts of the world. Now sensor signal processing is leading a new revolution with a significant impact on various applications in conjunction with the latest developments in the Internet of Things (IoT). Most existing applications utilize complex, multi-bit digital systems for information processing. In some applications like sensor networks, however, systems may be confronted with limited storage, power, or computation capabilities, hence ordinary complex techniques of signal processing would not be applicable. This Special Issue of Information will focus on smart signal processing systems, like short word-length (SWL) or other innovative techniques, that enable efficient processing in sensor networks with minimal use of energy, computation, and memory.

Topics to be covered include, but are not limited to the following:

• Adaptive single-bit systems
• Optimization in SWL systems
• SWL filters
• SWL communications
• SWL for wireless sensor networks (WSNs)
• SWL in biomedical applications
• Energy-efficient techniques for WSNs
• Energy-efficient routing and transmission methods for WSNs
• Energy-efficient and low-cost sensor design

Prof. Dr. Zahir M. Hussain
Guest Editor

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• signal processing
• efficient signal processing
• information processing in WSNs
• efficient computation techniques for WSNs
• low-energy DSP
• low-energy digital systems
• energy-efficient wireless-sensor networks (WSNs)
• low-energy sensors
• efficient sensor communications
• efficient routing for WSNs
• energy-efficient protocols for WSNs
• low-cost sensors
• efficient multi-bit systems
• sigma-delta modulation
• short word-length (SWL)
• ternary systems
• single-bit systems
• efficient sampling
• adaptive filters