Heterogeneous Computing Systems and Environment
A special issue of Computers (ISSN 2073-431X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2017)
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Internet of Things; heterogeneous computing; radio communications; gpu computing
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Soon, everything on Earth will be connected via peer-to-peer networking and/or the public Internet, with a multitude of sensor-driven devices dramatically changing our lives and our environment. These devices will be based on a wide variety of devices, ranging from tiny (e.g., microcontrollers) to huge (e.g., cloud servers), with one thing in common: They are likely to consist of many different types processors or cores. Heterogeneity provides these systems with gains in performance and/or energy efficiency, but this comes at the costs of complexity of hardware, software design, and implementation.
Heterogeneous Computing is not new, but with the Internet of Things (IoT) comes a new set of challenges, ranging from the design of millions of different types of devices, to the massive amounts of data that will be generated. How will these devices be built, how will they be programmed, how will the data be mined, and what are the security implications?
Authors are invited to submit original contributions on the following topics:
- Applications, e.g., Internet of Things, heterogeneous computing
- Data mining for IoT
- Memory systems for heterogeneous devices
- Programming models for heterogeneous systems and IoT
- Security for low power networks
Dr. Benedict R. Gaster
Dr. Lee Howes
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Heterogeneous computing
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- Software systems
- Low-power
- Memory systems
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