Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Aided Communications for 6G and Beyond

Submission Deadline:  31 August 2021

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Aided Communications for 6G and Beyond.   

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) aided wireless communications is a hot research topic in academic and industry communities since it can enhance both the spectrum and energy efficiency of wireless systems by artificially reconfiguring the wireless propagation environment. RIS can configure tiny antenna elements or scatterers, which can be judiciously tuned to enhance signal power at desired users, such as primary users in cognitive radio networks, or suppress signal power at undesired users, such as eavesdroppers in physical layer security networks. The RIS also finds promising applications in dense urban areas or indoor scenarios, where electromagnetic waves are prone to be blocked by obstacles such as buildings and walls. There are numerous advantages associated with RIS. For instance, since RIS needs no analog-to-digital converters or radio frequency chains, it saves energy consumption to improve its sustainability, and reduces system cost. RIS can be fabricated in small size and light weight, which can be easily deployed on a building’s facade, walls, ceilings, street lamps, etc. Furthermore, since RIS is a complementary device, it can be readily integrated into current wireless networks (both cellular network and WIFI) without many standardization modifications. Due to these appealing advantages, RIS-aided wireless communications is envisioned to be a revolutionary technique, and one of the key technologies for the sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks.

To reap the full potential offered by RIS, a number of emerging challenges for the transceiver design of RIS-aided wireless communications needs to be tackled. The transceiver beamforming design requires advanced low complexity signal processing algorithms, the incorporation of RIS in wireless communications will consume more pilot resources for the RIS-related channel estimation, and the time slots left for data transmission will be reduced. It is imperative to justify the benefits of introducing RIS when taking into account additional pilot overhead. Furthermore, most of the existing contributions on transceiver design are based on perfect channel state information (CSI), which is challenging to achieve in RIS-aided communications. Hence, robust transmission design needs to be investigated. Finally, in practice, the RIS elements are designed with discrete shifts, which further pose new challenges for evaluating its performance.

This Special Section aims to summarize recent advancements in RIS-aided wireless communications and spur more efforts in this area to make it a reality. The scope of this Special Section covers a wide range of disciplines such as wireless communications, metamaterials, signal processing, and artificial intelligence. In this Special Section, we invite high-quality, original, technical and survey articles, which have not been published previously on RIS-related techniques and their applications in wireless communications.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Integration of RIS in emerging wireless applications (e.g., RIS-aided wireless power transfer, RIS-aided mobile edge computing, RIS-aided physical layer security, IRS-aided UAV communications, etc)
  • Pilot overhead reduction schemes for channel estimation in RIS-aided wireless communications (e.g. compressed-sensing method by exploiting the sparsity of the channels)
  • Robust transceiver design based on imperfect channel state information or/and imperfect phase shift models
  • Transceiver design based on statistical channel state information
  • Joint active and beamforming for RIS-aided wireless communications
  • Information theoretical results of the capacity of RIS
  • The impact and design of using practical hardware, e.g. discrete phase shifts
  • Energy supply of RIS
  • Mobility and handover management for RIS-aided wireless communications
  • Association and coordination among RIS, base stations and users
  • Resource allocation and interference management in RIS-aided wireless communications
  • Fundamental limits, scaling laws analysis, performance analysis, and information-theoretic analysis
  • Channel and propagation models
  • Control information exchange protocols design
  • Energy efficient system design
  • Machine learning based design
  • RIS-aided mmWave/Terahertz communications
  • Measurement studies and real-world prototypes and test-beds
  • Integration of RIS-enabled networks into the standard

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Associate Editor:  Cunhua Pan, Queen Mary University of London, UK

Guest Editors:

    1. Ying-Chang Liang, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China
    2. Marco Di Renzo, Paris-Saclay University, France
    3. Lee Swindlehurst, University of California Irvine, USA
    4. Vincenzo Sciancalepore, NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH, Germany

 

Relevant IEEE Access Special Sections:

    1. Beyond 5G Communications
    2. Millimeter-Wave Communications: New Research Trends and Challenges
    3. Millimeter-wave and Terahertz Propagation, Channel Modeling and Applications

 

IEEE Access Editor-in-Chief:  Prof. Derek Abbott, University of Adelaide

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Energy Harvesting Technologies for Wearable and Implantable Devices

Submission Deadline: 31 December 2020

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Energy Harvesting Technologies for Wearable and Implantable Devices.

Implantable and wearable electronic devices can improve the quality of life as well as the life expectancy of many chronically ill patients, provided that certain biological signs can be accurately monitored. Thanks to advances in packaging and nanofabrication, it is now possible to embed various microelectronic and micromechanical sensors (such as gyroscopes, accelerometers and image sensors) into a small area on a flexible substrate and at a relatively low cost. Furthermore, these devices have been integrated with wireless communication technologies to enable the transmission of both signals and energy.  However, to ensure that these devices can truly improve a patient’s quality of life, new preventative, diagnostic and therapeutic devices that can provide hassle-free, long-term, continuous monitoring will need to be developed, which must rely on novel energy harvesting solutions that are non-obstructive to their wearer.  So far, research in the field has focussed on materials, new processing techniques and one-off devices. However, existing progress is not sufficient for future electronic devices to be useful in any new application and a great demand exists towards scaling up the research towards circuits and systems. A few interesting developments in this direction indicate that special attention should be given towards the design, simulation and modeling of energy harvesting techniques while keeping system integration and power management in mind.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Novel piezoelectric, thermoelectric and photovoltaic energy harvesting technologies that lead to enhanced efficiency and controllability under standard or varying working conditions
  • Novel control strategies for achieving maximum or optimum energy harvesting
  • Power management circuits for energy harvesters
  • Novel data driven techniques for optimizing and forecasting the amount of energy that can be harvested
  • Low-Power circuits and sensors
  • Flexible sensors, circuits and energy harvesters for wearables
  • Implantable electronics
  • Novel wireless power transfer and delivery techniques
  • Numerical and computational modeling techniques

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Associate Editor: Hadi Heidari, University of Glasgow, UK

Guest Editors:

    1. Mehmet Ozturk, North Carolina State University, USA
    2. Rami Ghannam,University of Glasgow, UK
    3. Law Man Kay, University of Macau, China
    4. Hamideh Khanbareh, University of Bath, UK
    5.  Abdul Halim Miah, University of Florida, USA

 

Relevant IEEE Access Special Sections:

  1. Smart Health Sensing and Computational Intelligence: From Big Data to Big Impacts
  2. Neural Engineering Informatics
  3. Wearable and Implantable Devices and Systems


IEEE Access Editor-in-Chief:  Prof. Derek Abbott, University of Adelaide

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For inquiries regarding this Special Section, please contact:  hadi.heidari@glasgow.ac.uk.

Design and Analysis Techniques in Iterative Learning Control

Submission Deadline:  31 July 2019

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Design and Analysis Techniques in Iterative Learning Control.

Recently, great progress has been witnessed in both theory developments and practical applications of iterative learning control (ILC). ILC has been widely used in industry, for example, in chemical processes, robotic manipulators, hard disk drives, milling and laser cutting, traffic flow control systems, and rehabilitation robotic systems. With its rapid development, ILC has also encountered many theoretical and practical challenges including new system applications such as fractional-order systems, new operation environments such as networked structure and complex networks, and new technical innovations such as convergence analysis methods. Therefore, ILC is at a significant stage for making fundamental breakthroughs, which motivates this Special Section in IEEE Access.

Since the proposal of its original concept by Arimoto, et al., in 1984, ILC has developed rapidly over the last three decades. A survey by Bristow, Tharayil, and Alleyne, in IEEE Control Systems provided a comprehensive review of the fundamental framework of ILC and common design and analysis techniques. A comprehensive review was presented in another survey published by Ahn, Chen, and Moore, in IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C, which covered the field from 1998 to 2004. Later surveys reported on other directions of ILC. From these surveys and the references therein, it is observed that the exploration of ILC in various directions has been a mainstream in the past few decades. These explorations have greatly enriched the system of ILC and established the advantages of ILC compared with other traditional control methodologies. However, we are facing a bottleneck in developing ILC due to the lack of current growth.

Scholars in the community have reached a consensus that ILC requires an in-depth review of the past contributions as well as an exciting look at the future directions for ILC. It is necessary to collect fresh ideas from the community to contribute to an understanding of the future developments of ILC. In other words, while exploring ILC for more system and operation conditions, we should also explore the essential advantages of ILC so that we can establish a comprehensive system of ILC. In particular, three major directions should be explored. First, we can apply ILC to new systems, especially newly formed system formulation. This extension can help broaden the potential application range and promote associated research. Second, we should pay attention to new operation environments, especially the emerging conditions. For example, Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) has gained attention from the community; how to implement ILC in CPS is interesting, but security issues should also be considered. Third, we must propose new design and analysis techniques, to carry forward the merits of ILC.

This Special Section in IEEE Access invites original articles addressing both design and analysis techniques in the area of learning control, including novel applications, design frameworks, analysis tools, essential performance improvements, and other related topics in learning control. It aims to provide an in-depth review of the recent advances and a comprehensive outlook of the development trends in learning control.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Learning control for new types of systems
  • Nonlinear design framework of learning control
  • Novel convergence and performance analysis techniques
  • Learning control with new operation conditions
  • New applications
  • Integration with artificial intelligence
  • Big data driven learning control

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Associate Editor:  Youqing Wang, Shandong University of Science and Technology, China

Guest Editors:

  1. Dong Shen, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China
  2. Wojciech Paszke, University of Zielona Gora, Poland
  3. YangQuan Chen, University of California, Merced, USA

 

Relevant IEEE Access Special Sections:

  1. Cyber-Physical Systems
  2. Trends, Perspectives and Prospects of Machine Learning Applied to Biomedical Systems in Internet of Medical Things
  3. Big Data Learning and Discovery


IEEE Access Editor-in-Chief:  Prof. Derek Abbott, University of Adelaide

Paper submission: Contact Associate Editor and submit manuscript to:
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Recent Advances in Video Coding and Security

Submission Deadline: 30 June 2019

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Recent Advances in Video Coding and Security.

With the development of imaging and computer graphics technologies, high dynamic range (HDR) video, immersive 360-degree video (4K and above video resolution), 3D video, and other ultra-high definition (UHD) video have become a reality. Since the UHD video can provide a more realistic visual experience, it attracts much more  attention. Compared with  traditional video, the UHD video can efficiently enhance the visual clarity while its video data volume increases significantly. The huge data volume becomes a challenge for processing, storing, and transmitting the UHD video. Hence, efficient video coding techniques are vital for the widespread applications of UHD video.

Moreover, with the development of internet technology, the video data has been widely used in multimedia devices, such as video surveillance, webcast, and so on. For video security, the sensitive video content needs to be protected before transmission. Data encryption is an efficient way to achieve this purpose. Compared with the text and binary data, the video data has large volume, and requires real-time processing. Since the traditional encryption algorithms don’t consider the video characteristics, efficient video encryption algorithms should be designed for video data security.

This Special Section in IEEE Access focuses on the theoretical and practical design issues of video coding and security. Our aim is to bring together researchers, industry practitioners, and individuals working on the related areas to share their new ideas, latest findings, and state-of-the-art achievements with others. This will provide readers with a clear understanding of the recent achievements on video coding and security.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Low-complexity video coding algorithms
  • Rate control and bit allocation optimization algorithms for video coding
  • Transform optimization algorithms for video coding
  • Advanced filter algorithms for video coding
  • Advanced transcoding algorithms
  • Visual quality assessment metrics for video coding
  • Advanced super resolution algorithms
  • Advanced video salient object detection algorithms
  • Advanced coding algorithms for 3D/HDR/ videos
  • Advanced video transmission security algorithms
  • Advanced video information hiding algorithms
  • Advanced threat detection algorithms for video broadcasting system
  • Advanced algorithms for video authentication and encryption
  • Advanced algorithms for video copyright protection
  • Advanced algorithms for video watermarking
  • Advanced video privacy protection algorithms
  • Artificial intelligence for video processing

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Associate Editor:  Zhaoqing Pan, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China

Guest Editors:

  1. Jianjun Lei, Tianjin University, China
  2. Byeungwoo Jeon, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
  3. Ching-Nung Yang, National Dong Hwa University, China
  4. Nam Ling, Santa Clara University, USA
  5. Sam Kwong, City University of Hong Kong, China
  6. Marek Domański, Poznań University of Technology, Poland
  7. Weizhi Meng, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

 

Relevant IEEE Access Special Sections:

  1. Information Security Solutions for Telemedicine Applications
  2. Security and Trusted Computing for Industrial Internet of Things
  3. Advances in Channel Coding for 5G and Beyond


IEEE Access Editor-in-Chief: Michael Pecht, Professor and Director, CALCE, University of Maryland

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For inquiries regarding this Special Section, please contact:  zhaoqingpan@nuist.edu.cn

Wearable and Implantable Devices and Systems

Submission Deadline: 15 June 2018

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Wearable and Implantable Devices and Systems.

Future electronics and sensing systems will be implantable and wearable. Large and ever-growing advances in developing and implementing such technologies have already exhibited the potential utility of this unique class of platforms to realize next-generation of sensing systems. Applications include wearable and implantable electronics, healthcare monitoring systems, soft robotics, as well as wireless implants. The field has started to see interesting developments in the areas of circuits and systems, involving studies related to low-power electronics, wireless sensor networks, wearable devices and sensors, real-time monitoring, connectivity of sensors and Internet of Things.

This Special Section in IEEE Access invites contributions from leading experts from both academia and industry. We believe that the novel approaches towards circuits and systems will allow readers to identify the requirements, challenges and future directions related to the burgeoning field of electronic circuits and systems for future wearable and implantable systems, from electronics to communications. Further, this Special Section will allow the biomedical researchers to identify new opportunities, which this exciting field may lead to.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Wearable and implantable sensing technologies
  • Readout circuits for wearable and implantable systems
  • Wireless power transfer/delivery
  • Low-Power circuits and sensors
  • Sensor Interfaces and A/D Converters
  • Implantable Electronics
  • Body sensor networks
  • wearable and mobile health monitoring
  • CMOS Sensors and Imaging
  • Antennas and sensors for wearables and wireless implants
  • Implantable and wearable diagnostic and therapeutic systems
  • Channel modelling for wearables and implants
  • Energy efficiency in wearable sensing systems

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Associate Editor: Qammer H. Abbasi, University of Glasgow, UK

Guest Editors:

  1. Yejun He, Shenzhen University, China
  2. Asimina Kiourti, The Ohio State University, USA
  3. Hadi Heidari, University of Glasgow, UK
  4. Majid E. Warkiani, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
  5. Akram Alomainy, Queen Mary University of London, UK

Relevant IEEE Access Special Sections:

  1. Ambient Intelligence Environments with Wireless Sensor Networks from the Point of View of Big Data and Smart & Sustainable Cities
  2. Mobile Multimedia for Healthcare
  3. Human-Centered Smart Systems and Technologies

IEEE Access Editor-in-Chief: Michael Pecht, Professor and Director, CALCE, University of Maryland

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Advanced Control and Health Management for Aircraft and its Propulsion System

Submission Deadline: 30 August 2018

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Advanced Control and Health Management for Aircraft and its Propulsion System.

With the increased emphasis on aircraft safety, enhanced performance, reliability, affordability and operating life, advanced control and health management of aircraft and its propulsion system become more critical. Both aircraft control systems and propulsion control systems play an important role in enlarging the flight envelope and providing enhanced maneuvering capabilities. Moreover, integrated aircraft/propulsion control systems have been verified effective to further enhance aircraft performance with minimum pilot workload. The key enabling technologies are the increased efficiencies of components through active control, advanced diagnostics and prognostics integrated with intelligent control to enhance operational reliability and component life, and distributed control with smart sensors and actuators in an adaptive fault tolerant architecture. In order to catch up with the developments and requirements of aircraft, it is of great significance to investigate intelligent aircraft and propulsion control with advanced health management systems.

The primary objective of this Special Section in IEEE Access is to provide up-to-date discussions on technical trends and advanced methodologies in controls and health management of aircraft and its propulsion systems. Of particular interest, the papers in this Special Section should be devoted to the development of intelligent control technology used in aircraft and propulsion systems, fault diagnostics and prognostics, fault tolerant control, decentralized/distributed state estimation, and integrated aircraft/propulsion strategies. The contributions to this Special Section are expected to provide the latest results in advanced analysis, optimization, control and fault diagnostics and prognostics for aircraft and its propulsion systems. Topics to be covered in this special issue include, but are not limited to:

  • Control Theory, Analysis, and Design for Aircraft and Propulsion Systems
  • Modeling and Simulation for Aircraft and Propulsion Systems
  • Fault Diagnostics and Prognostics for Aircraft and Propulsion Systems
  • Fault Tolerance and Recovery Control Design for Aircraft and Propulsion Systems
  • State Estimation and Health Management for Aircraft and Propulsion Systems
  • Distributed Control and Intelligent sensors for Aircraft and Propulsion Systems
  • Aircraft/Propulsion Control Analysis and Test Evaluation
  • Technology for Construction of the Aircraft Propulsion System Test Platforms
  • Hydraulic Mechanical Actuators for Aircraft and Propulsion Systems
  • Active Control of Components and Life-extending Control Design
  • Integrated Flight/Propulsion Control Strategies

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Associate Editor: Xudong Zhao, Dalian University of Technology, China

Guest Editors:

  1. Ximing Sun, Dalian University of Technology, China
  2. Hanz Richter, Cleveland State University, USA
  3. Shui-Ting Ding, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
  4. Rogelio Lozano, Jules Verne University in Amiens, France
  5. Zhongzhi Hu, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China

Related IEEE Access Special Sections:

  1. Complex System Health Management Based on Condition Monitoring and Test Data
  2. Recent Advances on Modelling, Optimization and Signal Processing Methods in Vehicle Dynamics and Crash-worthiness
  3. Communication, Control and Computation Issues in Heterogeneous Vehicular Networks

IEEE Access Editor-in-Chief: Michael Pecht, Professor and Director, CALCE, University of Maryland

Paper submission: Contact Associate Editor and submit manuscript to:
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For inquiries regarding this Special Section, please contact: Bora M. Onat, Managing Editor, IEEE Access (Phone: (732) 562-6036, specialsections@ieee.org)

Analysis and Synthesis of Large-scale Systems

Submission Deadline: 30 November 2016

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Analysis and Synthesis of Large-scale Systems.

The last few decades have witnessed the rapid growth of research and development on large-scale systems (LSSs) due to the increasing complexity and the growing demand of modern engineering systems. The LSSs can normally be viewed as interconnections of multiple subsystems. Many practical systems can be described by the LSSs such as power systems, multi-robot systems, communication networks, transportation networks, and supply chains. In such a large-scale system, the centralized control framework may become impossible for its implementation. The decentralized and distributed controls have emerged as the attractive control methodologies to handle the scale and interactions of large-scale complex systems. However, the interactions among different subsystems introduce many challenges in the analysis and synthesis of such systems. Therefore, it is of significance to address several fundamental problems regarding real-time analysis, estimation and control of these systems.

The primary objective of this Special Section in IEEE Access is to provide up-to-date discussions on technical trends and advanced methodologies in system analysis and control design of large-scale systems. Of particular interest the papers in this Special Section are devoted to the development of advanced communication technology used in LSSs, decentralized/distributed state estimation and control of LSSs, and their applications in industrial process systems. The contributions to this Special Section are expected to provide the latest results in advanced analysis, optimization, control and filtering and real applications for large-scale dynamical systems. Topics to be covered in this special issue include, but are not limited to:

  • Communication resource optimization in LSSs
  • New control algorithms for LSSs
  • Decentralized/distributed state estimation of LSSs
  • Decentralized/distributed control of LSSs
  • Scheduling and control co-design of LSSs
  • Cooperation control of networked LSSs and its industrial applications

 

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Associate Editor: Hamid Reza Karimi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Guest Editors:
1. Dan Zhang, Zhejiang University of Technology, People’s Republic of China
2. Hui Zhang, Shanghai Maritime University, People’s Republic of China
3. Fuwen Yang, Griffith University, Australia

 

IEEE Access Editor-in-Chief: Michael Pecht, Professor and Director, CALCE, University of Maryland

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System-Level Design Automation Methods for Multi-Processor System-on-Chips

Submission Deadline: 15 May 2017

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of System-Level Design Automation Methods for Multi-Processor System-on-Chips.

With the advent of new device technologies, the feature size of transistors decreases and the transistor count increases exponentially. This also leads to the explosive growth in computation power and functionalities available on a single chip. In recent years, System-on-Chips (SoCs), in which all the functionalities of a system are integrated in a chip, have entered to the multi-core era due to the increasing number of services provided by a system. However, this also increases the complexity of designing such chips which have grown at a very fast pace.

To reduce time-to-market of SoCs, Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools have been utilized to enable efficient design space exploration, verification and simulation. However, with the advent of MPSoCs (Multi-Processor System-on-Chips), conventional EDA tools that utilize RTL (Register-Transfer Level) abstraction as the highest abstraction level have been shown not able to cope with the growth of the chip complexity of modern designs. Therefore, electronic system-level (ESL) design, which has abstraction level higher than RTL, has been proposed as the solution for minimizing the gap between chip complexity and design productivity in the multi-core, even many-core, era. System-level synthesis automatically implements the hardware and software systems of the target system based on the application models that represent the behavior of the application set running on the system. The hardware and software components considered by system-level synthesis are hardware modules like IP cores and memory modules and software kernel functions, which are coarser grained compared to RTL or gate-level synthesis. The synthesis results of system-level tools are then passed to lower level synthesis tools for further refinement. Therefore, the robustness and effectiveness of system-level synthesis technology is crucial to the design of an MPSoC.

To facilitate a good system-level design, the system-level synthesis tools should consider major design issues at the early design stage. For modern chip designs, the major design issues include power consumption, and thermal and variation problems. Moreover, several emerging technologies and novel architecture have been proposed for MPSoC designs, such as the 3D die-stacking technology that is enabled by Through Silicon Vias (TSVs), and Single-ISA (Instruction Set Architecture) heterogeneous multi-core architecture. These emerging technologies also have their own design issues should be addressed during chip design. Therefore, in addition to performance and cost issues, these issues should also be addressed at early design stage by the system-level synthesis tools to achieve a good whole system design.

System-level synthesis tools usually implement one or more of the following synthesis steps, resource allocation, resource binding or application mapping, and scheduling. Resource allocation decides which hardware modules, e.g. processing elements (PEs) and memory modules, should be allocated in the target system. Resource binding performs the mapping between tasks/data and processing/memory modules. A task indicates a kernel function of the application running in the system. When multiple tasks or data accesses may compete for the same resource, scheduling is performed to prioritize the tasks or data accesses executed on the resource. The aforementioned design issues can be considered alone with any of the synthesis steps.

Therefore, the purpose of this Special Section in IEEE Access is to call for papers related to research in novel system-level synthesis tool designs concerning issues related to emerging technologies and design issues.

 

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Associate Editor: Sun-Yuan Hsieh, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

Guest Editors:
1. Sudip Roy, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), India
2. Jen-Wei Hsieh, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
3. Jishen Zhao, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
4. Ing-Chao Lin, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
5. Da-Wei Chang, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
6. Pi-Cheng Hsiu, Research Center for Information Technology Innovation (CITI), Taiwan

 

IEEE Access Editor-in-Chief: Michael Pecht, Professor and Director, CALCE, University of Maryland

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