Theory, Algorithms, and Applications of Sparse Recovery

Submission Deadline: 31 December 2018

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Theory, Algorithms, and Applications of Sparse Recovery.

Sparse recovery is a fundamental problem in the fields of compressed sensing, signal de-noising, statistical model selection, and more. The key idea of sparse recovery lies in that a suitably high dimensional sparse signal can be inferred from very few linear observations. Recent years have witnessed a great development of the sparse recovery theory and fruitful applications in the general field of information processing, including communications channel estimation, dictionary leaning, data compression, optical imaging, machine learning etc. Extensions to the recovery of low-rank matrices and higher order tensors from incomplete linear information have also been developed, and remarkable achievements have been achieved.

This Special Section is devoted to both the current state-of-the-art advances and new theory, algorithms and applications of sparse recovery, with the goals to highlight new achievements and developments, and to feature outstanding open issues and promising new directions and extensions, on the theory, algorithms, and applications. Both survey papers and papers of original contributions that enhance the existing body of sparse recovery are also highly encouraged. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Fundamental limit of sparse recovery algorithms
  • Sparse recovery with phase-less sampling matrices
  • Trade-off between sparse recovery effectiveness and efficiency
  • Greedy methods for phase-less sparse recovery
  • Design and optimization for deterministic sampling matrices
  • Theory/algorithm/applications of sparse signal recovery
  • Theory/algorithm/applications of low-rank matrix recovery
  • Theory /algorithm/applications of tensor recovery
  • Efficient hardware implementation of sparse recovery algorithms
  • Sparse recovery for machine learning problems

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Associate Editor: Jinming Wen, University of Toronto, Canada

Guest Editors:

  1. Jian Wang, Fudan University, China
  2. Bo Li, Nuance Communication, Canada
  3. Xin Yuan, Nokia Bell Labs, USA
  4. Kezhi Li, Imperial College London, UK

 

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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: jinming.wen@mail.mcgill.ca

Molecular Communication Networks

Submission Deadline: 30 November 2018

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Molecular Communication Networks.

With an improved ability to manipulate matter at the nano and micro scales via synthetic biological and chemical techniques, there are now opportunities to address challenges ranging from disease diagnosis and treatment to environmental protection. A key framework to develop these tools is nano networking, where networks are built from nanoscale devices that are able to operate in nano to micrometer scale environments, and perform simple tasks such as sensing and actuation. However, the effectiveness of nano networking strongly depends on the ability for devices to coordinate.

Molecular communication has been proposed as a means of coordination in nano networks, where information is exchanged between devices via molecules emitted and absorbed by each device. The basic principles of molecular communication are based on mature aspects of physics, chemistry, biology as well as other areas including pharmacology, microfluidics and medicine. However, there remain a number of challenges in developing signal processing and communication techniques to encode and decode information, as well as develop practical implementations. A particular challenge is how to reliably embed molecular communication systems within existing biochemical systems, which is important for medical applications from the perspective of toxicity and undesirable side effects.

Authors are encouraged to submit articles presenting new research related to theory or practice of all aspects of molecular communications and networks. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Theoretical Modeling (e.g., channel modeling, transmitter and receiver device modeling)
  • Architectures, Protocols, Optimal Design (e.g., modulation design, channel parameter estimation, detection, inter-symbol interference mitigation)
  • Transmitter/Receiver Mechanisms & Components
  • Multi-scale and experimental analysis of Molecular Communication Networks
  • Simulation Tools (e.g., tools, models, and approaches for developing simulation packages for Molecular Communication Networks)
  • Interoperability between Molecular Communication Networks and other systems (e.g., Internet of Nano Things, Internet of Bio-Nano Things, Intra-body communication, Body Area Nano-networks)
  • Implementation techniques and for Molecular Communication Networks (e.g., exploiting Nanotechnology and Nanobioscience)
  • Power Sources and Energy efficiency models for Molecular Communication Networks
  • Security in Molecular Communication Networks
  • Potential Applications for Molecular Communication Networks

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Associate Editor: Daniel Benevides da Costa, Federal University of Ceará, Brazil

Guest Editors:

 

  1. Trung Q. Duong, Queen’s University, UK
  2. Chan-Byoung Chae, Yonsei University, South Korea
  3. Andrew Eckford, York University, Canada
  4. Malcolm Egan, INRIA and INSA Lyon, France
  5. Arumugam Nallanathan, Queen Mary University of London, UK
  6. Marco Di Renzo, Paris-Saclay University, France

 

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  1. Nano-antennas, Nano-transceivers, and Nano-networks / Communications
  2. Physical and Medium Access Control Layer Advances in 5G Wireless Networks
  3. Future Networks: Architectures, Protocols, and Applications

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

Paper submission: Contact Associate Editor and submit manuscript to:
http://ieee.atyponrex.com/journal/ieee-access

For inquiries regarding this Special Section, please contact: danielbcosta@ieee.org

Advances in Channel Coding for 5G and Beyond

Submission Deadline: 31 December 2018

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Advances in Channel Coding for 5G and Beyond.

In 1948, Shannon introduced the concept of channel capacity and proved the existence of error-correction codes (ECCs) that can realize reliable communication at any rate lower than the capacity. In the following 45 years, many researchers have endeavored to search for capacity-approaching ECCs, but obtained slow progress. Following the remarkable success of turbo codes in 1993, low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes were rediscovered. Since then, capacity-approaching ECCs have attracted more and more attention because it can significantly improve the performance of a myriad of communication systems, such as wireless communication systems, deep-space communication systems, optical communication systems, underwater acoustic communication systems, and data storage systems.

Compared with turbo codes, LDPC codes can achieve better performance and faster decoding. As such, LDPC codes have attracted growing interests in both academia and industry. Furthermore, many meritorious variants of LDPC codes, such as protograph LDPC codes and spatially coupled LDPC codes, were developed in the past decade.

In parallel with the advances in LDPC-based codes, some other capacity-approaching coding methodologies were conceived. In particular, as the first constructive codes achieving the capacity, Polar codes outperform LDPC codes in certain cases and represent an emerging class of ECCs for future wireless communications. Meanwhile, another powerful class of ECCs, called rateless codes (e.g., Luby transform (LT) codes and Raptor codes), was also extensively investigated. In practical applications, rateless codes are very suitable for scenarios where the channel state information (CSI) is unavailable at the transmitter terminal.

Recently, LDPC codes have been selected for the Enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB) data channels for 5G New Radio, while Polar codes have been chosen for the corresponding control channel. Beyond any doubt, LDPC codes, Polar codes, and their variants will find more deployment in many other applications and will be included in other new standards in the future. Nevertheless, the design of such codes for the next-generation wireless communication systems is still in its infancy. There are a range of open issues waiting to be addressed.

This Special Section in IEEE Access will focus on the theoretical and practical design issues of ECCs for 5G and beyond. 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. Both comprehensive surveys and original technical contributions are welcome.

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

  • LDPC codes
  • Polar codes
  • Rateless codes and their variants
  • Development trends and challenges for turbo codes
  • LDPC convolutional codes and spatially-coupled (SC) LDPC codes
  • Protograph codes and their variants
  • Algebraic constructions of low-density graph codes
  • Codes on factor graphs
  • Density evolution (DE) and extrinsic-information-transfer (EXIT) chart techniques
  • Minimum distance or weight distribution analysis for capacity-approaching codes
  • Finite-length analytical methodologies
  • Iterative decoding and turbo-like detection algorithms
  • Low-complexity LDPC/Polar codes and their hardware implementations
  • Channel coded modulations
  • Channel coding for non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)
  • Low-density graph codes for source coding
  • Low-density graph codes for compressed sensing (CS)
  • Joint source-and-channel coding (JSCC)
  • Joint channel-and-physical-layer-network coding (JCPNC)
  • Coded random access
  • Applications of ECCs to physical-layer security

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Associate Editor: Yi Fang, Guangdong University of Technology, China

Guest Editors:

 

  1. Lars Kildehøj Rasmussen, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
  2. Yong Liang Guan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  3. Kai Niu, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
  4. Francis C. M. Lau, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
  5. Soon Xin Ng, University of Southampton, UK
  6. Pingping Chen, Fuzhou University, China

 

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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: fangyi@gdut.edu.cn

Recent Computational Methods in Knowledge Engineering and Intelligence Computation

Submission Deadline: 15 December 2017

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Recent Computational Methods in Knowledge Engineering and Intelligence Computation.

The computational methods in the field of knowledge engineering and intelligence computation have been developed and broadened over the years. Knowledge engineering serves as a transfer to process knowledge source to the expert system, which involves all scientific and social aspects. Especially, featured by its multidisciplinary, knowledge engineering fuses theories and methods from expert systems, information systems, artificial intelligence, etc. Additionally, intelligence computation research has become a vital part in the research of various fields like mathematics, physics, aerospace, biochemistry, stock-market, electronic devices and other domains. Recently, Knowledge-based Computing organizes an emerging area of intensive research located at the intersection of intelligence computation and knowledge engineering. It includes computational methods coming from different computational paradigms, such as evolutionary computation and nature-inspired algorithms, logic programming and constraint programming, fuzzy sets and many others. With this perspective, this Special Section in IEEE Access has been put together to bring the cutting-edge research in all aspects of knowledge engineering and intelligence computation including experimental and theoretical research, applied techniques and real-world applications to the entire society to promote research, sharing, and development.

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

  • Computational intelligence in cloud based computing
  • Computational Methods in knowledge engineering
  • Evolutionary Computation
  • Hybrid Learning, Machine Learning Applications
  • Deep learning and applications
  • Bioinformatics, and computational biology
  • Heuristic optimization techniques
  • Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods
  • Knowledge acquisition and discovery techniques

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Associate Editor: Xiangtao Li, Northeast Normal University, China

Guest Editors:

  1. Zhiqiang Ma, Northeast Normal University, China
  2. Yanmei Hu, Chengdu University of Technology, China
  3. Jian Zhang, Xinyang Normal University, China
  4. Dong Xu, University of Missouri, USA
  5. William Guo, Central Queensland University, Australia
  6. Handing Wang, University of Surrey, UK

 

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  1. Big Data Analytics in Internet-of-Things and Cyber-Physical System
  2. Complex System Health Management Based on Condition Monitoring and Test Data
  3. Advanced Data Analytics for Large-scale Complex Data Environments

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

Paper submission: Contact Associate Editor and submit manuscript to:
http://ieee.atyponrex.com/journal/ieee-access

For inquiries regarding this Special Section, please contact: lixt314@nenu.edu.cn

Underwater Wireless Communications and Networking

Submission Deadline: 15 December 2017

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Underwater Wireless Communications and Networking.

Underwater wireless communications play an important role in marine activities such as environmental monitoring, underwater exploration, and scientific data collection. Underwater wireless communications still remain quite challenging, due to the unique and harsh conditions that characterize underwater channels. These conditions include for example severe attenuation, multipath dispersion, and limited resource utilization. Nonetheless advanced communication techniques using acoustic, electromagnetic and/or optical waves have emerged to tackle fundamental and practical challenges of underwater wireless communications. Recently, many academic and industrial researchers have paid attention to the development of state-of-the-art solutions for future underwater wireless communications and networks. This Special Section will enlighten and guide the potential research communities about the recent progress in the area of underwater wireless communications, and will encourage some of the leading research communities to present the state-of-the-art contributions and future research directions.

Authors are encouraged to submit original work presenting new research topics on underwater wireless communications and networking from the theoretical and practical point of views. Here, underwater wireless communication systems refer to general communication systems utilized or taken into consideration under water including, but not limited to, acoustic, radio-frequency, and optical wireless communications. Special attention will be given to articles reporting new results and insights along the following principal technical areas:

  • Underwater channel characterization, statistical modeling and estimation
  • Underwater wireless communications: Fundamental limits and theories
  • Transceiver design: Modulation, coding and detection techniques
  • Underwater wireless networking protocols and cross-layer design

This Special Section in IEEE Access will also solicit top-quality papers focusing on the applied technical areas. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Advanced signal processing techniques for underwater wireless communications
  • MIMO and diversity systems in underwater communications
  • Multi-carrier systems in underwater communications
  • Cooperative communications in underwater
  • Hybrid and multi-modal underwater communications
  • Optimization and game-theoretic techniques for underwater wireless communications
  • Underwater wireless sensor networks
  • Energy harvesting for underwater sensor networks
  • Real-time data transmission under water
  • Underwater localization, positioning, and tracking in underwater
  • Mobile underwater communications and network
  • Applications of underwater wireless communications
  • Devices and systems for underwater wireless communications
  • Demonstration of field trials, experiments, and test-beds

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Associate Editor: Muhammad Ali Imran, University of Glasgow, UK

Guest Editors:

  1. Ki-Hong Park, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
  2. Paolo Casari, IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain
  3. Fraser Dalgleish, Florida Atlantic University, USA
  4. Hovannes Kulhandjian, California State University, Fresno, USA
  5. Ali Abdi, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
  6. Huifang Chen, Zhejiang University, China

 

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

Paper submission: Contact Associate Editor and submit manuscript to:
http://ieee.atyponrex.com/journal/ieee-access

For inquiries regarding this Special Section, please contact: Bora M. Onat, Managing Editor, IEEE Access (Phone: (732) 562-6036, specialsections@ieee.org)