Emerging Trends of Energy and Spectrum Harvesting Technologies

Submission Deadline: 31 December 2020

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Emerging Trends of Energy and Spectrum Harvesting Technologies.

Billions of low-end wireless devices, such as sensors, are permeating into almost every aspect of personal life, such as in vehicles, washing machines, air conditioners, etc.  These  miniaturized and low-end devices are a promising solution to collect information and assist users for interaction with real-world objects. Frost & Sullivan reported that the global market of miniaturized devices is forecast to increase from 1.4 billion to 3.26 billion from 2014 to 2024. Unfortunately, the performance of miniaturized devices, which generally operate with limited battery  power and transmit data over an unlicensed spectrum, is highly deteriorated due to the resource scarcity issues in terms of energy and spectrum. The energy scarcity issue limits the longevity of devices, and requires the operator to manually replace the depleted battery, which results in considerable maintenance costs. Even with sufficient energy supply, data transmission of devices conflicts with other networks that coexist in the unlicensed spectrum band, which creates the spectrum scarcity issue. To alleviate these energy and spectrum scarcity issues, numerous energy and spectrum harvesting technologies emerge, such as mini solar panel, piezoelectric transducers, and cognitive radio. By embedding these modules, the devices can harvest energy from the ambient energy sources and explore the idle licensed spectrum for data transmission, leading to energy and spectrum harvesting-enabled devices.

The ESH technologies have received much attention from the industry. Numerous commercial products have emerged on the global market, such as self-powered miniaturized devices produced by EnOcean, battery-free Bluetooth tags by Wiliot, and PolarFusion digital radio architecture for extreme low power by Innophase.

However, issues remain in the application of the ESH-enabled devices. First, empowering devices with ESH capabilities increases the manufacturing cost. How can one design cost-efficient, ESH-enabled, embedded architecture with promising performance? Second, considering that both the spectrum sensing and data transmission consume energy, the management of energy and spectrum resource both impact the system performance, which makes resource allocation challenging in ESH-enabled devices. Third, the energy harvesting process and activities of primary users, who own the licensed spectrum, exhibit high dynamics over time. How can one customize the communication protocol to adapt to such high dynamics and guarantee the delivery ratio?

To address these issues, this Special Section solicits original research and practical contributions in ESH technologies. We would like to provide a chance to share ideas and solutions for the enabling techniques which empower the devices with ESH capability. We also highly welcome submissions related to the joint management of energy and spectrum resources.

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

  • Architecture design for ESH-enabled systems
  • Data-driven modeling of energy and spectrum harvesting processes
  • Communication protocol design for ESH-enabled networks
  • Hardware design and prototyping of ESH-enabled systems
  • Key scenarios/applications for ESH-enabled IoT devices
  • Convergence of energy and spectrum harvesting
  • Security, privacy, and trust in ESH-enabled systems
  • Reliable data delivery in ESH-enabled systems
  • Simulation platforms for ESH-enabled   systems

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Associate Editor:  Guangjie Han, Hohai University, China

Guest Editors:

    1. Deyu Zhang, Central South University, China
    2. Ning Zhang, Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi, USA
    3. Song Guo, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
    4. Geyong Min, University of Exeter, United Kingdom
    5. Shengrong Bu, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
    6. Kanke Gao, Magna International Inc, USA

 

Relevant IEEE Access Special Sections:

  1. Energy Harvesting and Scavenging: Technologies, Algorithms, and Communication Protocols
  2. Intelligent and Cognitive Techniques for Internet of Things
  3. Energy Efficient Wireless Communications with Energy Harvesting and Wireless Power Transfer


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

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Wide Area Surveillance

Submission Deadline: 15 June 2019

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Wide Area Surveillance.

Wide area surveillance (WAS) has many applications, from monitoring forests to oceans, coastal security to illegal fishing, terrorism to transportation management, vessel management in harbors to surface monitoring in narrow waterways, etc. The term “wide area” may be a few square kilometers up to several hundred nautical miles in range, and 100-120 degrees in azimuth. Wide area surveillance covers both hard-target detection (e.g., ships, aircrafts) and environmental monitoring, namely currents, waves, and tsunamis (echoes from the sea). Many countries with coastal regions have studied multi-sensor WAS systems for several decades, among them the USA, Canada, France, Turkey, Australia, China and Germany have made note-worthy progress.

WAS systems deal with problems related to almost every aspect of engineering, from electromagnetics to circuits and networks, and from system engineering to multi-physics. A few examples include sensors and sensor integration; electromagnetics/acoustics/ocean wave dynamics, radiowave propagation, radar systems, radar cross section, systems and system integration, antenna systems, digital beamforming and beam steering, etc.

This Special Section in IEEE Access focuses on all the above-mentioned aspects of WAS systems. It will include reviews and surveys, as well as original and new research articles.

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

  • Sensors and Surveillance Systems
  • High Frequency Surface Wave Radars (HFSWR) or Over-the-Horizon Radars (OTHR)
  • Maritime Integrated Surveillance Systems
  • Vessel Management in Harbors and Narrow Waterways
  • Electromagnetics / Acoustics / Ocean wave dynamics
  • WAS Modeling and Simulation
  • Tracking and Fusion
  • Antenna Arrays and Beam forming/steering
  • Electromagnetic Scattering, Propagation and Diffraction
  • System Maintenance and Reliability

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Associate Editor: Mehmet Alper Uslu, Netaş, Turkey

Guest Editors:

  1. Levent Sevgi, Istanbul Okan University, Turkey
  2. Tony Ponsford, Raytheon, Canada
  3. Stuart Anderson, University of Adelaide, Australia

 

Relevant IEEE Access Special Sections:

  1. Mission Critical Sensors and Sensor Networks
  2. Advanced Sensor Technologies on Water Monitoring and Modeling
  3. Emerging Trends, Issues and Challenges in Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks


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

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Emerging Trends, Issues and Challenges in Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks

Submission Deadline: 31 July 2019

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Emerging Trends, Issues and Challenges in Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks.

Saline water covers approximately 360,000,000 km2, or about 71% of the Earth’s surface, and 90% of the Earth’s biosphere. The ocean contains 97% of Earth’s water, and oceanographers have stated that less than 5% of the World Ocean has been explored. The total volume is approximately 1.35 billion cubic kilometers with an average depth of nearly 3,700 meters. Our ocean and coasts provide jobs for millions of people in coastal communities across the world. Ocean industries such as commercial and recreational fisheries, tourism and recreation, and marine transportation generate billions of dollars every year. We must protect the ocean’s long-term health, not only for the habitat and marine life that depend on it, but for the humans that have relied on its resources for generations. All of this requires maintaining a healthy ocean ecosystem, even as human demands and stress to the ocean are increasing. It is more important than ever to understand how the ocean interacts with various offshore applications. To this end, Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks (UASNs) play an important role for the ocean’s protection. However, ocean monitoring and research are not an easy task, since the ocean is big and most of the underwater environment is still unknown to us. In addition, due to the high pressure in deep water, it is not suitable for people to work a under water for long periods of time.

Therefore, our Special Section in IEEE Access is about emerging trends, issues and challenges in UASNs. we provide a chance for researchers to share ideas, problems and solutions for UASNs. We also welcome  submissions related to the security and reliability topics for UASNs. Typically, UASN is a hot research topic, though it has not been explored much in IEEE Access Special Sections, until now.

 

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

  • Acoustic channel modeling
  • Data collection and processing
  • Communication architecture for UASNs
  • Ad-hoc network using autonomous underwater vehicles
  • MAC protocol design for UASNs
  • Reliable data delivery protocols for UASNs
  • Time sensitive data delivery protocols for UASNs
  • Topology control and routing for UASNs
  • Underwater localization techniques
  • Congestion control protocols for UASNs
  • Secure communication in UASNs
  • Simulation models for UASNs
  • Future technologies using acoustic sensors for UASNs

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Associate Editor:  Guangjie Han, Dalian University of Technology, China

Guest Editors:

  1. Muhammad Imran, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
  2. Danda B. Rawat, Howard University, USA
  3. Sammy Chan, City University of Hong Kong, , China
  4. Fatos Xhafa, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

 

Relevant IEEE Access Special Sections:

  1. Advanced Sensor Technologies on Water Monitoring and Modeling
  2. Ambient Intelligence Environments with Wireless Sensor Networks from the Point of View of Big Data and Smart & Sustainable Cities
  3. Microwave (X- and S-band) Marine Radars for Ocean Sensing


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

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Advanced Sensor Technologies on Water Monitoring and Modeling

Submission Deadline: 30 July 2019

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Advanced Sensor Technologies on Water Monitoring and Modeling.

Developing new methods and technologies for water pollution control, water resources management, and restoration of watershed ecosystems are critical for securing water security and sustainable development. The biophysicochemical parameters in an aqueous system, such as flow, hydraulic heads, temperature, pH, conductivity, turbidity, microorganisms, solutes concentration, etc., are of great significance in water research. Traditional methods for aqueous environmental monitoring and modeling are heavily dependent on instant point-in-space measurements, laboratory analysis, and physical and computing infrastructure. However, these methods are not only of high cost, but also are unable to timely provide many of the required spatiotemporal features. Thus, there is a clear need for continuous on-line monitoring water quality and hydrologic conditions using advanced sensors technologies across spatiotemporal resolutions.

The rapid expansion of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, cloud computing and big data promote unprecedented advances in signal processing and information system. Such advances support the development of sensing technologies, as well as software-defined networks, which allow effective monitoring and modeling for water issues. Sensing and control systems that are suitable for the effective monitoring of biophysicochemical parameters, as well as for detecting concentrations of interest in solutes, are crucial to investigate water health and chemical evolutions, and also to timely implement prevention and management strategies.

The purpose of this Special Section in IEEE Access is to solicit manuscripts on the emerging trends, issues, and challenges in smart sensing for aqueous environment monitoring and modeling. Practical studies describing techniques or information system for real-time and in-situ recording of biophysicochemical parameters in an aqueous environment are encouraged. Letters, reports, and reviews with a multidisciplinary focus are also welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Advanced sensing technologies in aqueous environments
  • Low cost, portable optical sensing technologies for water monitoring
  • Design, simulation and implementation of sensor systems for water leakage monitoring
  • Water quality sensing in Water Distribution System (WDS)
  • Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) for water resource management and control
  • Web-based system analysis and modeling in urban water systems
  • Smartphone-based mobile water monitoring and heterogeneous sensor network
  • Transportation and environmental pollution analysis on water quality
  • Real-time flood forecasting and warning systems
  • Novel monitoring system for municipal water pipes
  • Remote Hydrologic Sensor Networks in the context of citizen science
  • Underwater acoustic signaling and interactive visualizing technologies
  • Real-time, on-site and in-situ monitoring in water and marine environments
  • Robotic and autonomous hydraulic information monitoring infrastructures
  • Experimental network measurements and characterization for aqueous monitoring
  • Water data processing pipelines and data product generation
  • Water data life-cycle management and end-to-end systems
  • Data quality assurance and quality control for observational water data
  • Innovation in water and healthy environments research
  • Adaptive measurements collection, acquisition, management, and visualization
  • Sustainable water management and cost-benefit analysis
  • Security issues and solutions for privacy in an aqueous environment

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Associate Editor: Xiang Huang, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China

Guest Editors:

  1. Jie Liu, Peking University, China
  2. Eftichios Koutroulis, Technical University of Crete, Greece
  3. Branko Kerkez, University of Michigan, USA
  4. Gilberto Pastorello, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
  5. Nick R. Harris, University of Southampton, UK.

 

Relevant IEEE Access Special Sections:

  1. Underwater Wireless Communications and Networking
  2. Multiphase Flow Measurement: Techniques and Applications
  3. Convergence of Sensor Networks, Cloud Computing, and Big Data in Industrial Internet of Things

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

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Novel Learning Applications and Services for Smart Campus

Submission Deadline: 1 July 2018

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Novel Learning Applications and Services for Smart Campus.

In the past few years, the explosive growth in knowledge makes the role of education which spreads knowledge become increasingly important. Meanwhile, the education model is going through a transformation in which the learning of various students (e.g., students without disabilities, students with disabilities, students who are physically in classrooms, students who are geographically remote, students who learn quickly, students who learn slowly) needs to be performed in different ways. All these induce the smart campus, which implements education by incorporating various information and communication technologies in order to actively learn from and adapt to the needs of various students. Specifically, with smart campus, there are a lot of novel learning applications and services. One classic example is that the learning quality of students can be improved, via continuously monitoring and analyzing the status and activities of various students with information sensing devices (e.g., sensors) and information processing platforms (e.g., cloud computing platforms) to offer real-time learning feedback to various students.

Nevertheless, there are many challenges to be addressed for enabling such novel learning applications and services for smart campus. For instance, the accuracy in terms of sensing the status and activities of various students should be high. The data transmission between the information sensing devices and the information processing platforms should be secure. The learning feedback should be sent to various students quickly. The overall smart campus system should be energy efficient. Therefore, this Special Section in IEEE Access aims to advance the novel learning applications and services for smart campus, by soliciting the technical articles with solid contributions which face the challenges to achieve the novel learning applications and services for smart campus. Survey articles are also considered.

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

  • Architectures and systems for smart campus
  • Standardization, policy, and regulation for smart campus
  • Integration of various sensor technologies for smart campus
  • Sensing for smart campus
  • Reliable and robust communication for smart campus
  • Computing for smart campus
  • Data processing and analysis for smart campus
  • Energy consumption for smart campus
  • Security for smart campus
  • Quality of experience and quality of service for smart campus
  • Outlook on applications and services for smart campus

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Associate Editor: Lei Shu, Nanjing Agricultural University, China & University of Lincoln, UK

Guest Editors:

  1. Han-Chieh Chao, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan
  2. Jason Yi-Bing Lin, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
  3. Odej Kao, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
  4. Chunsheng Zhu, The University of British Columbia, Canada
  5. Zumin Wang, Dalian University, China

 

Relevant IEEE Access Special Sections:

  1. The New Era of Smart Cities: Sensors, Communication Technologies and Applications
  2. Intelligent Systems for the Internet of Things
  3. Key Technologies for Smart Factory of Industry 4.0

 

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

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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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Ambient Intelligence Environments with Wireless Sensor Networks from the Point of View of Big Data and Smart & Sustainable Cities

Submission Deadline: 30 April 2018

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Ambient Intelligence Environments with Wireless Sensor Networks from the Point of View of Big Data and Smart & Sustainable Cities.

This Special Section in IEEE Access was conceived during the organization of the 11th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence UCAmI 2017, (IWAAL & AmI HEALTH included) held in Villanova University, Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, USA) from November 7th to 10th, 2017.

Ambient Intelligence Environments are an exciting topic of research, which span a wide number of research and application domains among them the smart city concept. In the underlying of smart cities, big data applications are developed that support smart components to reach the required level of sustainability and improve the living standards by means of wireless sensor networks.

This Special Section in IEEE Access aims to provide a forum for the dissemination of research based on Ambient Intelligence Environments, paying attention to Big Data and Smart & Sustainable Cities by wireless sensor networks. In this context, this Special Section is an open call to industrial and academic researchers to illustrate pursue a representative collection of recent advancements within ambient intelligence environments focus on Big Data and Smart & Sustainable Cities by wireless sensor networks that present new research contributions on theories, models and algorithms, and applications.

 

Associate Editor: Macarena Espinilla, University of Jaén, Spain

Guest Editors:

  1. Javier Medina, University of Jaén, Spain
  2. José Gabriel Urzaiz Lares, Anahuac Mayab University, México
  3. Pritpal Singh, Villanova University, USA

 

Relevant IEEE Access Special Sections:

  1. Convergence of Sensor Networks, Cloud Computing, and Big Data in Industrial Internet of Things
  2. The New Era of Smart Cities: Sensors, Communication Technologies and Applications
  3. Advances of Multisensory Services and Technologies for Healthcare in Smart Cities

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: mestevez@ujaen.es

Microwave (X- and S-band) Marine Radars for Ocean Sensing

Submission Deadline: 30 September 2018

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Microwave (X- and S-band) Marine Radars for Ocean Sensing.

Non-coherent X-band (8-12 GHz) and S-band (2-4 GHz) marine radars have been used to aid the navigation of ships and monitor the traffic in coastal approaches for decades. These traditional marine radar (MR) applications treat the radar return from the sea surface, or sea clutter, as a noise that must be suppressed. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in X- and S-band MR ocean sensing. Non-coherent MRs have been shown to yield accurate surface wave frequency-direction spectra, maps of the sea surface elevation, the near-surface current, and the bathymetry, as well as surface wind information, among other products, under a broad range of environmental conditions. Meanwhile, MR technology is currently undergoing a transition towards a fully coherent solid state architecture. In MR ocean sensing, coherent on-receive magnetron-based systems are finding broader use. It has been shown to yield accurate significant wave heights Hs, doing away with the calibration step that is needed to retrieve Hs from non-coherent systems, and is being used to improve our understanding of grazing incidence radar scattering mechanisms. What is more, digital signal processing is becoming more commonplace in off-the-shelf commercial MRs, potentially broadening the scope of oceanographic applications.

MR ocean sensing is now being used by academia, government, and industry, e.g., for studying air–sea interaction processes, monitoring oil spills, or supporting offshore platform operations. This Special Section in IEEE Access provides a forum for MR scientists all over the world to present recent advances in the field. These advances in ocean sensing are critical to the sustainable exploration and management of the diverse coastal and off-shore resources worldwide. Authors are encouraged to submit original work related to microwave (X- and S-band) marine radar. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Surface waves
  • Upper ocean currents
  • Coastal bathymetry
  • Internal waves
  • Sea ice
  • Sea surface roughness and winds
  • Surfactants
  • Rain effect
  • Marine birds and mammals
  • Small vessels
  • Radar scattering and imaging mechanisms

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Associate Editor: Weimin Huang, Memorial University, Canada

Guest Editors:

  1. Björn Lund, University of Miami, USA
  2. Jochen Horstmann, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Germany

 

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

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GNSS, Localization, and Navigation Technologies

Submission Deadline: 28 February 2018

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of GNSS, Localization, and Navigation Technologies.

Position and time have become two of the most vital information for the convenience, security, and safety of our daily lives and have been the core enabler of innovative advancements in many science and engineering fields. Since the Global Positioning System (GPS) became available to the public, GPS has been applied not only to terrestrial, maritime and air navigation systems but also to diverse areas in our everyday life such as geodesy, agriculture, mining, construction, remote sensing, cellular communications, finance, power transmission, and in the recent years, location-based services (LBS) in smartphones and Internet of Things (IoT) applications. However, the legacy GPS has been only successful in the outdoor and open-sky applications, and the new demand for positioning and navigation in indoor and urban street environments has been growing strong and rapidly.

A number of countries are carrying out their own plan to build advanced satellite-based navigation systems, which together with GPS and its future evolutions, they are generally referred to as Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). GNSS will provide a number of new wideband signals with encoded and encrypted data at multiple frequencies for the enhancement of accuracy, robustness, and signal availability in the GPS-denied environments such as dense urban streets and indoor and in the presence of cyber-attacks.

On the other hand, there have been research activities around the world to develop indoor positioning and navigation technologies in diverse directions. One conventional approach is to use radio signals from wireless infrastructure such as WiFi, UWB, and LTE (i.e., cellular signals), and the other is to utilize non-radio signal measurements such as camera-vision, in-building magnetic anomaly, and inertial measurements.

This Special Section in IEEE Access aims to share new ideas, latest findings, and results with researchers, academics, and experts working on the research and development of positioning and navigation technologies. The related topics of interest to GNSS, localization, and navigation technologies include, but are not limited to:

  • Algorithms, signal processing techniques, and performance analysis
  • New design of signals, devices, and systems
  • Sensor fusion and hybridization techniques
  • Cooperative and robust techniques
  • Privacy, authentication, and security improving techniques
  • Experiments and performance evaluation
  • Applications to autonomous vehicles, intelligent transportation systems
  • Innovative techniques and approaches for IoT, cloud processing, and big data

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Associate Editor: Seung-Hyun Kong, KAIST, South Korea

Guest Editors:

  1. José A. López-Salcedo, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
  2. Yuanxin Wu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
  3. Euiho Kim, Hong-Ik University, South Korea

 

Relevant IEEE Access Special Sections:

  1. Intelligent Systems for the Internet of Things
  2. Convergence of Sensor Networks, Cloud Computing, and Big Data in Industrial Internet of Things
  3. The New Era of Smart Cities: Sensors, Communication Technologies and Applications

 

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: skong@kaist.ac.kr