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CALL FOR PAPERS

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing

Special Issue on Cooperative Signal Processing for Heterogeneous and Multi-Task
Wireless Sensor Networks
Aims and Scope
Portable devices usually operate on their own to solve a single or multiple signal processing tasks in a non-cooperative fashion. To
achieve superior performance without a dedicated and power-hungry central device, distributed and cooperative processing
techniques over wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have received a lot of attention. However, traditional WSNs typically assume
an homogeneous setting, in which the cooperation is limited to homogeneous devices that observe the same phenomenon and
that are interested in solving a single network-wide signal processing task.
Due to the heterogeneity of the devices, which may belong to the so-called Internet-of-Things in today's digital age, there is
a growing interest in system configurations that overcome the limitations of traditional WSNs. Toward this goal, these systems,
referred to as heterogeneous and multi-task WSNs, generalize the homogeneous WSNs to settings, in which randomly located
heterogeneous devices cooperate with each other although they observe different but overlapping phenomena, and are interested
in solving different but related signal processing tasks. Since the cooperation takes place among devices that generate a large
volume of data and that may have different observation models and targeted tasks, the algorithm design needs to address different
new challenges of big data analytics to allow for a superior performance as compared to the case where the devices would operate
on their own, or where they would exchange raw sensor data in an uncontrolled fashion. In particular, besides keeping minimal
communication bandwidth and transmit power when solving the multiple tasks simultaneously, the new challenges require a novel
theoretical framework for distributed detection, classification, estimation, coding and topology inference when the devices can have
different goals (e.g., the estimation of signals with partially overlapping latent subspaces or detection of different but overlapping
sets of events) and modes of operation (e.g., different sampling rates, image resolution). Moreover, as the devices may be selfish
and/or malicious, new operating principles need to be designed in order to encourage cooperation and avoid selfish/malicious
behavior.
This special issue covers the signal processing theory, modeling, algorithms, and implementation aspects related to heterogeneous
multi-tasks WSNs and their use in various applications.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
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Ad-hoc heterogeneous and multi-task wireless sensor networks (and applications thereof)
Adaptive distributed learning over multi-task networks
Multi-task decentralized and distributed optimization
Big data analytics over distributed multi-task networks
Multi-task distributed detection and labeling
Distributed multi-task parameter and signal estimation
Audio/speech or image processing over distributed multi-task networks
Distributed localization and tracking over multi-task networks
Distributed topology inference and control
Cooperative communications over heterogeneous networks
Game-theoretical tools for trust management and cooperation stimulation over multi-task networks

Important Dates:

- Manuscript submission due: June 1, 2016
- First review completed: August 15, 2016
- Revised manuscript due: October 1, 2016

- Second review completed: December 1, 2016
- Final manuscript due: January 1, 2017
- P ublication date: April 2017

Prospective authors should visit http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/publications/periodicals/jstsp/ for information on paper
submission. Manuscripts should be submitted using the Manuscript Central system at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jstsp-ieee.
Lead Guest Editor:
Abdelhak M. Zoubir, Technische Universit¨at Darmstadt, Germany, zoubir@spg.tu-darmstadt.de
Guest Editors:
Daniel P. Palomar, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, palomar@ust.hk
Jorge Plata-Chaves, KU Leuven, Belgium, jplata@esat.kuleuven.be
Alejandro Ribeiro, University of Pennsylvania, USA, aribeiro@seas.upenn.edu
Anna Scaglione, Arizona State University, USA, Anna.Scaglione@asu.edu

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