As healthcare is becoming increasingly digitally connected, the use of wearable technologies for self-monitoring of overall health and mental well-being has become ubiquitous, bringing new challenges related to the data transmission and processing. This ...

Emerging communication technologies, such as 5G and beyond, have introduced diverse requirements that demand high performance and energy efficiency at all levels. Furthermore, the real-time requirements of different services vary significantly — ...

Recent advancements in hardware and software systems have been driven by the deployment of emerging smart health and mobility applications. These developments have modernized the traditional approaches by replacing conventional computing systems ...

• A literature review on adaptive AxC techniques for Edge AI and IoT systems.
• A study on approximating autonomous driving, smart sensing, and positioning systems.
• A highlight of future research in adaptive AxC.

This special section is composed of substantially extended handpicked papers from the IEEE Nordic Circuits and Systems Conference (NorCAS) 2022 that took place in October 2022 in Oslo, Norway.

Parkinson’s disease is one of the most common neurodegenerative chronic diseases which can affect the patient’s quality of life by creating several motor and non-motor impairments. The freezing of gait is one such motor impairment which can cause the ...

As modern 5G systems are being deployed, researchers question whether they are sufficient for the oncoming decades of technological evolution. Growing numbers of interconnected intelligent devices put these networks under tremendous pressure, ...

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• A literature survey on approximable algorithms for B5G and 6G systems.
• An overview of problem formulations, algorithms, and KPIs used in the literature.
• An identification of open research directions for using AxC in B5G and 6G ...

Autonomous driving services depends on active sensing from modules such as camera, LiDAR, radar, and communication units. Traditionally, these modules process the sensed data on high-performance computing units inside the vehicle, which can deploy ...

With the miniaturization of electronics, receivers are getting more and more embedded into devices with harsh energy constraints. This process has led to new signal processing challenges due to the limited processing power on battery-operated devices and ...

Indoor positioning performed directly at the end-user device ensures reliability in case the network connection fails but is limited by the size of the Received Signal Strength (RSS) radio map necessary to match the measured array to the device's ...

With the increasing popularity of the Internet of Things and massive Machine Type Communication technologies, the number of connected devices is rising. However, although enabling valuable effects to our lives, bandwidth and latency constraints challenge ...

Direction of arrival (DOA) methods are found in many applications, and in the case of the Internet of Things (IoT), it is used for indoor localization. However, the implementation of DOA in IoT devices poses a real challenge, since they are ...

Despite the recent advances in semiconductor technology and energy-aware system design, the overall energy consumption of computing and communication systems is rapidly growing. On the one hand, the pervasiveness of these technologies everywhere in the ...

Rapid technology advancement, economic growth, and industrialization have paved the way for developing a new niche of small body-worn personal devices, gathered together under a wearable-technology title. The triggers stimulated by end-users interest ...

Networking devices such as switches and routers have traditionally had fixed functionality. They have the logic for the union of network protocols matching the application and market segment for which they have been designed. Possibility of ...

This book addresses Software-Defined Radio (SDR) baseband processing from the computer architecture point of view, providing a detailed exploration of different computing platforms by classifying different approaches, highlighting the common features ...

This paper presents an evaluation of a Heterogeneous Multicore Architecture (HMA) by implementing Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) receiver blocks as designs for the test of functionality. OFDM receiver consists of computationally ...

This paper presents an implementation of an Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) receiver using the high-level synthesis tool, from Xilinx called Software Defined System-on-Chip (SDSoC). The Zynq SoCs containing an ARM processor besides a ...

This paper presents an integrated self-aware computing model mitigating the power dissipation of a heterogeneous reconfigurable multicore architecture by dynamically scaling the operating frequency of each core. The power mitigation is achieved by ...

This paper presents a flexible timing synchronization scheme alongside the hardware implementation issues on an Altera Stratix-V Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) device. The core content of the synchronizer is based on Finite Impulse Response (FIR) ...