New! The deadline for special sessions submissions is extended to May 27 2022. Submissions are to be sent through the standard SiPS submission system.

Special session on “Cybersecurity & Signal Processing Systems”

Session chair: Christian Pilato (POLIMI)

This special session welcomes original publications on the following subjects:

  • Hardened SiPS: design methods and/or architectures to provide hardware support that enhances security & privacy of the systems,
  • SiPS for cybersecurity: signal processing systems that explore the attack surface of systems.

Submissions to the special session shall follow the regular submission process of IEEE SiPS 2022 in either the journal track or the conference track.

Special session on “Signal processing systems for space and astronomy applications”

Session chairs:

Signal processing systems for space and astronomy applications have to face several challenges to process an increasing amount of data. Real-time computing for adaptive optics or for the SKA radio telescope are two flag bearers of these challenges. The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Project is the largest mega‐science project of the next decades. SKA aims to build the world’s largest and most powerful radio telescope, and thus to address fundamental science questions about the universe. Two sites in South Africa and Australia have been chosen to build the telescopes in two phases. A data volume of 62 Exabytes a year in South Africa and 4.9 Zettabytes a year in Australia will be produced and processed during the first phase, rising up by another order of magnitude in the second phase. The huge computing requirements must also meet energy consumption requirements, as the telescopes will be built at remote sites, and the energy will be produced in place. Researchers in both academia and industry must deal with this series of challenges. The strong demand for high-performance, low-power, easy to maintain systems, as well as low cost, are the main drivers when selecting the technology to be used throughout the signal and data processing pipelines. Several technologies like FPGA, DSP, CPU or GPU are currently being evaluated, using the latest generation of algorithms in radio astronomy, to design and size the final computing system. This special session aims to bring together worldwide state-of-the-art research on the optimization of radio astronomy and adaptive optics algorithms and on specific hardware from both academia and industry. Participants are invited to submit papers on their latest achievements and contributions in any of the topics mentioned below:

  • Evaluation of algorithms
  • FPGA, DSP, CPU and GPU implementations
  • Simulation for the testing and validation of computing architectures
  • Design-space exploration case-studies and tools
  • Survey articles, e.g., trends in architectures for future developments

Submissions to the special session shall follow the regular submission process of IEEE SiPS 2022 in either the journal track or the conference track.

Special session on “Reconfigurable Architectures for Signal Processing”

Session chair: Diana Goehringer

This special session welcomes original publications on novel forms of system reconfiguration for processing signals.

Submissions to the special session shall follow the regular submission process of IEEE SiPS 2022 in either the journal track or the conference track.