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New paper accepted in IEEE Internet of Things journal

Congratulations to our colleague Leila Ben Saad for another successful acceptance of her latest paper in IEEE Internet of Things journal.

L. Ben Saad, B. Beferull-Lozano, “Accurate Graph Filtering in Random Wireless Networks”, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol. 7, pp.11431 – 11445, 2020.

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WISENET Centre & Mechatronics Centres lead NFR Frontier Project DEEPCOBOT

The WISENET Centre and Mechatronics Centre at UiA have joined forces in a new multidisciplinary frontier research project that combines Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. They have received NOK 16 million (total budget 20 NOK million) from the Research Council of Norway to develop the next-generation artificial intelligence for industrial collaborative robots. The project is called Collective Efficient Deep Learning and Networked Control for Multiple Collaborative Robot Systems (DEEPCOBOT). The project period for DEEPCOBOT is from 2020 to 2025. The plan is for the project to have three PhD candidates and one postdoctoral fellow.

News published at UiA web site here

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Two papers accepted at IEEE SPAWC 2019

These are the papers accepted at IEEE SPAWC 2019:

Mohamed Elnourani, Baltasar Beferull-Lozano, Daniel Romero, Siddharth Deshmukh,  "Reliable Underlay Device-to-Device Communications on Multiple Channels", IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), 2019.

Leila Ben Saad, Baltasar Beferull-Lozano, "Graph Filtering of Time-Varying Signals over Asymmetric Wireless Sensor Networks", IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), 2019.

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Our paper "TOPOLOGY DESIGN TO REDUCE ENERGY CONSUMPTION OF DISTRIBUTED GRAPH FILTERING IN WSN" has been accepted at IEEE GlobalSIP 2017

The authors: Leila Ben Saad, Cesar Asensio-Marco and Baltasar Beferull-Lozano

The large number of nodes forming current sensor networks has made essential to introduce distributed mechanisms in many traditional applications. In the emerging field of graph signal processing, the distributed mechanism of information potentials constitutes a distributed graph filtering process that can be used to solve many different problems. An important limitation of this algorithm is that it is inherently iterative, which implies that the nodes incur in a repeated communication cost along the exchange periods of the filtering process. Since the sensor nodes are battery powered and radio communications are energy demanding operations, in this work, we propose to redesign the network topology in order to reduce the total energy consumption of the filtering process. An accurate energy model is proposed and extensive numerical results are presented to show the efficiency of our methodology according to this energy model.

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Our paper "Topology Design to Increase Network Lifetime in WSN for Graph Filtering in Consensus Processes" has been accepted at EUSIPCO 2017

The authors: Leila Ben Saad, Thilina Weerasinghe and Baltasar Beferull-Lozano

Graph filters, which are considered as the workhorses of graph signal analysis in the emerging field of signal processing on graphs, are useful for many applications such as distributed estimation in wireless sensor networks. Many of these tasks are based on basic distributed operators such as consensus, which are carried out by sensor devices under limited energy supply. To cope with the energy constraints, this paper focuses on designing the network topology in order to maximize the network lifetime when applying graph filters. None of the existing works in the literature have studied such problem when graph filters are used. The problem is a complex combinatorial problem and in this work, we propose two efficient heuristic algorithms for solving it. We show by simulations that they provide good performance and increase significantly the network lifetime.

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