Editorial on the Special Section on Algorithms, Circuits, and Systems for Signal Processing at the Edge

Technological trends alongside with the unprecedented growth of the data generated by devices sparsely distributed, most of them mobile devices, cannot be supported by traditional approaches and processing systems. The requirement for computations at the edge are very stringent in terms of security, bandwidth, computational speed, latency and power consumption. These computations typically require signal processing algorithms running on resource-constrained mobile devices, while to provide the core services and the required computational power, cloud servers are applied. Leveraging services of cloud by mobile devices result in high latency and communication network and mobility-related issues, which can be mitigated by cleverly moving some of these computation to the edge. This special Section is exactly focused on addressing challenges raised by moving computation to the edge in a holistic way, by examining not only challenges related to algorithmic consideration and computational requirements but also circuits and systems and hardware platforms suitable for such implementation. The special Section also considers the trade-offs related to power and energy consumption, bandwidth versus computational complexity and security.

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Published in: IEEE Open Journal of Circuits and Systems
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

See article on publisher's website: https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ojcas.2021.3129544