Applications of Time-Frequency Signal Processing in Wireless Communications and Bioengineering

Call for Papers

Time-frequency signal processing is a well-established area with applications ranging from bioengineering and wireless communications to earthquake engineering and machine monitoring. Signals in these applications are typically nonstationary and as such require joint time-frequency analysis. The objective of this special issue is to bring together theoretical results and application of time-frequency methodologies from investigators in the wireless communications and bioengineering disciplines.

While novel theoretical results and applications of time-frequency signal processing in wireless communications and biomedical systems will be preferred, applications in other areas will also be considered. Likewise, this issue will emphasize methodologies related to Priestley's evolutionary spectrum and the fractional Fourier transform, but other methodologies will also be considered.

The intended focus of this issue will be on presenting time-frequency signal processing applications to wireless communications and biomedical systems using evolutionary spectral techniques and fractional Fourier transform.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Biomedical systems: EEG, ECG waveforms and heart sound, vibroartrographic signals emitted by human knee joints, EEG signals, and various other biomedical waveforms analyzed by time-frequency techniques
  • Wireless communications: time-frequency receivers, channel characterization, channel diversity, time-varying modulation schemes, and suppressing nonstationary interference as chirp jammers

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/asp/guidelines.html. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable:

Manuscript DueJanuary 1, 2010
First Round of ReviewsApril 1, 2010
Publication DateJuly 1, 2010

Lead Guest Editor

  • Luis F. Chaparro, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Guest Editors

  • Aydin Akan, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Syed Ismail Shah, Department of Computing and Technology, Iqra University, Islamabad, Pakistan
  • Lutfiye Durak, Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey