Dear Colleagues,

5G wireless technologies, together with IoT will foster the creation of large scale deployments of wireless sensor devices, leading to an unprecedented volume of unstructured data. The data gathered by these devices has little value in its raw state but creates a wealth of untapped source of data that can be used to analyse, improve and optimize several systems. This untapped source of data that can be explored by Machine Learning (ML) methods, which has become the de-facto tool to deal with massive datasets.

In order to further improve the state-of-the-art regarding the usage of ML with wireless sensor networks and IoT scenarios, numerous challenges need to be overcome. The lack of a unified data representation presents a challenge that breaks compatibility amongst the systems. Energy-efficient models are necessary for ML deployments close to the edge. Noise and gap resistant data analysis is a requirement for several scenarios. Data aggregation and dimensionality reduction is a necessary step to deal with the amount of data produced.

The Special Issue targets scientific contributions on the development, innovations, and implementations of ML applied to wireless sensor networks, deployed in real IoT scenarios. Topics include but are not limited to:

• ML in Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC)
• Orchestration of ML services in 5G/6G environments
• Distributed ML algorithms
• Methods to deal with unstructured data
• Uniformization/Normalization of sensor data
• Energy efficient ML models
• Noise and gap resistant data processing and modeling
• ML transversal application in WSN
• Testbed for ML evaluation for WSN or IoT

Dr. Diogo Gomes
Dr. Mario Antunes
Dr. Luis Miguel Contreras-Murillo
Guest Editors

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• machine learning
• deep learning
• IoT
• WSN