5G and Beyond Mobile Wireless Communications Enabling Intelligent Mobility

Submission Deadline: 30 September 2019

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of 5G and Beyond Mobile Wireless Communications Enabling Intelligent Mobility.

Increasing urbanization is one major trend that shapes tomorrow’s society; by 2050 more than 85% of the developed world’s population will live in a comparatively small number of ever-growing cities. Within such cities and their commuter belts, reliable high-rate wireless communication will not only be required for (quasi-) static users, but also for hosts of people moving in public and private transportation networks. Yet, wireless connectivity is not restricted to people; frictionless functioning of such a society in motion is supported by Intelligent Mobility where each connected transportation vehicle (car, train, bus, ship, aircraft, motorcycle, bicycle) is expected to be a smart object equipped with a powerful multi-sensor platform, communication capability, computing units, and Internet protocol (IP)-based connectivity, such as to be highly efficient in various vehicular and transportation applications. This vision requires a more pervasive and ubiquitous communications and networking core, which will not be only driven by the existing research on 5G, but also enabled by future mobile wireless communications which employ new concepts, such as data analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, cloud-computing, etc. Therefore, this Special Section in IEEE Access focuses on various theoretical and experimental views on researching and developing the required technological enhancements of 5G and beyond mobile wireless communications to efficiently support the vision of intelligent mobility, providing mobility as a service and enabling dependable Internet services.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Propagation and channel measurement and modeling for connected cars, trains, ships, and aircrafts, especially at new frequency bands
  • Integrated space-air-vehicle-ground networks
  • Integration of artificial intelligence and machine learning into new wireless systems solutions and applications for intelligent mobility
  • Data analytics for intelligent transportation systems
  • Cloud- and edge based high-performance computing techniques for mobile networks
  • MIMO and Massive MIMO for intelligent transportation systems
  • Radio technologies for high mobility transportation systems
  • Physical layer techniques for connected vehicles, public transportation control and signaling
  • Wireless technologies for automated and connected vehicles
  • Millimeter wave, sub-millimeter wave, and THz communications enabling intelligent mobility
  • Heterogeneous networks and distributed antenna systems
  • Novel physical layer waveforms and modulation schemes

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Associate Editor:  Ke Guan, Beijing Jiaotong University, China

Guest Editors:

  1. Markus Rupp, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
  2. Thomas Kürner, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
  3. Cesar Briso, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain
  4. David W. Matolak, University of South Carolina, USA
  5. Jun-ichi Takada, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
  6. Wei Wang, Chang’an University, China

 

Relevant IEEE Access Special Sections:

  1. Advances in Statistical Channel Modeling for Future Wireless Communications Networks
  2. Millimeter-wave and Terahertz Propagation, Channel Modeling and Applications
  3. Network Resource Management in Flying Ad Hoc Networks: Challenges, Potentials, Future Applications, and Wayforward


IEEE Access Editor-in-Chief:  Prof. Derek Abbott, University of Adelaide

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Millimeter-Wave Communications: New Research Trends and Challenges

Submission Deadline: 30 September 2019

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Millimeter-Wave Communications: New Research Trends and Challenges.

With various applications emerging, e.g., virtual reality, artificial intelligence, ultra-high definition video, Internet of things, and mobile Internet, there is an urgent demand to increase the bandwidth of wireless networks. To meet the bandwidth requirement of new and emerging applications, it is necessary to move from the existing microwave bands toward higher frequency, i.e., the millimeter wave (mmWave) band. In the last decade, the unlicensed spectrum around 60 GHz has been applied to wireless local area network (WLAN), exploring the indoor use of mmWave communications. Recently, mmWave communication has been proposed as one of the key technologies for 5G cellular networks to fulfill the demand of ultra-high data rates. Satellite communications and high-altitude unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications also tend to exploit the mmWave band (Ka band) to increase the transmission capacity.

Both industry and academia have developed key technologies of mmWave communications, and have made significant progress, e.g., in beamforming design, channel estimation, and capacity evaluation. However,  there are new emerging areas where mmWave communications also play a crucial role, with key challenges demanding substantial research; for instance, mmWave communications with non-orthogonal multiple access (mmWave-NOMA) to accommodate the rapidly increasing number of users; full-duplex mmWave communications for relay and backhaul to double link throughput; mmWave UAV communications for both low-altitude and high-altitude UAVs; mmWave communications for 5G vehicle-to-everything (V2X), etc. The key challenges on the design of these new mmWave communication technologies include multi-user interference mitigation in mmWave-NOMA, self-interference cancellation in full-duplex mmWave communications, fast beam tracking in mmWave UAV communications, and the security and multiple access issues in mmWave communications, among others.

This Special Section in IEEE Access focuses on new trends and challenges for mmWave communications. The aim of this Special Section is to share and discuss recent advances and future trends of mmWave communications, and to bring academic researchers and industry developers together.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • MmWave communication for 5G/B5G/6G
  • Beamforming, precoding, channel estimation, etc., for mmWave communication
  • Beamforming, power allocation, user pairing techniques and joint designs for mmWave-NOMA
  • Performance evaluation and system design for mmWave-NOMA
  • Beamforming and self-interference cancellation for mmWave full-duplex communications
  • Performance analysis and system design for mmWave full-duplex communications
  • UAV deployment, beamforming, beam tracking techniques and joint designs for mmWave UAV communications
  • Mobility management and blockage issues in mmWave UAV communications
  • Very high date rate and very long distance mmWave data links
  • Security and Privacy in mmWave communications

 

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Associate Editor:  Zhenyu Xiao, Beihang University, China

Guest Editors:

  1. Jinho Choi, Deakin University, Australia
  2. Ning Zhang, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, USA
  3. Jianhua He, Aston University, UK
  4. Lin Bai, Beihang University, China
  5. Qinyu Zhang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

 

Relevant IEEE Access Special Sections:

  1. New Waveform Design and Air-Interface for Future Heterogeneous Network towards 5G
  2. Green Signal Processing for Wireless Communications and Networking
  3. D2D Communications: Security Issues and Resource Allocation


IEEE Access Editor-in-Chief:  Derek Abbott, Professor, University of Adelaide

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Mobile Edge Computing and Mobile Cloud Computing: Addressing Heterogeneity and Energy Issues of Compute and Network Resources

Submission Deadline: 30 July 2019

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Mobile Edge Computing and Mobile Cloud Computing: Addressing Heterogeneity and Energy Issues of Compute and Network Resources.

Mobile applications are advancing towards higher network and computation requirements which are similar to the requirements of server applications. Users prefer to perform their tasks on mobile devices instead of stationary desktop and server systems. Modern mobile applications are limited by the battery since high processing and data demands drain the batter quickly. Other resources are also limited in mobile devices such as Memory, CPU time, etc.). Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is a paradigm that facilitates resource-scarce mobile devices to enhance their capabilities and execute data/computation-intensive applications while collaborating with resource-rich network servers to enable ubiquitous computing. Mobile Cloud Computing also provides more resources for applications that have low response requirements (non-interactive applications). Both mobile edge computing and mobile cloud computing are enabling paradigms for Internet of Things (IoT), smart grids, and e-health applications.

Smartphone applications rely on offloading techniques to leverage high-performance computing opportunities available on edge and cloud servers. Two main research challenges arise due to the heterogeneity of network and compute resources. Computation resources are unable to execute offloading and collaborative tasks without consideration of heterogeneity. The heterogeneity of computer resources can be in the form of architecture (ARM, Intel), processing power, and network capabilities. To address these issues, solutions based on application and system virtualization need to be proposed. In addition, the network heterogeneity results in varying radio capabilities for the end devices. Network access and collaboration algorithms need to consider this heterogeneity for optimal performance of applications executing on end devices. Moreover, energy is a persistent issue for most of the computing applications. Energy optimization techniques in mobile edge and mobile cloud computing can help mobile devices function longer without draining the users’ batteries.

 

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Energy efficient edge computing
  • Heterogeneous resource management in edge networks
  • Smart caching
  • Edge content placement and delivery
  • D2D communication for content delivery
  • Edge content popularity prediction
  • Multi-platform computation frameworks
  • Collaborative caching

 

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Associate Editor:  Muhammad Khurram Khan, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia

Guest Editors:

  1. Junaid Shuja, Comsats University Islamabad, Pakistan
  2. Yaser Jararweh, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan
  3. Guanding Yu, Zhejiang University, China
  4. Mohsen Guizani, University of Idaho, USA
  5. Christos Verikoukis, Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain
  6. Raja Wasim Ahmad, Comsats University Islamabad, Pakistan

 

Relevant IEEE Access Special Sections:

  1. Towards Service-Centric Internet of Things (IoT): From Modeling to Practice
  2. Collaboration for Internet of Things
  3. Mobile Edge Computing


IEEE Access Editor-in-Chief:  Derek Abbott, Professor, University of Adelaide

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For inquiries regarding this Special Section, please contact: mkhurram@KSU.EDU.SA.

Information Centric Wireless Networking with Edge Computing for 5G and IoT

Submission Deadline:  15 March 2020

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Information Centric Wireless Networking with Edge Computing for 5G and IoT.

The advent of the Internet of Things (IoTs) and Fifth Generation (5G) high-speed communication networks is expected not only to make it necessary to rapidly increase the number of communication nodes and generate large amounts of data, but also to change the nature of the network to a more dynamic environment. However, the present network structure and operation method have various problems to be solved in order to cope with the aforementioned changes. Some issues, for example, are Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)-based and end-to-end-based centralized and rigid network structure, the lack and allocation difficulties of IP addresses, increasing network traffic forwarding massive data to the cloud at remote locations for high capacity data processing, increasing delays in receiving effective analytic results from the remote cloud server, etc.

To address these issues, Information Centric Networking (ICN) technology is proposed to replace the current TCP/IP structure and present a flexible network structure in the IoT environment. Edge Computing technology is proposed to provide low-delay services by processing large amounts of data quickly in short proximity. Well-known related projects are Content Centric Networking (CCN) and Named Data Networking (NDN). While ICN has actively been studied, ICN for wireless networks has not been studied much. In addition, since ICN and Edge Computing have common functionalities such as caching, the two technologies may need to be co-located, and cooperate with each other. Integrating the technologies has not extensively been studied, and even less so for wireless environments.

Therefore, in this Special Section in IEEE Access, we invite researchers and experts to contribute original research articles as well as review articles about the research topics related to Information Centric Wireless Networking (ICWN). It adopts ICN technology for efficient and seamless wireless networks and Information Centric Wireless Edge Networking (ICWEN) technology, which integrates ICWN and EDGE computing technologies for the high reliability and low delay communication networks required by 5G LTE.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Architecture and protocols for adopting ICN technologies to distributed and centralized wireless networks
  • Network-wide architecture and node architecture for ICWN and ICWEN
  • Naming schemes for ICWN and ICWEN
  • Applications for ICWN and ICWEN
  • Caching schemes for ICWN and ICWEN
  • Performance evaluations in regard to: ICN vs. ICWN, ICN with Edge vs. ICN without Edge
  • Reliability, QoS support, Sustainability, Mobility support, Energy efficiency, Securities of ICWN and ICWEN
  • Interoperability of ICWN and ICWEN with other heterogeneous networks
  • Theoretical and experimental performance evaluations of ICWN and ICWEN
  • Analytic models for the behavior of ICWN and ICWEN, especially for scalability properties
  • Test-Bed implementation and measurement using CCNx, CCN-Lite, NDN
  • ICWN and ICWEN with IoT, 5G LTE, and Autonomous Driving, etc.

 

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Associate Editor: Byung-Seo Kim, Hongik University, Korea

Guest Editors:

  1. Chi Zhang, University of Science and Technology of China, China
  2. Yuanxiong Guo, Oklahoma State University, USA
  3. Muhammad Khalil Afzal, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan
  4. Balazs Sonkoly, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), Hungary

 

Relevant IEEE Access Special Sections:

  1. Fog Radio Access Networks (F-RANs) for 5G: Recent Advances and Future Trends
  2. Sustainable Infrastructures, Protocols, and Research Challenges for Fog Computing
  3. Smart Caching, Communications, Computing and Cybersecurity for Information-Centric Internet of Things


IEEE Access Editor-in-Chief: Michael Pecht, Professor and Director, CALCE, University of Maryland

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For inquiries regarding this Special Section, please contact: jsnbs@hongik.ac.kr.

Advances in Signal Processing for Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access

Submission Deadline: 31 May 2019

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Advances in Signal Processing for Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access.

Driven by the continuous growth in the number of mobile devices and rapid development of the Internet-of-Things (IoT), the fifth generation (5G) wireless communication networks anticipate an explosive demand for massive connectivity over limited radio resources. Towards this direction, researchers are motivated to develop new transmission technologies for maximizing the achievable throughput. Among various solutions, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has been envisioned as a prospective technology to enlarge the number of connections, increase the spectral efficiency, and balance the user fairness. Owing to its promising features, NOMA has been recently deployed in 3GPP Long Term Evolution Advanced (LTE-A) and recognized as a breakthrough technology for 5G wireless networks in both industry and academia.

From the first generation (1G) to the fourth generation (4G), cellular communications have deployed orthogonal multiple access (OMA) technologies to mitigate multiple access interference and enjoy low-complexity signal processing, in which the communication resources allocated to different users are orthogonal in at least one radio resource dimension (e.g., frequency, time, code, etc.). As a result, the number of active users allowed access to the OMA system is strictly limited by the number of available orthogonal resources, which becomes less useful for supporting massive connectivity and achieving user fairness. In contrast to OMA, NOMA simultaneously accommodates a multitude of users with the same radio resource via superposition signaling and employs various transmit or receive signal processing techniques to mitigate the interference. Specifically, by introducing a controllable interference and an acceptable signal processing complexity, NOMA is beneficial to enlarge the number of connections and support high overloading transmission. However, the success of NOMA technologies relies critically on the implementation of advanced signal processing techniques for transceivers, which may introduce large processing delays and increase computation complexity. Thanks to the recent progress of hardware and theory in signal processing and machine learning, large signal processing complexity becomes affordable and processing latency can be significantly reduced, which promote the rapid development of NOMA. Therefore, sophisticated signal processing algorithms for multi-user detection, scheduling, and interference management are indispensable for the successful implementation of NOMA in next-generation wireless systems.

As a novel multiple access technology, NOMA is a promising candidate to achieve high spectral efficiency and massive connectivity for future wireless communications. However, there are still many signal processing problems remaining to be solved to unlock the potential of NOMA technologies for later phases of 5G. This Special Section in IEEE Access aims to capture the state-of-the-art advances in NOMA particularly from the perspective of signal processing and foster new avenues for research in this area.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Novel signal detection and transceiver design for NOMA
  • Emerging applications of NOMA in 5G, IoT, V2X, and UAV
  • Cooperative signal processing for NOMA
  • Resource allocation and schedule in NOMA networks
  • Adaptive signal processing algorithms for NOMA
  • Energy efficiency optimization for NOMA systems
  • Grant-free NOMA system design
  • Advanced channel coding and modulation schemes for NOMA
  • Security provisioning in NOMA
  • Multiple antenna signal processing techniques for NOMA
  • Pilot design and channel estimation for NOMA
  • NOMA assisted wireless caching and mobile edge computing
  • Machine learning for NOMA
  • NOMA in wireless powered communications

 

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Associate Editor: Miaowen Wen, South China University of Technology, China

Guest Editors:

  1. Zhiguo Ding, University of Manchester, UK
  2. Ertugrul Basar, Koc University, Turkey
  3. Yuanwei Liu, Queen Mary University of London, UK
  4. Fuhui Zhou, Nanchang University, China
  5. Ioannis Krikidis, Cyprus University, Cyprus
  6. Mojtaba Vaezi, Villanova University, USA
  7. Vincent Poor, Princeton University, USA

 

Relevant IEEE Access Special Sections:

  1. New Waveform Design and Air-Interface for Future Heterogeneous Network towards 5G
  2. D2D Communications: Security Issues and Resource Allocation
  3. Wireless Caching Technique for 5G


IEEE Access Editor-in-Chief: Michael Pecht, Professor and Director, CALCE, University of Maryland

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For inquiries regarding this Special Section, please contact: eemwwen@scut.edu.cn.

Advances in Statistical Channel Modeling for Future Wireless Communications Networks

Submission Deadline: 30 June 2019

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Advances in Statistical Channel Modeling for Future Wireless Communications Networks.

Wireless communication technology, including both radio and optical frequencies, has become an important aspect of modern life. The accurate depiction of wireless signals is paramount. Statistical channel modeling is of great importance, as accurate characterization of the propagation channel is essential for different applications like system design and performance analysis.

Recently, various types of new wireless communication systems have emerged, such as device-to-device, millimeter wave, and massive multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) systems. However, traditional and well-established fading models, such as Rayleigh, Rician, and Nakagami-m, may not accurately model the random fluctuations of the received signal. There is a strong, credible body of evidence, suggesting that the complex electromagnetic propagation phenomena involved in new wireless communications should be taken into account by general and unifying, physically based channel models. Researchers have been making great efforts to propose appropriate channel models and readers of IEEE Access have keen interest in the research advances in this fundamental and important area.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Backscatter communications
  • Collocated, distributed and cell-free massive MIMO communications
  • Millimeter wave communications
  • Device-to-device communications
  • Satellite communications
  • UAV communications
  • Underwater and marine communications
  • Vehicular communications
  • Visible light/free-space optical communications
  • High-speed mobility scenarios
  • Wireless body area networks
  • Internet of Things in smart factories
  • Physical layer security of wireless communications

 

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Associate Editor:  Daniel Benevides da Costa, Federal University of Ceará, Brazil

Guest Editors:

  1. Jiayi Zhang, Beijing Jiaotong University, China
  2. George K. Karagiannidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
  3. Kostas P. Peppas, University of Peloponnese, Greece
  4. Michail Matthaiou, Queen’s University of Belfast, UK
  5. Octavia A. Dobre, Memorial University, Canada

 

Relevant IEEE Access Special Sections:

  1. Big Data Analytics in Internet-of-Things And Cyber-Physical System
  2. Optical Wireless Technologies for 5G Communications and Beyond
  3. Modelling, Analysis, and Design of 5G Ultra-Dense Networks


IEEE Access Editor-in-Chief: Michael Pecht, Professor and Director, CALCE, University of Maryland

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For inquiries regarding this Special Section, please contact: danielbcosta@ieee.org

Millimeter-wave and Terahertz Propagation, Channel Modeling and Applications

Submission Deadline: 31 October 2019

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Millimeter-wave and Terahertz Propagation, Channel Modeling and Applications.

The demand for ever-increasing wireless data-transmission rates and throughput area-densities is common to several wireless services and application areas, from ultra-dense cellular networks to internet access, wireless networks on-chip, back-hauling, device-to-device communications and sensing techniques. This need is fostering the exploration of new spectrum in the millimeter-wave (30 to 300 GHz) and Terahertz (0.1 to 10 THz) bands and the study of techniques for multi-Gigabit transmission based on very high-gain antennas or using massive antenna arrays (massive-MIMO, i.e. massive Multiple Input Multiple Output systems).

Besides the greater spectrum availability, mm-wave and THz communications can benefit from the small wavelength, which allows for the design of compact, massive antenna arrays with very narrow beams and therefore of powerful beamforming techniques (pencil-beamforming) that yield optimum spectrum spatial re-use and consistently high signal to interference ratio.

Beamforming is likely to be of great interest for far-field Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) techniques, recently proposed to energize small, battery-less devices and sensors and foster the development of the Internet of Things (IoT). For example, small, low-cost passive tags could be attached to products in a warehouse and high gain mm-wave beam-scanning antenna arrays could be used to localize them and at the same time to acquire sensing information about them. Furthermore, the use of multiple bands in the mm-wave and Terahertz frequency ranges will allow the implementation of very high-accuracy sensing and localization techniques. This will enable a variety of applications, with special regard to security enforcing and vehicular systems, such as the detection and/or localization of drones or the accurate localization of vehicles in urban environment using multi-static cooperative radar techniques for safety and traffic control.

To fully exploit the potential of mm-wave and THz spectrum a deep understanding of the propagation channel will be required, including aspects such as materials’ electromagnetic properties, blockage and scattering due to people, vehicles, drones, as well as multidimensional, multi-frequency channel characterization.  Moreover, multi-disciplinary studies on link components such as antennas, devices, pointing systems, etc., will be necessary, especially for the development of reliable THz communications systems.

The goal of this Special Section in IEEE Access is to provide insight into the peculiar characteristics of electromagnetic propagation at millimeter wave and THz frequencies, to investigate and compare different channel modeling approaches, application scenarios, system architectures, information and power transmission techniques as well as novel localization and sensing solutions that the use of such frequency bands will foster.

 

The topics of interests include, but are not limited to:

  • Millimeter and Terahertz Wave Propagation
  • Millimeter and Sub-Millimeter Wave Measurements
  • Scattering and Blockage from Humans and Objects
  • Diffuse Scattering Modeling
  • Ray Tracing Propagation Modeling
  • Empirical / Statistical Propagation Modeling
  • Material Characterization at mm-wave and THz Frequencies
  • Mm-wave and THz Channel Modeling
  • Vehicular Communications
  • Railway Communications
  • Air-to-Ground Communications
  • 5G and Beyond Mobile Communications
  • Radar Techniques for Safety and Traffic Control
  • Mm-wave and THz Remote Sensing and Imaging Techniques
  • High Accuracy Localization Techniques
  • Localization and Mapping Techniques
  • Inter- and Intra-chip Wireless Networks
  • Device-to-Device and Rack-to-Rack Communications
  • Gigabit and Terabit Wireless Links for Back-Hauling and High-Speed Access
  • Mm-wave and Terahertz Transmission Techniques and System Architectures
  • Massive MIMO Communications Techniques
  • Analog and Digital Beamforming Techniques
  • Multi-user Beamforming and Space Division techniques
  • Internet of Things
  • Mm-wave RFID techniques
  • Far-field Wireless Power Transmission
  • Wireless Power Focusing techniques and Frequency Diverse Arrays
  • Mm-wave and THz Antennas, Rectennas and Devices
  • Submillimeter Wave Technology

 

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Associate Editor: Vittorio Degli-Esposti and Franco Fuschini, University of Bologna, Italy

Guest Editors:

  1. Henry L. Bertoni, NYU School of Engineering, New York, USA
  2. Reiner Thomä, Technische Hochschule Ilmenau, Germany
  3. Thomas Kürner, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
  4. Xuefeng Yin, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
  5. Ke Guan, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China

 

Relevant IEEE Access Special Sections:

  1. Roadmap to 5G: Rising to the Challenge
  2. Multi-Function RF Components for Current and Future 5G Wireless Communications
  3. Modelling, Analysis, and Design of 5G Ultra-Dense Networks


IEEE Access Editor-in-Chief: Michael Pecht, Professor and Director, CALCE, University of Maryland

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Artificial Intelligence for Physical-Layer Wireless Communications

Submission Deadline: 31 December 2019

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Artificial Intelligence for Physical-Layer Wireless Communications.

Artificial Intelligence (AI), including Deep Learning (DL) and deep reinforcement learning (DRL) approaches, well known from computer science (CS) disciplines, are beginning to emerge in wireless communications. These AI approaches were first widely applied to the upper layers of wireless communication systems for various purposes, such as routing establishment/optimization, and deployment of cognitive radio and communication network. These system models and algorithms designed with DL technology greatly improve the performance of communication systems based on traditional methods.

New features of future communications, such as complex scenarios with unknown channel models, high speed and accurate processing requirements, make traditional methods no longer suitable,  and provides many more potential applications of DL. DL technology has become a new hotspot in the research of physical-layer wireless communications and challenges conventional communication theories. Currently, DL-based ‘black-box’ methods show promising performance improvements but have certain limitations, such as the lack of solid analytical tools and the use of architectures specifically designed for communication and implementation research. With the development of DL technology, in addition to the traditional neural network-based data-driven model, the model-driven deep network model and the DRL model (i.e. DQN) which combined DL with reinforcement learning, are more suitable for dealing with future complex communication systems. As in most cases of wireless resource allocation, there are no definite samples to train the model, hence DRL, which trains the model by maximizing the reward associated with different actions, can be adopted.

This Special Section in IEEE Access focuses on the application of DL/DRL methods to physical-layer wireless communications to make future communications more intelligent. We  invite submissions of high-quality original technical and survey articles, which have not been published previously, on DL/DRL techniques and their applications for wireless communication and signal processing.

The topics of interests include, but are not limited to:

  • DL/DRL based 5G wireless technologies
  • DL/DRL based beamforming in mmWave massive MIMO
  • DL/DRL based hybrid precoding in massive MIMO system, mmWave system
  • DL/DRL based non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) techniques
  • DL/DRL based MIMO-NOMA frameworks
  • DL/DRL based sparse channel estimation
  • DL/DRL based communication frameworks
  • DL/DRL based multiuser detection
  • DL/DRL based modulation and coding
  • DL/DRL based direction-of-arrival estimation
  • DL/DRL based channel modeling
  • DL/DRL based signal classification
  • DL/DRL based unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) techniques
  • DL/DRL based energy-efficient network operations
  • DL/DRL based ultra-dense cell communication
  • DL/DRL based testbeds and experimental evaluations

 

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Associate Editor:  Guan Gui, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

Guest Editors:

  1. Tomohiko Taniguchi, Fujitsu Laboratories Limited, Japan
  2. Haris Gacanin, Nokia Bell Labs, Belgium
  3. Ning Zhang, Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi, USA
  4. Yue Cao, Northumbria University, UK
  5. Kezhi Wang, Northumbria University, UK

 

Relevant IEEE Access Special Sections:

  1. AI-Driven Big Data Processing: Theory, Methodology, and Applications
  2. Applications of Big Data in Social Sciences
  3. Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Computing for Communications and Networks


IEEE Access Editor-in-Chief: Michael Pecht, Professor and Director, CALCE, University of Maryland

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Roadmap to 5G: Rising to the Challenge

Submission Deadline: 28 April 2019

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Roadmap to 5G: Rising to the Challenge.

5G technology is crucial for building a modern information society (in Europe it is called a gigabit society). This is a society in which a citizen uses real-time interactive e-government services and advanced e-health diagnostics surrounded by Internet of Things services or participates in mass cultural events through high-quality digital media. It is expected that 5G will also increase revenue from mobile business applications by providing them a seamless, reliable communication service without the need for physical application installation on terminal equipment.

The horizon for the forthcoming network is 2020-2025 in several countries, and different strategies are being proposed by governments and enterprises in order to eliminate barriers, integrate solutions and start installation of required hardware. We can say that 5G is almost there, at least as far as research is concerned. However, there are many different inherent issues related to the development of the infrastructure. Among them, economic issues appear due to the conflict of interests between operators and citizenship (to operators, investment is only advantageous in dense hotspots). In addition, health problems may arise by high radiation of electromagnetic fields in cumulative 5G networks. Other issues are concerned with bandwidth access and sharing since the current bandwidth is not enough for the expected massive use of the mobile infrastructure. At last, implementation barriers appear where end-to-end communications with multiple radio and wired standards are concerned.

Some of these problems require political actions (regulations), others require business plans which may ensure revenues for required high investments. All the challenges may be faced by the introduction of technological solutions, which should make the implementation of 5G easier and smoother. This Special Section in IEEE Access aims at presenting the roadmap for the implementation of 5G network through the presentation of any challenges and the proposition of solutions in order to provide smooth research-to-market actions. This Special Section is not limited to research issues even if research challenges are included, but goes beyond by providing a vision of all aspects engaged in the 5G development roadmap. Therefore, we expect reports of experience and new technical insights/ideas presenting 5G deployment challenges, as well as potential solutions from all the stakeholders including operators, hardware vendors, the academic community and administration holders.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Benefits of 5G in the society: smart factories, smart cities, smart transport
  • Present initiatives of 5G implementations and global use cases showing 5G development
  • Standardization and interwork of standards
  • Current limitations and necessary regulations
  • Legal aspects related with the use of the new infrastructure (e.g., multi-operator scenarios)
  • New technological solutions for improving implementation
  • Existing best practices opening the road to deployment in local markets
  • Innovative business plans for 5G exploitation
  • Motivation actions for 5G development. Assimilation of global plans
  • Novel measurements for clarifying requirements for the forthcoming network

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Associate Editor:  Kostas E. Psannis, University of Macedonia, Greece

Guest Editors:

  1. Muhammad Imran, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
  2. Wael Guibene, Amazon Lab126, USA
  3. Tomohiko Taniguchi, Fujitsu Laboratories Limited, Japan
  4. Jaime Ruiz Alonso, Nokia Inc., Spain

 

Relevant IEEE Access Special Sections:

  1. Modelling, Analysis, and Design of 5G Ultra-Dense Networks
  2. Emerging Technologies for Device to Device Communications
  3. Emerging Technologies for Vehicle to Everything (V2X)


IEEE Access Editor-in-Chief: Michael Pecht, Professor and Director, CALCE, University of Maryland

Paper submission: Contact Associate Editor and submit manuscript to:
http://ieee.atyponrex.com/journal/ieee-access

For inquiries regarding this Special Section, please contact:  kpsannis@uom.gr

D2D Communications: Security Issues and Resource Allocation

Submission Deadline: 28 February 2019

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of D2D Communications: Security Issues and Resource Allocation.

Device-to-device (D2D) communications will enable direct communications between devices in cellular networks, thus potentially improving the spectrum utilization, enhancing the overall throughput, and increasing energy efficiency. D2D communication has the potential to enable new peer-to-peer and location-based applications and services, as well as to help offload traffic from the congested traditional cellular networks.

The primary issue with respect to D2D communications, is its sharing of spectrum resources with traditional cellular and other communication networks. D2D systems should be able to use the same spectral resources occupied by traditional communication devices in an opportunistic manner, in order to facilitate the needed point-to-point connectivity. To solve the spectrum scarcity issues involving D2D and traditional communication systems, the research community has resorted to the Cognitive Radio (CR) and Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) paradigms that devise new approaches for enabling spectrally efficient D2D communication networks. These new approaches have resulted in innovative network architectures and applications that have the potential to redefine the current state-of-the-art of wireless connectivity and to shape the next generation cellular communications (e.g., 5G and Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) / Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) communications). The proliferation of D2D communications implies also special security measures, as the involved devices are susceptible to eavesdropping, interference, jamming, and other types of attacks.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • D2D communications for 5G networks
  • Cognitive Radio and Dynamic Spectrum Sharing for D2D deployment in TVWS
  • Spectrum regulation and management aspects for D2D networks
  • Energy and spectral efficiency
  • Software Defined Networks (SDN) and Software Defined Radio (SDR) for D2D communications
  • D2D standardization
  • Interference and power control
  • Radio resource allocation and scheduling
  • Biologically-inspired techniques for D2D spectrum management
  • Deep and reinforcement learning for D2D
  • D2D non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) frameworks
  • D2D for vehicular communications
  • Vehicle-to-anything (V2X) communications
  • IoT architectures for D2D
  • Social networking for D2D
  • D2D test-beds, prototypes, and implementations
  • Security and privacy for D2D communications

We also highly recommend the submission of multimedia with each article as it significantly increases the visibility, downloads, and citations of articles.

 

Associate Editor: Li Wang, Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications (BUPT), China

Guest Editors:

  1. Antonino Orsino, Ericsson Research, Finland
  2. Adrian Kliks, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
  3. Alexander M. Wyglinski, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
  4. Vlad Popescu, Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania
  5. Mauro Fadda, University of Cagliari, Italy

 

Relevant IEEE Access Special Sections:

  1. Emerging Technologies for Device to Device Communications
  2. Emerging Technologies for Vehicle to Everything (V2X)
  3. Radio Frequency Identification and Security Techniques


IEEE Access Editor-in-Chief: Michael Pecht, Professor and Director, CALCE, University of Maryland

Paper submission: Contact Associate Editor and submit manuscript to:
http://ieee.atyponrex.com/journal/ieee-access

For inquiries regarding this Special Section, please contact: liwang@bupt.edu.cn