Intelligent Communications and Networking Systems

Dear Colleagues,

Intelligent Communications and networks are advancing and improving rapidly, underpinned by new artificial intelligence (AI) and learning algorithms, coupled with flexible adaptive communications techniques and virtualised networking technologies. New services are able to be deployed over the flexible network, with distributed edge computing capabilities supporting low latency applications not previously possible. These networks have the potential to underpin the future connected world, including machine-to-machine (M2M) communication, the Internet of things (IoT), remote automation, and wide area distributed environmental sensing. The intelligence is provided at multiple layers of the protocol stack, including network nodes on the service layer, switches in the core network, and lower layer communications equipment. Together, this provides greater levels of network optimisation, improved energy efficiencies, lower latencies, and a greater range of data link offerings. There is potential for the intelligent network to be more modular and secure, while allowing service providers to develop variations and new value-added services to their networks.

Original, high-quality contributions that have not been published before and are not currently under review by other journals or conferences are sought.

Potential topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Intelligent network architectures;
• AI-based wireless networking technologies;
• Machine learning (ML) for communications;
• Deep learning methods applied to communications networks;
• Software defined networking (SDN);
• Network function virtualization (NFV);
• Fog and edge computing in networks;
• Internet of things (IoT) communications;
• Machine-to-machine (M2M) communications;
• Sensor network communications;
• Underwater and underground networks;
• Satellite, aerial and UAV networks;
• Body area networks;
• Mesh and ad-hoc networks;
• Cognitive radio networks;
• Heterogeneous networks;
• Opportunistic wireless networks;
• Robust and regenerative networks;
• Delay tolerant networks;
• QoS provisioning;
• Intelligent resource allocation;
• Cooperative communications;
• Intelligent spectrum sensing, sharing and access;
• Licensed/unlicensed spectrum interoperability;
• Spectrum sensing, sharing, learning, and prediction;
• Self-configuration, interoperability and co-existence issues;
• Energy efficient networks;
• Energy balancing and management;
• Wireless power transfer and energy harvesting;
• Security and privacy;
• Attack prevention, mitigation, and defence;
• Pervasive and wearable computing and networking technologies;
• RFID and backscatter communications;
• Position localisation and navigation;
• Applications and services for intelligent communications and networks;

You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Sensors.

Prof. Dr. Iain Collings
Guest Editor

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