MIMO Antennas for 5G, 6G, and Beyond: Trends and Prospects
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Microwave and Wireless Communications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 November 2026 | Viewed by 233
Editors
Interests: electromagnetics; antenna design; engineering education; RF design
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue, “MIMO Antennas for 5G, 6G, and Beyond: Trends and Prospects”, aims to highlight recent advances, key challenges, and future directions in MIMO antenna technologies for next-generation wireless communication systems.
It focuses on the role of MIMO antennas in enabling high data rates, improved spectral efficiency, enhanced link reliability, massive connectivity, and intelligent wireless coverage across 5G, 6G, and beyond.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- MIMO antennas for 5G, 6G, and beyond;
- Compact, wideband, and multiband MIMO antenna designs;
- Massive MIMO, millimeter-wave, and terahertz antennas;
- Beamforming, reconfigurable, and intelligent MIMO antennas;
- Isolation enhancement, mutual coupling reduction, and diversity techniques;
- AI-assisted design and optimization of MIMO antennas;
- Metamaterial- and metasurface-based MIMO antennas;
- MIMO antennas for mobile, IoT, wearable, vehicular, UAV, and satellite applications;
- Fabrication, modeling, measurement, and experimental validation of MIMO antennas;
- Emerging trends, challenges, and future prospects in MIMO antenna technology.
Prof. Dr. Mohamed Morsy
Prof. Dr. Abdelnasser Eldek
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- MIMO antennas
- 5G/6G communications
- massive MIMO
- millimeter-wave antennas
- beamforming
- reconfigurable antennas
- antenna isolation
- IoT applications
- metamaterials
- wireless communications
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