Smart Radio Environment: Better Building for Better Wireless Communications

Dear Colleagues,

B5G wireless communications technology is not only about signal transmission and coverage but also empowers the digital transformation of vertical industries and boosts productivity. Undoubtedly, wireless networks will be one of the indispensable infrastructures in future buildings, like gas, water and electricity. In order to cope with the rapidly growing demand for wireless traffic, future buildings need to proactively reserve favorable conditions for the deployment and upgrading of wireless networks.

The aim of this Special Issue is to promote the collaborative design of wireless communication systems/ antenna systems/metasurfaces and building layouts/materials for future smart buildings, since the interaction between electromagnetic waves and interior/exterior walls of buildings during radio propagation is inevitably affected by the inherent properties of building layouts and materials. We are going to promote the paradigm shift in actively adapting the specific building environments by configuring wireless communication systems/antenna systems/metasurfaces from passively overcoming the limitations brought by buildings themselves. We welcome the scholars from interdisciplinary subjects, such as communications, electromagnetics, flexible electronics, optics, materials, architectures and civil engineering, to collaborate on designing buildings that are more friendly and compatible with wireless communication.

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

• Building material properties
• Building layout properties
• Building integrated antennas
• Building wireless performance
• Electromagnetic wave-absorbing building materials
• Indoor/outdoor radio propagation
• Indoor/outdoor channel modeling and characterization
• Indoor/outdoor wireless communication network optimization
• Intelligent metasurface for indoor/outdoor applications
• E-MIMO systems in indoor/outdoor built environments
• Integrated sensing and communications in indoor/outdoor built environments
• Machine learning and artificial intelligence approaches for indoor/outdoor communications

Dr. Yixin Zhang
Dr. Andrés Alayón Glazunov
Dr. Yu Shao
Dr. Zhuowei Li
Guest Editors

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