Next-Generation MIMO Systems with Enhanced Communication and Sensing
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Microwave and Wireless Communications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 February 2026 | Viewed by 38
Special Issue Editors
Interests: holographic/massive MIMO; electromagnetic signal and information theory; quantum sensing and computing for next-generation wireless systems
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Interests: integrated sensing and communication (ISAC); reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)
Interests: wireless communication engineering; electromagnetic science; reconfigurable meta-surface; and orbital angular momentum (OAM) technologies; quantum sensing and computing devices
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Next-generation wireless networks, particularly 6G, will enable transformative communication, sensing, and imaging applications that require ultra-high data rates, extreme reliability, ultra-low latency, and seamless global coverage. Conventional communication technologies, such as massive MIMO, appear powerless to meet these demands in a green and continuous way, necessitating breakthroughs in next-generation MIMO (NG-MIMO) systems. At the forefront of this evolution, NG-MIMO systems represent a paradigm shift, combining cutting-edge antenna architectures, advanced signal/channel modeling, and intelligent signal processing and optimization. Unlike traditional MIMO designs, NG-MIMO has the potential to exploit new spatial degrees-of-freedom, inspire new theoretical frameworks, and facilitate interdisciplinary research. These promising benefits of NG-MIMO have the potential to bring significant advantages in enhancing communication and sensing capabilities for future wireless networks. However, realizing the full potential of NG-MIMO in practical communication scenarios is highly challenging and many important open problems remain unsolved.
This Special Issue invites pioneering research on NG-MIMO technologies. We welcome high-quality contributions on topics including, but not limited to, the following:
- Fundamental information-theoretic limits of NG-MIMO.
- Advanced communication/sensing theory, e.g., mathematically abstracted, electromagnetism inspired, and circuit theory-based theories and frameworks.
- New architectures for NG-MIMO, e.g., extremely large-scale/holographic/three-dimensional MIMO, movable/fluid antennas, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces.
- Channel modeling and measurement for NG-MIMO.
- Channel estimation, beamforming, resource management and allocation for NG-MIMO.
- Advanced/intelligent signal processing and optimization for NG-MIMO.
- Near-field, far-field, hybrid-field NG-MIMO communication, sensing, and localization.
- Millimeter wave and THz technologies for NG-MIMO.
- AI, metamaterial/metasurface, quantum for NG-MIMO.
- Applications of NG-MIMO to satellite/UAV/V2X/industrial/underwater networks.
- NG-MIMO for enhanced positioning, navigation, recognition, imaging, remote sensing.
- Integration of NG-MIMO with other technologies, e.g., ISAC, distributed/cell-free networks, optical communication, full-duplex, OTFS, cognitive radio, backscatter, SWIPT, etc.
- Security and privacy for NG-MIMO.
- Hardware and prototype for NG-MIMO.
Dr. Tierui Gong
Dr. Xu Gan
Dr. Yufei Zhao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)
- wireless communication and sensing
- near-field
- millimetre/THz
- metamaterial/metasurface
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