Millimeter-Wave Radar Technologies for Next-Generation Wireless Networks
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Microwave and Wireless Communications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2026 | Viewed by 29
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Interests: design and implementation of microwave circuits; radar and antenna systems; computational electromagnetic; 5G wireless systems; biomedical applications
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Interests: theoretical and computational electromagnetics; microwaves; antennas; photonics
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Interests: information technology and communications; wireless communications; satellite communications; RF/microwave circuits; antenna analysis and design; computational methods in electromagnetics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue will focus on the emerging topic of millimeter-wave radar technologies. Millimeter-wave (mmWave) radar has emerged as a foundational technology for next-generation wireless networks, with unprecedented capabilities in sensing, communication, and environmental awareness. As 5G continues to evolve and 6G systems begin to take shape, integrated radar-communication architectures are expected to play a transformative role in achieving highly intelligent, adaptive, and context-aware wireless environments. To fully unlock these capabilities, mmWave radar systems must be capable of ultra-high-resolution sensing; robust operation in dynamic and cluttered environments; and seamless coexistence with high-capacity wireless links with multi-Gb/s data rates, dense user connectivity, and sub-millisecond latency.
This Special Issue aims to present cutting-edge research on the design, analysis, and implementation of millimeter-wave radar technologies that will pave the way for the next era of wireless networks. We welcome contributions on advanced mmWave radar front-ends, integrated sensing-and-communication (ISAC) architectures, and novel hardware or signal processing techniques that support high performance, miniaturization, and large-scale deployment.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Millimeter-wave radar architectures for 5G/6G networks;
- Multi-beam and MIMO radar systems;
- Integrated sensing-and-communication (ISAC) technologies;
- Millimeter-wave antennas and arrays for radar and joint radar–communication;
- Beamforming, beam tracking, and adaptive array techniques for radar;
- Integrated RF/mmWave components (filters, couplers, power dividers, etc.) for radar front-ends;
- Reconfigurable and programmable apertures (reflectarrays, transmitarrays, metasurfaces) for sensing and tracking;
- Broadband and multi-band mmWave radar components;
- High-frequency amplifiers, mixers, VCOs, detectors, and transceiver modules for radar systems;
- On-chip and in-package mmWave radar devices;
- Packaging and antenna-in-package (AiP) solutions for integrated radar systems;
- Radar signal processing, waveform design, and machine learning-based sensing;
- Optimization and synthesis techniques for mmWave radar arrays and components.
Prof. Dr. George Kyriacou
Dr. Constantinos L. Zekios
Dr. Theodoros N. Kaifas
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- millimeter-wave radar
- 5G/6G sensing
- ISAC
- beamforming
- antenna arrays
- mmWave components
- high-frequency circuits
- radar front-end
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