Prospective Multiple Antenna Technologies for 5G and Beyond

Dear Colleagues,

Antennas have always been the key component of all kinds of wireless communications systems. Among many other antenna technologies, multiple antenna technologies such as massive MIMO reduce energy consumption by pointing signals to individual targets/users utilizing beamforming and have made their way into modern 5G communication systems. The main advantage of this technology includes improved capacity and coverage to provide high data rates per user and per cell.

Now it is time to look for new antenna designs and technologies to meet the immensely higher data rate, reliability, and traffic demands. These antenna technologies may use existing microwave-/mm-wave frequency bands and new sub-THz bands. However, moving to sub-THz bands will bring new design challenges and fabrication challenges, and will certainly require careful consideration of the antenna design. The main objective of this Special Issue is to report recent advances in antenna designs from sub-6 GHz to THz frequency spectrum for 5G and beyond communications and sensing systems. Authors of both theoretical and application-oriented papers presenting emerging antenna technologies including massive MIMO, beamforming MIMO/arrays, along with the design of intelligent reflecting surfaces are most welcome to submit their manuscripts. We invite researchers worldwide from academia and industry to submit high-quality research articles and critical surveys or reviews papers.

Submissions can focus on conceptual and applied research, including but not limited to the following topics:

• MIMO full-duplex antenna system
• Massive MIMO antennas
• Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces for 5G and beyond
• Phased array and beamforming antennas
• mm-wave and THz antennas
• Metamaterial/metasurface based antennas
• Reconfigurable antennas
• Multi-band antennas
• Sub-6 GHz and mm-wave integrated antennas
• Base station and terminal antennas
• Wearable and implantable antennas
• Antennas for wireless sensing and wireless power transfer
• Antenna design techniques and measurement for 5G

Dr. Niamat Hussain
Prof. Dr. Nam Kim
Dr. Syeda Iffat Naqvi
Guest Editors

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