Future Networks: New Advances and Challenges, Volume 2

Dear Colleagues,

Recent developments in networking and communication technologies have extended their applications in our daily lives. Applications include safety, security, long-distance information exchange, machine-to-machine communication, sensor networks, vehicular ad-hoc networks, the Internet and beyond, led by interdisciplinary research from both academic and IT industry researchers. Evolving protocols and standards ensure that these technologies achieve satisfactory quality of service (QoS) ratings. Artificial intelligence has also recently been introduced in networks. Autonomous decision making in the future world of connected devices opens the door for novel stand-alone solutions. Future networks empowered with machine learning and deep learning can offer practical tools for many engineering applications, such as sensor data from driverless cars, autonomous driving wireless networks or entertainment streaming recommendations, generating enormous quantities of data for real-time collection and processing. These requirements demand the development of advanced computation applications and algorithms for future networking technologies to perform the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning techniques with wireless communication networks.

We solicit papers that define the advancement of future networks, as well as their services and challenges. We are seeking the latest original contributions that have not been published and are not currently under process in any other journal. Potential topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Ubiquitous networks.
• Wireless sensor networks (WSNs).
• Energy efficiency and power control.
• MAC, routing and transport protocols.
• Cognitive wireless networks.
• Network design, control, and performance.
• Congestion control and traffic management.
• Cell-free satellite-UAV networks for 6G and beyond.
• Quantum communication.
• Data-centric communications and protocols.
• Future Internet architectures (ICN/CCN/NDN).
• Software-defined networks (SDNs)/network function virtualization (NFV).
• Underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs).
• Vehicle-to-vehicle communications (V2V communications).
• Wireless body area networks (WBANs).
• Internet of things (IoT).
• Machine-to-machine communications (M2M).
• Peer-to-peer networks.

Prof. Dr. Dongkyun Kim
Dr. Muhammad Azfar Yaqub
Dr. Muhammad Toaha Raza Khan
Guest Editors

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