Waveform Design for 5G and beyond Systems
This special issue belongs to the section "Microwave and Wireless Communications".
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
5G traffic has very diverse requirements with respect to data rate, delay, and reliability. The concept of using multiple OFDM numerologies adopted in 5G NR standard will likely meet these multiple requirements to some extent. However, the traffic is radically accruing more different characteristics and requirements when compared with the initial stage of 5G, which focused mainly on high-speed multimedia data application. For instance, applications such as vehicular communications and robotics control require highly reliable and ultra-low delay. In addition, various emerging M2M applications have sparse traffic with a small amount of data to be delivered. The state-of-the-art OFDM technique has some limitations when addressing the aforementioned requirements at the same time. Meanwhile, numerous waveform alternatives, such as FBMC, GFDM, and UFMC, have been explored. They also have their own pros and cons due to their intrinsic waveform properties. Hence, it is very timely to come up with modification/variations/combinations to the aforementioned techniques or a new waveform design for 5G systems and beyond. The aim of this Special Issue is to provide the latest research and advances in the field of waveform design for 5G systems and beyond.
All papers will be peer-reviewed as soon as submitted. The editorial decision will be made about 35 days after submission, on average. The accepted papers will be published continuously in this Special Issue as soon as accepted, irrespective of the submission deadline, and will be listed together on the Special Issue website.
Prof. Dr. Kwonhue Choi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Waveform design for vehicular, device-to-device (D2D), and machine-to-machine (M2M) communications
- Machine learning-based waveform design
- Low latency and low complexity waveforms
- Energy and spectral efficient waveforms
- Synchronization error-resilient waveform design
- Hardware impairments-resilient waveform design
- Hardware implementations of beyond 5G waveforms
- Field testing of the waveforms for 5G and beyond in real wireless channels
- Waveform design for massive multiple access
- Waveform design for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems
- Waveform design for cognitive radios
- Non-orthogonal waveform design
- Joint coding and modulation for 5G and beyond
- Waveform design for physical layer security
- Index modulation-based waveforms
- Millimeter-wave waveform design
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Published Papers
Electronics - ISSN 2079-9292