Next-Generation Multiple Access for Future Wireless Communications
A special issue of Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300). This special issue belongs to the section "Information Theory, Probability and Statistics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2026 | Viewed by 160
Special Issue Editors
Interests: digital modulation; flexible-antenna technology; multiple-antenna technology; near-field sensing and communications; next-generation multiple access; physical layer security
Interests: wireless communication; wireless artificial intelligence; deep learning; multiuser communications; next-generation multi-antenna techniques
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Over the past five decades, the development of wireless communications has been profoundly shaped by significant progress in multiple access (MA) technologies, which have laid the foundation for modern connectivity. As networks evolve to meet increasingly complex demands, traditional communication-oriented MA schemes are expected to give way to more advanced strategies known as next-generation multiple access (NGMA). NGMA aims to intelligently support a wide range of terminals and services within constrained resource blocks, with an emphasis on improving efficiency, expanding connectivity and coverage, and enabling intelligent operation.
The Shannon information theory has long played a central role in analyzing the performance of MA systems and in defining their fundamental limits. As next-generation networks introduce new features such as ubiquitous connectivity, the integration of artificial intelligence with communications, and joint communication and sensing capabilities, along with the emergence of advanced physical-layer technologies like gigantic multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), upper mid-band communications, electromagnetic signal and information theory, and novel waveforms, it becomes increasingly important to explore the information-theoretic properties of NGMA under these new paradigms.
This Special Issue provides a platform for the dissemination of innovative research on the application of information theory to NGMA systems. Contributions that offer analytical insights into practical wireless multiple-access systems and real-world applications through the lens of Shannon theory and related statistical tools are particularly encouraged.
Dr. Chongjun Ouyang
Dr. Jia Guo
Dr. Xingqi Zhang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- next-generation multiple access
- information-theoretic techniques
- ubiquitous connectivity
- artificial intelligence and communications
- integrated sensing and communications
- electromagnetic signal and information theory
- network intelligence
- advanced modulation and coding
- novel waveform design
- MIMO evolutions
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