Information Theory and 5G Technologies

Dear Colleagues,

Information theory has been applied in communications for over a half a century now, starting from the pioneering work of Shannon. The aim of this Special Issue is to encourage researchers to present original and recent developments on information theory for 5G communication systems and algorithms. 5G wireless communication systems are envisaged to support an exponential increase in the number of connected devices and the corresponding data demands. The use of innovative technologies in the context of 5G, such as Software Defined Networking, Network Function Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Internet of Things, among others, are expected to bring increasingly more attention of the research community. The mobile infrastructure resources evolve from closed physical equipment running private software to dynamic and open software instances running on top of virtualized infrastructure. It has created a new market based on the provisioning of customized mobile services. However, the lack of coordination and management of the resources limit the development of these novel technologies.
The present Special Issue focuses on the design and management issues in Future Networks, especially in the context of 5G mobile systems. It aims to provide a holistic view of research challenges and opportunities in the future management, analysis and monitoring in this emerging area. For this purpose, submissions of comprehensive overviews and surveys for future networks, as well as original papers related to these techniques, are proposed. Any paper submitted to this special issue should be relevant to entropy ,information theory ,probability theory or related aspect.

Prof. Dr. Luis Javier Garcia Villalba
Prof. Dr. Anura P. Jayasumana
Prof. Dr. Jun Bi
Prof. Dr. Ana Lucila Sandoval Orozco
Guest Editors

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