MIMO Wireless Communications: Information Theoretic Perspectives
A special issue of Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300). This special issue belongs to the section "Information Theory, Probability and Statistics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2026 | Viewed by 334
Editors
Interests: AI for communications; signal processing; massive mimo; multimodal sensing
Interests: learning theory; deep learning; information geometry; statistical inference; multi-terminal information theory
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology underpins today's multi-antenna cellular and Wi-Fi systems and will remain central to 5G-Advanced and 6G. Emerging regimes—massive and cell-free MIMO, extremely large-scale and near-field arrays, flexible-position and sparse arrays, millimeter-wave and terahertz communications, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), and integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), among many others—create new challenges in modeling and design. In this context, information theory provides a principled framework to quantify uncertainty and establish fundamental limits, and to guide practical wireless transceiver and protocol design.
This Special Issue invites original contributions that advance MIMO wireless communications from an information-theoretic perspective. We welcome papers on topics including, but not limited to, the following:
- Performance analysis and fundamental limits of MIMO systems;
- Electromagnetic information theory (EIT) and its applications to MIMO systems;
- Near-field, distributed/cell-free, extremely large-scale, and holographic MIMO communications;
- Millimeter-wave and terahertz MIMO communications;
- RIS-assisted MIMO systems;
- Flexible-position MIMO, including sparse arrays, movable antennas, and fluid antennas;
- Multi-user MIMO and interference management;
- Channel modeling, estimation, prediction, and feedback;
- Sensing and localization in MIMO systems;
- ISAC, joint radar and communications, and sensing-assisted MIMO communications;
- Security, privacy, and secrecy of MIMO communications;
- Age of information (AoI) in MIMO communications;
- Task-oriented and semantic MIMO communications;
- Finite-blocklength and non-asymptotic information theory;
- Channel coding for MIMO communications;
- Full-duplex MIMO communications;
- Next-generation multiple-access technologies;
- Artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled communications with information-theoretic interpretation;
Dr. Wentao Yu
Prof. Dr. Lizhong Zheng
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- MIMO wireless communications
- information theory
- wireless channels
- wireless transceivers
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