Topics from the 2025 Biennial Symposium on 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: closed (15 June 2026) | Viewed by 859
Editors
Interests: array processing; MIMO systems; massive MIMO; signal processing; wireless communications; radio propagation and channel models
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Interests: wireless communications; MIMO; CDMA; OFDM SC-FDMA; modulation; error control coding
Interests: machine learning; smart cities; big data analytics; Internet of Things; Industry 4.0; 5G; modeling and optimization of wireless communications systems; intelligent transportation systems
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue was created as a parallel publication associated with the 2025 edition of the Biennial Symposium on Communications (BSC). The latter is a prestigious international research conference presented by the Canadian Society on Information Theory, which has a rich scholarly and communal history dating back to 1962. The 2025 edition will be held in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada, on 3–6 June 2025. In keeping with tradition of previous editions, the event will feature world-class plenary talks, tutorials, and technical sessions covering a broad range of topics in communications, information theory, and signal processing, including (but not limited to) 6G, cybersecurity, quantum communications, information theory for communications, coding, signal processing for communications, etc.
The authors of the best presentations at BSC will be invited to submit a full paper to this Special Issue, where the guest editors are also involved with the technical program of the Symposium. However, outside of these invitations, all researchers/authors are encouraged to submit a manuscript as long as it is within the technical scope of BSC. This scope is broadly outlined in the previous paragraph and covers, while not being limited to, the following specific topics:
- Quantum Key Distribution (QKD);
- Quantum Computing for Network Security;
- Post-Quantum Cryptography;
- Information Theory in Quantum Systems;
- Physical Layer Security Techniques;
- Cybersecurity for IoT and Large-Scale Networks;
- Blockchain for Secure Communication;
- Advanced Intrusion Detection Systems;
- Hybrid And Full-Duplex Massive MIMO;
- Cell-free Massive MIMO;
- Advanced Beamforming Techniques;
- Interference Management for Dense Networks;
- Spectrum and Regulatory Issues for 6G;
- Terahertz (THz) Communications;
- Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS);
- Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC);
- Advanced Coding Techniques for 6G;
- Ultra-Low-Power Communication Systems;
- AI-Driven Network Management and Optimization;
- Federated Learning in Communication Systems;
- IoT, Smart Cities, and Autonomous Systems;
- Low-Power Wide-Area Networks (WSNs).
Thus, the Special Issue is a vehicle to broaden the scientific exchanges of BSC to the broader scientific community and we look forward to receiving your quality contributions.
Prof. Dr. Sébastien Roy
Prof. Dr. Claude D’Amours
Dr. Abdellah Chehri
Dr. Dave Touchette
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- 6G
- quantum communications
- coding
- signal processing
- cybersecurity
- ultra-low-power communications
- massive MIMO
- advanced beamforming
- IoT
- ultra-dense networks
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