Key Technologies Towards Future Wireless Networks
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 December 2026 | Viewed by 173
Special Issue Editors
Interests: channel coding; applied information theory; coding for wireless communications; quantum error correction
Interests: deep learning; data mining
Interests: delay-Doppler domain communications; waveform design; signal processing; channel coding; applied information theory
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Dear Colleagues,
Future wireless networks are expected to support increasingly demanding requirements, including high reliability, high spectral efficiency, low latency, high mobility, and strong adaptability across diverse application scenarios. To address these challenges, this Special Issue focuses on recent advances in coding, modulation, waveform design, and intelligent techniques for future wireless communications and sensing.
Coding and modulation remain fundamental to efficient and reliable transmission. We welcome contributions on coding theory, code design, decoding algorithms, finite-blocklength coding, coded modulation, probabilistic shaping, multiuser transmission, and other transmission techniques that improve the robustness, efficiency, and flexibility of wireless and networked systems. Waveform design is also of growing importance for emerging communication scenarios, especially in time-varying and doubly selective channels, high-mobility systems, delay–Doppler signaling, and integrated sensing and communications. In parallel, intelligent techniques are becoming increasingly important in wireless applications, including learning-aided detection and decoding, intelligent receivers, channel estimation, signal recovery, adaptive transmission, and low-complexity signal processing methods.
This Special Issue aims to provide a platform for researchers to present new theories, methods, and applications that advance the design of future wireless networks. We invite contributions of both papers recommended from ISWCS 2026 and regular submissions through the standard journal review process.
Dr. Qianfan Wang
Dr. Wanting Ji
Dr. Shuangyang Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- channel coding
- coded modulation
- finite-blocklength coding
- probabilistic shaping
- waveform design
- delay–Doppler signaling
- high-mobility communications
- integrated sensing and communications
- intelligent receivers
- learning-aided detection and decoding
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