Space-Air-Ground-Sea Integrated Communication Networks, Second Edition
A special issue of Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300). This special issue belongs to the section "Multidisciplinary Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2026 | Viewed by 350
Special Issue Editors
Interests: maritime communications; space–air–ground–sea integrated communication; edge computing; resource management
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Interests: marine internet; best-effort networking systems; wireless networks
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the expansion of human activity and the rise in intelligent applications, communication network services need lower latency, higher capacity, and seamless coverage anywhere and anytime. Space–Air–Ground–Sea Integrated Network (SAGSIN) integrates space-based networks, air-based networks, and ground-based, as well as sea-based networks to form a much more complex system that can significantly enhance communication coverage and improve network service ability.
SAGSIN has attracted great attention on its architecture, resource management, communication network protocols, simulation studies, and device demo design. To promote research on SAGSIN and the development of related industries, we organize the topic of ‘Space–Air–Ground–Sea Integrated Communication Networks’ in Entropy to collect and publish recent innovative research and engineering application results. This Special Issue is collaborating with the International Conference on Marine Communications, Networks and Signal Processing (MCNSP 2026), which will be held on March 27–29, 2026, in Sanya, China.
We welcome relevant experts, scholars, and researchers to submit their contributions. You are invited to submit papers and review articles are related, but not limited, to the following topics of interests:
- network architecture and protocols of SAGSIN;
- performance analysis based on information theory for SAGSIN;
- self-organization schemes of SAGSIN;
- resource allocation and management of SAGSIN;
- cognitive radio of SAGSIN;
- cloud computation and edge computation of SAGSIN;
- interconnection and cooperation between heterogeneous networks in SAGSIN;
- QoS-aware algorithms, interference mitigation algorithms, and energy efficiency algorithms for SAGSIN;
- cross-domain topology discovery of heterogeneous networks;
- machine learning technologies for SAGSIN;
- new information theory for SAGSIN such as semantic communication;
- network optimization based on game theory and other optimization tools;
- simulation and experiment studies of SAGSIN.
Dr. Yanli Xu
Prof. Dr. Shengming Jiang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- space–air–ground–sea integrated networks
- resource management
- topology discovery
- network access protocols
- communication protocols
- network deployment
- UAV ad hoc networks
- satellite communications
- maritime communications
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