Key Enabling Technologies for Beyond 5G Networks—2nd Edition
A special issue of Future Internet (ISSN 1999-5903). This special issue belongs to the section "Internet of Things".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2026 | Viewed by 1000
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Interests: wireless communications; wireless resource management; heterogeneous networks; transmission techniques
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Interests: physical layer security; UWB positioning systems; visible light communications; molecular communications; body area networks; 6G; 5G; networks for healthcare applications
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Dear Colleagues,
Our society is increasingly digitized, hyper-connected, and data-driven; hence, new systems and technologies are emerging and introducing paradigm shifts in wireless communication.
Spectrum utilization will be improved and extended towards the THz, thus requiring new transceiver architectures, modulation schemes, and new paradigms for facing challenging propagation conditions. At such high frequencies, communications will be based on very narrow and pencil-beam signal propagation with the help of intelligent reflecting surfaces. Energy resources must be efficiently managed on a network-wide scale, also integrating self-sustainable solutions, and new access methods will be needed for truly massive machine-type communication. In addition, machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies will strongly impact the design of communication systems across all the layers of the communication architecture, operating both at the link and system levels. These technologies will further accelerate the trends in cognition and self-organization, smart spectrum access, physical and medium access layer operation up to resource allocation, and network organization. New communication systems will also constitute a framework for providing services thanks to new computing architectures and the intelligence that spreads across the network. New applications will be provided integrating communication capabilities with sensing, positioning, imaging, and mobility. In such a scenario, security should be provided at all levels for a network with embedded trust, also providing protection at the physical layer.
This Special Issue aims at investigating emerging and future key technologies for wireless communication systems in the 5G-and-beyond era.
Dr. Dania Marabissi
Dr. Lorenzo Mucchi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- THz and visible light communications
- intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS)
- cognitive and dynamic spectrum access
- machine learning and artificial intelligence for wireless communications systems
- energy-efficient wireless communications and networking
- network softwarization and virtualization
- network security
- physical layer security
- zero-touch networks
- massive IoT communication
- quantum communication and cryptography
- joint communication and sensing
- massive MIMO
- advanced wearable technologies and body area networks
- edge computing
- 3D networking
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