Intelligent Sensing, Computing, Caching, and Networking Technologies for Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks

Dear Colleagues,

Space–Air–Ground Integrated Networks (SAGINs) have recently gained great attention from both academia and industry and are seen as an important evolutional direction for the next-generation information networks, aiming to achieve user access and service provision anytime and anywhere. However, SAGINs are still facing many technical obstacles due to the heterogeneity of the space, air and ground networks. Fortunately, with many new advanced techniques such as Software-Defined Networks (SDNs), Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Service Function Chains (SFCs) and Machine Learning (ML), network control and management can be greatly facilitated for network integration, resource allocation, traffic steering, content caching, service orchestration and security enhancement, which provide an alternative way to cope with many key challenges not addressed in SAGINs.

This Special Issue focuses on any intelligent sensing, computing, caching and networking technologies for SAGINs, and the purpose is to promote corresponding researchers and experts to present their novel ideas and recent findings, shedding light on the rapid development of this field. Original research and review papers are both welcomed.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Intelligent sensing and computing for SAGINs;
• Heterogeneous network convergence for SAGINs;
• Centralized/distributed routing mechanism for SAGINs;
• Security and privacy protection mechanism for SAGINs;
• ML-based algorithms for resource allocation, traffic steering, content caching and service orchestration in SAGINs. 

Dr. Bohao Feng
Prof. Dr. Huachun Zhou
Dr. Yuming Zhang
Prof. Dr. Ilsun You
Guest Editors

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