Special Issue "Sustainability and Energy Efficiency of Developing 5G/6G Wireless Technologies for Sustainable Wireless Communication Systems"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 26 September 2022.

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Osamah Ibrahim Khalaf
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Guest Editor
Head of Energy Management Department, Al-Nahrain Nanorenewable Energy Research Center, AI-Nahrain University, Baghdad, Iraq
Interests: 5G/6G; wireless technologies and communication systems
Dr. Kingsley A. Ogudo
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Guest Editor
Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa
Interests: electrical and electronic engineering technology; networking
Prof. Dr. Vitaliy Mezhuyev
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Guest Editor
Institute of Industrial Management, FH Joanneum University of Applied Sciences, Kapfenberg, Austria
Interests: formal methods; metamodeling; safety modeling and verification of software systems; IoT; the design of cyberphysical systems

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

During the development and deployment of 5G mobile cellular systems, a number of new technological concepts, advances, and paradigm shifts have emerged, altering the perspective of the research community on how one should design wireless communication systems in the future. The proliferation of machine learning and artificial intelligence tools and technologies, while having a limited effect on 5G, are already demonstrating their imminent future impact on the design of communication systems across the layers of traditional communication protocol architecture. Most notably, these technologies further accelerate the trends of cognition and self-organization, ranging from the device spectrum access level, across algorithms governing physical and medium access layer operation, all the way to the level of network organization and resource allocation.

The standardization of fifth-generation (5G) mobile communication network technologies has been completed, and 5G is expected to be deployed around most of the world by the end of 2020. To ensure continuity and competitiveness in wireless communication systems, efforts from industry and academia have started to conceptualize the next generation of wireless communication systems, also known as sixth generation (6G). The sixth generation aims to provide revolutionary communication services and applications to meet the future demands in the 2030s while promoting sustainable development to the environment. The aim of this Special Issue is to highlight the most promising lines of research, which share common directions toward sustainable 5G and 6G communication systems.

This Special Issue encourages researchers to present original and recent developments in fundamental theory, performance limits, design, management issues, and challenges and promising solutions for sustainable 5G and 6G communication systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following areas:

  • Energy-aware design of 5G/6G transmissions and communication systems;
  • Wireless energy transfers and energy harvesting for sustainable 5G/6G systems;
  • Potential 5G/6G applications toward sustainable development growth;
  • Transdisciplinary approaches toward sustainable 5G/6G developments and implementations;
  • Application of information theory to the 5G/6G communication systems;
  • Big data and edge AI technology as enablers for 5G/6G communication systems;
  • Novel interference solutions and resource controls for 5G/6G communication systems;
  • Cell-free massive MIMO for 5G/6G communication systems;
  • Propagation modeling on millimeter waves and terahertz spectrum;
  • High intelligence versus privacy and complexity;
  • Three-dimensional integrated communications;
  • Ultra-reliable low-latency communications;
  • Security and reliability issues with 6G/IoT.

Dr. Osamah Ibrahim Khalaf
Dr. Kingsley A. Ogudo
Prof. Dr. Vitaliy Mezhuyev
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Keywords

  • sustainability
  • energy
  • 5G/6G
  • wireless technologies and communication systems

Published Papers

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