Aims and Scope

IET Communications covers the fundamental and generic research for a better understanding of communication technologies to harness the signals for better performing communication systems using various wired and/or wireless media. This journal is particularly interested in research papers reporting novel solutions to the dominating problems of noise, interference, timing and errors for reduction systems deficiencies such as wasting scarce resources such as spectra, energy and bandwidth.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

    Coding and Communication Theory
    Modulation and Signal Design
    Wired, Wireless and Optical Communication
    Communication System

Special Issue on New Challenges in Pervasive and Lasting Wireless Communications for Artificial Intelligence Systems
Submission Date: 2024-12-31

Recent years have witnessed dramatic development in the capability and functionalities of mobile devices, such as smart phones, cars, and various Internet-of-Thing gadgets. The integration of these devices with edge and cloud servers forms a pervasive and lasting distributed platform for data process and contributes to the unprecedented flexibility of diverse artificial intelligence systems. Within these AI systems, the process of computing could happen anytime and anywhere, making a comprehensive and continuous use of heterogeneous resources. The implementation of AI systems relies heavily on the essential supports from wireless communications, which bridge diversified devices and facilitate the seamless sharing of data, services, computing, and storage powers and so on. However, current design on wireless communications faces nonnegligible challenges, which includes the lack of smooth fusion of heterogenous devices and protocols, the absence of long-term maintenance of communication channels under dynamic and stochastic environment, etc. Although techniques like 5G, edge computing, MIMO provide some insightful solutions, they are mainly designed for general purpose of communication systems, and the requirements of various AI systems remain unsettled. Therefore, this special issue solicits innovative idea on novel theory, design, methods, and applications of wireless communications specifically for artificial intelligence systems.

Topics for this call for papers include but are not restricted to:

    Architectures and frameworks for mobile communications in metacomputing systems
    Communication theory for AI systems
    Wireless network protocols for AI systems
    Encoding and decoding mechanisms for AI systems
    Hybrid wireless communication methods for AI systems
    Physical and Mac layer design for communications in AI systems
    5G networks and edge computing for AI systems
    Resource management and allocation for AI systems
    Incentive mechanisms for AI systems
    Privacy and security for wireless communications in AI systems
    Federated learning in AI systems
    Deep learning methods for wireless communication in AI systems
    Wireless communication systems and applications for AI systems

Guest Editors:

Yingshu Li
Georgia State University
United States

Xu Zheng
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
China

Honghui Xu
Kennesaw State University
United States

Akshita Maradapu Vera Venkata Sai
Towson University
United States

Special Issue on Selected and Extended Papers of 2024 Asian Conference on Communication and Networks and Advances in the Communications and Networking Technologies
Submission Date: 2025-01-15

This special issue will feature selected papers from the 2024 Asian Conference on Communication and Networks (AsianComNet) to be held in Thailand. The papers that receive very good comments from the peer review and that have the potential for further extension will be called for submission with significant extension, contribution, and insights along with the interactions in the conference with the track chair. Also, the contributors of the workshops will be invited to submit the extended version of their papers for possible publication after the journal's peer-review process. This special issue will also be open to submissions from academia and industry contributors who work on the topics listed in the AsianComNet tracks.

Topics for this call for papers include but are not restricted to:

    Mobile computing, communications, 5G and beyond
    IoT and applications
    Privacy, Security for Networks
    Dedicated Technologies for Wireless Networks
    Emerging Trends of AI/ML

Guest Editors:

Prabagarane Nagaradjane
SSN Institutions
India

Iacovos Ioannou
University of Cyprus
Cyprus

Ala Khalifeh
German Jordanian University
Jordan

Nagarajan Velmuruagn
Pondicherry University
India