Special Issues & Upcoming Deadlines
Last update: 07 May, 2025, 18:24:27 (UTC+8)
| Paper Topic | Submission Deadline | Guest Editors |
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| Communication Services and Solutions in Smart Transportation and Mobility Infrastructures | 31 October 2025 | Bernard Fong, Haesik Kim, Vyasa Sai, Muhammet Deveci |
| Large AI Models for Communications | 01 July 2025 | Kezhi Wang, Feibo Jiang, Merouane Debbah, Zhu Han |
| Paper Topic | Submission Deadline | Guest Editors |
|---|---|---|
| Large AI Models for the Internet of Everything | 01 September 2025 | Feibo Jiang, Kezhi Wang, Xingqin Lin, Merouane Debbah, Zhu Han |
| Cybersecurity Issues and Challenges in Internet of Energy (IoE) | 01 July 2025 | Boubiche Djallel Eddine, Gwanggil Jeon, Abdellah Chehr, Murat Kuzlu, Gang Li |
| Near-Field Communications: Challenges and Opportunities in the Networking Landscape | 30 June 2025 | Miaowen Wen, Pin-Han Ho, Hüseyin Arslan, Chan-Byoung Chae, Wei Duan, Siyao Lu |
| Paper Topic | Submission Deadline | Guest Editors |
|---|---|---|
| Multi-Satellite Collaborative Communications and Networking for Future Global Satellite Internet | 01 August 2025 | Shuai Wang, Merouane Debbah, John S. Thompson, Lei Lei, Chunting Wang |
| Movable and Reconfigurable Antennas-Empowered Wireless Networks | 01 June 2025 | Lipeng Zhu, Robert Schober, Harish Viswanathan, Rui Zhang |
| Toward Practical Low-Altitude Economy Networking: Standardization, Testbeds, and Real-world Deployments | 01 June 2025 | Jiacheng Wang, Jiming Chen, Lin Cai, Dominic Schupke, Dusit (Tao) Niyato |
| Paper Topic | Submission Deadline | Guest Editors |
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| Artificial Intelligence Empowered Communication and Computation for Edge-Enabled IoT Systems | 31 July 2025 | Huaming Wu, Chaogang Tang, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, Houbing Herbert Song, Huijun Tang, Lei Wang |
| Edge AI for Internet of Robotic Things | 15 May 2025 | Zhenhui Yuan, Qing Li, Xingqin Lin, Soumaya Cherkaoui, Tor-Morten Grønli |
| Paper Topic | Submission Deadline | Guest Editors |
|---|---|---|
| Secure Communication, Sensing, and Computation in Future Intelligent Wireless Networks | 15 July 2025 | Beixiong Zheng, Deniz Gündüz, Ruiqi (Richie) Liu, Jemin Lee, Si-Hyeon Lee, Georges Kaddoum, Onur Günlü |
| Key Technologies Towards Standardization of 6G and NextG | 05 June 2025 | Wanshi Chen, Lingjia Liu, Erik G. Larsson, Xiaofeng Liu, Mohamed El Jaafari, Tony Quek, Robert Schober |
| Large AI Model for Future Wireless Communication Systems | 15 May 2025 | Cunhua Pan, Feibo Jiang, Kezhi Wang, Pietro Michiardi, Octavia A. Dobre, Peiying Zhu, Merouane Debbah |
| Paper Topic | Submission Deadline | Guest Editors |
|---|---|---|
| Agentic AI for Communications and Networking with Embodied Intelligence | 01 January 2026 | Ruichen Zhang, Yonghui Li, Ping Wang, Merouane Debbah, Sumei Sun |
| Artificial General Intelligence for Low-Altitude Economy Networking | 01 June 2025 | Jiacheng Wang, Liehuang Zhu, Lan (Emily) Zhang, Mubashir Husain Rehmani, Dusit (Tao) Niyato, Dong In Kim |
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| Paper Topic | Submission Deadline | Guest Editors |
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| Advanced Application of Graph Representation Learning in Communication Networks | 01 January 2026 | Yang Lu, Bo Ai, Zhiguo Ding, Octavia A. Dobre, Wei Zhang, Khaled B. Letaief |
| Semantic Communications with Intellicise (Intelligent and Concise) Networking | 01 December 2025 | Nan Ma, Ping Zhang, Lin Cai, Ping Wang, Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi |
| Next Generation Blockchain: AI-Empowered Optimization | 01 November 2025 | Liehuang Zhu, Liang Xue, Tong Wu, Huaming Chen, Bin Xiao, Gerhard Hancke |
| Intelligent Network Security for Next Generation Internet | 01 October 2025 | Weiting Zhang, Rongxing Lu, Omar Alhussein, Mushu Li, Mohammad R. Shikh-Bahaei |
| Advancing Perceptive Networks in 6G: Synergies between Integrated Sensing and Communications | 01 September 2025 | Weijie Yuan, Taneli Riihonen, Yuanhao Cui, Nuria Gonzalez-Prelcic, Marco Di Renzo, Zhu Han |
| Security and Privacy in Low Altitude Networking | 01 August 2025 | Geng Sun, Alia Asheralieva, Jiacheng Wang, Lei Lei, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Kui Ren |
| Intelligent Flexible Position Antenna Systems for Networking | 01 July 2025 | Nan Zhao, Rose Qingyang Hu, Dong In Kim, Naofal Al-Dhahir, Henk Wymeersch |
| Integrating Generative AI into Mobile Networking | 01 June 2025 | Huaqing Wu, Elisa Bertino, Junling Li, Cristina Hava Muntean, Hina Tabassum |
| Paper Topic | Submission Deadline | Guest Editors |
|---|---|---|
| Defense in Depth: Data and Model Security for Next-Generation Communication Networks | 30 September 2025 | Kapal Dev, Guangyi Liu, Neeli Prasad, Sunder Ali Khowaja, Vera Stavroulaki, Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou |
| Paper Topic | Submission Deadline | Guest Editors |
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| Integrated Transmissions and Computations for Non-Terrestrial Network-Assisted Internet of Things | 15 May 2025 | Bomin Mao, Shuai Han, Yuanqiu Luo, Igor Bisio, Ekram Hossain |
| Challenges and Opportunities of IoT-based Healthcare Industry 5.0 | 31 May 2025 | Ghulam Muhammad, Victor C.M. Leung, Cheng-Xiang Wang, Danda B. Rawat, Jalel Ben Othman |
| Augmented Edge Sensing Intelligence for Low-Altitude IoT Systems | 15 June 2025 | Yuanhao Cui, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Weijie Yuan, Dusit (Tao) Niyato, Naofal Al-Dhahir |
| Responsible and Trustworthy AI for 6G Internet of Things (6G-IoT) | 30 June 2025 | Kapal Dev, Soumaya Cherkaoui, Sunder Ali Khowaja, Cedric Westphal, Guangjie Han, Aruna Prasada Seneviratne |
| Intent-based Networking for AI powered IoT Communications | 15 July 2025 | Sahil Garg, Ranga Rao Venkatesha Prasad, Fabrizio Granelli, Shui Yu |
| Intelligent IoT for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Industries | 31 July 2025 | Yuemin Ding, Zhibo Pang, Yu Liu, Kan Yu, Fei Pan |
| Advancing Intelligent IoT Systems through Transformer Architectures: New Paradigms, Applications, and Challenges | 31 August 2025 | Tingting Wang, Syed Hassan Shah, Kai Fang, Vincenzo Piuri |