Special Issues & Upcoming Deadlines
| Paper Topic | Submission Deadline | Guest Editors |
|---|---|---|
| Advancing Societal and Sustainability Goals in 6G | 01 November 2025 | Eric Burger, Akihiro Nakao, Radhakrishna Ganti, Alexandros Kaloxylo |
| Communication Services and Solutions in Smart Transportation and Mobility Infrastructures | 31 October 2025 | Bernard Fong, Haesik Kim, Vyasa Sai, Muhammet Deveci |
| Net-Zero 6G Networks: Enabling Technologies and Pathways to Sustainable Operation | 25 October 2025 | Sami Muhaidat, Shimaa Naser, Kaibin Huang, Ilhem Fajjari |
| Paper Topic | Submission Deadline | Guest Editors |
|---|---|---|
| Agentic AI for Next Generation Wireless Networks | 31 December 2025 | Kapal Dev, Merouane Debbah, Guangyi Liu, Flavia Delicato, Cedric Westphal, Sunder Ali Khowaja, Soumaya Cherkaoui |
| Security and Privacy-preserving Semantic Communication Networks | 30 December 2025 | Ishtiaq Ahmad, Muhammad Ali Jamshed, Xingwang Li, Liang Yang, Pin-Han Ho, Arumugam Nallanathan |
| Fluid Antenna System for Future Wireless Networks | 01 December 2025 | Kai-Kit Wong, Tuo Wu, Arman Shojaeifard, Tharmalingam Ratnarajah, Chau Yuen, Kangda Zhi, George K. Karagiannidis, Octavia A. Dobre |
| Paper Topic | Submission Deadline | Guest Editors |
|---|---|---|
| From Large AI Models to Agentic AI: Toward Intelligent 6G Networks | 01 December 2025 | Feibo Jiang, Kezhi Wang, Guangyi Liu, Tony Q. S. Quek, Xianbin Wang |
| Stacked Intelligent Metasurface-Empowered Advanced Signal Processing Paradigm for 6G and Beyond | 01 November 2025 | Jiancheng An, Doohwan Lee, Naofal Al-Dhahir, Vincenzo Galdi, Tie Jun Cui |
| Paper Topic | Submission Deadline | Guest Editors |
|---|---|---|
| Intelligent Internet of Medical Things (IIoMT) | 31 January 2026 | Chiara Garibotto, Maria de Fatima Domingues, Shiwen Mao, Lin Ma, Benedetto Carollo |
| IRS-Assisted IoT Networks: Emerging Trends, Applications and Challenges | 31 October 2025 | Khaled M. Rabie, Xingwang Li, Lina Mohjazi, Zubair Fadlullah, Mostafa Fouda, Hassnaa Moustafa |
| Paper Topic | Submission Deadline | Guest Editors |
|---|---|---|
| Distributed Optimization, Learning, and Inference over Communication-Constrained Networks | 01 December 2025 | Zheng Chen, Nicolò Michelusi, Kaibin Huang, Anna Scaglione, Michael Rabbat, Themistoklis Charalambous |
| Multi-functional Programmable Metasurfaces for 6G and Beyond | 01 November 2025 | Marco Di Renzo, Yuanwei Liu, Xidong Mu, Josep Miquel Jornet, Nuria González Prelcic, Arman Shojaeifard, Tie Jun Cui |
| Wireless Energy Transfer Solutions for Sustainable Connectivity Infrastructure from Space to Ground for 6G | 31 October 2025 | Gaofeng Pan, Mohamed-Slim Alouini, Dong In Kim, Ioannis Krikidis, Yonghui Li, Ekram Hossain, Jia Ye, Xuan Zhang |
| 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 |
| Fluid Antenna Systems and Other Reconfigurable Antenna Technologies: From Conventional Designs to AI-Driven Networks | 30 October 2025 | Kai-Kit Wong, Tuo Wu, Gui Zhou, Hao Xu, Yajun Zhao, Matthew C. Valenti, Chau Yuen |
| Paper Topic | Submission Deadline | Guest Editors |
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| Paper Topic | Submission Deadline | Guest Editors |
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| Embodied AI for Low-Altitude Economy Networking | 01 March 2026 | Haipeng Yao, Jiangtian Nie, Setareh Maghsudi, Victor CM Leung, Akhilesh S. Thyagaturu, Lexi Xu |
| Foundation Model Empowered Intelligent Networks at the AI-Native Edge | 01 February 2026 | Xiang Cheng, Sinem Coleri, Javier Gozalvez, Shijian Gao, Bile Peng |
| 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 | 30 November 2025 | Liehuang Zhu, Liang Xue, Tong Wu, Huaming Chen, Bin Xiao, Gerhard Hancke |
| Recent Advances in Extremely-High-Frequency Wireless Networks | 15 November 2025 | Zhi Chen, Josep Miquel Jornet, Yixuan Zou, Xidong Mu, George K. Karagiannidis |
| Intelligent Network Security for Next Generation Internet | 31 October 2025 | Weiting Zhang, Rongxing Lu, Omar Alhussein, Mushu Li, Mohammad R. Shikh-Bahaei, Binbin Chen |
| Paper Topic | Submission Deadline | Guest Editors |
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| Paper Topic | Submission Deadline | Guest Editors |
|---|---|---|
| Effective, Efficient, and Trustworthy AI Agents for the Internet of Things | 31 December 2025 | Cen Chen, Sin G. Teo, Dima Rabadi, Xulei Yang |