Special Issues & Upcoming Deadlines
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| Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Wireless Communications | 15 May 2026 | Shi Jin, Shuangfeng Han, Ahmed Alkhateeb, Michail Matthaiou |
| Fluid Antennas: The Next Wave of MIMO Evolution for 6G and Beyond | 15 May 2026 | Tuo Wu, Jie Tang, Sumei Sun, Octavia A. Dobre |
| Quantum-Enabled AI for Future Communications | 30 April 2026 | Ishtiaq Ahmad, Hina Tabassum, Wan Choi, Symeon Chatzinotas |
| Paper Topic | Submission Deadline | Guest Editors |
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| High-Reliability and Low-Latency Communications for 6G Network: ISAC-Enabled Architectures, Networking, and Services | 31 August 2026 | Markku Juntti, Yi Fang, Jiguang He, Yonghui Li, Merouane Debbah, Xianbin Wang, Iqbal Hussain |
| Accelerating Large Multimodal Models Learning and Inference on Resource-Constrained Networks | 31 July 2026 | Shaohua Wan, Zonghua Gu, Zehui Xiong, Kezhi Wang, Mohammad Mozaffari, Merouane Debbah |
| Quantum-AI Synergies Empowering IoT Network Resilience | 31 July 2026 | Songwei Zhang, Yusheng Ji, Seng W. Loke, Yi-Han Chiang, Xu Yuan, Zhiming Zhao, Xiang Sun, Ning Chen |
| Connected and Collaborative IoT – Edge – Cloud Continuum for 6G Networks | 31 May 2026 | Baldomero Coll-Perales, Estela Carmona-Cejudo, Sebastian Robitzsch, Qiang (John) Ye, Cunhua Pan |
| Semantic Communications for 6G Mobile Network and Service | 30 May 2026 | Sunil Prajapat, Mohammad S. Obaidat |
| Paper Topic | Submission Deadline | Guest Editors |
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| Agentic AI-Enabled Networking for Heterogeneous Unmanned Systems in Low-Altitude Environments | 01 September 2026 | Yongkang Gong, Tuo Wu, Wanting Yang, Houbing Herbert Song, Li-Tse Hsieh |
| Wireless Endogenous Security for AI-Native Next-Generation Wireless Networks | 01 September 2026 | Liang Jin, Chao Wang, Li Sun, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Kai-Kit Wong, Kyeong Jin Kim, Sinem Coleri |
| End-Edge-Cloud Computing Power Network for Large and Small AI Models | 01 August 2026 | Chen Yang, Yan Zhang, Hassnaa Moustafa, Min Wu, Ran Pang |
| Wireless Information Forensics and Security in the 6G Era: Foundations, Intelligence, and Emerging Applications | 01 August 2026 | Jialing He, Akhilesh S. Thyagaturu, Muhammad Khurram Khan, Sinem Coleri, Tao Xiang |
| Agentified Embodied AI for Mobile Edge General Intelligence | 01 June 2026 | Octavia A. Dobre, Yonghui Li, Marco Di Renzo, Xiao Lu, Dusit Niyato |
| Intelligent Integrated Sensing and Covert Transmission | 01 June 2026 | Nan Zhao, Arumugam Nallanathan, Xingqin Lin, Chengwen Xing, Henk Wymeersch |
| Next-Evolution Waveforms (NEW) for 6G and Beyond | 01 April 2026 | Ana García Armada, Tianqi Mao, Gunes Karabulut-Kurt, Weijie Yuan, Ali Bemani |
| Paper Topic | Submission Deadline | Guest Editors |
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| Collaborative-Embodied AI for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) Networks | 31 May 2026 | Bintao Hu, Haotong Cao, Jianbo Du, Xiaoli Chu, Shahid Mumtaz, F. Richard Yu, Mohsen Guizani |
| IoT Embodied AI: Intelligent Sensing, Communication, and Control | 31 May 2026 | Geng Sun, Hoang Dinh, Gabriel-Miro Muntean, Xiao Lu, Zemin Sun, Kathiravetpillai (Siva) Sivanesan |
| Secure Zero Touch IoT Architectures for 6G-Enabled e-Health Systems | 15 April 2026 | Sunil Prajapat, Ali Kashif Bashir, Bouziane Brik, Hadis Karimipour |
| Agentic AI for the Internet of Everything | 31 March 2026 | Feibo Jiang, Ruichen Zhang, Kezhi Wang, Ping Wang, Dong In Kim, Arumugam Nallanathan, Xiao Lu |
| From Spectrum Constraint to Spectrum Intelligence: AI-Enabled IoT Coexistence | 31 March 2026 | Swades De, Jun-Bae Seo, Gunes Karabulut Kurt, Durgamadhab Misra, Ajay K. Poddar, Ranga Rao Venkatesha Prasad, Li-Chun Wang |
| Paper Topic | Submission Deadline | Guest Editors |
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| Digital Twins for Wireless Networks: Enabling Application-Aware and Closed-Loop Optimization | 01 May 2026 | Yuchen Liu, Tommaso Melodia, Xingqin Lin, Mingzhe Chen, Berk Canberk, Sara Garcia Sanchez |
| Advanced Waveforms Embracing Channel Dynamics for Future Wireless Systems | 31 March 2026 | Jinhong Yuan, Shuangyang Li, Arman Farhang, Jingxian Wu, Ana García Armada, Javier Lorca Hernando, Ke Guan |
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| AI-Driven Low-Altitude Intelligent Networks: From Modeling to Real-World Deployment | 01 August 2026 | Qiuming Zhu, Mahbub Hassan, Marion Berbineau, Carlos A. Gutierrez, Qihui Wu |
| Knowledge-driven Autonomous Agent Systems: Mission-centric Coordination | 15 June 2026 | Yijing Liu, Gang Feng, Longyu Zhou, Dinh Thai Hoang, Wei Cai, Carlo Fischione, Ozan K. Tonguz |
| Theoretical Intelligent Blockchain Networks | 15 June 2026 | Chuan Zhang, Gang Sun, Sujit Biswas, Yunguo Guan, Tianqing Zhu, Willy Susilo |
| Federated Machine Learning and Unlearning for Privacy-Preserving Networked Intelligence | 01 June 2026 | Ali Kashif Bashir, Tingting Wang, Muhammad Ali Imran, Yijing Lin, Hadis Karimipur |
| Integrating Agentic AI in Intelligent Wireless Networks | 01 May 2026 | Feibo Jiang, Ruichen Zhang, Yonghui Li, Rahim Tafazolli, Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou |
| Embodied AI for Low-Altitude Economy Networking | 31 March 2026 | Haipeng Yao, Jiangtian Nie, Setareh Maghsudi, Victor CM Leung, Akhilesh S. Thyagaturu, Lexi Xu |
| Secure, Trustworthy, and Autonomous Intelligent Edge Networking with Agentic AI | 30 March 2026 | Jialing He, Bakh Khoussainov, Cong Wang, Xiaodong Lin, Nelson Fonseca, Luisa Verdoliva, Tao Xiang |
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| Paper Topic | Submission Deadline | Guest Editors |
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| Integrated Sensing, Memory, Communication, and Computation for Large-Scale AI Based IoT Systems | 15 May 2026 | Xu Zhou, Jemal Abawajy, Tongfeng Weng, Gang Liu, Xiaoyang Lu |
| AI at the Edge for Vehicular and Low-Altitude IoT Networks | 31 May 2026 | Hongzhi Guo, Tomaso de Cola, Yuanqiu Luo, Shikhar Verma |
| Large Model-Driven Intelligent Computing Optimization in the Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) | 15 June 2026 | Chuang Li, Kim Fung Tsang, Adachi Fumiyuki |
| IoT Empowered AI4Science: Data Acquisition, System Modeling, and Knowledge Discovery | 30 June 2026 | Rafał Scherer, Hailin Feng, Yuhuan Lu, Xinxing Wang |
| Multimodal Integrated Sensing and Communication for IoT Networking in 6G and Beyond | 15 August 2026 | Luping Xiang, Jiajia Liu, Kun Yang, Christos Masouros, Amiya Nayak, Lei Zhong |
| Smart Radio Environments for the Internet of Everything | 31 August 2026 | Qihao Peng, Hong Ren, Kezhi Wang, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Ekram Hossain |