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 | 01 October 2025 | Sami Muhaidat, Shimaa Naser, Kaibin Huang, Ilhem Fajjari |
| Large AI Models for Communications | 31 July 2025 | Kezhi Wang, Feibo Jiang, Merouane Debbah, Zhu Han |
| Paper Topic | Submission Deadline | Guest Editors |
|---|---|---|
| Edge-Enabled Collaboration Between Large-scale and Lightweight Models in Sensor-Cloud Networks | 01 October 2025 | Tian Wang, Yao Liu, Geyong Min, Nektarios Georgalas, Yan Zhang |
| Large AI Models for the Internet of Everything | 01 September 2025 | Feibo Jiang, Kezhi Wang, Xingqin Lin, Merouane Debbah, Zhu Han |
| Near-Field Communications: Challenges and Opportunities in the Networking Landscape | 15 July 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 |
| TinyML for Edge-Driven 6G Networks | 01 August 2025 | Ali Hassan Sodhro, Hien Quoc Ngo, Rui Luis Andrade Aguiar, Praveen Kumar Donta, Huawei Huang, Sara Modarres Razavi |
| Paper Topic | Submission Deadline | Guest Editors |
|---|---|---|
| Intelligent and Secure Internet of Things for Low-Altitude Economy Networking | 01 September 2025 | Jiacheng Wang, Jie Yang, Shu-ping Yeh, Sinem Coleri, Dusit Niyato, Octavia A. Dobre |
| Edge AI for Internet of Robotic Things | 15 August 2025 | Zhenhui Yuan, Qing Li, Xingqin Lin, Soumaya Cherkaoui, Tor-Morten Grønli |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Recent Advances in Extremely-High-Frequency Wireless Networks | 15 November 2025 | Zhi Chen, Josep Miquel Jornet, Yixuan Zou, Xidong Mu, George K. Karagiannidis |
| 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 | 22 July 2025 | Nan Zhao, Rose Qingyang Hu, Dong In Kim, Naofal Al-Dhahir, Henk Wymeersch |
| Computing Power Networks for AI | 15 July 2025 | Bomin Mao, Yuanqiu Luo, Igor Bisio, Tomaso de Cola, Nei Kato |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |