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IEEE Communications Magazine (ComMag)
| Topic | Submission Deadline | Guest Editors |
|---|---|---|
| Internet of Agents for Communications and Networking: Architectures, Protocols, and Orchestration | 01 February 2027 | Ronghui Zhang, Yongkang Gong, Naofal Al-Dhahir, Arumugam Nallanathan |
| Edge and In-Network Computing for Underwater Communication | 01 January 2027 | Shahid Mumtaz,, Sravani Kurma, Burak Kantarci,, Hong Tao, Muhammad Ikram Ashraf |
| Security and Privacy of Multimodal Embodied IoT | 01 November 2026 | Amit Kumar Singh, Stefano Berretti, Pin-Han Ho, Wang Chuan |
| Radio protocols for 6G | 01 October 2026 | Klaus Pedersen, I-Kang Fu, Sergio Fortes, Marie-Helena Hamon |
IEEE Network (NetMag)
| Topic | Submission Deadline | Guest Editors |
|---|---|---|
| Distributed Intelligence and Collaborative Inference for Foundation Models over Wireless Edge | 31 December 2026 | Zheng Chang, Ning Zhang, Ruoguang Li, Valerio Frascolla, Hsiao-Hwa Chen |
| Towards Intellicise Agent Communication Networks: Autonomous Integration and Evolution of Humans and Networks | 30 November 2026 | Rui Meng, Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, Lei Zhang, Wanshi Chen, Rahim Tafazolli,, Ping Zhang,, Rahim Tafazolli, Ping Zhang |
| AI-Empowered Cognitive Digital Twin for Future Network Ecosystems | 31 October 2026 | Jun Cai, Changyan Yi, Berk Canberk, Mohsen Guizani, Fang Zhu |
| AI-native Smart Radio Environments for 6G: Evolving from Conventional Architectures to Self-Governing Designs | 30 September 2026 | Kai Yu, Qihao Peng (Co-Lead Guest Editor),, Hassnaa Moustafa, Octavia A. Dobre, Abbas Jamalipour, Maged Elkashlan, Kezhi Wang, Melike Erol-Kantarci, Qihao Peng |
| High-Reliability and Low-Latency Communications for 6G Network: ISAC-Enabled Architectures, Networking, and Services | 15 September 2026 | Markku Juntti, Yi Fang, Jiguang He, Yonghui Li, Merouane Debbah, Xianbin Wang, Iqbal Hussain |
IEEE Wireless Communications (WCM)
| Topic | Submission Deadline | Guest Editors |
|---|---|---|
| Atomic-to-Network: Quantum Radio Front-Ends for 6G Wireless Communications and Sensing | 01 March 2027 | Yuanbin Chen, Tian Hong Loh, Peize Zhang, Darmindra Arumugam, Dominic O’Brien, Jinhong Yuan |
| 3D Metasurface-Assisted Wireless Communications: From Model-Based Designs to AI-Driven Approaches | 01 January 2027 | Hong Niu, Sumei Sun, Fumiyuki Adachi, Xia Lei, Michalis Matthaiou |
| AI-Empowered Underwater Wireless Optical Communications for Science Exploration and Defense Applications | 01 November 2026 | Theodoros A. Tsiftsis, Alexandros-Apostolos A. Boulogeorgos, Sergi Abadal, Joonas Kokkoniemi, Symeon Chatzinotas, Corbett Rowell |
| In-Orbit Computing: Striding into the Era of Space-Centric Intelligence | 01 November 2026 | Jia Ye, Petar Popovski, Harald Haas, Yunfei Chen, Gaofeng Pan, Dominic A. Schupke |
| Wireless Endogenous Security for AI-Native Next-Generation Wireless Networks | 01 October 2026 | Liang Jin, Chao Wang, Li Sun, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Kai-Kit Wong, Kyeong Jin Kim, Sinem Coleri |
IEEE Internet of Things Magazine
| Topic | Submission Deadline | Guest Editors |
|---|---|---|
| Decentralized Identity and Digital Trust for Scalable IoT Systems in the 6G Era | 15 February 2027 | Gyanendra Kumar, Francesco Benedetto, Weiwei Jiang, Farhana Javed, Muhammad Adil, F. Richard Yu |
| Intelligent Pattern Recognition in IoT: From Sensing to Edge–Cloud Collaborative Intelligence | 15 February 2027 | Carlos Manuel Travieso Gonzalez, Gwanggil Jeon, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, Vijayan Asari, Shi Jiao |
| Digital Service Loops for IoT-Enabled Connected Healthcare Systems | 31 October 2026 | Sibo Qiao, Sunil Prajapat, Mohammad Shabaz, Shams Al Ajrawi, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues |
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC)
| Topic | Submission Deadline | Guest Editors |
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| Next-Generation Underwater Acoustic Communication Systems | 31 March 2027 | Zhengnan Li, Mandar Chitre, James C. Preisig, Andrew C. Singer, Milica Stojanovic, Paul van Walree, Michele Zorzi |
| Exploiting Flexible Positioning: Movable and Pinching Antennas for Next-Generation Wireless Networks | 01 October 2026 | Lipeng Zhu, Xiaodan Shao, Fang (Fiona) Fang, Naofal Al-Dhahir, Edward Au, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Robert Schober, Rui Zhang |
| Agentic AI for Intelligent Networks | 30 September 2026 | Sinem Coleri, Ruichen Zhang, Shiwen Mao, Rahim Tafazolli, Xianbin Wang, Song Guo, Ahmed El Shafie |
IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking (TCCN)
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IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking (TGCN)
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IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE)
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IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM)
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IEEE Internet of Things Journal
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| Federated Unlearning and Model Governance for Trustworthy IoT: Selective Forgetting, Provenance, and Auditability at the Edge | 15 March 2027 | Francesco Piccialli, David Camacho, Sadi Alawadi, Rehmat Ullah, Kenli Li, Xiaohua Tony Hu |
| Distributed Communication-Aware Agentic Artificial Intelligence for the Internet of Things | 28 February 2027 | Ishtiaq Ahmad, Lemei Peng, Liang Yang, Houbing Herbert Song |
| Ambient Intelligence for AI-Native IoT: Invisible, Context-Aware, and Autonomous Experiences | 15 February 2027 | M. Shamim Hossain, Sunil Prajapat, Muna Al-Hawawreh, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, Min Chen, Hamid Gharavi |
| Embodied Active Sensing and Environment-Aware IoT Systems in 6G | 31 January 2027 | Pin-Han Ho, Shuping Dang, Miaowen Wen, Mohsen Guizani, Wei Duan |
| Causal AI and Counterfactual Optimization for Autonomous IoT Systems | 15 January 2027 | Ali Kashif Bashir, Gyanendra Kumar, Weiwei Jiang, F. Richard Yu |
| Fluid Antenna Systems for Autonomous IoT: Agentic AI, Edge Intelligence, and Foundation Models | 31 December 2026 | Tuo Wu, Kangda Zhi, Jie Tang, Maged Elkashlan, Naofal Al-Dhahir, Jinhong Yuan, Sumei Sun |
| AI Agent Enabled Small-Large Model Collaboration for Internet of Things | 15 December 2026 | Yijing Lin, Keke Gai, Mona Jaber, Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, Ping Wang |
| Graph Representation on Learning for Internet of Things | 30 November 2026 | Yang Lu, Zhiguo Ding, Arumugam Nallanathan, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Octavia A. Dobre |
| AI-Driven Network Forensics for Edge-Intelligent Internet of Things | 31 October 2026 | Jialing He, Akhilesh S. Thyagaturu, Marco Di Renzo, Sinem Coleri, Tao Xiang |
IEEE Transactions on Services Computing
| Topic | Submission Deadline | Guest Editors |
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| Special Issue on Large Language Models in Service-Oriented Ecosystems Design: Advances and Applications | 31 October 2026 | Boualem Benatallah, Massimiliano Garda, Ada Bagozi, Ilche Georgievski, Michael Sheng, Yingjie Wang |
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
| Topic | Submission Deadline | Guest Editors |
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| Special Issue on When Affective Computing Meets Multimodal Large And Reasoning Language Models | 30 December 2026 | Zheng Lian, Rui Liu, Xiaojiang Peng, Jufeng Yang, Guoying Zhao, Bjorn Schuller, Carlos Busso, Jianhua Tao |
| Special Issue on AEGIS: Affective Experience-centered GenAI for Social Good | 30 January 2027 | Luwei Xiao, Qika Lin, Kai He, Erik Cambria, Björn Schuller |
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
| Topic | Submission Deadline | Guest Editors |
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| Special Issue on Safety, Alignment, and Responsibility of Large Language Models | 31 December 2026 | Shuo Shang, Bin Yang, Christian S. Jensen, Panos Kalnis |
| Special Issue on Trust, Privacy, and Security in Intelligent and Agentic Systems | 15 January 2027 | Hongxin Hu, Elena Ferrari, Heiko Ludwig |
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT)
| Topic | Submission Deadline | Guest Editors |
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| Special Issue on Edge Intelligence and In-Network Computing for Connected Autonomous Underwater Vehicles | 15 December 2026 | Shahid Mumtaz, Chi Lin, Costas Pelekanakis, Lutz Lampe |
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (JSTSP)
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npj Wireless Technology
| Topic | Submission Deadline | Guest Editors |
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| Non-Terrestrial Networks in the 6G Era | 03 June 2027 | Jihwan Choi, Riccardo De Gaudenzi, Min Lin, Hirley Alves, Peng Hu, Andreas Knopp |
| Multimodal Generative Intelligence for 6G Immersive Communications | 17 May 2027 | Xing Wei, Yue Wang, De Mi, Zhiyong Chen, Tony Quek, Sami Muhaidat, Rahim Tafazolli, Mingzhe Chen, Jun Zhang |
| Spatial Intelligence for Wireless Ecosystems: From Perception to Decision Making | 26 March 2027 | Hongyang Du, Jiayi Zhang, Dong In Kim, Sumei Sun, Shiwen Mao |
| Underwater Wireless Communication and Networking: Towards Scalable, Resilient, and Green Solutions | 28 February 2027 | Shahid Mumtaz, Anwer Al-Dulaimi, Muhammad Ikram Ashraf, Burak Kantarci, Jiajie Xu, Sravani Kurma |
| Lightweight Edge AI for Industrial IoT (Light eAI-IIoT) | 29 January 2027 | Megumi Kaneko, Olivier Berder, Robin Gerzaguet, Julien Weber, MEng, Kenichi Kawamura |
| AI-Driven Internet of Vehicles | 07 January 2027 | Lei Lei, Yi Ma, Weihua Zhuang, Ahmed Refaey Hussein, Jie Mei, Hou Lu |
| AI-native Network Digital Twin for 6G Metaverse | 17 December 2026 | De Mi, Ziwei Wan, Zhen Gao, Dusit Niyato, Yue Wang, Sami Muhaidat |
| Beyond the Plane Waves: Advances in Near-Field Wireless Communication and Sensing | 26 November 2026 | Abdulkadir Celik, Ahmed Elzanaty, Anna Guerra, Emil Bjornson, Onur Dizdar, Yuanwei Liu, Ahmed Eltawil |
| Artificial Intelligence-Native Radio Access Networks | 26 October 2026 | Howard H. Yang, Chenxi Liu, Xingqin Lin, Jemin Lee, Tony Q.S. Quek |
| 6G Networks with Embedded Wireless Power & Energy Harvesting | 20 October 2026 | Jia Ye, Harald Haas, Ekram Hossain, Tamer El Batt, Cuiwei He, Jiangang Lu, M.S. |
| Sustainable and Intelligent Connectivity for Low-Altitude Wireless Networks | 13 October 2026 | Weijie Yuan, Jiacheng Wang, Dusit Niyato, Abbas Jamalipour, Maria Sabrina Greco, Braham Himed |
| Wi-Fi 8 and Beyond: Exploring the Future of Wireless Connectivity | 15 November 2026 | Francesca Meneghello, Francesc Wilhelmi, Cheng Chen, Katarzyna Kosek-Szott, Mukulika Maity |
| WireLESS Networking: crystal-free, battery-less and ultra-low power wireless communication | 03 October 2026 | Danny Hughes, Sam Michiels, Yang Yang, Thomas Watteyne |
| AI-Driven Wireless Channel Modeling and Prediction | 30 September 2026 | Meixia Tao, Jun Zhang, Ahmed Alkhateeb, Yong Zeng, Claude Oestges, Enrico Maria Vitucci |
| Wireless Sensing and Perception: Cutting-edge Innovations and Future Vision | 01 November 2026 | Yasamin Mostofi, Ashutosh Sabharwal, Lili Qiu, Joerg Widmer |
| Advances in Wireless Positioning and Sensing | 31 October 2026 | Aboelmagd Noureldin, Henk Wymeersch, René Jr Landry, Tareq Al-Naffouri, Li-Ta Hsu |