Call for Papers

5G networks and devices are now a reality with wide deployment and spread among population, but the demand for more data rate is still booming, and will soon need for a newer generation for wireless/cellular communication, the 6G. It will be a new standard that not only provides extremely high data rates and extremely low latency, but also will enable the “hyper-connected” paradigm that will connect users and things and support many vertical industries and applications.

6G communications will bring new challenges due to their sensitivity to scenario conditions, thereby requiring highly adaptive techniques that will adapt extremely fast, in order to guarantee the low latency and high reliability. Spectrum and resources management will be crucial within 6G in order to account for the extremely heterogeneous scenario. The networks complexity will also be unprecedented, due to the very diverse applications such as ultra‐low latency requirements for critical vehicle communication, the growing demand of high positioning accuracy for location‐based services, and dense heterogeneous architectures. Several emerging topics are encountered within 6G and this Special Issue (SI) will focus on such emerging topics, and potential solutions will be presented. Researchers and engineers from academia and industry are invited to submit their recent research results and innovations, as well as new findings obtained from experimental results as well as insights on the regulatory side.

Motivated by the current trends in the field of 6G Wireless, this Special Issue targets to assemble cross-cutting and high-quality original research papers in the following areas, but not limited to:

• Novel signal processing techniques for 6G
• Smart Antenna schemes for 6G
• 6G communications at the Terahertz band
• Advanced Full Duplex strategies for 6G
• Meta-surfaces implementation at 6G
• AI applications for 6G
• New Quality of Service (QoS) metrics for 6G
• Multiple Access schemes suitable to 6G
• Dynamic spectrum access/sharing at 6G band
• New network architectures in 6G
• Self-organizing 6G-enabled IoT
• Interference management at 6G
• New security concepts within 6G
• 6G Testbeds and Applications
• Spectrum regulatory for 6G bands

Submission Guidelines

Prospective authors should submit their manuscripts following the IEEE OJCOMS guidelines. Authors should submit a manuscript through Manuscript Central.

Important Dates

Manuscript Submission Deadline: 31 May 2023 (Extended Deadline)
Publication Date: Third Quarter 2023

Lead Guest Editor

Ruiqi (Richie) Liu, ZTE, China

Guest Editors

Nizar Zorba, Qatar University, Qatar
Tianqi Mao, Beihang University, China
Gunes Karabulut Kurt, Polytechnique Montréal, Canada
Marco Di Renzo, Centrale Supelec, France
Petar Popovski, Aalborg University, Denmark

For inquiries regarding this Special Issue, please contact the Lead Guest Editor.

The SI is technically sponsored by ComSoc SPCC-TC.