Call for Papers

The sixth generation (6G) wireless communication networks are envisioned to create an intelligent and multi-function digital ecosystem which will be capable to fulfill current industry and consumer demands of high throughput, massive connectivity, semantic communication, ubiquitous wireless environment, low power and low latency. Reconfigurable holographic surfaces with multiple input multiple output setup (RHS-MIMO) will play a pivotal role in advanced 6G communications, which are composed of numerous metamaterial radiation elements integrated in a holographic pattern to generate beams with desirable directions. Several dynamic beamforming techniques can be adopted to realize reconfigurable wireless communications with RHS-MIMO technology. With a massive antenna setup, RHS can effectively obtain the desired radiation directions of the signal while exploring low-cost solutions. Machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) tools, and optimization-based algorithmic solutions can be explored in attaining sustainable RHS-MIMO aided 6G wireless communications. RHS-MIMO configurations can be applied across the radio spectrum, from sub-6 GHz to millimeter wave (mmWave) through to terahertz (THz) frequencies.

RHS-MIMO can be incorporated into recent multi-function technologies such as the integrated sensing and communications, localization and sensing, computing and communications. For instance, RHS-MIMO can be implemented into mobile transcievers with multi-function capabilities to localizae, sense and communicate, while exploring intelligent and low-cost architectures. RHS-MIMO can be also intertwined with emerging technologies such as internet-of-things (IoT), internet-ofeverything (IoE), internet-of-intelligent-things (IoIT), internet-of-space-things (IoST) and vehicle to everything (V2X). One of the most promising solutions to mobility and vehicular communications is use of green and autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) which can be integrated with RHS-MIMO configurations. For instance, RHS-MIMO based conformal metasurfaces for UAVs-assisted wireless systems. The multiple access schemes such as non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and rate splitting multiple access (RSMA) can be implemented with RHS-MIMO configuration. Furthermore, novel multiple access schemes based on RHS-MIMO operation can be developed for advanced 6G wireless systems and neworking.

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:

• AI and machine learning enabled RHS-MIMO
• Vehicular communications with RHS-MIMO, e.g., V2X with RHS-MIMO, V2V networking with RHS-MIMO
• Beamforming, DAC/ADC quantization, RF sampling with RHS-MIMO
• Multiple access schemes, e.g., RSMA, NOMA, with RHS-MIMO
• PHY algorithms and protocol designs with RHS-MIMO
• Optimization-oriented designs with RHS-MIMO
• Electromagnetic compatibility modeling and signaling with RHS-MIMO
• Emerging technologies such as integrated sensing-comms, localization-sensing, computing-comms with RHS-MIMO
• Satellite communications and networking, e.g., LEOs, ground-to-space, space-to-ground links with RHS-MIMO
• Internet-of-Things (IoT), Internet-of-Intelligent-Things (IoIT), Internet-of-Space-Things (IoST) with RHS-MIMO
• Green and autonomous UAVs assisted wireless with RHS-MIMO
• Security, privacy and interference exploitation challenges with RHS-MIMO
• Emerging wireless backhaul, integrated access and backhaul with RHS-MIMO
• Cell-free wireless, full-duplex, mmWave and THz with RHS-MIMO
• Resource allocation and management, transmission protocols with RHS-MIMO
• Mobile edge computing, distributed and cloud computing for wireless with RHS-MIMO
• Semantic communication, URLLC, mMTC and eMBB with RHS-MIMO
• Experimentation and testbed findings for applied industrial applications with RHS-MIMO

Submission Guidelines

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

Important Dates

Manuscript Submission Deadline: 31 March 2023 (Extended Deadline)
Publication Date: Second Quarter 2023

Lead Guest Editor

Aryan Kaushik, University of Sussex, UK

Guest Editors

Octavia A. Dobre, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Yonina Eldar, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Ana Garcia Armada, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain
George C. Alexandropoulos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Carlo Fischione, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

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