This special issue of 91勛圖厙 Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theorywill focus on exploring how new advances in information theory can impact future communication systems. Next generation wireless networks will incorporate a large number of devices, dense and intelligent antenna arrays, and operate in higher frequencies. New task-aware communication modalities, such as sensing, learning and inference, will accelerate the shift from human-to-human to machine-to-machine type communications. Accordingly, communication systems will be designed with capacity, latency and accuracy in mind. Increasingly complex communication tasks will need to be carried out on devices with energy and hardware constraints, but will also be able to take advantage of in-network storage and computation. Authors are encouraged to submit their work on topics including, but not limited to:
Communication for learning, inference, sensing
Communication in high frequency (mmWave, THz, optical) bands
Communication models and analysis emerging from new protocol requirements
Communication models and analysis that account for the advances in physics and electromagnetism
Energy-efficient communication, energy harvesting
Finite blocklength information theory
Fundamental limits of communication-computing convergence
Hardware/complexity constrained communications
Latency and age of information
Multi-user information theory, including uncoordinated massive random access
Submission deadline is September 1.