Integration of Sensing, Computing, Storage and Communications towards Smart 6G Networks
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Networks".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 May 2023) | Viewed by 17664
Special Issue Editors
Interests: 5G/B5G/6G; wireless networks; cyber-physical systems; blockchain; physical-layer security; Internet-of-Things
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Interests: 6G; integrated computing and communications; physical layer security, cooperative communications; wireless AI
Interests: 6G; internet of things; aerial networks; machine learning; spectrum management
Interests: 6G networks; information security; UAV communications; Internet of Things; machine learning; game theory
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The maturation and commercial uses of 5G have boosted various services and applications, leading to more congested usages of scarce spectral resources for communications, as well as a tight budget on resources for computing and storage. Recently, the coexistence and cohabitation of radar/sensing and communications have attracted widespread interest, both from scholars and industries, revealing the great potential lying behind the technologies integrating sensing and communications functions with the same frequency band, contributing to much more efficient usage of the spectral resources. Studies on this topic have inspired further research attempts towards more generic integration across resources in multiple different domains, including resources for sensing, computing, storage, and communications. By harmonizing the original competing relationship between sensing and communications, as well as the isolating processing functions of communications, storage, and computing, integration across two or more aforementioned functions/domains has attracted a great deal of research attention. Such integrations aim at achieving: (1) integration gains that enable the efficient usage of resources and hardware; (2) coordination gains that empower new features and applications through mutual support and cooperation among them; (3) The discovery of new ways to fulfill users’ requirement in one domain by making use of resources in other domains. As a consequence, the integration of sensing, computing, storage, and communications (I-SCSC) is expected to attain substantial gains over spectral, energy, time, and chip resources, while sufficiently reducing the costs. In this respect, I-SCSC is envisioned as one of the keys for the future 6G wireless networks, supporting various scenarios such as the Internet of things, vehicular networks, smart cities, space-air-ground integrated networks, etc.
Despite the great potential of I-SCSC toward the 6G era, this technology is still in its very infant stage and there are many ongoing problems to be investigated. Consequently, there is the urgent need to delve into research on integration over sensing, computing, storage, and communications. This Special Issue intends to embrace the efforts and contributions from both researchers and practitioners in relevant areas to raise discussions regarding the techniques, applications, implementations, etc., related to I-SCSC in the generic sense; that is, integration over two or more domains/functions across sensing, computing, storage, and communications. We solicit high-quality original research papers addressing the topics including, but not limited to:
- Architecture study and design of I-SCSC;
- Information theoretical analysis on I-SCSC;
- Physical layer technique for I-SCSC, including the waveform, coding, signal, etc.;
- Channel measurement and modeling for I-SCSC;
- Antenna and antenna array design for I-SCSC;
- Spectrum analysis and management for I-SCSC;
- Network protocols towards I-SCSC;
- Co-design of I-SCSC with existing standards, such as 5G, WLAN, etc.;
- Co-design of I-SCSC in sub-6G and mmWave communications;
- Resource allocation and management for I-SCSC;
- Security and privacy issues for I-SCSC;
- Physical layer security technique for I-SCSC;
- I-SCSC with reconfigurable intelligent surfaces;
- I-SCSC in space-air-ground integrated networks;
- I-SCSC in vehicular to everything (V2X) networks;
- I-SCSC with artificial intelligence-based approaches;
- Prototype or implementation of I-SCSC;
- Field test or simulation of I-SCSC;
- Hardware design and system of I-SCSC.
Prof. Dr. Qinghe Du
Dr. Li Sun
Dr. Hamed Ahmadi
Dr. Xiao Tang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- 6G
- wireless networks
- wireless communications
- artificial intelligence
- integrated sensing-computing-storage-communications
- optimization
- autonomous networks
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