Advanced Antenna Design for 5G, 6G and IoT Communications
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Microwave and Wireless Communications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 May 2024) | Viewed by 1459
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Antennas and antenna arrays play an essential role in the implementation of modern wireless communication systems such as 5G, 6G, and IoT (Internet of Things) networks. In addition to transmitting and receiving electromagnetic signals, antennas can also be used for RF energy harvesting, which is also expected to be an important part of IoT systems. Several physical layer advance communication techniques have been developed based on intelligently utilizing antennas such as multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), massive MIMO, integrated sensing and communication, reflective intelligent surfaces, metamaterials and rectennas (energy harvesting). Thanks to these advanced antenna techniques, future wireless communication and sensing networks are expected to achieve much higher data rates, high energy efficiency, low power operations, and smaller sizes.
As 5G, 6G, and IoT systems continue to evolve to support more functions and higher data rates with higher energy efficiency, further innovations and advancements in antennas and antenna arrays are required to meet the growing demands of these systems. Moreover, algorithms and machine learning techniques for antenna design, optimization, signal processing and RF circuit design are also important to support these advancements and innovations.
This Special Issue aims to publish a collection of novel, innovative and cutting-edge recent research articles on antenna design and optimization, related signal processing techniques, applications of machine learning methods in antennas design, RF energy harvesting and RF front-end design studies for 5G, 6G and future IoT systems. Novel research articles and comprehensive review manuscripts on the state-of-the-art antenna techniques are welcomed. The research topics of this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Antenna design for IoT devices;
- Novel antenna techniques;
- Machine learning and deep learning for antenna systems;
- Antennas design and optimization;
- High-efficiency antennas;
- Antenna and energy harvesting design;
- Impedance matching techniques;
- Circuit design for antennas;
- MIMO and massive MIMO techniques;
- Intelligent reflective surfaces;
- Computational electromagnetic for antennas;
- Antenna arrays;
- Beamforming techniques;
- Miniaturization of antennas;
- THz and mm-wave antennas;
- Antenna design for 5G and 6G networks;
- Antennas design for mobile devices.
Dr. Murat Temiz
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- 5G communications
- 6G communications
- IoT systems
- machine learning
- antenna arrays
- RF energy harvesting
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