Sensors and Sensing Technology: Toward 6G Networks

Dear Colleagues,

In the upcoming 6G era, various smart devices with a wide implementation of machine learning, deep learning techniques and emerging digital twin technologies provide wireless communications empowered by more edge intelligence. The sixth generation (6G) networks are expected to support a massive number of devices in an intelligent way on the Internet-of-Everything (IoE), such as smart transportation, industry 4.0, smart energy and smart cities, and make them capable of simultaneously sensing the environment and communicating. The 6G is expected to provide significantly superior communication capacities and capabilities than its predecessor. Though this new paradigm promotes the development of novel terminals with powerful cognition ability, it introduces a great challenging issue to harness the multi-source and multi-dimensional data perception for developing joint sensing, communications, interaction and control services and applications. Thus, the future network needs a new intelligent sensing technique to realize fine-grained, highly efficient collection and perception of multi-dimensional data in a non-disturbance fashion. Moreover, in order to achieve accurate data modeling and analysis with low latency, the 6G network requires new artificial intelligence (AI) theories and techniques. Through intelligent sensing and computing, along with an optimized resource-scheduling mechanism, the future network will achieve senseless and immersive interaction and visualization. This Special Issue will focus on the following subjects of interest, as well as related issues:

• AI algorithms and applications for perception, interaction and digital twins;
• Theory and technology based on novel wearable devices for 6G application;
• Advanced perception technology and systems for intelligent services;
• AI-driven cognitive systems for perception and interaction;
• Digital twin technology for 6G;
• Knowledge-based systems for constructing 6G virtual space;
• AI-driven cognitive theory and methods for 6G;
• Intelligent network architecture and deployment for 6G;
• Security and privacy in 6G;
• Internet-of-Everything in 6G;
• Internet-of-Senses in 6G.

Dr. Muddesar Iqbal
Guest Editor

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• sensor
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