Computational Intelligence in Communication Networks

Dear Colleagues,

In the near future, all types of objects and structures in the natural physical environment will be computerized and have the ability to communicate with each other. Applications of significant economic and social importance will be created by exploiting these new capabilities of physical objects in time and space. The proper functioning of the various objects and applications will depend on the provision of reliable and secure communications. One of the main characteristics of the networks that provide these communications will be their heterogeneity. Different parts of the networks will have different resource capabilities. For example, resource-constrained areas of IoT, or Tactile Internet featuring extremely low latency, high availability, reliability, and security. The proper functioning of such types of infrastructures requires the application of intelligent computational methods for data processing and protection as well as efficient transmission of information. 

This Special Issue calls for papers on the following topics:

• Intelligent approaches providing data security using not only the classical cryptographic techniques but also physical layer security methods;
• Intelligent algorithms for secure communications using information theory;
• Efficient information transmission, deploying smart technologies for data collection and processing;
• Computational intelligence for network architecture simulation;
• Intelligent network protocols;
• Intelligent algorithms for network resource allocation;
• Intelligent algorithms for power and interference control.

The above list of topics is not exhaustive.

Prof. Dr. Georgi Iliev
Guest Editor

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