Advanced Antenna Systems for IoT/5G Applications
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Communications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2025 | Viewed by 47
Special Issue Editors
2. School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, American University of Kuwait, Safat 13034, Kuwait
Interests: antennas and propagation; microwave engineering; satellite communication; 5G/6G
2. Microstrip Lab, Electronics Research Institute, Cairo 12622, Egypt
Interests: electromagnetic imaging; knee injuries; microwave sensor designs; antenna designs; imaging algorithms; dielectric properties of biological tissue
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, global mobile data traffic has increased dramatically in many sectors and domains due to constant customer needs and the use of advanced devices and applications. These include satellite-enabled internet services, the Internet of Things (IoT), connected automobiles, smart cities, energy applications, emergency communications, and wearables, among many others. One potential way of enhancing capacity and data rates in the current (5G) and future (5G/IoT) mobile and wireless communication systems is bandwidth. Data rates are directly proportional to the available bandwidth. A higher bandwidth provides higher data rates, and this can be achieved at mm-wave and THz bands (30–300 GHz). Nevertheless, to enable those applications/devices to operate in high-frequency bands, several challenges need to be overcome. One of those challenges is the design of antenna systems within the devices, terminals, and base stations. Due to the high path loss in the mm/THz frequency band, the antenna systems should have highly directive radiation patterns towards the direction of propagation of waves, which makes the design process harder. Another challenge is achieving a wider impedance matching bandwidth.
This call for special contributions of advanced antenna systems for 5G and IoT applications targets all antenna and sensor solutions for all applications and configurations (see the list of topics provided below, but not limited to only those). Review papers can be accepted if they are of high quality and of a comprehensive nature that include designs, guidelines, and practices. Only original submissions of high quality are welcome, and all papers will go through a thorough review process as per the guidelines of Sensors.
The following topics will be explored in this Special Issue:
- Microstrip multi-band, multi-function antennas;
- Reconfigurable antennas;
- Microwave, millimeter-wave, and sub-THz antenna systems;
- Multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) antenna systems;
- Antennas for user terminals and base stations;
- Antennas for the IoT;
- Terrestrial base stations and access points;
- In/on package antennas;
- Synthesis and design methods for multi-functional antennas;
- Integrated antennas enabling 5G and the IoT;
- mm-wave/THz antenna systems employing reconfigurable metasurfaces;
- Intelligent antenna design using artificial intelligence.
Dr. Muhammad Ikram
Dr. Kamel Sultan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- antenna
- sensor
- 5G
- IoT
- reconfigurable
- beam scanning
- high date rates
- meta-surfaces
- mm-wave band
- THz band
