Journal of Communications and Information Networks

Call for Papers

The emerging fifth-generation (5G) and beyond-5G (B5G) wireless networks aim at ensuring that various contemporary wireless applications can be served in any time, any place, and any way. Nowadays, the 5G wireless networks are rapidly developing and expect to be extensively deployed after 2020. However, even with well-developed infrastructure, there is still a long way for wireless networks to achieve the goal of communication anytime and anywhere. In particular, after some unforeseen disaster, such as earthquakes or floods, the communication infrastructure may be unavailable or seriously disrupted and overloaded. In such circumstances, rapidly deployable network solutions are needed to restore connectivity and provide assistance to users and rescuers in accident/incident areas.

To overcome the challenges for communication in post-disaster or extremely dangerous scenarios, it is necessary to exploit advanced 5G and B5G techniques, such as satellite-based emergency communications, post-earthquake low latency communications, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assisted networks, and Internet of Things (IoT) enabled technologies, that can be designed or deployed on demand to enhance the capability of wireless emergence communications.

The goal of this special issue is to solicit original research and practical contributions from both industry and academia to advance 5G and B5G technologies for emergency communications. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

1) Satellite/aerial/drones assisted wireless emergency communications

2) Internet of Things (IoT) enabled technologies for wireless emergence communications.

3) Mobile edge computing for disaster emergency communications networks.

4) Network planning/resource allocation/service management/performance analysis for wireless emergency communications networks.

5) Artificial intelligence empowered intelligent wireless emergency communications networks.

6) Quality of service provisioning in wireless emergency communication systems.

7) Medium access control for emergency communications networks.

8) Wireless backhaul/fronthaul techniques based on emergency communications networks.

9) Heterogeneous networks optimization for wireless emergency communications networks

10) Network function virtualization (NFV)/Software-defined-networks (SDNs)/ Network slicing verification for emergency communications networks.

11) Security and privacy in wireless emergence communications.

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: Jul 1, 2020

Initial Decision: Jul 20, 2020

Revised Manuscript: Aug 10, 2020

Final Decision: Aug 20, 2020

Final Upload: Aug 30, 2020

Guest Editors

Wenchi Cheng, Xidian University, China

Lin Bai, Beihang University, China

Chunxiao Jiang, Tsinghua University, China

Ning Zhang, Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi, USA

Kezhi Wang, Northumbria University, UK

Jinho Choi, Deakin University, Australia

Submission Guideline

All original manuscripts to JCIN must be submitted electronically through the Manuscript Central https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jcin