Topics, but not limited to:

. Vision, key drivers, new services and requirements for 6G
. System and network architectures for 6G
. Wireless backhaul and fronthaul solutions
. Spectrum and channel modeling for 5G and towards 6G
. Energy efficiency and harvesting technologies
. Multi-level machine learning pipelines in 5G and towards 6G
. 5G and beyond towards 6G testbeds and experimentation
. Security, secrecy and privacy schemes for 5G and towards 6G
. Distributed computing for 5G and towards 6G
. Optical Quantum computing and QKD in 6G

Schedule is set as follows:

May 25, 2020 (Extended): Electronic manuscript (.ps or .pdf) submission to JCN website
August 5, 2020: Reviews returned to authors
September 30, 2020: Final revised manuscript due
December 31, 2020: Special Issue published

Guest Editors:

. Prof. Periklis Chatzimisios, Corresponding Editor (pchatzimisios@ihu.gr)
. Dr. David Soldani
. Prof. Abbas Jamalipour
. Dr. Antonio Manzalini
. Prof. Sajal K. Das

Electronic submissions should be made through http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com:/jcommnet