Call for Papers - ESIT for Electromagnetics, Antennas, Propagation and Channel Models

Description

Electromagnetic Signal and Information Theory (ESIT) integrates electromagnetic wave theory, signal processing, and information theory to assess fundamental limits in applications such as antenna design, wireless communications, sensing and imaging. Recently, both industry and academia have shown strong interest in this framework, which combines electromagnetics principles with information theory concepts, alongside signal processing approaches.

ESIT has promised a paradigm shift in the way we design electromagnetic structures and wireless systems enabling more physically consistent communication and sensing models and setting clearer system limitations. However, more research needs to be performed to achieve the potential of ESIT so that it can be used regularly in design and also for standardization.

This special issue invites contributions in ESIT theoretical modeling, simulations, experiments, prototypes, and hardware-based designs that focus on electromagnetics, antennas, propagation and channels models. Review and tutorial papers providing an overview of ESIT for Electromagnetics, Antennas, Propagation and Channels Models are also welcome. One key requirement of all papers submitted is for them to include electromagnetic principles and theory so that it is fully integrated with signal and information theory. We also ask authors to avoid overlap with previous submissions in recent call-for-papers in selected areas on communications or information theory.

Relevant topics of interest for this selected topic are listed below, but are not limited to:

• ESIT inspired next generation antennas and electromagnetic structures: multiport antenna designs and prototypes based on ESIT, extremely large antenna arrays, reconfigurable antennas, holographic MIMO and continuous-aperture MIMO
• ESIT based sensing and signal processing: Incorporating electromagnetic principles, theory and ESIT limits into sensing and imaging systems, beamforming and channel estimation for both near-field and far-field, interference cancelation and joint system optimization
• Channel modeling for ESIT: Physics consistent channel modeling, computational electromagnetics-based channel modeling, circuit theory-based channel modeling, reactive near-field, radiating near-field and far-field channel modeling
• Theoretical analysis for ESIT: Incorporating electromagnetic principles, theory and ESIT limits into channel capacity analysis, degree of freedom in the time, frequency, spatial, and wavenumber domains, characteristic mode analysis, information measures of entropy and capacity, performance evaluation
• ESIT based wireless communications and networks: Incorporating electromagnetic principles, theory and ESIT for developing a vision, outlook, new challenges, and opportunities of ESIT, ESIT-based networks, new use cases, hardware prototypes and testbeds

We especially encourage submissions that bridge the disciplines at the intersection of electromagnetics, wireless communication, and microwave systems, offering innovative solutions to the evolving challenges of next-generation wireless networks.

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