[hpc-announce] [MDPI Electronics - IF: 2.412] Special Issue on Nanonetworks and Nanocommunications

[Sergi Abadal]

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*MDPI Electronics (Impact Factor: 2.412)*


*Special Issue:"Nanonetworking Communications: Latest Advances and
Prospects"*
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/Nanonetworking_Communications

*Submission Deadline:*
April 2021

*Editors:*
Josep Solé-Pareta (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)
Sergi Abadal (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)
Filip Lemic (University of Antwerpen - imec)


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*AIMS AND SCOPE:*

Nanotechnology is currently among the most promising and thriving
scientific domains. It is having a strong impact on innumerable fields,
such as biology, medicine, molecular engineering, organic chemistry,
semiconductor physics, and of course, in computer networking and
communications.

This Special Issue of the MDPI Electronics Journal will focus particularly
on the field of wireless communications and networking, intending to
collect the latest exciting advances and prospects in networks and
communications at the nanoscale.

The ongoing relevant research projects in this field are abundant. As
examples that push the field of electromagnetic nanonetworks forward,
projects such as WiPLASH, TERAPOD, VISORSURF, TERANOVA, NaBoCom, CLIPEUS,
ScaLeITN, and WiBEC can be mentioned.

WiPLASH focuses on wireless communications at the chip scale for large
multicore processors, aiming to deliver functional flexibility to the
underlying computer architecture via a wireless network-on-chip. Similarly,
TERAPOD investigates the full protocol stack of THz communications for
applications beyond 5G, including intra-rack and rack-to-rack
communications in a data center. VISORSURF’s objective is to develop the
concept of HyperSurfaces, which are smart and interconnected planar objects
with programmable electromagnetic behavior, and which are expected to be
enabled by wireless communication at the nanoscale while enabling future
large-scale THz communication networks. The main objective of the NaBoCom
project is to integrate in-body nanocommunication with out-of-body
infrastructures for advancing healthcare applications. Finally, projects
such as TERANOVA seek to create testbeds to enable experimental research at
electromagnetic frequencies amenable to the concept of communications and
networking at the nanoscale.

In terms of nanonetworking communication, these projects deal with topics
such as graphene-based antennas for frequency-beam reconfiguration at THz
frequencies; programmable metamaterials for next-generation antennas and
wireless environments; miniaturized antenna–transceiver co-integration at
submillimeter-wave frequencies; low-power reconfigurable wireless
chip-scale network design; protocol design across the stack for
nanonetworking; and channel models for wireless nanonetworking
communications; among many others.

This Special Issue calls for high-quality submissions dealing with topics
in line with those mentioned above, as well as:

   - Electromagnetic (e.g., mmWave, THz) nanocommunication paradigm;
   - mmWave and THz channel modelling at the nanoscale in different
   mediums, e.g., Free-space, In-body, On-chip;
   - Nanonetworking protocol stack, i.e., physical, link, network,
   transport, and application layers;
   - Reduced/Condensed/Integrated nanonetworking protocol stack;
   - Nanoscale applications, e.g., software-defined
   metamaterials/metasurfaces, robotic materials, in-body healthcare,
   network-on-chip communication;
   - Energy-related considerations, modeling, and constraints, e.g., energy
   harvesting, backscattering;
   - End-to-End nanonetwork architectures, e.g., Internet of
   (Bio/Multimedia) Nano-Things;
   - Nanoscale localization and tracking;
   - Standardization proposals and reviews (e.g., IEEE P1906.1);
   - Simulations tools, experimental testbeds, datasets, and methodologies
   for evaluation and benchmarking of nanoscale communication and networking
   approaches;
   - Sensing, actuation, data processing, and storage at the nanoscale;
   - Embedded, distributed, resource constrained, intermittent, and
   unconventional nanoscale computing and communication systems;
   - Programming paradigms, languages, and tools for nanoscale computing
   and communication;
   - Nanoscale hardware design, implementation, and performance
   benchmarking.
   - The main objective of this Special Issue is to publish a set of
   selected research papers that are advancing the state-of-the-art in this
   field and/or bringing out the prospects that it offers.


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*IMPORTANT INFORMATION:*

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the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All
papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published
continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed
together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles
as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title
and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office
for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be
under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference
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