The ELEDIA Research Center is pleased to announce the Special Section on “Smart Electromagnetic and Radio Frequency Environments: Theories, Technologies, and Advanced Applications” in the IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation (OJAP).
đź“Ł Submission Deadline: 31 December 2026
This Special Section aims to provide a premier platform for researchers, engineers, and academicians to disseminate cutting-edge research, novel theoretical frameworks, and practical experimental validations driving the evolution of Smart Electromagnetic and RF Environments — from lab-scale successful experiments to real-world competitive solutions for next-generation wireless systems.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Fundamental theories, information-theoretic models, channel modeling, and performance limits of Smart EM/RF Environment-assisted wireless systems
- Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS), advanced passive EM skins, conformal metasurfaces, and AI-enhanced micro-scale design of SEME devices
- Machine Learning and Deep Learning frameworks for real-time surface configuration, channel estimation, and dynamic beamforming in mm-Wave and sub-THz scenarios
- Methodologies for addressing the computational complexity of large-scale, multi-objective Smart EM/RF deployments
- Deployment strategies for Smart EM Environments in 5G-Advanced and 6G networks, including massive MIMO and joint communications and sensing (JCAS)
- Real-world implementations, proof-of-concepts, experimental validations, testbeds, and industrial applications
- Emerging applications in smart factories, autonomous vehicular networks, biomedical EM sensing, and physical layer security.
Guest Editors:
- Prof. Filiberto BILOTTI, Roma Tre University Roma, Italy
- Prof. Merouane DEBBAH, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, UAE
- Prof. Marco DI RENZO, King’s College London, UK
- Prof. Danilo ERRICOLO, University of Illinois Chicago, USA
- Prof. Andrea MASSA, University of Trento, Italy
- Prof. Zhongxiang SHEN, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
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