Dear colleagues, you are cordially invited to submit your contributions to the special issue that myself, Giulia Cervia, Serkan Sarıtaş and Nikolaos Pappas organize on the ``Foundations of goal-oriented semantic communication in intelligent networks'' at Entropy MDPI.
[Summary]
With continued momentum around the deployment of 5G technologies, research communities in communications, control, and networking have already started looking at the requirements and technology components for the next generation of intelligent networks. In the envisioned beyond-5G era, it is expected that data demands will continue to rapidly increase, leading to a world where everything is to be sensed and endowed with connected intelligence, fueled by the interconnection of myriad autonomous devices (robots, vehicles, drones, etc.). On the other hand, wireless connectivity is traditionally seen as a non-transparent data pipe carrying information whose importance, impact and usefulness for achieving a specific task have been deliberately set aside. This communication paradigm, although suitable for classical communication, is inefficient and inadequate to support the staggering amount of data and the timely communication needs of the next generation of intelligent networks. Therefore, it is vital to elevate wireless networks to generate, process and attempt to convey excessive real-time data using a new communication paradigm that accounts for the semantic goal-oriented importance of information that is generated, processed, transmitted, and utilized.
In this Special Issue, we will consolidate the latest ideas and findings on the applications and theory of semantics and goal-oriented communications for networked intelligent systems. #communications #semantics #goal_oriented #control #game_theory #networking
