Guest Editorial Special Issue on AI Enabled Cognitive Communication and Networking for IoT

As we enter the Internet of Things (IoT) era in which the communication network is becoming increasingly dynamic, heterogeneous, and complex, it is desirable to have cognitive communication systems and networks that possess multiple interacting capabilities for situation assessment, resource management, online/distributed learning, big-data processing, and intelligent decision making. AI techniques, such as deep learning, probabilistic graph model, and reinforcement learning, aided with big data and IoT, provide a wide variety of tools and solutions to many new problems encountered in the design, operation, and optimization of cognitive communication systems and networking, including resource management, situation assessment, channel identification, anomaly detection, root cause analysis, and online/distributed learning.