Special issue on advances and applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning for wireless communications

With recent advances, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) approaches have emerged to show great promise in the field of wireless communications. Although some researchers are skeptical due to issues concerning complexity and reliability, benefits include the near-optimal performance or the improvement over current state-of-the-art techniques. Luckily, the big data technology delivers an excellent advantage for studying the essential characteristics of wireless networks that can be integrated with AI and ML approaches. Moreover, the recent advances in deep learning, convolutional neural networks, and reinforcement learning hold significant promise. Indeed, they offer new design approaches for solving some challenging problems that, until recently, were considered intractable.