Guest Editorial Special Issue on Energy-Efficient Reconfigurable Wireless Communication and Networks

The next-generation wireless communication and networks are envisioned to become controllable, programmable, and intelligent by leveraging emerging technologies such as Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS) and Cognitive Radio. Reconfigurable wireless networks aim to enable “intelligence” into the existing system to perceive and assess the available resources, autonomously learn to adapt to the wireless environment’s dynamism and reconfigure its operating mode to maximize the utility of the available resources. Moreover, it needs to be energy efficient to support the technological limitations on energy supply and mitigate the effect of the information and communication technologies. Apart from that, the newly designed solutions need to be energy efficient to accommodate the power consumption of the numerous devices in wireless communication and Networks. This special issue aims to motivate the researchers to design novel schemes and architectures for the energy-efficient reconfigurable wireless communication and networks. This issue has 47 high-quality papers covering several aspects of reconfigurable wireless communication and networks. Among them, 17 papers with significant original contributions were eventually selected for publications in this special issue.