IEEE Access Special Section Editorial: Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Computing for Communication and Network

With the rapid development of communication and network technologies, novel information services and applications are rapidly growing worldwide. Advanced communications and networks greatly enhance the user experience, and have a major impact on all aspects of people’s lifestyles in terms of work, society, and the economy. Although advanced techniques have extensively improved users’ quality of experience (QoE), they are not adequate to meet the various requirements of seamless wide-area coverage, high-capacity hot-spots, low-power massive-connections, low-latency and high-reliability, and other scenarios. Therefore, it is a great challenge to develop smart communications and networks that support optimized management, dynamic configuration, and feasible services.