Special Issue on Edge Intelligence for Immersive Communications

With the explosive growth of smart devices and development of wireless technology, numerous new applications such as Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), Mixed Reality (MR), autonomous driving and intelligent manufactory enter our daily life and put stringent requirements on the current communications technologies. Boosted by multimedia applications and Internetof-Things (IoT), immersive communications is considered to bring a novel vision on the development of advanced communications systems and networks. Nevertheless, to fully explore the immersive experience and applications, ultrareliable, low latency and high data rate communications systems are required. However, the conventional access network can hardly accommodate such stringent requirements, due to limited capacity and long latency on the backhaul links. Novel approaches that bring various network functions and contents to the network edge, i.e., mobile edge computing and caching, are promising to tackle the aforementioned challenges.