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Special Issue: Call for Papers

Please find the the deatils about this Speciall Issue on AI-native Smart Radio Environments for 6G within the f IEEE Signal Processing Magazine with Dr. Maged Elkashlan as Guest Editor.

Important Dates:

1 August 2026 --- White Paper Due
1 September 2026 --- Invitation Notification
15 November 2026 --- Full-Length Manuscripts Due
15 February 2027 --- First Review to Authors
15 April 2027 --- Revision Due
15 June 2027 --- Final Decision
1 August 2027 --- Final Package Due
December 2027 --- Publication

Scope

Fluid Antenna Systems (FAS) introduce dynamically reconfigurable radiating apertures that transform
every major branch of signal processing---channel estimation, DOA estimation, beamforming, sparse
recovery, statistical detection, and machine learning---from inference under a fixed observation model
into joint sensing-and-inference design problems. This Special Issue of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
invites tutorial-style overview articles, comprehensive surveys, and original contributions with broad
appeal that address the signal processing challenges and opportunities introduced by FAS. Topics
include channel modeling, performance bounds, channel estimation and tracking, beamforming and
precoding, array signal processing, sparse recovery, statistical detection, machine learning, ISAC, RIS-aided FAS, near-field processing, hardware-aware design, and standardization. Submitted manuscripts must make clear contributions to signal processing theory, algorithms, or methodology. Papers that
focus primarily on communication system-level performance evaluation (e.g., throughput, outage
probability) without substantial signal processing innovation are outside the scope of this special issue.
Manuscripts should conform to the standard format as indicated in the Manuscript Submission
Guidelines on the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine website ( IEEE SPM ScholarOne Portal: mc.manuscriptcentral.com/spmag-ieee). All manuscripts must be submitted
through the Author Portal. Select the "Signal Processing for Fluid Antenna Systems: Foundations,
Algorithms, and Emerging Applications" topic from the drop-down menu.