Advanced and Sustainable Solutions in Communications, Networking, Computing, and Engineering Systems

With the rapid advent of various expanding research on wireless mobile networks, such as MANETs, VANETs, CCNs, WSNs, and IoT etc., more and more smart mobile devices (e.g. smart phones, smart-watches, smart-glasses, personal wearable communication devices and wearable healthcare devices, etc.) have been designed to adapt to the development of wireless mobile networks, which indicates that we are entering an era of smart society. By leveraging the wireless mobile networks, smart mobile devices can communicate with each other and exchange information to perform the optimal control or display necessary information anytime and anywhere. Although there have been large numbers of research efforts relevant to this area, it is still necessary to address many challenges of wireless mobile networks by utilizing ongoing works. On one hand, the efficient resource utilization in terms of energy consumption, radio resource allocation, routing selection etc., is still a big challenge in wireless mobile networks. On the other hand, the deployment of exiting wireless mobile networks lacks appropriate monitoring, response mechanisms and cognitive ability etc. Therefore, building "advanced" wireless mobile networks with the features of intelligent and cooperative communication, cross-layer optimization, and security-guarantee etc. has become an utmost important and urgent task to be solved. The aim of this special issue is to motivate researchers to publish their latest research, up-to-date issues, and challenges in the field of wireless mobile networks. Proposed submissions should be original and unpublished. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

1. Artificial Intelligence
2. Computer and Information Science
3. Content centric networking
4. Context and location-aware wireless mobile services & applications
5. Cross-layer design and optimization for wireless mobile networks
6. Cryptography and Information Security
7. Data storage, data centers and cloud computing in wireless mobile networks
8. Earth Sciences, Electrical and Electronic Engineering
9. Energy-saving and QoE-oriented applications
10. Engineering and Environmental Sciences
11. High performance network virtualization
12. Image Processing and Computer Vision
13. Internet of Things
14. Materials Science
15. Mathematics
16. Mobility management and modeling in wireless mobile networks
17. Multipath communication over wireless mobile networks
18. Numerical Analysis Applications in Engineering 
19. Optimization and Computational Aspects of High Performance Electrical Engineering Systems
20. Production and Industrial Engineering
21. Robotic ,system engineering and control
22. Sustainable development in engineering 
23. Trust, security, and privacy in wireless mobile networks
24. Wireless & mobile network management and data services
25. Wireless applications, mobile e-commerce, multimedia
26. Wireless network architectures
27. Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks, Ad hoc and Opportunistic Networks, Vehicular Networks

To deal with these challenges, we need to develop strong communities that work across industries and with multiple stakeholders to address these issues. Hence, having an understanding of energy issues in community and regional levels would pave the way to a more comprehensive solution globally.