Wireless communication technologies are paving the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem through a wide variety of wireless technologies for communications and computing protocols, services, and configuration. For instance, network functions such as firewalls, reside in the cloud to increase network agility and scalability while also enabling effective use of network resources. Similarly, mobility has advanced from an employee former indulgence to today’s business stipulations. Mobile devices and smartphones have not only metamorphosed personal communications but also increased business yield and rejigged our society. Congruously, the IoT has been a presiding technological prospect from self-driving vehicles to wearable waldos. Wireless communications and computing are vital to IoT.

Smart wireless communication technologies incorporated with smart computation concede to future IoT devices to communicate with other devices, applications, and services. There exists a broad range of wireless communication and computing technologies available for developers and scientists building future IoT products and systems. Swayed by the application, requirements such as range, data features, power demand, spasmodic connectivity, interoperability, and security will edict the choice of one or more smart wireless communication and computing technologies. With the momentous development of intelligence in wireless communication and computation technology, IoT is anticipated to play a cardinal role in several application domains such as e-health, intelligent transportation systems, and smart cities.

This Special Issue emphasizes the key challenges and considerations that are enmeshed in intelligent communication and computation technologies for future IoT, including power usage, intermittent connectivity, interoperability, orchestration and security. In this Special Issue, researchers from academia and practitioners from industry are invited to submit their original innovative research and review articles on smart wireless communications and computing architectures, protocols, designs, and frameworks to support future IoT applications and services. This Special Issue aims at disseminating advanced trends in research on intelligent wireless communication and computing technologies, covering topics roving from enabling technologies to emerging applications and industrial experiences.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

• State-of-the-art reviews on intelligent wireless communication technology trends for next-generation IoT
• Intelligent wireless communication protocols for future IoT applications and services
• Artificial intelligence-driven wireless communication system framework for coordinating devices in future IoT networks
• AI-driven mobile edge/fog/cloud computing for next-generation IoT applications and services
• ML/DL-based security, privacy, and trust management in wireless communications and computing for future IoT applications
• AI integrated wireless communication system design for smart cities, industry, grid, teleportation, and e-health
• Smart wireless communication and computing protocols for future IoT enabling technologies, including low power and energy harvesting, machine-type communications, radio frequency identification, sensors, wireless sensor networks, real-time systems, and embedded software
• Soft computing, integrates wireless communications, and computing technologies for future IoT
• Experimental test beds and results for smart wireless communications and computing systems for next generation IoT applications and services
• Architecture of Intelligent wireless communication technology for future IoT
• AI-empowered Interoperability and dynamic adaptation for next-generation IoT
• AI-based computing resource orchestration in future IoT