<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(49,53,59)">[Apologies, if you receive multiple copies of this CFP]</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(49,53,59)"><br>IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering  Call for Papers<br><br>Special Issue: Intelligence-Empowered Collaboration among Space, Air, Ground, and Sea Mobile Networks towards B5G <br></span><a href="https://www.comsoc.org/publications/journals/ieee-tnse/cfp/intelligence-empowered-collaboration-among-space-air-ground-and" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:blue">https://www.comsoc.org/publications/journals/ieee-tnse/cfp/intelligence-empowered-collaboration-among-space-air-ground-and</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(49,53,59)"><br><br>Aim and Scope<br></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Providing the ubiquitous network accessibility is one of the main goals in the Beyond 5G (B5G) mobile networks. To achieve this goal, it is vital to connect the space, air, ground, and sea networks (SAGS) in such heterogenous B5G networks. Although the above networks exhibit different types of technical issues, they should be connected seamlessly with collaborated networking functionalities and management. On the other hand, in the last five years, with the growing popularity of artificial intelligence (AI), the application and innovation of AI have also been attracting significant research attention to enable intelligent networking and communication, in which the network quality can be ensured by meeting the key performance metrics.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">This special issue (SI) is to foster innovative work that can promote collaboration among SAGS mobile networks by involving AI in the background of B5G. This SI aims to foster research contributions beyond the state of the art, making concrete steps towards solutions for the current problems and opens up new horizons for collaborative efforts over different communication environments.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">The topics of interest for this special issue include, but are not limited to:</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm 0cm 2.4pt 47.25pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Integration of Space, Air, Ground, and Sea Networks</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm 0cm 2.4pt 47.25pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Intelligent Space-Air Networks</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm 0cm 2.4pt 47.25pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Intelligent Satellite-assisted UAV Communication</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm 0cm 2.4pt 47.25pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Intelligent Satellite-assisted Airship Networks</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm 0cm 2.4pt 47.25pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Intelligent Drone-assisted Mobile Ad-hoc Networks</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm 0cm 2.4pt 47.25pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Intelligent Drone-assisted Cellular Networks</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm 0cm 2.4pt 47.25pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Intelligent Drone-assisted Wireless Sensor Networks</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm 0cm 2.4pt 47.25pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Intelligent Drone-assisted Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm 0cm 2.4pt 47.25pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Intelligent Drone-assisted Sea Networks</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm 0cm 2.4pt 47.25pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Intelligent Maritime-assisted Underwater Networks</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm 0cm 2.4pt 47.25pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Software-Defined SAGS networks</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm 0cm 2.4pt 47.25pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Data-based Collaboration for SAGS networks</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm 0cm 2.4pt 47.25pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Network-based models and optimisation algorithms for SAGS networks</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm 0cm 2.4pt 47.25pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times 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