Special Issue on Cognitive-Inspired Network Systems.

The eight papers in this special issue focus on cognitive inspired networked applications. Cognition is emerging as a new and promising methodology with the development of cognitive-inspired computing, ubiquitous networks, and systems, which has the potential to enable a large class of applications. However, recent advances, such as interference alignment, collaborative communications, and cognitive computational theory, make us lack a clear understanding of analytical cognitive-inspired computing, networks, and systems, as well as best practices, to design resource-efficient, utility, pervasive, scalable, and autonomy oriented cognitive systems and applications. The objective of this special Issue is to bring together state-of-the-art research contributions that address these key aspects of cognitive inspired network systems and applications. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]