Dear Colleagues,

The 10th International Conference on Information Theory (IT 2021) will be held in Zurich, Switzerland on January 23–24, 2021. The conference will provide an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and results in theory, methodology, and applications of Information Theory. The aim of this conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to focus on understanding modern Information theory concepts and establishing new collaborations in these areas. The IT series will be held annually to include innovative academics and industrial experts. This Special Issue intends to contain a selection of carefully-revised and extended best papers, to be presented at IT 2021. Paper acceptance for IT 2021 will be based on quality, relevance to the conference theme, and originality.

The authors of a number of selected full papers of high quality will be invited after the conference to submit revised and extended versions of their originally-accepted conference papers to this Special Issue of Information, published by MDPI, in open access. The selection of these best papers will be based on their ratings in the conference review process, quality of presentation during the conference, and expected impact on the research community. Each submission to this Special Issue should contain at least 50% of new material, e.g., in the form of technical extensions, more in-depth evaluations, or additional use cases and a change of title, abstract, and keywords. These extended submissions will undergo a peer-review process according to the journal’s rules of action. At least two technical committees will act as reviewers for each extended article submitted to this Special Issue; if needed, additional external reviewers will be invited to guarantee a high-quality reviewing process.

Dr. Shahid Ali
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Information is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• Biomedical modeling and computer simulation
• Shannon theory, coding theory and techniques
• Coded modulation, data compression, sequences
• Signal processing, speech/image coding
• Detection and estimation of mobile communications
• Pattern recognition and learning
• Learning and inference
• Communications and communication networks
• Optical communications complexity and cryptography
• Multiuser information theory
• Quantum theory and coding
• Emerging applications of information theory