The recent technological enhancement in the communication and computing paradigm paves way for the development of next‐generation ubiquitous IoT systems and applications. Moreover, the 5G and technology beyond are making huge differences on both computing and communication services. As the connectivity increases, the sheer volume of things connected through wireless mode for various real‐time applications will not be efficiently handled by the existing technologies. The next‐generation ubiquitous clouds and communication networks will gain the ability to leverage on‐demand access through internet to utilize a shared pool of configurable communication resources. The ubiquitous cloud and communication platforms are widely used as services for data management, processing, and storage, whereas it can also enhance its reliability, flexibility, and efficiency by reducing the complexities.

The research papers for this special issue were selected from among all the accepted papers by the special issue guest editors Dr. V. Suma, Dr. Ram Palanisamy, Dr. Xavier Fernando, and Dr. Robert Bestak based on the scope and objective of the journal. We appreciate the willingness of the authors to help in organizing this special issue.

This special issue contains a collection state‐of‐the‐art research articles with the objective to share research ideas and techniques in the areas of ubiquitous clouds and communication with the underlying technologies and applications, which include internet architecture and protocol, data analysis, information management, and its security. In particular, the articles included in the special issue analyzes the emerging state‐of‐the‐art research areas like big data, cloud, cyber physical systems, and IoT to develop innovative solutions in order to overcome the existing challenges in computing and communication domains. This remains more essential to comply with the necessities of ubiquitous computing and communication applications. As one of the intended goals, the research articles aim to propose various network optimization algorithms, cloud/edge computing architectures, network routing protocols and task scheduling, self‐organized networks, heterogeneous 5G networks, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) frameworks to propose the diverse range of features of reliability, flexibility, security, privacy, trust in ubiquitous clouds, and communication networks. Furthermore, this special issue also examines the significant network theories, formulates significant communication applications, and devises innovative methods to overcome the significant challenges that this research area poses.

通信和计算范式的最新技术增强为下一代无处不在的物联网系统和应用程序的开发铺平了道路。此外，超越5G的技术在计算和通信服务上都产生了巨大的差异。随着连接性的提高，现有技术将无法有效地处理通过无线模式连接用于各种实时应用的庞大事物。下一代无处不在的云和通信网络将具有利用Internet的按需访问来利用可配置通信资源共享池的能力。无处不在的云和通信平台被广泛用作数据管理，处理和存储的服务，同时还可以增强其可靠性，灵活性，

该专刊的研究论文是根据专刊的范围和目标从专刊特约编辑V. Suma博士，Ram Palanisamy博士，Xavier Fernando博士和Robert Bestak博士的所有公认论文中选出的。杂志。我们感谢作者愿意帮助组织此期特刊。

本期特刊包含最新的研究文章集，目的是共享普适云领域的研究思想和技术，并与基础技术和应用进行通信，包括互联网体系结构和协议，数据分析，信息管理及其安全性。特别是，本期特刊中的文章分析了新兴的最新研究领域，例如大数据，云，网络物理系统和物联网，以开发创新解决方案，从而克服了计算和通信领域中的现有挑战。 。这对于遵守无处不在的计算和通信应用程序的必要性仍然更为重要。作为预期目标之一，研究文章旨在提出各种网络优化算法，云/边缘计算架构，网络路由协议和任务调度，自组织网络，异构5G网络和人工智能（AI）框架，以提出可靠性，灵活性，安全性，私密性，无处不在的云的信任等多种功能，和通讯网络。此外，本期专刊还探讨了重要的网络理论，阐述了重要的通信应用，并设计了创新的方法来克服该研究领域带来的重大挑战。和通讯网络。此外，本期专刊还探讨了重要的网络理论，阐述了重要的通信应用，并设计了创新的方法来克服该研究领域带来的重大挑战。和通讯网络。此外，本期专刊还探讨了重要的网络理论，阐述了重要的通信应用，并设计了创新的方法来克服该研究领域带来的重大挑战。