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The article presents the discussion on considerable aspects of face-to-face human interactions remain difficult to relay. Topics include computer's ability capturing a human's emotion called affective sensing, alternatively called emotion sensing and more recently emotional artificial intelligence (emotional AI); and use of emotions in crowd and traffic management; to relaying emotions to and from the metaverse.

The article presents the discussion on study on integrating AI/ML into 5G with MIMO. Topics include MIMO being one of the key technical enablers for 5G in 3GPP in accommodating use cases and services such as evolved mobile broadband (eMBB), ultra-reliability low latency communications (URLLC); and Serving XR services being extremely demanding due to high throughput and low latency needs.

The article presents the discussion on fast evolution of computer and networking technologies. Topics include distributed data storage facilities which are being increasingly implemented using replicated, tamper-proof blockchain ledgers; and plethora of existing security- and privacy-related constraints on the networks are exacerbated, rather than solved, by blockchain technology.

The article presents the discussion on sustainable urban development as populations rise and cities draw ever-larger populations. Topics include industrial Internet and Internet of Vehicles, smart energy systems, building management systems, cyber security; and presenting the technological advancement and challenges of smart cities and smart villages from the system design and implementation point of view.

Prospective authors are requested to submit new, unpublished manuscripts for inclusion in the upcoming event described in this call for papers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Prospective authors are requested to submit new, unpublished manuscripts for inclusion in the upcoming event described in this call for papers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Prospective authors are requested to submit new, unpublished manuscripts for inclusion in the upcoming event described in this call for papers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the telecommunication industry has evolved to provide services for new types of Internet of Things (IoT) devices in addition to basic mobile phone or internet services. Topics include the extended reality devices, sensors, and ground and aerial robots, to name a few. With the deployment of these new services, it is difficult for the wireless network to support ubiquitous connections with diverse quality-of-service (QoS) requirements.

The article reports that Standards are fundamental in creating and maintaining an open and competitive market for equipment manufacturers and in assuring national and international interoperability of telecommunications technology and processes. Our interactive world is aided and achieved by standards which may be based on patented technologies that enable all types of devices to communicate efficiently with each other.

The article offers information on the journal's call for papers on topics like military communications and networks, internet of things, and artificial intelligence and data science for communications.

The article offers information on the journal's call for feature topic (FT) proposals to complement its Series and Open Call publication tracks.

The IEEE International Conference on Communications 2022 (ICC 2022) was held in Seoul, Korea, from 16–20 May 2022. Headquartered at Seoul COEX, the largest exhibition and convention venue in the Republic of Korea, ICC 2022 was in hybrid format with virtual (on-line) sessions as well as on-site sessions for in-person participants. ICC 2022 put together cutting-edge research results and technical contributions from academics, industry practitioners, experts and leaders in the area of communications and networking from all over the world. The technical program included physical sessions with on-site presentations and virtual (on-line) sessions for remote participants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The EU-XCEL European Virtual Accelarator is an EU-Horizon 2020 funded project and part of the Startup Europe Innitiative. The project is coordinated by University College Cork (UCC), Ireland, with project partners including the Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship from Munich University of Applied Sciences (MUAS), InQbator from Poznan Science & Technology Park (PSTP), DTU Skylab from Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), and the Cloud Incubator Hub from Universidad Politecnica de Cartagena (UPCT). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents the discussion on beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. Topics include forum panelist featuring three well-known speakers in Imri Mohktar, Group Chief Executive Offi cer (GCEO) of Telekom Malaysia; and program included one keynote address, two hands-on workshop, one industrial forum and four technical talks.

Intervehicle communication is currently transitioning from an academic exercise to a commercially attractive and feasible technology. However, many aspects of IVC protocols, their parameters and configurations, as well as application-specific adaptations are still to be studied. One of the key tools used is simulation. Looking back at recent years in IVC research, tremendous improvements in precision and realism of simulation models concerning all its aspects can be observed. These models offer a vast number of parameters, enabling investigation of a huge variety of different scenarios. We reviewed simulation studies published at major vehicular network conferences from 2009 to 2011 with a key focus on reproducibility and comparability of the published simulation studies. We are glad to present a clear trend toward a consolidated set of established standards, models, and tools. However, looking at individual papers, we commonly find key information (e.g., the used model) missing. This limits both the reproducibility and comparability of simulations conducted. We further present commonly used basic building blocks of simulations that can serve as a first step toward deriving an agreed-upon set on which IVC simulations can be based. We advocate providing all essential information as set out in this article to help keep future research reproducible and comparable. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article discusses significant developments on studies involving noise in communication systems during the 1930s to early 1940s. These developments were presented in four interrelated and chronological issues, namely, research on frequency modulation (FM) and pulse code modulation (PCM), the statistical properties of noise, the means of reducing noise and optimum signal detection in noise. The article also mentions the inventions and concepts on noise reduction techniques developed by British engineer Alex H. Reeves during the period.

Verification of theoretical analysis is a vital step in the development of an application or a protocol for wireless networks. Most proposals are evaluated through mathematical analysis followed by either simulation or experimental validation campaigns. In this article, we analyze a large set of statistics in articles published (674 papers in total) in the top representative ad hoc and wireless sensor networks related conferences (i.e., ACM/ IEEE IPSN, ACM MobiCom, ACM MobiHoc, and ACM SenSys) during the period 2008?2013. We focus on the evaluation methodologies provided by researchers. More specifically, our goal is to explore the role of simulators and testbeds in the theoretical analysis of a model throughout the protocol development procedure. We show that there is a tendency for more and more researchers to rely on custom or open testbeds in order to evaluate the performance of their proposals. Simulators indeed fail to reproduce actual environmental conditions of deployed systems. Experimentation with real hardware allows our research community to mind the gaps between simulation and real deployment. Still, as the experimental apFproach through custom testbeds results in a low reproducibility level (i.e., 16.5 percent), we investigate to what extent such performance evaluation methods will be able to bridge those gaps. We finally discuss experimental testbeds and their potential to replace simulators as the cornerstone of performance evaluation procedures. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article discusses the survey to better understand what IEEE Communications Magazine subscribers value about it and identify ways to improve readership experience. A random sample of 5,000 Communications Society members were surveyed using a self-administered, online questionnaire. The majority of respondents are aware that Communications Magazine is a Communications Society benefit.

This series focuses on softwarization, management, and their integration in communication networks and services. “Network Softwarization” advocates for network architectures that separate the software implementing network functions, protocols and services from the hardware running them. “Network Management” aims to integrate fault, configuration, accounting, performance, and security capabilities in the network and to support self-management features, integral automation, and autonomic capabilities, empowering the network with inbuilt cognition and intelligence. The critical role that software and management are increasingly playing in telecommunications is enabling unprecedented levels of abstraction, disaggregation, operation, integration, robustness, optimization, intelligence, precision delivery, programmability, and cost and complexity reduction in the network infrastructures and services. Such an approach is resulting in even greater attainment of non-functional characteristics (e.g., qualities of the operation of a network, rather than specific behaviors including flexibility, integrability, interoperability, operational guarantees, deployability, auditability and control, reliability, adaptability, elasticity, effectiveness, extensibility, automation and autonomicity). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the early pioneering work of both telephone and radio engineers in effecting improvements in the noise performance of communication systems. This work led ultimately to the explosive growth of communication activities following World War II. Radio engineers during the 1920s were most concerned with reducing the impact of externally generated "static," and showed this could be accomplished by the use of directional antennas and moving to higher-frequency transmission. Telephone engineers during that period of time, most prominently John R. Carson of AT&T, were led to include the impact of "fluctuation noise" (shot and thermal noise) as well. Carson, using the then novel concept of noise frequency spectrum, showed how the appropriate choice of bandwidth and frequency of transmission could be used to improve the signal-to-noise ratio, anticipating the concept of a "matched filter" introduced 20 years later during radar developments of World War II. This early work on improving the noise performance of communication systems led, in the early 1930s, to Edwin H. Armstrong's spectacular leap ahead with his invention of wide-deviation low-noise frequency modulation (FM), followed a few years later by the invention by Alec Reeves of pulse code modulation (PCM), the first low-noise digital communication system of the modern era. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The fifth generation (5G) of cellular networks has ambitious targets of data rate, end-toend latency, and connection reliability. With the recent spreading of information and communication technology (ICT) into healthcare, leading to an Internet of medical things, new e-health services are being offered, in particular to the elderly population who needs daily assistance. This paper aims at identifying the most representative healthcare scenarios that can benefit from 5G networks and synthesizing the communications requirements in these particular scenarios. The impact of three key 5G technologies, i.e., medical network slices, mobile edge computing, and the management of heterogeneous networks, will be discussed in the representative case study of the connected ambulance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Non-orthogonal transmission is a promising technology enabler to meet the requirements of 5G communication systems. Seminal papers demonstrated that non-orthogonal multiplexing techniques outperform orthogonal schemes in terms of capacity, latency, and user fairness. Since it is envisioned that satellites will be an integral component of the 5G infrastructure, it is worth studying how satellite communication systems can benefit from the application of non-orthogonal transmission schemes as well. Contrary to common perception, current communications through a satellite present a different architecture and face different impairments than those in the wireless terrestrial links. In particular, this work aims to describe different non-orthogonal schemes that are suitable for the forward link (i.e., satellite to user). In contrast with the return link of the satellite (i.e., user to satellite), where the use of non-orthogonal transmission schemes has been widely studied, less effort has been devoted to the forward link. In light of this, this article provides an overview and a novel taxonomy that is based on the forward link of different non-orthogonal multibeam transmission schemes. Finally, guidelines that open new avenues for research in this topic are provided. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Wireless communications is one of the most successful technologies in modern years, given that an exponential growth rate in wireless traffic has been sustained for over a century (known as Cooper?s law). This trend will certainly continue, driven by new innovative applications; for example, augmented reality and the Internet of Things. Massive MIMO has been identified as a key technology to handle orders of magnitude more data traffic. Despite the attention it is receiving from the communication community, we have personally witnessed that Massive MIMO is subject to several widespread misunderstandings, as epitomized by following (fictional) abstract: ?The Massive MIMO technology uses a nearly infinite number of high-quality antennas at the base stations. By having at least an order of magnitude more antennas than active terminals, one can exploit asymptotic behaviors that some special kinds of wireless channels have. This technology looks great at first sight, but unfortunately the signal processing complexity is off the charts and the antenna arrays would be so huge that it can only be implemented in millimeter-wave bands.? These statements are, in fact, completely false. In this overview article, we identify 10 myths and explain why they are not true. We also ask a question that is critical for the practical adoption of the technology and which will require intense future research activities to answer properly. We provide references to key technical papers that support our claims, while a further list of related overview and technical papers can be found at the Massive MIMO Info Point: http://massivemimo. eu [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article offers information on the lecture provided by the IEEE Communication Society Distinguished Lecturer Sudhir Dixit in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Mexico. It mentions the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)'s 20th international conference on high performance switching and routing during 26-29 May 2019 in Xi'an, China.

The article focuses on call for papers by the periodical. Topics discussed include concepts of Internet of Things and sensor networks, which provides insights into the theoretical and practical matters related to breakthroughs; advances in military communications and networks; and articles on state-of-the-art technologies and solutions for mobile wireless systems and networks.

Also included in the article is: IEEE HEALTHCOM 2013 - 15th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Application and Services By Joel J.P.C. Rodrigues, General Chair, University of Beira Interior, Portugal; The 9th IEEE Broadband Wireless Access Workshop Co-Located with IEEE Globecom 2013 By Patrick Marsch, Nokia; Andreas Maeder, NEC Laboratories Europe; Arun Ghosh, AT&T Labs; Giridhar K, IIT Madras; Peter Fertl, BMW Group Research & Technology; Thomas M. Bohnert, Zurich Univ. of Applied Sciences; Dirk Staehle, DOCOMO Europe; Gabor Fodor, Ericsson [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Design and implementation of Devices, Circuits, and Systems Series continues to attract original articles that cover a broad range of topics in telecommunication devices, circuits and systems advances and developments. The Series welcomes contributions from various industrial sectors like healthcare, automotive, energy, agriculture, smart manufacturing, consumer electronics, smart city, VR/AR/hologram, drones, and consumer electronics. While this issue features papers mainly about design and implementation of wireless optical systems, articles covering virtually any type of communication systems and applications can be considered for publication. Prospective authors are strongly encouraged to discuss their intended contribution with any one of the Series Editors prior to submitting an article in order to ensure that the article will be appropriate for the Series. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information about the Annual IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference which was held in Las Vegas, Nevada on January 10-13, 2009 is presented. It was held with the Consumer Electronics Show and was attended by nearly 450 participants. The event was highlighted with its theme "Empowering the Connected Consumer."

The twelve articles in this special section focus on energy efficiency as it relates to fog or edge computing. The Internet of Things (IoT) has emerged as one of the most advanced and complex technological trends, where more than 50 billion things will be connected (e.g., mobile devices, sensors, wearable devices, and other computing nodes) to the Internet by 2020. Edge/fog computing will play an increasingly important role in handling the information flow of such large and complex networks. An unintended consequence is the impact of their operations on carbon emissions and the resulting electricity costs. Thus, there has been focus on designing energy-efficient solutions for the edge-fog environment. In this Feature Topic, state-of-the-art research advances in energy efficiency and sustainability for edge/fog deployment are presented. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Information about several papers discussed at the First International Symposium on Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems (ANTS) is presented. Topics include aspects of the future of telecommunications, carrier ethernet, and latest developments in the telecommunication industry. Speakers include Cisco Systems' vice president Sameer Padhye, Verizon director Tushar Saxena, and JDSU marketing director Jonathan Casey.

The introduction of smart electricity meters with cellular radio interfaces has placed an additional load on wireless cellular networks. Currently, these meters are designed for low duty cycle billing and occasional system check, which generates low-rate sporadic traffic. As the number of distributed energy resources increases, household power will become more variable and thus unpredictable from the viewpoint of the distribution system operator (DSO). Therefore, it is expected that in the near future there will be an increase in the number of wide area measurement system (WAMS) devices with phasor measurement unit (PMU)-like capabilities in the distribution grid, thus allowing utilities to monitor the low voltage grid quality while providing information required for tighter grid control. From a communication standpoint, the traffic profile will change drastically toward higher data volumes and higher rates per device. In this paper we characterize the current traffic generated by smart electricity meters, and we discuss the potential traffic requirements resulting from the introduction of enhanced smart meters, i.e. meters with PMUlike capabilities. Our study shows how GSM/ GPRS and LTE cellular system performance behaves with current generation and next generation smart meter traffic, where it is clearly seen that the PMU data will seriously challenge these wireless systems. We conclude by highlighting the possible solutions for upgrading the cellular standards, in order to cope with the upcoming smart metering traffic. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

As a part of the global effort to address the overwhelming demand for wireless broadband capacity, the wireless communities in the United States have undertaken innovative initiatives such as tiered-access to shared spectrum. The Federal Communications Commission has proposed a dynamic spectrum management framework for a Citizen Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) governed by a spectrum access system (SAS). The implementation of a SAS capable of dynamic frequency assignment and interference management is critical for the success of the proposed framework. In this paper we present the efforts toward a spectrum sharing system in the U.S. context by summarizing different interest groups? standpoint on the FCC proposed framework. We also present an example SAS architecture that accommodates the tiered access to shared spectrum and example approaches to achieve important SAS capabilities. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Wireless networks composed of energy harvesting devices will introduce several transformative changes in wireless networking as we know it: energy self-sufficient, energy self-sustaining, perpetual operation; reduced use of conventional energy and accompanying carbon footprint; untethered mobility; and an ability to deploy wireless networks in hard-to-reach places such as remote rural areas, within structures, and within the human body. Energy harvesting brings new dimensions to the wireless communication problem in the form of intermittency and randomness of available energy, which necessitates a fresh look at wireless communication protocols at the physical, medium access, and networking layers. Scheduling and optimization aspects of energy harvesting communications in the medium access and networking layers have been relatively wellunderstood and surveyed in the recent paper [1]. This branch of literature takes a physical layer rate-power relationship that is valid in energy harvesting conditions under large-enough batteries and long-enough durations between energy harvests so that information-theoretic asymptotes are achieved, and optimizes the transmit power over time in order to maximize the throughput. Another branch of recent literature aims to understand the fundamental capacity limits, i.e. information-theoretic capacities, of energy harvesting links under smaller scale dynamics, considering energy harvests at the channel use level. This branch necessitates a deeper look at the coding and transmission schemes in the physical layer, and ultimately aims to develop an information theory of energy harvesting communications, akin to Shannon's development of an information theory for average power constrained communications. In this introductory article, we survey recent results in this branch and point to open problems that could be of interest to a broad set of researchers in the fields of communication theory, information theory, signal processing, and networking. In particular, we review capacities of energy harvesting links with infinite-sized, finitesized, and no batteries at the transmitter. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The articles in this special section focus on mobile communication and networks. As 3GPP 5G (and its near cousin, IEEE 802.11) technologies mature, engineers are concerning themselves less with the fundamental technologies and more with practical architectures and implementations. It is generally accepted that millimeter-wave (mmWave) is one of the target technologies to be considered, and now the question is how to best utilize it in real scenarios. Similarly, it is also assumed that 5G will extend the range of wireless applications far beyond 4G, and then the question is its effective employment in practical systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This is the first issue in 2020 of the Optical Communications and Networks Series (OCNS). This series presents articles on the latest developments in this key technology field, which offers unprecedented communication capacity and cost-effective interconnection capability to support a variety of bandwidth-hungry wireline and wireless applications. In this issue, we have selected three contributions that address optical underlay network slicing, resource allocation in optically connected data centers, and joint radio-frequency (RF) and lightwave wireless communication and power transfer protocols. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

LPWAN technologies are playing a major role in the IoT scenario due to their extensive radio range, use of free frequency bands, and low energy consumption. Among these technologies, longrange WAN (LoRaWAN) transmits through several kilometers with data rates up to 5.5 kb/s, making it useful for applications such as smart city monitoring, precision agriculture, and environmental tracking. However, LoRaWAN supports only one-hop communication between end nodes and gateways. Because links can be kilometers long, LoRaWAN signals may encounter obstacles or interference, affecting packet reception. Therefore, different studies have proposed using routing schemes to create multihop communication and improve LoRaWAN performance. The article has the following contributions: first, we present the main approaches to build multihop communication in LoRa networks. Second, we summarize different routing protocols proposed for the technology. Finally, we describe different challenges to improve the performance of routing protocols for LoRaWAN. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we examine upcoming 5G networks where the support of D2D communication is expected to be a key asset for operators and users alike. First, we argue the need to functionally integrate D2D and infrastructure-to-device (I2D) modes. Next, we address practical issues such as integrated resource scheduling of D2D communication within heterogeneous networks, proposing an extension of the proportional fairness algorithm that we call multi-modal proportional fairness (MMPF). We evaluate the impact of D2D in a two-tier scenario combining macroand micro-coverage, finding that although I2D retains a clear edge for general-purpose downloading, D2D is an appealing solution for localized transfers as well as for viral content. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The IETF Path Computation Element (PCE) framework is a prime example of a softwaredefined network virtualisation artifact, originally envisaged about a decade ago for constraintbased routing in the conventional best-effort Internet. Over the years, however, it evolved into the ultimate tool for multi-technology, multidomain, multi-layer, and multi-vendor networking. Carriers have already started to implement PCE-based solutions in their combined Internet IP/MPLS and Wavelength Switched Optical Networks (WSONs). However, significant development and testing is still needed to elevate the PCE concepts from theory to practice. This paper addresses standards, interoperability and deployment of coordinated computation and setup of multi-layer paths from a practical perspective and presents its first implementation in a multi-vendor, interoperable PCE testbed. In our testbed, we try to push the limits of multivendor interoperability, which current research mostly neglects, and thereby identify missing links in the current research and standards necessary to implement and deploy inter-operable multi-layer systems. We point to the key areas that the research and industrial communities will need to address in making the proposed solutions practical, which in turn will drive the upcoming efforts in software-defined networking with inter-operable PCE-based architectures. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

One of the most captivating aspects of last-generation mobile communication networks is their multitude of built-in features conceived to address use cases and applications in a variety of domains. As each feature brings about advantages to address applications demands, such a multi-faceted technology puts a number of new challenges in front of researchers and designers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on activities and conference report of the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Communications Society. Topics discussed include Spanish law for electronic access to public services; 22nd edition of the Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks (ICIN) conference; and IEEE Distinguished Lecturer tour on machine learning in digital medicine in Norway and Finland by Giorgio Quer.

A correction is presented to the article "Pathway to a New Engineering Education Paradigm: The COVID-19 Factor" which appeared in the November 2021 issue.

In this column we discuss the early history of power line voice communication, beginning in 1918 and continuing until the early 1930s. We note that these developments were based on the 1910 demonstration by Major George Squier of the United States Army Signal Corps of his "wired wireless" technique for transmitting multiple telephone channels over one pair of wires. Power companies world-wide picked up on this carrier-wave telephony technique for use over power lines, with electrical manufacturing companies such as GE and Westinghouse in the United States and Telefunken in Germany, among others, then developing a variety of systems for this purpose. By 1930, the technique had reached a period of maturity, with 1000 systems installed throughout Europe and the United States. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

By the end of 2007, there were 29 million subscribers to services supplied by FTTx equipment, and by 2012, it is expected the number will grow to over 100 million subscribers. In this paper, we review the current status of FTTx and analyze what is taking place in different regions of the world. We view the future for FTTx in terms of growth and the types of FTTx products we might see. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Capital expenditures (capex) remain the most closely-watched metric for determining the direction and level of investment that telecommunications carriers are making in network equipment and services. In turn, carrier capital spending is driven by the combination of two primary factors: the number of customers served by that carrier, and the volume of services demanded by those customers. This article analyzes the size, scope, and outlook of capital expenditures among telecommunications carriers in the U.S., and assesses the significance of capital expenditures for the carriers customers, equipment vendors, and investors. Written by John Celentano, a highly-regarded telecom marketing consultant, the papers findings and conclusions are based on a study of more than 50 wireline and wireless carriers that will spend a combined US$65 billion in 2008. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Driven by increasing bandwidth demand from increasing broadband penetration, video, and other high-bandwidth services, the IEEE 802.3 Working Group has proposed a new project on higher speed Ethernet, chartered with development of standards for new interfaces with medium access control data rates of 40 Gb/s and 100 Gb/s. As the impact of this technology will not be confined to large data centers, this paper explores the overall network context for higher speed Ethernet and the related evolution of the optical transport network. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents development surrounding the election of the board of governors of the IEEE Communication Society. The slate of candidates corresponds to four vice president positions. These positions include conferences, member relations, publications, and technical activities. In addition, there is a separate slate of candidates to fill four positions on the board of governors. Furthermore, it has been requested that members and interested participants take time to consider the candidates' individual position statements and description of prior experience.