Lin Chen, Lingjie Duan, A. Anpalagan, O. Dobre, Z. Niu
{"title":"Sustainable Green Networking and Computing in 5G Systems","authors":"Lin Chen, Lingjie Duan, A. Anpalagan, O. Dobre, Z. Niu","doi":"10.1109/MWC.2017.8014286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MWC.2017.8014286","url":null,"abstract":"The articles in this special section focus on the design of 5G mobile communication networks that deploy the development of green and sustainable networking and computing protocols.","PeriodicalId":13497,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Wirel. Commun.","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83995397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Benslimane, H. Moustafa, Ying-Dar Lin, M. Radenkovic
{"title":"Guest Editorial: IoT: Protocol Stack, Cross-Layer, and Power Consumption Issues","authors":"A. Benslimane, H. Moustafa, Ying-Dar Lin, M. Radenkovic","doi":"10.1109/MWC.2017.7955905","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MWC.2017.7955905","url":null,"abstract":"The eight articles in this special section focus on the Internet of Things, with particular emphasis on protocols, cross-layering, and power consumption issues. The articles highlight a need for smart radio technologies and communication protocols that support low-power and ultra-low-power operation, multiple communication ranges, and diversity of traffic ranges.","PeriodicalId":13497,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Wirel. Commun.","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90587485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spectrum Policy and Regulatory Issues","authors":"M. Marcus","doi":"10.1109/MWC.2017.7909088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MWC.2017.7909088","url":null,"abstract":"Most wireless engineers are aware that national regulations in their country impose requirements on spectrum availability and equipment parameters, but may be unaware of the technical problems such regulations were intended to address. The general goals of such spectrum regulations from the beginning of most formal regulation in the aftermath of the Titanic sinking in 1912 have been, and remain today, to avoid interference and maximize the use of available spectrum. In this issue’s column we will focus on interference issue. Cochannel interference is the most obvious case, and life in spectrum policy would be very simple if radio propagation was monotonic with distance and deterministic and all interference could be prevented by keeping cochannel stations far enough away from each other.","PeriodicalId":13497,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Wirel. Commun.","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73476956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Wietfeld, A. Cárdenas, Hsiao-Hwa Chen, P. Popovski, V. Wong
{"title":"Smart Grids","authors":"C. Wietfeld, A. Cárdenas, Hsiao-Hwa Chen, P. Popovski, V. Wong","doi":"10.1109/MWC.2017.7909091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MWC.2017.7909091","url":null,"abstract":"The papers in this special section focus on the topic of smart grids. Smart Grids are an essential component of future energy systems, which are characterized by distributed, volatile energy production (solar, wind) and entirely new components (electric vehicles) and operation concepts (virtual power plants). Smart Grids are also a prominent example of Cyber Physical Systems, as they combine wide-area control, computation, and communications. While traditional automation of the power grid makes use of wireline communications (copper, fiber), Smart Grids require wide-area coverage with flexible, cost-efficient, but also very reliable communications networks. Therefore, wireless communication technologies will play an increasingly important role in future deployment scenarios. The investigated options range from cellular networks over satellite systems to wireless mesh networks. Also, the ongoing discussion of future 5G systems is driven by the requirements of Smart Grids as one major use case. Particular challenges for wireless communication options include availability, real-time capabilities for incident mitigation, and resilience. The performance evaluation of Smart Grids calls for new methods, such as the interdisciplinary hybrid simulation of energy and communication networks.","PeriodicalId":13497,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Wirel. Commun.","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74749403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"WRC-19 Issues: A Survey","authors":"M. Marcus","doi":"10.1109/MWC.2017.7864779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MWC.2017.7864779","url":null,"abstract":"On October 28, 2019, the International Telecommunications Union?s (ITU) World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-19) will convene in Geneva for four weeks of multinational deliberations on possible updates to the ITU Radio Regulations (RR). RR is a document setting out the basic international rules of spectrum use and is a treaty between the 193 member nations of the ITU. Such conferences are held every four or five years. This article is the second in a series reviewing the impact of issues on the agenda and their possible impact on radiocommunications spectrum use. The point here is to both inform readers about issues under consideration and to encourage them to get involved in their national process for inputs to the conference.","PeriodicalId":13497,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Wirel. Commun.","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76196440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Guest Editorial: Architecture for Next Generation Wireless Networks: Scalability, Flexibility, and Interoperability","authors":"K. Lu, Shucheng Liu, K. Pentikousis","doi":"10.1109/MWC.2017.7864783","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MWC.2017.7864783","url":null,"abstract":"The articles in this special issue focus on next generation wireless networks. Over the past decade, we have witnessed tremendous growth in the number of networked wireless devices, in the types of wireless and mobile applications, and in the total amount of traffic from and toward these devices. It is clear that future wireless networks have to accommodate even more devices, to facilitate diverse applications in these devices, and to exchange huge amounts of data for these applications. To tackle the challenges in the design of future wireless networks, we have organized this special issue focusing on the scalability, flexibility, and interoperability of future wireless networks.","PeriodicalId":13497,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Wirel. Commun.","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83661824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Message from the Editor-in-Chief","authors":"H. Gharavi","doi":"10.1109/MWC.2017.8088411","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MWC.2017.8088411","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13497,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Wirel. Commun.","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90871078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Industry Perspectives","authors":"Satoshi Nagata, Lihui Wang, K. Takeda","doi":"10.1109/MWC.2017.7955902","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MWC.2017.7955902","url":null,"abstract":"Examines the market for 5G mobile communication. A fifth generation (5G) mobile network system is required to realize latency much shorter than that of the current fourth generation (4G) mobile network systems, in order to be capable of supporting services with very low latency requirements including driverless cars, enhanced mobile cloud services, real-time traffic control optimization, emergency and disaster response, smart grid, e-health, efficient industrial communications, as well as tactile internet, augmented reality, factory automation, and so on.","PeriodicalId":13497,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Wirel. Commun.","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87225884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Guanding Yu, Geoffrey Y. Li, Li-Chun Wang, A. Maaref, Jemin Lee, D. López-Pérez
{"title":"Guest Editorial: LTE in Unlicensed Spectrum","authors":"Guanding Yu, Geoffrey Y. Li, Li-Chun Wang, A. Maaref, Jemin Lee, D. López-Pérez","doi":"10.1109/MWC.2016.7811830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MWC.2016.7811830","url":null,"abstract":"The articles in this special section focus on the deployment of Long Term Evolution in unlicensed spectrum. These articles cover various design issues such as network architecture, protocol development, network coexistence, unlicensed spectrum access, and practical implementation. Fifth generation (5G) cellular networks will face a rigorous challenge in the ever increasing data rate requirement. To meet such anticipated data growth demand, the industry and academia have developed many cutting edge techniques to improve spectrum utilization. However, the scarcity of spectral resources is still a fundamental bottleneck for network capacity enhancement. Recently, the rich available bandwidth on the 5.8 GHz unlicensed national information infrastructure (U-NII) spectrum has stimulated substantial interest from cellular operators to use the unlicensed spectrum for LTE. In 2015, the LTE-Unlicensed (LTE-U) Forum formally launched the LTE-U specification, and the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) has pushed the standardization of licensed assisted access (LAA)into its Releases 13 and 14. However, the LTE-U technology is still in its infancy, and there are lots of challenges that need to be solved, such as network coexistence among different radio access technologies, unlicensed spectrum sharing and access, and quality of service (QoS) provision on unlicensed spectrum. This Feature Topic aims to provide a comprehensive overview of this appealing technology, harmonizing recent results and key challenges, as well as highlighting future important directions.","PeriodicalId":13497,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Wirel. Commun.","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76682862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"WRC-19 Issues: Agenda Item 1.15 and the Use of 275-450 GHz","authors":"M. Marcus","doi":"10.1109/MWC.2016.7811828","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MWC.2016.7811828","url":null,"abstract":"In this column we focus on Agenda Item 1.15. Future columns will deal with other agenda items. Agenda Item 1.15 will “consider identification of frequency bands for use by administrations for the land-mobile and fixed services applications operating in the frequency range 275-450 GHz, in accordance with Resolution 767(WRC-15)” This item was adopted at WRC-15 as a compromise between two multinational initiatives. The first was an initiative from Japan that was adopted by the Asia-Pacific Telecommunity, a regional intergovernmental/indistry organization that “operates in conjunction with telecom service providers, manufacturers of communications equipment, and research and development organizations active in the field of communication, information and innovation technologies”.","PeriodicalId":13497,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Wirel. Commun.","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87009358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}