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ISSN 0163-6804 · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · 16 articles in the index
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6G Wireless Communications: From Far-Field Beam Steering to Near-Field Beam Focusing
6G networks will be required to support higher data rates, improved energy efficiency, lower latency, and more diverse users compared with 5G systems. To meet these requirements, electrically extremely large-scale antenna arrays are envisioned to be key physical-layer technologies. As a…
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Toward Multi-Functional 6G Wireless Networks: Integrating Sensing, Communication, and Security
Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has recently emerged as a candidate 6G technology, aiming to unify the two key operations of the future network in a spectrum/energy/cost-efficient way. ISAC systems communicate and sense for targets using a common waveform, a common hardware platform…
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IEEE International Conference on Communications
Advertisement, IEEE. The 2022 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2022) will be held virtually and in person in the world-famous, vibrant Gangnam district of Seoul, Korea 16-20 May 2022. Themed “Intelligent Connectivity for Smart World,” this flagship conference of the IEEE…
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Next Generation Mega Satellite Networks for Access Equality: Opportunities, Challenges, and Performance
Digital connectivity has become the foundation of prosperity and an essential need for functioning societies. Despite this dependence, limitation on Internet access remains a prevalent issue, largely hinging on socioeconomic and geographic factors. A promising solution to attain global access…
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The Road to 6G: Ten Physical Layer Challenges for Communications Engineers
While the deployment of 5G cellular systems will continue well into the next decade, much interest is already being generated toward technologies that will underlie its successor, 6G. Undeniably, 5G will have a transformative impact on the way we live and communicate, but it is still far away from…
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Semantics-Empowered Communication for Networked Intelligent Systems
Wireless connectivity has traditionally been regarded as an opaque data pipe carrying messages, whose context-dependent meaning and effectiveness have been ignored. Nevertheless, in emerging cyber-physical and autonomous networked systems, acquiring, processing, and sending excessive amounts of…
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Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for 6G Systems: Principles, Applications, and Research Directions
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) or intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are regarded as one of the most promising and revolutionizing techniques for enhancing the spectrum and/ or energy efficiency of wireless systems. These devices are capable of reconfiguring the wireless propagation…
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Reconfigurable, Intelligent, and Sustainable Wireless Environments for 6G Smart Connectivity
Various visions of the forthcoming sixth generation (6G) networks point toward flexible connect-and-compute technologies to support future innovative services and the corresponding use cases. 6G should be able to accommodate ever evolving and heterogeneous applications, future regulations, and…
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Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: Three Myths and Two Critical Questions
The search for physical layer technologies that can play a key role in beyond 5G systems has started. One option is reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), which can collect wireless signals from a transmitter and passively beamform them toward the receiver. The technology has exciting…
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Next Generation Terahertz Communications: A Rendezvous of Sensing, Imaging, and Localization
Terahertz (THz)-band communications are celebrated as a key enabling technology for next-generation wireless systems that promises to integrate a wide range of data-demanding and delay-sensitive applications. Following recent advancements in optical, electronic, and plasmonic transceiver design…
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Toward 6G Networks: Use Cases and Technologies
Reliable data connectivity is vital for the ever increasingly intelligent, automated, and ubiquitous digital world. Mobile networks are the data highways and, in a fully connected, intelligent digital world, will need to connect everything, including people to vehicles, sensors, data, cloud…
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Federated Learning for Wireless Communications: Motivation, Opportunities, and Challenges
There is a growing interest in the wireless communications community to complement the traditional model-driven design approaches with data-driven machine learning (ML)-based solutions. While conventional ML approaches rely on the assumption of having the data and processing heads in a central…
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Toward an Intelligent Edge: Wireless Communication Meets Machine Learning
The recent revival of AI is revolutionizing almost every branch of science and technology. Given the ubiquitous smart mobile gadgets and IoT devices, it is expected that a majority of intelligent applications will be deployed at the edge of wireless networks. This trend has generated strong…
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Federated Learning for Edge Networks: Resource Optimization and Incentive Mechanism
Recent years have witnessed a rapid proliferation of smart Internet of Things (IoT) devices. IoT devices with intelligence require the use of effective machine learning paradigms. Federated learning can be a promising solution for enabling IoT-based smart applications. In this article, we present…
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Explainable Artificial Intelligence for 6G: Improving Trust between Human and Machine
As 5G mobile networks are bringing about global societal benefits, the design phase for 6G has started. Evolved 5G and 6G will need sophisticated AI to automate information delivery simultaneously for mass autonomy, human machine interfacing, and targeted healthcare. Trust will become increasingly…