Next generation wireless communication systems will connect billions of Internet of Thing (IoT) devices and user elements along with billions of people, enable machine-to-ma-chine communications across heterogeneous and dynamic environment, and provide low-latency computing and storage resources on demand at the deep edge as well as in the cloud. Tremendous research and development efforts have already been emphasized on the enabling technologies toward next generation wireless systems to support a variety of critical and personalized services in multiple application domains, including industry use cases, environment, transportation, education, public health and safety, and defense. Wireless communication networks have been greatly advanced by exploiting technologies such as millimeter wave, dynamic spectrum sharing, massive MIMO, beam forming, network slicing and virtualization, and artificial intelligence and machine learning. These technology breakthroughs can empower wireless networks to support extreme high capacity, massive connectivity, and ultra-low latency communications for new use cases identified for next generation wireless systems. In order to design and deploy wireless communication systems with IoT devices across heterogeneous and dynamic environments to provide next generation wireless services, however, there are many critical technical challenges yet to be addressed. In this issue of IEEE Wireless Communications, we are pleased to present two feature topics to bring together researchers, industry practitioners, and individuals working on the related areas to address some of these technical challenges for IoT and next generation wireless systems. One feature topic on “Massive Machine-Type Communications for IoT” includes four articles, and was organized by guest editors W. Ji, T. Ebrahimi, Z. Li, J. Yuan, D. O. Wu, and Y. Xin; the other feature topic on “Emerging Visual IoT Technologies for Future Communications and Networks” includes six articles, and was organized by guest editors L. Liu, E. G. Larsson, P. Popovski, G. Caire, X. Chen, and S. R. Khosravirad. Thanks to the two guest editor teams who did an excellent job in editing these two feature topics for our readers. Please stay tuned for new developments in the research area of IoT and next generation wireless communications and read the editorials and the papers in the feature topics.

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物联网和下一代无线通信系统


下一代无线通信系统将连接数十亿个物联网（IoT）设备和用户元素以及数十亿人，实现跨异构和动态环境的机器对机器通信，并在网络上提供低延迟计算和存储资源。深层边缘和云端的需求。人们已经在下一代无线系统的支持技术上投入了大量的研究和开发工作，以支持多个应用领域的各种关键和个性化服务，包括行业用例、环境、交通、教育、公共卫生和安全以及国防。通过利用毫米波、动态频谱共享、大规模 MIMO、波束成形、网络切片和虚拟化以及人工智能和机器学习等技术，无线通信网络得到了极大的发展。这些技术突破可以使无线网络能够支持极高容量、大规模连接和超低延迟通信，从而满足下一代无线系统的新用例。然而，为了在异构和动态环境中设计和部署物联网设备的无线通信系统以提供下一代无线服务，还有许多关键的技术挑战有待解决。在本期 IEEE 无线通信中，我们很高兴提出两个专题主题，将研究人员、行业从业者和从事相关领域工作的个人聚集在一起，共同解决物联网和下一代无线系统的一些技术挑战。 其中一篇专题为“面向物联网的大规模机器类型通信”，包括四篇文章，由客座编辑 W. Ji、T. Ebrahimi、Z. Li、J. Yuan、DO Wu 和 Y. Xin 组织；另一个专题主题是“面向未来通信和网络的新兴视觉物联网技术”，包括六篇文章，由客座编辑 L. Liu、EG Larsson、P. Popovski、G. Caire、X. Chen 和 SR Khosravirad 组织。感谢两位客座编辑团队为我们的读者出色地编辑了这两个专题。请继续关注物联网和下一代无线通信研究领域的新进展，并阅读专题中的社论和论文。