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Table of Contents IEEE Internet Things J. (IF 10.238) Pub Date : 2023-01-05
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A Message From the Outgoing Editor-in-Chief IEEE Internet Things J. (IF 10.238) Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Honggang Wang
As my term as the Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J) has ended, I would like to share my appreciation for all of you, including authors and IoT-J team. I have been serving as the EiC since 1 January 2020, just before the pandemic. I am thankful that the pandemic is mostly behind us, and I am happy that our editorial board members have been able to work on making the Journal
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Front cover IEEE Netw. (IF 10.294) Pub Date : 2022-12-30
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Table of Contents IEEE Netw. (IF 10.294) Pub Date : 2022-12-30
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Scanning the Literature IEEE Netw. (IF 10.294) Pub Date : 2022-12-30 Xiaohua Tian
Presents concise summaries of selected papers that are recently published in the field of networking. Each summary describes the paper's main idea, methodology, and technical contributions. The purpose of the column is to bring the state of the art of networking research to readers of IEEE Network. Authors are also welcome to recommend their recently published work to the column, and papers with novel
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Deep-Learning-Based Weak Electromagnetic Intrusion Detection Method for Zero Touch Networks on Industrial IoT IEEE Netw. (IF 10.294) Pub Date : 2022-12-30 Tingting Wang, Jianqing Li, Wei Wei, Wei Wang, Kai Fang
The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), consisting of a large number of self-organized sensors, is one of the prominent representatives of zero touch networks, which will be widely used for information interconnection. With the advancement in intelligent manufacturing, the security of zero touch IIoT becomes a critical issue in various applications. One of the main factors that endanger the normal
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Realizing the Tactile Internet through Intelligent Zero Touch Networks IEEE Netw. (IF 10.294) Pub Date : 2022-12-30 Ismaeel Al Ridhawi, Moayad Aloqaily, Fakhri Karray, Mohsen Guizani, Merouane Debbah
The Internet of Things is expected to evolve and create numerous technological advances, paving the road for solutions that were once considered impossible. The Tactile Internet (TI), which is envisioned to enable real-time transmission of haptic and conventional data traffic, is creating that paradigm shift toward control-based communication between end users and machines. Tele-operation, augmented/virtual
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Zero Touch Networks to Realize Virtualization: Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Prospects IEEE Netw. (IF 10.294) Pub Date : 2022-12-30 Imran Ashraf, Yousaf Bin Zikria, Sahil Garg, Yongwan Park, Georges Kaddoum, Satinder Singh
The heterogeneity and growing complexity from the evolution of 5G and beyond networks and the development of future IoT networks necessitate the automatic management of these networks. The exacerbated growth of IoT devices and foreseen network complexity deem manual management impractical. Zero touch networks (ZTNs) seems the practical solution to utilize the potential of virtualization by incorporating
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Toward Zero Touch Networks: From the Perspective of Hierarchical Language Systems IEEE Netw. (IF 10.294) Pub Date : 2022-12-30 Guozhi Lin, Jingguo Ge, Yulei Wu
With ever increasing complexity and dynamicity of communication networks, intelligent network operation and maintenance has become more important to network operators. With the fast development of artificial intelligence, concepts such as “zero touch,” “intent-based,” “knowledge-defined,” and “self-driving” networks have become well known in the networking community for a great vision of making networks
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HLSAQ: Hybrid Security Model for Quantum Networks IEEE Netw. (IF 10.294) Pub Date : 2022-12-30 Cherry Mangla, Shalli Rani, Sahil Garg, Mohammad Mehedi Hassan, Salman A. AlQahtani
The idea of the quantum internet is to provide an internet technology that can enable quantum communication between any two points on Earth. Researchers are proposing a theoretically large number of quantum networks, but practically they are still far from reality Yet the aspect of security can not be ignored as it has always remained a crucial aspect of every network or device. In this article, we
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Wireless Advances and a Feature Topic on Leveraging Drones for Wireless Services IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.777) Pub Date : 2022-12-29 Nirwan Ansari
Many advances are being made as we are marching toward IMT for 2030 and beyond. IEEE Wireless Communications continues to serve as the venue of choice for reporting such advances. Thus, for the year of 2022, the magazine has produced eight special topics, with “Coexistence of Drone and Terrestrial Networks” (organized by Gagangeet Singh Aujla, Harpreet S. Dhillon, Dusit Niyato, and Chiranjib Saha)
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Revisiting the System Energy Footprint and Power Efficiency on the Way to Sustainable 6G Systems IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.777) Pub Date : 2022-12-29 Weide Wu, Chien-Sheng Yang, I-Kang Fu, Pei-Kai Liao, Doru Calin, Mingxi Fan
It is expected that the 6G architecture will bring much better network economics and energy efficiency through a heterogeneous architecture that natively blurs the boundary between dedicated network infrastructure and devices. In this context, we foresee that 6G devices will not only be communication endpoints, but they will also be able to act as active network nodes in a data path. As the impetus
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Guest Editorial: Coexistence of Drone and Terrestrial Networks IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.777) Pub Date : 2022-12-29 Gagangeet Singh Aujla, Harpreet S. Dhillon, Dusit Niyato, Chiranjib Saha
While drones have found use in military applications for decades, they have recently entered the commercial application arena, with substantial market investments coming up over the next decade. They are prevalent in application domains like public safety, surveillance, package/goods delivery, and first responders, to name a few. They are being seen as wireless services on the fly that can augment
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Deep Reinforcement Learning Assisted Spectrum Management in Cellular Based Urban Air Mobility IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.777) Pub Date : 2022-12-29 Ruixuan Han, Hongxiang Li, Rafael Apaza, Eric Knoblock, Michael Gasper
The emerging urban air mobility (UAM) opens a new transportation paradigm to support increasing mobility demand in metropolitan areas. A major challenge for UAM is to ensure reliable two-way wireless communications between aerial vehicles and their associated ground air traffic control centers for safe operations. The concept of cellular-based UAM (cUAM) provides a promising solution for reliable air-ground
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Opportunities for Physical Layer Security in UAV Communication Enhanced with Intelligent Reflective Surfaces IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.777) Pub Date : 2022-12-29 Wali Ullah Khan, Eva Lagunas, Zain Ali, Muhammad Awais Javed, Manzoor Ahmed, Symeon Chatzinotas, Björn Ottersten, Petar Popovski
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are an important component of next-generation wireless networks that can assist in high data rate communications and provide enhanced coverage.Their high mobility and aerial nature offer deployment flexibility and low-cost infrastructure support to existing cellular networks and provide many applications that rely on mobile wireless communications. However, security
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AI-Based Energy-Efficient UAV-Assisted IoT Data Collection with Integrated Trajectory and Resource Optimization IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.777) Pub Date : 2022-12-29 Sami Ahmed Haider, Yousaf Bin Zikria, Sahil Garg, Shahzor Ahmad, Mohammad Mehedi Hassan, Salman A. AlQahtani
Using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for data collecting in remote places is advantageous because of UAVs' low cost and extended range mobility. To facilitate the operation of time-sensitive applications, the acquired data is processed as geographically close to the end user as is practically possible. The suggested paradigm for energy-efficient UAV-assisted Internet of Things data gathering integrates
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Near Space Communications: A New Regime in Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.777) Pub Date : 2022-12-29 Zhenyu Xiao, Tianqi Mao, Zhu Han, Xiang-Gen Xia
Precipitated by the technological innovations in near-space platform stations (NSPSs), the near-space communication (NS-COM) network has emerged as an indispensable part of the next-generation space-air-ground integrated network (SAGIN) that facilitates ubiquitous coverage and broadband data transfer. This article aims to provide a comprehensive overview of NS-COM. First, we investigate the differences
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Blockchain and AI Enabled Configurable Reflection Resource Allocation for IRS-Aided Coexisting Drone-Terrestrial Networks IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.777) Pub Date : 2022-12-29 Qianqian Pan, Jun Wu, Ali Kashif Bashir, Jianhua Li, Sahil Vashisht, Raheel Nawaz
With the capability of establishing line-of-sight (LoS) links for devices, drones are generally utilized as aerial base stations to construct coexisting drone-terrestrial networks (CDTNs) for wireless communication. However, the established LoS links are easily blocked, thereby severely decreasing transmission performance. The intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising technology to improve
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Correction to “Privacy-Preserving Blockchain-Based Federated Learning for IoT Devices” IEEE Internet Things J. (IF 10.238) Pub Date : 2022-12-22 Yang Zhao, Jun Zhao, Linshan Jiang, Rui Tan, Dusit Niyato, Zengxiang Li, Lingjuan Lyu, Yingbo Liu
In [1] , on page 1824, Fig. 3 should be as follows:
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Front Cover IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.777) Pub Date : 2022-12-09
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Table of Contents IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.777) Pub Date : 2022-12-09
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Masthead IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.777) Pub Date : 2022-12-09
Presents a listing of the editorial board, board of governors, current staff, committee members, and/or society editors for this issue of the publication.
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Everyday Living Assisted by 6G Applications and Solutions IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.777) Pub Date : 2022-12-09 Ki-Dong Lee, Carroll Gray-Preston
Following the June column on Everyday Living Assisted by Network of Service Robots, this column presents a broader range of 6G applications and solutions that would play vital roles in new services. In particular, these are addressed in the four foundational areas of use cases recently published by ATIS' Next G Alliance (NGA). The NGA is an initiative to advance North American wireless technology leadership
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Spectrum Wars: The Rise of 5G and Beyond IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.777) Pub Date : 2022-12-09 Bo Rong
This book offers comprehensive knowledge on the spectrum wars in 5G and beyond, not only covering the basics, essential topics, and future directions, but also detailing the design and implementation of spectrum management. It offers readers with a deeper knowledge of how spectrum resources are utilized and how decisions are made in the wireless world. The greatest problem we have in the era of 5G
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Scanning the Literature IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.777) Pub Date : 2022-12-09
Provides an overview and summary of the technical articles and features of interest to readers that appear in select Communications Society publications.
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Guest Editorial: AI for Open Programmable Virtualized Networks in 6G IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.777) Pub Date : 2022-12-09 Fabrizio Granelli, Cristina E. Costa, Melike Erol-Kantarci, Jun Zheng
Programmable virtualized networks decouple data and control planes and have the power of supporting the demands of diverse and varied use cases, allowing the services to scale and adapt dynamically. The diverse demands of Enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB), Ultra-Reliable and Low-latency Communications (uRLLC), and massive Machine Type Communications (mMTC) users inevitably increase the network complexity
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Graph Neural Networks Meet Wireless Communications: Motivation, Applications, and Future Directions IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.777) Pub Date : 2022-12-09 Mengyuan Lee, Guanding Yu, Huaiyu Dai, Geoffrey Ye Li
As an efficient graph analytical tool, graph neural networks (GNNs) have special properties that are particularly fit for the characteristics and requirements of wireless communications, exhibiting good potential for the advancement of next-generation wireless communications. This article aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the interplay between GNNs and wireless communications, including GNNs
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Machine Learning-Based Cell-Free Support in the O-RAN Architecture: An Innovative Converged Optical-Wireless Solution Toward 6G Networks IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.777) Pub Date : 2022-12-09 John S. Vardakas, Kostas Ramantas, Evgenii Vinogradov, Md Arifur Rahman, Adam Girycki, Sofie Pollin, Simon Pryor, Philippe Chanclou, Christos Verikoukis
One of the most crucial challenges for the global socio-technical domain nowadays is the support of unprecedented use cases for a variety of applications such as augmented reality, 3D holographic telepresence, Industry 4.0, robotics, e-health, and pervasive connectivity. In this environment, beyond 5G intelligent networks that are able to provide enhanced flexibility through the dynamic allocation
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Semantic Communication Meets Edge Intelligence IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.777) Pub Date : 2022-12-09 Wanting Yang, Zi Qin Liew, Wei Yang Bryan Lim, Zehui Xiong, Dusit Niyato, Xuefen Chi, Xianbin Cao, Khaled B. Letaief
The development of emerging applications, such as autonomous transportation systems, is expected to result in an explosive growth in mobile data traffic. As the available spectrum resource becomes more and more scarce, there is a growing need for a paradigm shift from Shannon's Classical Information Theory (CIT) to semantic communication (SemCom). Specifically, the former adopts a “transmit-before-understanding”
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Functional Split of In-Network Deep Learning for 6G: A Feasibility Study IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.777) Pub Date : 2022-12-09 Jia He, Huanzhuo Wu, Xun Xiao, Riccardo Bassoli, Frank H. P. Fitzek
In existing mobile network systems, the data plane (DP) is mainly considered a pipeline consisting of network elements end-to-end forwarding user data traffics. With the rapid maturity of programmable network devices, however, mobile network infrastructure mutates toward a programmable computing platform. Therefore, such a programmable DP can provide in-network computing capability for many application
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Front Cover IEEE Internet Things J. (IF 10.238) Pub Date : 2022-12-07
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IEEE Internet of Things Journal Publication Information IEEE Internet Things J. (IF 10.238) Pub Date : 2022-12-07
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Table of Contents IEEE Internet Things J. (IF 10.238) Pub Date : 2022-12-07
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IEEE Sensors Council Information IEEE Internet Things J. (IF 10.238) Pub Date : 2022-12-07
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IEEE Internet of Things Journal Information for Authors IEEE Internet Things J. (IF 10.238) Pub Date : 2022-12-07
These instructions give guidelines for preparing papers for this publication. Presents information for authors publishing in this journal.
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Guest Editorial: Quantuam Communications and Networking IEEE Netw. (IF 10.294) Pub Date : 2022-11-25 Ruidong Li, Prineha Narang, Melchior Aelmans, Guoliang Xue, Peter Mueller, Guilu Long
Quantum communication researchers have achieved significant progress during the recent decades and quantum networking has shown promise in terms of improving the overall functional benefits of the Internet and enabling applications with no counterpart in the classical world. It is a break-through technology towards the unimaginable future. In a quantum network, the source and destination may be connected
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Call for Papers IEEE Netw. (IF 10.294) Pub Date : 2022-11-25
Prospective authors are requested to submit new, unpublished manuscripts for inclusion in the upcoming event described in this call for papers.
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Physics-Informed Quantum Communication Networks: A Vision Toward the Quantum Internet IEEE Netw. (IF 10.294) Pub Date : 2022-11-25 Mahdi Chehimi, Walid Saad
Quantum communications is a promising technology that will play a fundamental role in the design of future networks. In fact, significant efforts are being undertaken by both the quantum physics and the classical communications communities on developing new architectures, solutions, and practical implementations of quantum communication networks (QCNs). Although these efforts led to various advances
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Federated Unlearning: Guarantee the Right of Clients to Forget IEEE Netw. (IF 10.294) Pub Date : 2022-11-25 Leijie Wu, Song Guo, Junxiao Wang, Zicong Hong, Jie Zhang, Yaohong Ding
The Right to be Forgotten gives a data owner the right to revoke their data from an entity storing it. In the context of federated learning, the Right to be Forgotten requires that, in addition to the data itself, any influence of the data on the FL model must disappear, a process we call “federated unlearning.” The most straightforward and legitimate way to implement federated unlearning is to remove
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Front Cover IEEE Netw. (IF 10.294) Pub Date : 2022-11-25
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