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Harnessing Web3 on Carbon Offset Market for Sustainability: Framework and A Case Study IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Chenyu Zhou, Hongzhou Chen, Shiman Wang, Xinyao Sun, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, Wei Cai
Blockchain, pivotal in shaping the metaverse and Web3, often draws criticism for high energy consumption and carbon emission. The rise of sustainability-focused blockchains, especially when intersecting with innovative wireless technologies, revises this predicament. To understand blockchain's role in sustainability, we propose a three-layers structure encapsulating four green utilities: recording
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Evolution of Sharing in 6 GHz IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Monisha Ghosh
It has been more than three years since the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued the Report and Order (R&O) and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FNPRM) for the 6 GHz (5.925-7.125 GHz) band on April 24, 2020, permitting unlicensed use on a shared basis [1]. Since then, many countries have followed the U.S. lead in allowing unlicensed use over the entire 1.2 GHz band, while others
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Recent Advances in Optical Wireless Communications for 6G, WLANs and Beyond IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Yuanqiu Luo, Admela Jukan, Krishna M. Sivalingam, Xiaojun Cao, Suresh Subramaniam, Gangxiang Shen
Current changes of information creation, sensing, sharing, and consumption in our community, business, and industry have stimulated data traffic surge. Next generation communication networks are evolving with the goal of providing high data rate, stringent latency, and ubiquitous services. Optical wireless communication (OWC) systems are being actively developed with combined benefits from advanced
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How Cooperative Communication Distinguishes in Wireless Optical Systems IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Yejun Liu, Shasha Liao, Qiming Sun, Song Song, Tingwei Wu, Lun Zhao, Lei Guo
Wireless optical transmission has been included in 6G framework as a promising solution to break through the bottleneck of radio transmission in limited bandwidth as well as to facilitate the integrated space-air-ground network. Since the laser beam is vulnerable to atmospheric conditions, cooperative communication is introduced as a viable way to enhance the received signal strength of wireless optical
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Optical and Terahertz Wireless Technologies: the Race to 6G Communications IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Mohamed Shehata, Yitong Wang, Jiayuan He, Sithamparanathan Kandeepan, Ke Wang
Terahertz and optical wireless communications (OWC) technologies have been considered as promising enablers that have potential to contribute equally to the realization of a sixth-generation (6G) wireless future. Experimental demonstrations show that, although inherently different, both technology types can support multi-kilometer Tbit/s wireless data transmission, which is a key goal set by almost
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Optical Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Aided Optical Wireless Communications: Opportunities, Challenges, And Trends IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Haibo Wang, Zaichen Zhang, Bingcheng Zhu, Jian Dang, Liang Wu
As communication technology continues to develop, the demand for capacity and spectrum resources is also increasing. With the abundant spectrum resources and high energy efficiency, optical wireless communication (OWC) has become one of the key technologies in future wireless communication systems. However, due to the high frequency characteristics of optical signals, traditional OWC systems, such
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Terabit Indoor Laser-Based Wireless Communications: Lifi 2.0 For 6G IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Mohammad Dehghani Soltani, Ahmad Adnan Qidan, Shenjie Huang, Barzan Yosuf, Sanaa Mohamed, Ravinder Singh, Yi Liu, Wajahat Ali, Rui Chen, Hossein Kazemi, Elham Sarbazi, Bela Berde, Dominique Chiaroni, Bastien Béchadergue, Fathi Abdel-dayem, Hardik Soni, Jose Tabu, Micheline Perrufel, Nikola Serafimovski, Taisir E.H. El-Gorashi, Jaafar Elmirghani, Michael Crisp, Richard Penty, Ian H. White, Harald Haas
This article introduces the general concepts of light fidelity (LiFi) 2.0 for sixth generation (6G) of wireless networks that will be based on indoor laser-based wireless networks capable of achieving aggregate data-rates of terabits per second as widely accepted as a 6G key performance indicator. The main focus of this article is on the technologies supporting the near infrared region of the optical
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Wireless Access Technology in FTTR Next Generation Home Networks: an Overview IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Tianhai Chang, Xiaoshu Si, Xiang Wang, Yunman Chen, Shuang Gan, Giuseppe Caire
Fiber to the Room (FTIR) is an evolution of the Fiber to the Home (FTTH) technology that relies on an in-home passive optical network and WiFi6 access points in each room to deliver Gb/s data rates with consistent and ubiquitous quality of service to residential users. This article examines FTIR scenarios and system design challenges, with a particular emphasis on the wireless access segment. Specifically
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Free Space Optical Communication Systems FOR 6G: A Modular Transceiver Design IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Abdelmoula Bekkali, Michikazu Hattori, Yuichiro Hara, Yukihiko Suga
Free space optical communication (FSO) systems have recently regained great interest as a potential wireless interconnecting solution for 6G era, thanks to their ability to meet the main requirements of high capacity, low latency, energy efficiency, dense connectivity, and high level of security against interception. In this article, we first review the main challenges and opportunities that FSO systems
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Toward ManageableCost-Effective 5G C-RAN: Semi-Active Front-Haul by Multi-Carrier Pilot-Tone Oam and Mwdm IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Dechao Zhang, Dong Wang, Mingqing Zuo, Jiang Sun, Dawei Ge, Yang Zhao, Yunbo Li, Qian Cai, Liuyan Han, Han Li, Xiaodong Duan
Front-haul is an important sub-system in 5G centralized, collaborative, cloud, and clean radio access network (C-RAN), which connects base stations and distributed units. However, it is still a challenge to achieve manageable cost-effective front-haul supporting 12-channel transmission over 10 km G.652.D fibre. Currently, a novel front-haul approach based on so-called medium wavelength-division multiplexing
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A Quantum-Behaved Heterogeneous Topology Optimization Model For Optical Wireless Communication Networks IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Songwei Zhang, Fu Xiao, Lejun Zhang, Fengbiao Zan, Tie Qiu
Optical wireless communication technology has become an effective supplementary access method in the future 6G communication due to its advantages of high bandwidth and low cost. However, the limited communication distance and unfavorable weather seriously affect the quality of service of optical wireless communication. How to plan the heterogeneous topology composed of base stations and terminals
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Green Technologies for the Sustainable Metaverse and Web 3.0 IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Xiaofei Wang, Mehdi Bennis, Ping Wang, Rong Yu, Wei Yang Bryan Lim
The concepts of Metaverse and Web 3.0 have surged in popularity, heralded as the “successor to the mobile Internet.” Web 3.0 represents a transformative shift in the Internet landscape, emphasizing user-centric decentralization. These core principles of Web 3.0 find their fullest realization in the Metaverse, which represents the next evolutionary stage of the Internet. The Metaverse envisions a seamless
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When MetaVerse Meets Computing Power Networking: An Energy-Efficient Framework For Service Placement IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Li Lin, Yuhang Chen, Zhi Zhou, Peng Li, Jinbo Xiong
The Metaverse, as the next-generation Internet, disrupts the physical world to create an immersive virtual digital realm. Its implementation relies on key enablers, including virtual reality, AI, blockchain, and 6G. However, these technologies involve computationally intensive operations with high energy consumption, posing a challenge to the sustainability of the Metaverse. A promising approach is
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Service Reservation and Pricing for Green Metaverses: A Stackelberg Game Approach IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Xumin Huang, Yuan Wu, Jiawen Kang, Jiangtian Nie, Weifeng Zhong, Dong In Kim, Shengli Xie
Metaverse enables users to communicate, collaborate and socialize with each other through their digital avatars. Due to the spatio-temporal characteristics, co-located users are served well by performing their software components in a collaborative manner such that a Metaverse service provider (MSP) eliminates redundant data transmission and processing, ultimately reducing the total energy consumption
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Decentralized Cooperative Caching for Sustainable Metaverse Via Meta Self-Supervision Learning IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Ximing Chen, Jing Qiu, Fasheng Zhou, Hui Lu, Lejun Zhang, Zhihong Tian, Xiaojiang Du, Mohsen Guizani
Metaverse is a multidimensional virtual world that integrates digital twin space technology. It is an interactive and integrative process with the physical world, involving virtualization and digitization of the real world. The high demands of the metaverse on transmission latency, processing speed, and security pose significant challenges to network load. In this article, we study an online distributed
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USTB 6G: Key Technologies and Metaverse Applications IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Haijun Zhang, Dong Wang, Shuqing Wu, Wanqing Guan, Xiangnan Liu
Metaverse applications would play a vital role in 6G. To meet the diverse requirements of different services in Metaverse and also satisfy the demands for green communication, the University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB) has constructed a 6G platform and implemented key technologies on it. This article introduces the artificial intelligence (AI) based USTB 6G framework, and focuses on the
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Integrated Communication and Computing Maritime Networks Design for Green Metaverse IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Tingting Yang, Zhengqi Cui, Chenghui Peng, Jianjun Wu, Fangming Liu, Yang Yang
With the continuous improvement and development of the metauniverse concept, numerous new technologies have emerged to address the new demands, including big data technology, artificial intelligence technology, immersive interaction technology, and decentralized network ecological technology. However, the large-scale deployment and usage of these technologies have raised concerns about energy consumption
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Energy-Efficient Distributed Learning and Sharding Blockchain for Sustainable Metaverse IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Peng Wang, Lan Wei, Wen Sun, Haibin Zhang, Yan Zhang
Nowadays, researchers have started to conceptualize Metaverse with the vision of constituting a fully immersive, hyper spatiotemporal, and persistent interconnected virtualized world. Such network evolution poses sustainability concerns due to its enabling technologies, such as compute-intensive Artificial Intelligence (AI) and energy-consuming blockchain. Combining distributed learning and blockchain
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Metaopera: A Cross-Metaverse Interoperability Protocol IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Taotao Li, Changlin Yang, Qinglin Yang, Shizhan Lan, Siqi Zhou, Xiaofei Luo, Huawei Huang, Zibin Zheng
Various metaverse applications have entered our daily life and show a promising trend that will occupy people's attention in the era of Web3. This makes interoperability across metaverses become one of the fundamental technologies in the context of multiple metaverse platforms. The aim of interoperability is to provide a seamless service for users when their requests interact with multiple metaverses
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C3Meta: A Context-Aware Cloud-Edge-End Collaboration Framework Toward Green Metaverse IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Rui Wang, Jiaxi Wang, Yixue Hao, Long Hu, Salman A. Alqahtani, Min Chen
The Metaverse aims to provide an immersive and interactive experience for people by digitizing the physical world to the virtual world using sensing, communication, and computation technology. However, the seamless transmission of massive data in the communication network and the intensive computation brought by large models in the Metaverse have raised concerns over energy consumption and carbon emissions
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Efficient Resource Allocation for Building the Metaverse with UAVs: A Quantum Collective Reinforcement Learning Approach IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Yuhang Wang, Ying He, F. Richard Yu, Bin Song, Victor C.M. Leung
The Metaverse offers a highly immersive virtual world where users interact with others and objects in real time through their avatars. The integration of Internet of Things (loT) devices plays a pivotal role in achieving seamless synchronization between these two realms. In this article, we explore the utilization of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for image capture and data transmission to base stations
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Scanning the Literature IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Iosif Vardakis, Georgios Kotridis, Spyridon Peppas, Konstantinos Skyvalakis, Georgios Vougioukas, Aggelos Bletsas, Niv Arad, Yair Noam, Tae-Kyoung Kim, Yo-Seb Jeon, Jun Li, Nima Tavangaran, H. Vincent Poor, A. Oguz Kislal, Alejandro Lancho, Giuseppe Durisi, Erik G. Ström
This paper exploited ultra-low cost, commodity, and radio frequency identification (RFID) tags as elements of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). The batteryless tags exploited in this work are powered and controlled by a software-defined radio (SDR) reader to assist a source-destination link operating at a different carrier frequency. Generally speaking, a near-field, squared-shaped RIS can
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Trustworthy Semantic Communications for the Metaverse Relying on Federated Learning IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Jianrui Chen, Jingjing Wang, Chunxiao Jiang, Yong Ren, Lajos Hanzo
As an evolving successor to the mobile Internet, the Metaverse creates the impression of an immersive environment, integrating the virtual and real world. In contrast to the traditional mobile Internet based on servers, the Metaverse is constructed by billions of cooperating users by harnessing their smart edge devices and having limited communication and computation resources. In this immersive environment
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Semantic Communications for the Metaverse and Other Wireless Innovations IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Nirwan Ansari
First and foremost, I would like to take this opportunity to announce the 2022 Exemplary Technical Editors of IEEE Wireless Communications: Gabor Foder of Ericsson Research, Sweden, and Sukyoung Lee of Yonsei University, Korea. This recognition acknowledges their exceptional commitment to conducting timely reviews and providing constructive feedback. Their dedication and expertise in evaluating scholarly
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Device Centric Distributed Compute, Orchestration and Networking IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Bongho Kim, Doru Calin, Nathan Tenny, Mehrdad Shariat, Mingxi Fan
The 6G wireless technology is expected to support extreme communication requirements in terms of throughput, latency, and reliability, as well as seamless interconnection of every object, processes, and people. The connectivity will be expanded to include wearables, bio-implants, intelligent machines, and vehicle components. To effectively represent the real world in a digital world for augmenting
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The Importance of Spectrum Measurements IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Monisha Ghosh
Understanding actual usage of spectrum, versus spectrum allocations, has always been a challenge, even for regulatory agencies, such as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the National Telecommunication and Information Administration (NTIA) in the U.S., and other national regulatory agencies worldwide. This is true for both federal and non-federal allocations. While there have been numerous
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Book Reviews: 5G Backhaul and Fronthaul IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Rupendra Nath Mitra, Bo Rong
The standardization of the 5G technology led to a rapid paradigm shift in mobile network architecture and industry practice. All three constituent mobile network segments, the access network, transport network, and the core network, undergo massive upgrades in 5G. The cloud-native 5G core network architecture and disaggregated open radio access network gained tremendous popularity and attention from
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Guest Editorial: Semantic Communications for the Metaverse IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Jiayi Zhang, Jiangtian Nie, Jiangming Jin, Tao Han, Dong In Kim, Petar Popovski
The concept of the Metaverse has grown in popularity as “the successor to the mobile Internet.” While there exist light versions of the Metaverse today, they are still far from realizing the full vision of an immersive, embodied, and interoperable Metaverse. Without addressing the issues of implementation from the perspective of communication, computation, and networking, the Metaverse is difficult
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Quantum Semantic Communications for Metaverse: Principles and Challenges IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Uman Khalid, Muhammad Shohibul Ulum, Ahmad Farooq, Trung Q. Duong, Octavia A. Dobre, Hyundong Shin
The Metaverse is a connected virtual space that has recently emerged as a new frontier for human interaction and experiences. For ideal immersive Metaverse experiences, perpetual data traffic poses stringent requirements on computation latency, communication bandwidth, data privacy, and transmission delay. Semantic communication with machine learning provides a nascent paradigm shift from context-agnostic
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Semantic-Aware Digital Twin for Metaverse: A Comprehensive Review IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Senthil Kumar Jagatheesaperumal, Zhaohui Yang, Qianqian Yang, Chongwen Huang, Wei Xu, Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei, Zhaoyang Zhang
To facilitate the deployment of digital twins in Metaverse, the paradigm with semantic awareness has been proposed as a means for enabling accurate and task-oriented information extraction with inherent intelligence. However, this framework requires all devices in the Metaverse environment to be directly linked with the semantic model to enable faithful interpretation of messages. In contrast, this
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Adversarial Attacks and Defenses for Semantic Communication in Vehicular Metaverses IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Jiawen Kang, Jiayi He, Hongyang Du, Zehui Xiong, Zhaohui Yang, Xumin Huang, Shengli Xie
For vehicular Metaverses, one of the ultimate user-centric goals is to optimize the immersive experience and Quality of Service (QoS) for users on board. Semantic Communication (SemCom) has been introduced as a revolutionary paradigm that significantly eases communication resource pressure for vehicular Metaverse applications to achieve this goal. SemCom enables high-quality and ultra-efficient vehicular
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Secure Semantic Communication Model for Black-Box Attack Challenge Under Metaverse IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Chang Li, Liang Zeng, Xin Huang, Xiaqing Miao, Shuai Wang
The Metaverse is the post-reality universe, a perpetual and persistent multiuser environment merging physical reality with digital virtuality. It is a new type of Internet application and social form that integrates a variety of new technologies. The realization of the Metaverse has extremely high demands on the communication traffic density, which needs a new communication technology. Semantic communication
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Mission Critical Communications, Task-Oriented Communications, AI-Driven Sensing, and the 12 GHz Band IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Nirwan Ansari
In contrast to my previous practice, I would like to begin by highlighting the Industrial Perspectives column. Recent train accidents have underscored the critical importance of safety in the rail industry. To address this, it is timely to introduce a dedicated industry column focusing on the current state and planned evolution of the rail sector, while emphasizing the role of communication and computing
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A Short Overview of Mission Critical Communications Technologies for the Rail Industry IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Doru Calin
The recent train accidents [5]–[7] focused much attention on the safety of the rail industry sector. It is timely to have an industry column dedicated to the current state, as well as to the planned evolution of the rail industry, and to the role played by communication and computing technologies for an accident-free rail sector.
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Sharing in the 12 GHz Band IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Monisha Ghosh
As the “traditional” mid-band frequencies of sub-6 GHz get allocated for various services, there has been increasing focus on the 7–24 GHz band for the next generation of terrestrial mobile wireless systems to find a home in. On May 18, 2023, the U.S. Federal Communication Commission (FCC) voted unanimously to adopt new rules for the 12.2-13.25 GHz band that would permit such services in part of the
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Reinforcement Learning for Maritime Communications, by L. Xiao et al. IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Bo Rong
The book of “Reinforcement Learning for Maritime Communications” provides valuable insights into improving the reliable and secure communication performance of maritime communications using intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS), privacy-aware Internet of Things (IoT), intelligent resource management, and location privacy protection. Particularly it highlights the application of reinforcement learning
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Guest Editorial: Task-Oriented Communications for Future Wireless Networks IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Wei Xu, Zhaohui Yang, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Octavia A. Dobre, Li-Chun Wang, Robert Schober
Future wireless communications aim to meet multifarious quality-of-experience (QoE) requirements for emerging applications, such as autonomous driving, personalized healthcare, and the Internet-of-Everything (IoE). In particular, in human-computer interaction scenarios, humans may simultaneously control multiple IoE devices using speech and augmented/ virtual reality commands, thus, making the communication
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A Generalized Semantic Communication System: From Sources to Channels IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Zhijin Qin, Feifei Gao, Bo Lin, Xiaoming Tao, Guangyi Liu, Chengkang Pan
Semantic communication is regarded as the breakthrough beyond the Shannon paradigm, which transmits the semantic information only to improve the communication efficiency significantly. This article first introduces a framework for the generalized semantic communication system, which exploits the semantic information in both the multimodal source and the wireless channel environment. Subsequently, the
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Wireless Semantic Transmission via Revising Modules in Conventional Communications IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Peiwen Jiang, Chao-Kai Wen, Shi Jin, Geoffrey Ye Li
Semantic communication has become a widely researched area due to its high spectrum efficiency and error correction capabilities. Some studies used deep learning to extract semantic features, typically resulting in end-to-end semantic communication systems that are difficult to adapt to varying wireless environments. Therefore, new semantic-based coding methods and performance metrics were investigated
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Rethinking Wireless Communication Security in Semantic Internet of Things IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Hongyang Du, Jiacheng Wang, Dusit Niyato, Jiawen Kang, Zehui Xiong, Mohsen Guizani, Dong In Kim
Semantic communication is an important component in the next generation of wireless networking. Enabled by this novel paradigm, the conventional Internet-of-Things (IoT) is evolving toward the semantic IoT (SIoT) to achieve significant system performance improvements. However, traditional wireless communication security techniques for bit transmission cannot be applied directly to the SIoT that focuses
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Data Utilization Versus Privacy Protection in Semantic Communications IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Lindong Zhao, Dan Wu, Liang Zhou
Semantic communication is considered as a promising enabler for saving gradually exhausted spectrum resources due to its innovative idea of aggressively extracting critical information. Although the learnable semantic-aware codec brings exciting compression gains, its data-driven kernel endogenously incurs conflicts between data utilization and privacy protection. Namely, the data utility loss hurts
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Task-Oriented Communications for NextG: End-to-end Deep Learning and AI Security Aspects IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Yalin E. Sagduyu, Sennur Ulukus, Aylin Yener
Communications systems to date are primarily designed with the goal of reliable transfer of digital sequences (bits). Next generation (NextG) communication systems are beginning to explore shifting this design paradigm to reliably executing a given task, such as in task-oriented communications. In this article, wireless signal classification is considered as the task for the NextG Radio Access Network
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Implementing Graph Neural Networks Over Wireless Networks via Over-the-Air Computing: A Joint Communication and Computation Framework IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Yuzhi Yang, Zhaoyang Zhang, Yuqing Tian, Richeng Jin, Chongwen Huang
A Graph Neural Network (GNN) conducts the graph convolution for structured data and obtains the weighted sum over the vertices according to its graph structure. However, in the context of a wireless network, the traditional separate implementation of a GNN usually requires the full channel state information, which is hard to obtain in practice, especially for the underlying interference channels. On
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Toward Intelligent Resource Allocation on Task-Oriented Semantic Communication IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Haijun Zhang, Hongyu Wang, Yabo Li, Keping Long, Victor C. M. Leung
Task-oriented semantic communication (TOSC) has significant advantages in reducing the amount of data transmission and alleviating the scarcity of spectrum resources. Unlike traditional communication, the resource allocation in semantic communication is tightly linked to target intelligent tasks and specific interaction requirements. In this article, the intelligent resource allocation in a task-oriented
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Task-Oriented Communications for 6G: Vision, Principles, and Technologies IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Yuanming Shi, Yong Zhou, Dingzhu Wen, Youlong Wu, Chunxiao Jiang, Khaled B. Letaief
Driven by the interplay among artificial intelligence, digital twin, and wireless networks, 6G is envisaged to go beyond data-centric services to provide intelligent and immersive experiences. To efficiently support intelligent tasks with customized service requirements, it becomes critical to develop novel information compression and transmission technologies, which typically involve coupled sensing
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Toward 6G $\text{TK}\mu$ Extreme Connectivity: Architecture, Key Technologies and Experiments IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Xiaohu You, Yongming Huang, Shengheng Liu, Dongming Wang, Junchao Ma, Chuan Zhang, Hang Zhan, Cheng Zhang, Jiao Zhang, Zening Liu, Jin Li, Min Zhu, Jianjie You, Dongjie Liu, Yang Cao, Shiwen He, Guanghui He, Fengyi Yang, Yang Liu, Jianjun Wu, Jianmin Lu, Ge Li, Xiaowu Chen, Wenguang Chen, Wen Gao
Sixth-generation (6G) networks are evolving toward new features and order-of-magnitude enhancement of systematic performance metrics compared to the current 5G. In particular, the 6G networks are expected to achieve extreme connectivity performance with Tbps-scale data rate, Kbps/Hz-scale spectral efficiency, and $\mu\mathrm{s}$ , -scale latency. To this end, an original three-layer 6G network architecture
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In-Situ Model Downloading to Realize Versatile Edge AI in 6G Mobile Networks IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Kaibin Huang, Hai Wu, Zhiyan Liu, Xiaojuan Qi
The sixth-generation (6G) mobile networks are expected to feature the ubiquitous deployment of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms at the network edge. With rapid advancements in edge AI, the time has come to realize intelligence downloading onto edge devices (e.g., smartphones and sensors). To materialize this version, we propose a novel technology in this article called in-situ
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Task-Oriented Surveillance Framework for Virtual Emotion Informatics in Polygon Spaces IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Sooeon Lee, Seungheyon Lee, Yumin Choi, Jalel Ben-Othman, Lynda Mokdad, Kwang-il Hwang, Hyunbum Kim
Since the advent of high speed communications and reliable computing devices, it is indispensable to study how to process information and computations appropriately to deal with the requested tasks. In particular, for task-oriented environment, the virtual emotion informatics can be deliberated, which covers a series of detection, data sharing, transmission, governance, and management supported by
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Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Task-Oriented Communication in Multi-Agent Systems IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Guojun He, Mingjie Feng, Yu Zhang, Guanghua Liu, Yueyue Dai, Tao Jiang
Driven by the increasing demand for executing intelligent tasks in various fields, multi-agent system (MAS) has drawn significant attention recently. An MAS relies on efficient communication between agents to exchange task-relevant information, so as support cooperative operation. Meanwhile, traditional communication systems are bit-oriented, which neglect the content and task relevance of the transmitted
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Reconfigurable Intelligent Computational Surfaces: When Wave Propagation Control Meets Computing IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Bo Yang, Xuelin Cao, Jindan Xu, Chongwen Huang, George C. Alexandropoulos, Linglong Dai, Mérouane Debbah, H. Vincent Poor, Chau Yuen
The envisioned sixth-generation (6G) of wireless networks will involve an intelligent integration of communications and computing to meet the urgent demands of task-oriented applications. To realize the concept of the smart radio environment, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are becoming promising options for offering programmable propagation of impinging electromagnetic signals via external
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Guest Editorial: AI-Driven Theory, Technology and Application for Sensing, Interaction, and Digitalization in the 6G Era IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Min Chen, Hamid Gharavi, Iztok Humar, Jeungeun Song, Victor C. M. Leung
In the upcoming 6G era, network communication will no longer be focused solely on indicators, such as bandwidth and latency. The influx of distributed service nodes and gradually perfected deep learning theories are now pushing the network communication environment into a wave of intelligence. In the 6G era, more emphasis will be placed on the immersive experience of humans in the space where perception
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Toward 6G-Enabled Mobile Vision Analytics for Immersive Extended Reality IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Miao Zhang, Linfeng Shen, Xiaoqiang Ma, Jiangchuan Liu
The fifth generation (5G) communication systems have seen initial success in boosting a broad spectrum of mobile networked applications. However, emerging applications, notably immersive eXtended Reality (XR), have already posed significant new challenges to today's 5G given their ultra-high expectations on data rate and latency. They also demand a deep integration of communication and computation
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From Digital Twin to Metaverse: The Role of 6G Ultra-Reliable and Low-Latency Communications with Multi-Tier Computing IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Trung Q. Duong, Dang Van Huynh, Saeed R. Khosravirad, Vishal Sharma, Octavia A. Dobre, Hyundong Shin
With the advanced development of digital twin (DT), mobile virtual reality, augmented reality, and tactile internet, metaverse has re-emerged as a new form of internet. However, it is still a long way off from fully achieving the immersive and pervasive metaverse experience. First and foremost, the wireless communications, networking, and computing for DT are still in their infancy, especially, to
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Toward AI-Enabled NextG Networks with Edge Intelligence-Assisted Microservice Orchestration IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Shah Zeb, Muhammad Ahmad Rathore, Syed Ali Hassan, Saleem Raza, Kapal Dev, Giancarlo Fortino
Network agility, automation, and intelligence are at the forefront of the next-generation networks (NGNs) vision, which aims to provide zero-touch service management and self-optimizing networks. In this article, we give an overview of the significance of artificial intelligence (Ali-enabled NGNs, their projected benefits, design requirements, and critical challenges for evolving heterogeneous softwarized
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Toward A Task Offloading Framework Based on Cyber Digital Twins in Mobile Edge Computing IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Bin Tan, Lihua Ai, Min Wang, Jiaxi Wang
In the metaverse, the concept of the digital twin has been expanded from modeling industrial manufacturing to the counterpart of physical objects in cyberspace. The cyber digital twin is updated using real-time data and reasoning to improve decision-making, which imposes a high computational demand on the mobile edge. Mobile edge computing (MEC) provides computing resources for mobile devices to handle
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Trusted Explainable AI for 6G-Enabled Edge Cloud Ecosystem IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Sahil Garg, Kuljeet Kaur, Gagangeet Singh Aujla, Georges Kaddoum, Prasad Garigipati, Mohsen Guizani
The journey to the next decade of smart cellular connectivity, sixth-generation (6G) networks, has already begun, even though 6G is still in its nascent stages and far from its deployment. In telecommunications, 6G networks have gained the attention of the industry and academia. 6G is planned to succeed the 5G standard with almost 100 times greater speed. One of the exciting features of 6G is Edge
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Digital Twin and Artificial Intelligence for Intelligent Planning and Energy-Efficient Deployment of 6G Networks in Smart Factories IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Dan Xia, Jianhua Shi, Ke Wan, Jiafu Wan, Miguel Martínez-García, Xin Guan
Terahertz and higher frequency band wireless communication technologies represent the most promising spectrums for 6G networks. Compared to 4G/5G networks, 6G networks operate in a higher frequency band with greater propagation and penetration losses, which may bring serious challenges to network planning and green communications. The digital twin (DT) technology is able to model and simulate wireless
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AI-Driven Proactive Content Caching for 6G IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Guangquan Cheng, Chi Jiang, Binglei Yue, Ranran Wang, Bander Alzahrani, Yin Zhang
To address the limitations of the current proactive content caching technology for the 6th generation (6G) mobile network, this article comprehensively analyzes the complex application scenarios of proactive content caching technology for wireless edge networks. It constructs an accurate content popularity prediction model, develops a user-device-oriented proactive content caching mechanism, establishes
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Cross-View Human Intention Recognition for Human-Robot Collaboration IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Shouxiang Ni, Lindong Zhao, Ang Li, Dan Wu, Liang Zhou
Benefiting from the promise of sixth generation (6G) wireless networks, multimodal machine learning based on exploiting complementarity among video, audio, and haptic signals, becomes a key enabler for human intention recognition, which is critical to realize effective human-robot collaboration in Industry 4.0 scenarios. However, as multimodal human intention recognition is limited by expensive equipment
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AImers-6G: AI-Driven Region-temporal Resource Provisioning for 6G Immersive Services IEEE Wirel. Commun. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Chao Qiu, Zheyuan Chen, Xiaoxu Ren, Ziming Dai, Cheng Zhang, Xiaofei Wang
With the breakthroughs of sixth-generation (6G), immersive services are beginning to receive a tremendous amount of interest, that is, 6G immersive services. The 6G immersive services involve various wearable devices to provide a high-quality perception of virtual scenes for users. The active participation of service users (SUs) and service providers (SPs) makes the rapid proliferation of wearable