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The following is a report by the Chair of WICE, Maite Brandt-Pearce, on the Society's effort on diversity. The Society has increased substantially its activities in this area in the past 18 months. We hope this is a runway for many more great programs in the future. Vincent Chan, ComSoc President

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The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) completed its Fifth Generation (5G) New Radio (NR) Release 16 and approved the OpenAPI specification in July 2020. The 5G NR technology is expected to support numerous future applications in one or a mix of three usage scenarios: enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB), massive Machine Type Communications (mMTC), and Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communications (URLLC)

The arrival of 5G paves the way for the deployment of the so-called Industry 4.0, which is a new paradigm devoted to the digital transformation of manufacturing and factory production. Because of the resources required to perform this transformation, the importance of field trials and experimentation cannot be overstated, both to support the design of novel methodologies and to validate these designs

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The recent and upcoming releases of the 3rd Generation Partnership Project's 5G New Radio (NR) specifications include features that are motivated by providing connectivity services to a broad set of verticals, including the automotive, rail, and air transport industries. Currently, several radio access network features are being further enhanced or newly introduced in NR to improve 5G's capability

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The rapid development of communication technologies in the past decades has provided immense vertical opportunities for individuals and enterprises. However, conventional terrestrial cellular networks have unfortunately neglected the huge geographical digital divide, s ince high-bandwidth wireless coverage is concentrated in urban areas. To meet the goal of “connecting the unconnected,” integrating

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Location-based analytics leverage accurate location awareness enabled by the fifth generation (5G) mobile technology standard, as well as the integration of heterogeneous technologies, to empower a plethora of new services for 5G verticals and optimize the use of network resources. This article proposes an end-to-end architecture integrated in the 5G network infrastructure to provide location-based

Communication systems are used not only by voice or file exchange applications, but also by other types of applications due to the coexistence of multiple and different verticals. Each vertical has its own requirements in terms of key performance indicators (KPIs) for their applications. Mapping the verticals KPIs into network quality of service (QoS) parameters and enforcing it at the network level

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With the evolution of mobile communications, we are seeing expanding scopes and an increasing number of topics within the mobile technology area. It is important to address different topics, so that the technology remains relevant and continues meeting the advancing needs in a consistent manner. This issue of the Mobile Communications and Networks Series explores such an expansion, with a few topics

Dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS) has recently attracted keen interest from regulatory bodies around the world as a key strategy to overcome spectrum scarcity in beyond 5G networks. In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission has adopted a three-tier DSS model for the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) band managed by a spectrum access system (SAS) to share incumbents' spectrum with

Industrial digital transformation through efficient automation hinges largely on the deployment of communication infrastructures that meet the requirements of smart factory use cases. These infrastructures involve multiple devices that utilize different communication technologies to increase the overall operational efficiency. Rooting from the key implementation requirements of a smart factory environment

Under the federated learning paradigm, a set of nodes can cooperatively train a machine learning model with the help of a centralized server. Such a server is also tasked with assigning a weight to the information received from each node, and often also to drop too-slow nodes from the learning process. Both decisions have major impact on the resulting learning performance, and can interfere with each

Future cellular networks will increasingly rely on the millimeter-wave bands to increase capacity. Migrating to ever higher carrier frequencies will require increasingly directional beamforming to establish and maintain the link. Intelligent beam management (BM) protocols will be critical for establishing and maintaining connections between the base station and user equipment in a dynamic channel.

In future wireless systems, a large number of users may access the networks via moving relays (MRs) installed on top of vehicles. One of the main challenges of MRs is rapid channel variation, which may make channel estimation and its following procedures difficult. To address these issues, various schemes are designed, among which the predictor antenna (PA) is a candidate. The PA setup refers to a

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As a recently introduced and rapidly accepted new network technology, software defined networking (SDN) provides network providers with operational agility and reduction in capital and operational expenses. As with all new technologies, especially one that offers rich operational flexibility, the lack of experience makes it vulnerable to potential misuse or malicious activities. As SDN becomes the

Collaborative inference helps robots to complete large tasks with mutual collaboration in edge-assisted multi-robot systems. It is challenging to provide trusted edge collaborative inference in the presence of malicious nodes. In this article, we propose a blockchain-based collaborative edge knowledge inference (BCEI) framework for edge-assisted multi-robot systems. First, we formulate the inference

For Internet of Things (IoT) applications in the sub-1 GHz unlicensed band, the IEEE 802.11ah technology, also called WiFi HaLow, has been standardized. To achieve long-range and low-power features of IoT networks, the physical (PHY) and medium access control (MAC) layer functions in the previous WiFi standards are amended in the IEEE 802.11ah standard. In this article, the PHY and MAC technologies

5G is playing a paramount role in the digital transformation of the industrial sector, offering high-bandwidth, reliable, and low-latency wireless connectivity to meet the stringent and critical performance requirements of manufacturing processes. This work analyzes the applicability of 5G technologies as key enablers to support, enhance, and even enable novel advances in Industry 4.0. It proposes

Broader applications of the Internet of Things (loT) are expected in the forthcoming 6G system, although massive loT is already a key scenario in 5G, predominantly relying on physical layer solutions inherited from 4G LTE and primarily using orthogonal multiple access (OMA). In 6G loT, supporting a massive number of connections will be required for diverse services of the vertical sectors, prompting

Smart micro-grid (SMG) is a growing segment of the modern power grid. Besides the benefits brought in terms of improving power reliability, power quality, security, and sustainability, and promoting competitiveness in a new deregulated electricity market, SMG is still in the early commer c ial stage. This article introduces the SMG con-cept-based forecasting mechanisms. It highlights the role of the

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The book, A Comprehensive Guide to 5G Security (Abro, A.B. et al; 2018), discusses the key security areas of 5G systems. This book is selected to review in this column because particular emphasis is given to the planning of threat mitigation from the perspective of telecom vendors and mobile network operators. In total, there are 17 chapters in this book which are categorized into four parts: 5G security

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Our community publishes peer-reviewed journal, magazine, and conference papers and articles sharing a commitment to originality and to quality content and writing. These papers vary in their characteristics and style, depending on their objectives and their targeted readership. The IEEE Publication Services and Products Board (PSPB) Operations Manual (OM) also provides guidelines differentiating these

Beyond-5G and 6G networks aim at providing flexible compute and connect technologies, which may support innovative use cases and unprecedented services by means of a concrete and sustainable transformation of existing network designs into smart-connected telecommunication infrastructures. Such a revolution might include full control of the propagation environment, which is a weak point of legacy communication

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 environment by carefully tuning the phase shifts of a large number of low-cost passive reflecting elements

Recently, significant research attention has been devoted to the study of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), which are capable of reconfiguring the wireless propagation environment by exploiting the unique properties of metamaterials-based integrated large arrays of inexpensive antennas. Existing research demonstrates that RISs significantly improve physical layer performance, including wireless

Recent advances in the fabrication and experimentation of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have motivated the concept of the smart radio environment, according to which the propagation of information-bearing waveforms in the wireless medium is amenable to programmability. Although the vast majority of recent experimental research on RIS-empowered wireless communications gravitates around

Holographic communication is intended as a holistic way to manipulate, with unprecedented flexibility, the electromagnetic field generated or sensed by an antenna. This is of particular interest when using large antennas at high frequency (e.g., at millimeter-wave or terahertz), whose operating condition may easily fall in the Fresnel region (radiating near-field), where the classical plane wave propagation

The upcoming high-speed wireless communication systems will be hosted by millimeter- and sub-millimeter-wave frequency bands. At these frequencies, electromagnetic waves suffer from severe propagation losses and non-line-of-sight scenarios. A new wireless communication paradigm has arrived to resolve this situation through the use of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs). These metadevices are

This series focuses on softwarization, management, and their integration in communication networks and services. “Network Softwarization” advocates for network architectures that separate the software implementing network functions, protocols and services from the hardware running them. “Network Management” aims to integrate fault, configuration, accounting, performance, and security capabilities in

Most softwarized telco services are conveniently framed as service function chains (SFCs). Indeed, being structured as a combination of interconnected nodes, service chains may suffer from the single point of failure problem, meaning that an individual node malfunctioning could compromise the whole chain operation. To guarantee highly available (HA) levels, service providers are required to introduce

Emerging programmable data planes enable us to modify switch behavior using software abstractions. However, developing the data plane software is challenging and typically made in a monolithic manner. We argue that the data plane should be developed modularly and employ additional abstractions to compose data plane programs and steer packets between them. This article presents Programming In-Network

The fifth generation (5G) of mobile communications introduces improvements on many fronts when compared to its previous generations. Besides the performance enhancements and new advances in radio technologies, it also integrates other technological domains, such as cloud-to-things continuum and artificial intelligence. In this work, the 5G-DIVE Elastic Edge Platform (DEEP) is proposed as the linking