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Reports on the market opportunities for 5G mobile communications. On 11 October 2019, Ericsson [1] published a report, “5G for Business: A 2030 Market Compass,” estimating that the addressable industry-digitalization market for service providers could grow to roughly US$700 billion through the next decade. The report identifies new revenue opportunities for service providers and offers a guide for

Reports on various land and rail transportation projects being built in various parts of the work, incliding the United States.

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Wireless vehicular communications and sensing technologies are key to enabling more advanced intelligent transportation systems (ITSs) with improved safety and efficiency. Within the realm of wireless communication, millimeter-wave (mmwave) technology has recently received much attention, providing rich spectrum resources to support the timely transmission of large amounts of data. This is especially

Collision avoidance, one of the most promising applications for vehicular networks, dramatically improves the safety of vehicles that support it. In this article, we investigate how it can be extended to benefit vulnerable users, such as pedestrians and bicyclists, equipped with a smartphone. Owing to the reduced capabilities of smartphones compared to vehicular onboard units (OBUs), traditional distributed

The industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), which integrates the key technologies of industrial communication, computing, and control, can implement flexible management and dynamic scheduling for manufacturing resources. To improve the edge intelligence of the IIoT, this article proposes a novel IIoT architecture with a hierarchical control structure in the mobile edge cloud (MEC). Massive remote radio

Millimeter-wave (mm-wave) small cells have been considered an effective technique for significantly improving the data rates of future networks. More particularly, this article investigates the potential benefits of mm-wave small-cell networks from the perspective of nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and wireless caching. We highlight a range of innovative resource management solutions conceived

Conditional handover (CHO) is one of several promising mobility enhancements in 5G networks. By making preparation decisions earlier than in LTE HO, CHO can provide an improved HO success rate. This article, analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of CHO by comparing CHO to 5G baseline HO. Since millimeter-wave communications are vulnerable to blockages, sudden changes in signal reception power can mislead

We have witnessed an exponential growth in commercial data services, which has led to the so-called big data era. Machine learning, one of the most promising artificial intelligence (AI) tools for analyzing this deluge of data, has been called upon in many industry and academic research areas. In this article, we briefly review big data analysis and machine learning, along with their potential applications

This article offers a survey of recent solutions involving electric drives and power chargers for fully electric vehicles (EVs) and hybrid EVs (HEVs). Based on our research and experimental activities regarding electric drives, we also show experimental data from prototypes. After reviewing the opportunities and challenges of vehicle electrification, the article analyzes electric machines and power

The integration of driver assistance and autonomous driving capabilities has increased the complexity of automotive software, making the verification of software updates more challenging. The utility of simulators in software verification is limited in terms of their level of fidelity to real-world hardware and driving conditions. The use of physical test vehicles on a test track is both costly and

In this article, we analyze mixed electrified areas where there is a combination of ac/dc electrification. The grounding strategy is completely different, as dc electrification aims to have the rail isolated from the ground, and ac usually has the rail and other metallic parts, such as structures and overhead catenary system (OCS) poles, connected to the ground. At certain locations, it is practically

The rail transportation industry has seen a growing interest in the use of radio-access technology (RAT) for critical and noncritical services to improve safety/reliability, performance, and passenger experience. There is a practical incentive to investigate how to improve wayside-onboard wireless channel throughput and transmission reliability to address the different requirements of data transmission

Reports on new product and technological development in the automotive engineering industry worldwide.

Reports on wireless local area network sensing which is about the use of IEEE 802.11 technologies to provide sensing capability for fixed, portable, and moving stations within a local area, for example, to measure and determine the presence, range, angle, and speed of a passive object. WLAN sensing aims to enable unconventional uses for Wi-Fi communications, such as motion detection and gesture recognition

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Aerial surveillance systems are a cost-effective and on-demand solution for smart city monitoring. However, the deployment of a swarm of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for continuous video capture of mobile ground target (MGT) activities poses new research issues in terms of energy management, scenario coverage, and multidevice task coordination. In this article, we address these challenges by proposing

Due to safety concerns, a reliable radio communication link is a key component in the future application of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), as it will enable beyond visual line-of-sight (BVLOS) operations. In terms of cost and deployment time, radio communication for aerial vehicles will greatly benefit from the ready-to-market infrastructure and ubiquitous coverage of cellular networks. However,

In this article, we propose to apply massive multipleinput, multiple-output (MIMO) to mobile edge computing (MEC). This application is expected to greatly facilitate the offloading in MEC by exploiting the huge gains in spectral and energy efficiencies brought by massive MIMO. Moreover, massive MIMO can support a larger number of users for simultaneous offloading, which reduces the delay for queuing

In the coming years, low aerial space will be crowded with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) providing various services. In this context, an emerging problem is to detect and track unauthorized or malicious mini/microUAVs. In contrast to current solutions mainly based on fixed terrestrial radars, this tutorial puts forth the idea of a dynamic radar network (DRN) composed of UAVs able to smartly adapt

The 5G mobile communications systems merge traditionally separate communications and networking systems and services to effectively support a myriad of heterogeneous applications. Researchers and industry working groups are investigating the integration of aerial nodes, shared spectrum techniques, and new network architectures, which are gradually being introduced into standards. This article discusses

Small drones are becoming a part of our everyday life. They are used in a wide variety of commercial applications, and the number of drones in the air is steadily growing. To ensure the safe operation of drones, traffic management rules must be designed and implemented by avionics and telecommunication experts. In this article, we propose to establish a common terminology for these two communities

Large antenna systems at millimeter-wave (mmwave) can concentrate the transmit power and the receive region over narrow beams, as well as enable spatial multiplexing. Thanks to these benefits, large antenna systems at mm-wave are the core technologies for future wireless local area network (WLAN) and 5G/ beyond 5G (B5G) cellular standards. Energy efficiency is a crucial design objective for new technologies

This article considers a radio-over-cable (RoC)based analog link on a local area network (LAN) cable [e.g., category (CAT) 5] as the last hop of the fronthaul for indoor mobile service coverage. We first present state-of-the-art mobile systems with RoC-based fronthauls and then discuss a number of critical issues regarding real implementation. These issues include the function module, called the radio-cable

5G cellular networks are characterized by a servicebased architecture (SBA) where physical and virtual network functions (NFs) interact with each other. In conjunction with multi-access edge computing (MEC), 5G systems are expected to enable a wide range of advanced applications for vertical industries as well as over-the-top (OTT) service providers. Although MEC typically processes user-plane data

The 5G-Transformer (5GT) project proposes a network function virtualization (NFV)-/software-defined networking (SDN)-based architecture to manage the end-to-end (E2E) deployment of composite NFV network services (NSs), which may involve multiple administrative domains (ADs), and hence require NS federation (NSF) capabilities. At the architectural level, this article presents the service federation

5G wireless systems are the next generation of mobile wireless telecommunications beyond current 4G/International Mobile Telecommunications-Advanced systems. Not only enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) communications but also ultrareliable lowlatency communication (uRLLC) and massive machine-type communication (mMTC) are supported by 5G wireless networks. New architecture and advanced technologies are

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are attracting increasing attention for applications such as video streaming, surveillance, and delivery using reliable line-of-sight (LOS) links. Nevertheless, due to the large radio-frequency (RF) transmission footprint from a UAV transmitted to ground nodes, UAV communications may significantly deteriorate the performance of cochannel ground communication links. With

5G networks are expected to become the main infrastructure for security verticals such as disaster relief, humanitarian aid, and governmental and defense communications. In the case of defense services, especially, there are complex areas where coverage and connectivity are not reliable or are completely absent. Thus, the deployment of drones as mobile base stations (BSs) also needs a system designed

Future terahertz (THz) communications will utilize the frequency spectrum around 300 GHz. This technology provides a promising solution for future high-data-rate communications due to the high available bandwidth. However, the unfavorable channel characteristics are a major barrier for the realization of THz communications. To address the challenges caused by the unfavorable propagation conditions

Channel modeling plays an important role in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication system design and performance evaluation. In this article, we provide a brief review of the existing UAV channel modeling, emphasizing that UAV altitude is a significant factor in characterizing large-scale fading modeling. We then investigate the effect of UAV altitude on the system-level performance of various