IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials

I welcome you to the fourth issue of the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials in 2023. This issue includes 25 papers covering different aspects of communication networks. In particular, these articles survey and tutor various issues in “...

With the rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the rise of 5G communication networks and automatic driving, millimeter wave (mmWave) sensing is emerging and starts impacting our life and workspace. mmWave sensing can sense humans and ...

The sixth generation (6G) wireless systems are envisioned to enable the paradigm shift from “connected things” to “connected intelligence”, featured by ultra high density, large-scale, dynamic heterogeneity, diversified ...

Over the past few decades, significant progress has been made in quantum information technology, from theoretical studies to experimental demonstrations. Revolutionary quantum applications are now in the limelight, showcasing the advantages of quantum ...

Full-duplex (FD) communication is a potential game changer for future wireless networks. It allows for simultaneous transmit and receive operations over the same frequency band, a doubling of the spectral efficiency. FD can also be a catalyst for ...

Adversarial attacks and defenses in machine learning and deep neural network (DNN) have been gaining significant attention due to the rapidly growing applications of deep learning in communication networks. This survey provides a comprehensive overview of ...

With the rapidly evolving technological landscape, the huge development of the Internet of Things, and the embracing of digital transformation, the world is witnessing an explosion in data generation and a rapid evolution of new applications that lead to ...

With the development of communication and networking technologies, the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) has become the foundation of smart transportation. The development of blockchain and Machine Learning (ML) has contributed to the pervasiveness of the IoV, ...

The automotive domain has realized amazing advancements in communication, connectivity, and automation—and at a breakneck pace. Such advancements come with ample benefits, such as the reduction of traffic accidents and the refinement of transit ...

Today’s Internet is experiencing a massive number of users with a continuously increasing need for data, which is the leading cause of introduced limitations among security and privacy issues. To overcome these limitations, a shift from host-...

Electrical grids generate, transport, distribute and deliver electrical power to consumers through a complex Critical Infrastructure which progressively shifted from an air-gaped to a connected architecture. Specifically, Smart Substations are important ...

The research on the sixth-generation (6G) wireless communications for the development of future mobile communication networks has been officially launched around the world. 6G networks face multifarious challenges, such as resource-constrained mobile ...

Cyber-attacks are becoming more common against Internet users due to the increasing dependency on online communication in their daily lives. X.509 Public-Key Infrastructure (PKIX) is the most widely adopted and used system to secure online communications ...

Digital twin for the industrial Internet of Things (DT-IIoT) creates a high-fidelity, fine-grained, low-cost digital replica of the cyber-physical integrated Internet for industry. Powered by artificial intelligence (AI) and security technologies, DT-IIoT ...

Multi-energy generation grids (MEGGs) provide a promising solution for reliable operations of cooperative various distributed energy resources (DERs), supply environmentally friendly energy to remote/off-grid areas, and improve overall system performance ...

The deployment of the fifth-generation (5G) wireless networks in Internet of Everything (IoE) applications and future networks (e.g., sixth-generation (6G) networks) has raised a number of operational challenges and limitations, for example in terms of ...

Autonomous driving services depends on active sensing from modules such as camera, LiDAR, radar, and communication units. Traditionally, these modules process the sensed data on high-performance computing units inside the vehicle, which can deploy ...

In the initial period of automobile development, the vast majority of researchers would never have guessed network communications would be applied to vehicles one day. After the advent of CAN, a tremendous amount of intra-vehicle network communication ...

The centralization of baseband (BB) functions in a radio access network (RAN) towards data processing centres is receiving increasing interest as it enables the exploitation of resource pooling and statistical multiplexing gains among multiple cells, ...

Recently, mission-critical Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications such as system automation, predictive maintenance, and anomaly detection have come into the spotlight of Industry 4.0 thanks to the promised benefits. The IEEE 802.15.4 Time-...

Emerging wireless systems target to provide multi-Gbps data rates for each user, which can be achieved by utilizing ultra-wide channels available at mmWave, terahertz, and lightwave frequencies. In contrast to the traditional spectrum below 6 GHz, these ...

Full leverage of the huge volume of data generated on a large number of user devices for providing intelligent services in the 6G network calls for Ubiquitous Intelligence (UI). A key to developing UI lies in the involvement of the large number of network ...

Video, as a key driver in the global explosion of digital information, can create tremendous benefits for human society. Governments and enterprises are deploying innumerable cameras for a variety of applications, e.g., law enforcement, emergency ...

In recent years, Federated Learning (FL) has gained relevance in training collaborative models without sharing sensitive data. Since its birth, Centralized FL (CFL) has been the most common approach in the literature, where a central entity creates a ...

Data-driven machine learning (ML) is promoted as one potential technology to be used in next-generation wireless systems. This led to a large body of research work that applies ML techniques to solve problems in different layers of the wireless ...

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based wireless networks have received increasing research interest in recent years and are gradually being utilized in various aspects of our society. The growing complexity of UAV applications such as disaster management, ...