IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials

I welcome you to the third issue of the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials in 2023. This issue includes 18 papers covering different aspects of communication networks. In particular, these articles survey and tutor various issues in “...

Controller Area Network (CAN) is a masterless serial bus designed and widely used for the exchange of mission and time-critical information within commercial vehicles. In-vehicle communication is based on messages sent and received by Electronic Control ...

With the miniaturization of electronics, receivers are getting more and more embedded into devices with harsh energy constraints. This process has led to new signal processing challenges due to the limited processing power on battery-operated devices and ...

This paper presents a tutorial on the Tracking, Telemetry, and Command (TT&C) for spacecraft and satellite missions. In particular, it provides a thorough summary of the design of the TT&C, starting from elementary system aspects and going ...

The satellite communications (SatCom) system is a representative technology for global coverage and seamless communications in next-generation communication systems. This paper is a survey of basic studies and recent research trends for multiple input ...

Contrary to orthogonal multiple-access (OMA), non-orthogonal multiple-access (NOMA) schemes can serve a pool of users without exploiting the scarce frequency or time domain resources. This is useful in meeting the future network requirements (5G and ...

Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites undergo a period of rapid development driven by ever-increasing user demands, reduced costs, and technological progress. Since there is a lack of literature on the security and reliability issues of LEO Satellite ...

With the growth of network applications such as 5G and artificial intelligence, network security techniques, i.e., the techniques that detect various attacks (e.g., well-known denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks) and prevent production networks (e.g., data ...

Operational Technology (OT) systems have become increasingly interconnected and automated, consequently resulting in them becoming targets of cyber attacks, with the threat towards a range of critical national infrastructure (CNI) sectors becoming ...

Today’s cyber attacks have become more severe and frequent, which calls for a new line of security defenses to protect against them. The dynamic nature of new-generation threats, which are evasive, resilient, and complex, makes traditional security ...

The field of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) has garnered considerable research attention in recent years, aiming to provide interpretability and confidence to the inner workings of state-of-the-art deep learning models. However, XAI-enhanced ...

Publicly available datasets are an indispensable tool for researchers, as they allow testing new algorithms on a wide range of different scenarios and making scientific experiments verifiable and reproducible. Research in IoT security is no exception. In ...

Long-range (LoRa) technology is most widely used for enabling low-power wide area networks (WANs) on unlicensed frequency bands. Despite its modest data rates, it provides extensive coverage for low-power devices, making it an ideal communication system ...

Communication and computation are often viewed as separate tasks. This approach is very effective from the perspective of engineering as isolated optimizations can be performed. However, for many computation-oriented applications, the main interest is a ...

The deep fusion of human-centered Cyber-Physical-Social Systems (CPSSs) has attracted widespread attention worldwide and big data as the blood of CPSSs could lay a solid data cornerstone for providing more proactive and accurate wisdom services. However, ...

Over the last two decades, IEEE has been defining standards for Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN). These standards combine traffic shaping and scheduling mechanisms to guarantee bounded delays across an Ethernet network. Time-Sensitive Networks are designed ...

The future of cellular networks is contingent on artificial intelligence (AI) based automation, particularly for radio access network (RAN) operation, optimization, and troubleshooting. To achieve such zero-touch automation, a myriad of AI-based solutions ...

Future communication networks are envisioned to satisfy increasingly granular and dynamic requirements to accommodate the application and user demands. Indeed, novel immersive and mission-critical services necessitate increased computing and network ...

Battery-free Internet-of-Things (BF-IoT), which is realized by harvesting ambient energy to power the IoT devices, has emerged to reduce the energy consumption, and alleviate environmental concerns caused by extensive battery usage. However, current ...