TY - JOUR
T1 - Guest Editorial: Massive Machine-Type Communications for IoT
AU - Liu, Liang
AU - Larsson, Erik G.
AU - Popovski, Petar
AU - Caire, Giuseppe
AU - Chen, Xiaoming
AU - Khosravirad, Saeed R.
N1 - Funding Information:
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany. He received the Jack Neubauer Best System Paper Award from the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society in 2003; the IEEE Communications Society and Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award in 2004 and in 2011; the Okawa Research Award in 2006; the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship in 2014; the Vodafone Innovation Prize in 2015; an ERC Advanced Grant in 2018; the Leonard G. Abraham Prize for best IEEE JSAC paper in 2019; and the IEEE Communications Society Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award in 2020. He is a recipient of the 2021 Leibinz Prize of the German National Science Foundation (DFG). He has been a Fellow of IEEE since 2005. He has served in the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society from 2004 to 2007, and as an officer from 2008 to 2013. He was President of the IEEE Information Theory Society in 2011.
PY - 2021/8
Y1 - 2021/8
N2 - Future wireless cellular networks are envisioned to not only enhance broadband access for human-centric applications, but also offer massive connectivity across tens of billions of devices for machine-centric applications empowered by Internet of Things (IoT) technologies (e.g., smart factory and smart city). To embrace the forthcoming era of IoT, the fifth-generation (5G) cellular communication standard has already identified massive machine-type communications (mMTC) as a key use case in future networks. Contrary to human-type high-speed communications, the focus of IoT communications is on providing connectivity to tens of billions of devices with high energy efficiency, low latency, and high reliability. Consequently, 5G and beyond cellular communication technologies call for radically innovative solutions to support mMTC. Motivated by the crucial role of mMTC in IoT and the dramatically new challenges arising from mMTC as compared to human-type communication, this Feature Topic aims to bring together researchers, industry practitioners, and individuals working on the related areas to share their new ideas, latest findings, and state-of-the-art results.
AB - Future wireless cellular networks are envisioned to not only enhance broadband access for human-centric applications, but also offer massive connectivity across tens of billions of devices for machine-centric applications empowered by Internet of Things (IoT) technologies (e.g., smart factory and smart city). To embrace the forthcoming era of IoT, the fifth-generation (5G) cellular communication standard has already identified massive machine-type communications (mMTC) as a key use case in future networks. Contrary to human-type high-speed communications, the focus of IoT communications is on providing connectivity to tens of billions of devices with high energy efficiency, low latency, and high reliability. Consequently, 5G and beyond cellular communication technologies call for radically innovative solutions to support mMTC. Motivated by the crucial role of mMTC in IoT and the dramatically new challenges arising from mMTC as compared to human-type communication, this Feature Topic aims to bring together researchers, industry practitioners, and individuals working on the related areas to share their new ideas, latest findings, and state-of-the-art results.
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U2 - 10.1109/MWC.2021.9535445
DO - 10.1109/MWC.2021.9535445
M3 - Editorial
AN - SCOPUS:85114753044
SN - 1536-1284
VL - 28
SP - 56
JO - IEEE Wireless Communications
JF - IEEE Wireless Communications
IS - 4
M1 - 9535445
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