Call for Papers
IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
Special Issue on “Antennas and Propagation Aspects of 5G Communications”
Wireless mobile technologies have over 6.8 billion cellphone subscriptions in use today, with 2/3 of all traffic
expected to be video within 3 years, and with an additional 25 billion connections predicted within 5 years based on
the introduction of millimeter wave radio spectrum1,2. Recently, the wireless community has conceived the notion of5G – a new generation of mobile wireless technology that will deliver multi-gigabit-per-second data speeds, withorders of magnitude more capacity and lower latency than today’s wireless systems. Millimeter-wave (mmWave)
and THz frequencies are now being investigated by major research institutions and industry3,4. Regulatory officials
throughout the world are beginning to assign mmWave spectrum for 5G mobile applications. Unprecedented
challenges lie ahead in the antenna and propagation fields as low cost, intelligent antennas, and new radio
propagation modeling and prediction techniques for future 5G wireless networks must emerge to support the newfrequency bands and wireless system architectures. Research methodologies must not only address the uniqueantenna and propagation characteristics for future microwave/mmWave/THz systems, but must also simultaneously
be universally applicable and compatible across a diverse range of mobile terminals and platforms, thus enabling
revolutionary use cases and applications in areas, such as vehicle or peer-to-peer communications, cloud computing,virtual reality and the Internet of Things (IoT). Practical implementation issues will be challenging at mmWave
frequencies and above.
mmWave and Terahertz research has been the subject of four past IEEE TAP special issues (April 2013, October
2009, November 2007, and July 1970). In this special issue, the focus is on the system design issues of the next
generation of consumer wireless systems (5G), and is not confined to a particular frequency band. With this broader
5G focus, this issue hopes to attract more readers and submissions from outside the traditional AP-S community.
Recently published special issues such as the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II (December 2015) andthe IEEE Communications Magazine (September/December 2014) emphasized 5G technology and system designs,
underlining the rapidly growing interest in this topic. This special issue will serve as a catalyst to initiate anunprecedented discussion within IEEE AP-S to frame the search for key antenna and propagation methodologies
that will enable the 5G era. This issue will include both invited and open-call papers. Topics of interest include, but
are not limited to, low-cost, high gain intelligent antennas, with a strong focus on practical implementations, novel
feed networks, and components compatible with future 5G radio architectures, electromagnetic analysis andsimulation techniques for adaptive arrays, MIMO, massive-MIMO, beam-steering, or beam combining architecturesat microwave or mmWave/THz frequencies, antenna-in-package, antenna-on-chip, channel modeling andpropagation prediction, and measurements related to future wireless implementations, use cases, and systemarchitectures. To maintain focus on the electromagnetic aspects of 5G, all antenna-related manuscripts musttake into account real world impacts such as mutual coupling, non-ideal antenna patterns, andimplementation challenges. Propagation/channel modeling manuscripts must be based upon a physicalelectromagnetic approach, and not based merely on curve-fitting or black-box parameterization.
Manuscripts should conform to the requirements for regular T-AP papers, as specified in the Information forAuthors on the web site at http://ieeeaps.org/aps_trans. Potential contributors may contact the Guest Editors by email to determine the suitability of their contribution to the special issue. All invited and contributed papers must besubmitted through the T-AP Manuscript Central web site (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tap-ieee), with astatement to the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation that they are intended forthis Special Issue.

Guest Co-Editors
Dr. Duixian Liu
IBM, USA
duixian@us.ibm.com
Prof. Cyril Luxey
UNSA, FranceCyril.LUXEY@unice.fr

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Prof. Wonbin Hong
POSTECH, Korea
whong@postech.ac.kr
Prof. Theodore S. Rappaport
New York University, USA
ted.rappaport@nyu.edu

Paper Submissions: October 30, 2016

Prof. Wei HongSoutheast University, China
weihong@seu.edu.cn

Publication: October 2017 issue

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Ericsson 5G research news: http://www.ericsson.com/news/1873727
Samsung demo: http://www.samsung.com/global/business/networks/insights/news/samsung-electronics-sets-5g-speed-record-at-7-5gbpsover-30-times-faster-than-4g-lte