ITU Journal Future and evolving technologies Volume 1 (2020), Issue 1 Inaugural issue
Foreword
Foreword
Editor-in-Chief’s Message
EDITORIAL BOARD
TABLE OF CONTENTS
LIST OF ABSTRACTS
BACKSCATTER COMMUNICATIONS WITH PASSIVE RECEIVERS: FROM FUNDAMENTALS TO APPLICATIONS
     1. INTRODUCTION
     2. THE FUNDAMENTALS
     3. TAG HARDWARE
     4. SCALING FROM A SINGLE LINKTO A FULL NETWORK: ROUTINGFOR IOT APPLICATIONS
     5. APPLICATIONS OF BTTNS
     6. FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS
     7. CONCLUSIONS
     ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
     REFERENCES
     AUTHORS
NON‑COHERENT MASSIVE MIMO‑OFDM FOR COMMUNICATIONS IN HIGH MOBILITYSCENARIOS
     1. INTRODUCTION
     2. BENEFITS AND WEAKNESSES OF THE COHERENTAND NON‑COHERENT DEMODULATIONSCHEMES
     3. NCDS WITH MASSIVE MIMO FOR THE UPLINK
     4. NCDS WITH MASSIVE MIMO FOR THEDOWNLINK
     5. PERFORMANCE DISCUSSION
     6. CONCLUSION
     ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
     REFERENCES
     AUTHORS
MSICA: MULTI-SCALE SIGNAL DECOMPOSITION BASED ON INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS WITH APPLICATION TO DENOISING AND RELIABLE MULTI-CHANNEL TRANSMISSION
     1. INTRODUCTION
     2. BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION
     3. MSICA: MULTI-SCALE DECOMPOSITIONBY INDEPENDENTCOMPONENT ANALYSIS
     4. MSICA FOR SIGNAL DENOISING
     5. CONCLUSIONS
     REFERENCES
     AUTHORS
SDN-based sociocast group communication in the Internet of things
     1. Introduction
     2. Background and motivations
     3. Sociocast: objectives and design principles
     4. The architectural framework
     5. Sociocast in action
     6. Performance evaluation
     7. Experimental results
     8. Discussion and conclusion
     Acknowledgement
     References
THE INTERNET OF METAMATERIAL THINGS AND THEIR SOFTWARE ENABLERS
     1. INTRODUCTION
     2. PREREQUISITES AND RELATEDWORK
     3. NETWORKED METAMATERIALSAND SDN WORKFLOWS
     4. APPLICATION PROGRAMMINGINTERFACE FOR METAMATERI-ALS
     5. THE METAMATERIAL MIDDLE-WARE
     6. SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATIONAND EVALUATION
     7. DISCUSSION: THE TRANSFOR-MATIONAL POTENTIAL OF THEIOMMT AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS
     8. CONCLUSION
     ACKNOWLEDGMENT
     REFERENCES
     AUTHORS
DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF A RECONFIGURABLE INTELLIGENT META-SURFACE FOR VEHICULAR NETWORKS
     1. Introduction
     2. Unit-Cell Design and Configuration
     3. Simulation results
     4. Full structure description and Evaluation
          Coding Meta-surface Construction
          Beam-Steering Meta-surface Construction
     5. Evaluation in Vehicular Applications
          Beam width Impact Evaluation
          Outage Probability
     6. Discussion
     7. Conclusions
     ACKNOWLEDGMENT
     REFERENCES
A BLUEPRINT FOR EFFECTIVE PANDEMIC MITIGATION
     1. INTRODUCTION
     2. IMPROVED DATA COLLECTION
     3. DATA INTEGRATION AND SUSCEPTIBILITYGRAPH
     4. TESTING UNDER RESOURCECONSTRAINTS
     5. SIMULATIONS
     6. CONCLUSION
     ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
     REFERENCES
     AUTHORS
MACHINE LEARNING-ASSISTED CROSS-SLICE RADIO RESOURCE OPTIMIZATION:IMPLEMENTATION FRAMEWORK AND ALGORITHMIC SOLUTION
     1. INTRODUCTION
     2. Related worK
     3. ML-enabled Cross-Slice Management Framework
          3.1 O-RAN framework for ML-assisted solutions
          3.2 Information models for network slice management
     4. ML-assisted Cross-Slice Optimization Solution
          4.1 RAN cross-slice manager
          4.2 Trainer of RAN cross-slice management policies
     5. Illustrative Scenario and Evaluation
     6. CONCLUding remarks
     ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
     REFERENCES
6G VISION: AN ULTRA-FLEXIBLE PERSPECTIVE
     1. INTRODUCTION
     2. A BRIEF OVERVIEW: FORECASTS ON 6G
     3. ULTRA-FLEXIBLE PERSPECTIVE FOR 6G
     4. ULTRA-FLEXIBLE 6G FRAMEWORK
     5. CONCLUSION
     ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
     REFERENCES
ON THE EVOLUTION OF INFRASTRUCTURE SHARING IN MOBILENETWORKS: A SURVEY
     1. INTRODUCTION
     2. EARLY WORKS
     3. MORE RECENT AND UP-TODATEWORKS
     4. DISCUSSION AND OUTLOOK
     5. CONCLUSION
     REFERENCES
     AUTHORS
INDEX OF AUTHORS