Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Measurements, Sensors and Standards in Modern Communication Networks

In the last years, communication networks have become a central piece for many applications in multiple domains, including commercial and industrial systems, personal care and medicine, modern vehicles and vehicular networks, and environmental and disaster early-warning monitoring, to cite a few examples. Each application field has specific constraints regarding data rate, connectivity, security, immunity to electromagnetic disturbances, coverage area, and power consumption. Therefore, designers and researchers are continuously engaged in new challenges for reaching the expected targets in terms of performance and actual applicability in the field while considering the costs and requirements in designing suitable architectures warranting scalability, the required level of security and effective maintainability, and resilience.