Millimeter-wave communications for 5G – Part 2: applications [Guest Editorial]

In the September 2014 issue of IEEE Communications Magazine, the first part of this Feature Topic included five articles that covered the fundamentals of mmWave communications with topics ranging from propagation to coverage, presenting a holistic view of research challenges and opportunities in the emerging area of mmWave radio systems and 5G mobile broadband. The use of this technology is expected to surge in the next few years and to transform the Internet industry in the next 10 years. This part of the Feature Topic will address in more detail many technical and application issues related to beamforming, device-to-device communications, heterogeneous networks, and multimedia transmission.