Millimeter Wave Communications for Future Mobile Networks (Guest Editorial), Part I

For the potential of providing rates of multiple Giga-bps in a single channel, millimeter wave (mmWave) communications have recently attracted substantial research interest. While mmWave technology is already being used in stationary scenarios such as indoor hotspots or backhaul, it is challenging to use mmWave frequencies in mobile networks, where transmitting/receiving nodes may be moving, channels may have a complicated structure, and the coordination among multiple nodes is difficult. To fully exploit the high potential rates of mmWave in mobile networks, many significant technical challenges must be tackled. The main objective of this IEEE JSAC Special Issue on “Millimeter wave communications for future mobile networks” is to collect the most recent technical advances in mmWave for future mobile networks. The response from the community to the call has been overwhelming. We received 96 submissions with a call period short than 4 months. Many of the submissions are from the most well known research groups in the field. After a strict review process, we decided to accept 38 papers, which will be published in two issues. The papers were selected based on the technical relevance and merits. Unfortunately, due to space limitations, a number of interesting papers were not selected, despite the merits that they had. We sincerely hope those papers can find other publishing venues.