Javier Gozalvez
Editor-in-Chief
I would first like to welcome Prof. Weihua Zhuang, 2023 IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) president, to the first issue of the year of IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine. Weihua is a long-standing VTS volunteer (including positions such as editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and vice president—publications), and I had the pleasure and honor of working closely with her over the past years. She is a committed, hard-working, and quality-driven professional and volunteer, and I am sure that she will have a strong, positive impact on the Society as VTS President. Weihua, I wish you all the best for your term as president and welcome your messages to our members in the magazine.
This issue of IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine includes the third special issue of “IEEE Future Networks Series on 6G Technologies and Applications.” The issue includes a selection of nine papers from 43 submissions covering a broad selection of 6G topics, including reconfigurable holographic surfaces; positioning and sensing; ultramassive multiple-input, multiple-output; artificial intelligence applied to channel estimation and network slicing; vehicular visible light communications; edge computing and multicasting over nonterrestrial networks, and semantic-aware content delivery.
“IEEE Future Networks Series on 6G Technologies and Applications” was launched as a follow up to our 5G series and our first, and successful, special issue on 6G that we published in September 2019. This is the last edition of the series run by the current Guest Editorial team, but we will continue the series that has now become a reference to the 6G community. I am extremely thankful to our Guest Editors, Klaus David, Anwer Al-Dulaimi, Harald Haas, and Rose Qingyang Hu, for their outstanding work and support over the last years. It has been a pleasure working with them, and their commitment and careful selection of papers has been extremely valuable to provide our members and readers with the highest-quality content possible. Thank you very much, Klaus, Anwer, Harald, and Rose!
I hope that you will enjoy reading this issue. As usual, please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any comments, ideas, or proposals to improve IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MVT.2023.3239172