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WCM_EDIT_NOTE-June_Edit Note 6/22/15 12:10 PM Page 2 MESSAGE FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF PASSING THE BATON ear readers, I have been serving as tinue seamlessly. Dr. Gharavi is a long- the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Wireless time IEEE volunteer, and I am fully confi- Communications for almost three and dent that he has all the experience needed Da half years, and it is time for me to to bring this magazine to a new high level step down to take a break after days and under his strong leadership. nights of working hard for this magazine. Before leaving my term as the EiC, it is My term as the Editor-in-Chief will offi- my privilege to summarize what I have cially end at the end of June 2015, and done in my three and a half years as the then the baton will be passed to Dr. EiC of IEEE Wireless Communications. I Hamid Gharavi, National Institute of Stan- still remember when I first stepped into dards and Technology (NIST), United the role of Editor-in-Chief, there was a States, who will be the next Editor-in- long backlog queue of accepted papers Chief of IEEE Wireless Communications. waiting for publication. Every day I Therefore, I have invited Dr. Hamid Ghar- received many inquiries from authors ask- avi to write a message in this Editor’s HSIAO-HWA CHEN ing when their accepted papers would be Note to mark this handover. In fact, Dr. published. Without doubt, a long submis- Gharavi has been serving as Associate sion-to-publication cycle was detrimental Editor-in-Chief for this magazine since June 2014. There- to attracting quality submissions to this magazine. There- fore, the handover will definitely be a “soft handover,” fore, the very first mission for me was to find ways to ensuring that the editorial work of this magazine will con- shorten the sub-to-pub cycle. 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Thanks which was required to write reports for this magazine twice to the strong support of the IEEE Communications Soci- a year before ICC and Globecom ComSoc Publication ety, which generously offered a higher budget to this mag- Council meetings. azine, we were able to increase the number of pages per After my farewell message, I would like to highlight the issue. The long backlog queue of accepted papers of IEEE contents included in this issue. As a tradition of this maga- Wireless Communications was eliminated by December zine, this magazine also publishes Special Issues (SIs) or 2013, after which we have been able to publish almost all Feature Topics (FTs) in addition to the regular open call accepted papers in the next immediate issue. In this way, papers, depending on the number of accepted papers in the submission-to-publication time for this magazine has one issue. Either SIs or FTs can attract a larger audience been significantly reduced, as reflected in the statistical due to their focus on very timely research topics in the data shown in the ScholarOne manuscript central system. wireless communications research community. As EiC of The excellent performance of this magazine is also this magazine, I have performed outreach to some well- attributed to the professionalism of all the Technical Edi- known experts in related areas to participate as Guest Edi- tors, who have worked extremely hard to maintain the tors in organizing SIs or FTs. This magazine has been able highest standard of technical reviews for all submissions. to publish at least one SI or FT in each issue so that read- We should note that all Technical Editors of this magazine ers can easily find research work in their field of interest in are very dedicated experts working in their specific areas; one dedicated issue, saving them a lot of time searching at the same time, they are all very busy people. It is indeed for separate papers in the literature. not an easy task for them to perform a timely and yet rig- In this issue, we also include both a Feature Topic and orous review for this magazine. Nevertheless, they have regular open call articles. The FT in this issue is “Hetero- done a wonderful job! As reflected in the ScholarOne geneous Cloud Radio Access Networks,” which was co- Manuscript Central system, the Editors’ average turn- edited by Mugen Peng, Tony Q. S. Quek, Zhiguo Ding, around time is about 60 days based on the data given in Vincent Lau, and H.