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Telecom, Volume 7, Issue 3

2026 June - 30 articles

Cover Story: This figure illustrates a one-hour time-series measurement of worker's exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMFs) within an operational private 5G network deployment. The data indicate that occupational exposure levels are highly contingent upon instantaneous network throughput. Specifically, electric field intensities elevate concurrently with active data transmission and decay rapidly during network latency, mirroring real-time traffic dynamics. Although transient peak exposures are observable during high-throughput bursts, the corresponding time-averaged exposures over standardised 6-minute and 30-minute intervals remain more than an order of magnitude below these localised maxima. These findings highlight the necessity of incorporating realistic traffic models and standardised temporal averaging windows to ensure accurate compliance assessments in private 5G environments. View this paper
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Articles (30)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,092 Views
18 Pages

18 June 2026

The industrial Internet of Things (IoT) allows traditional electromechanical systems to be connected to digital monitoring and control platforms, especially when field devices use industrial protocols that must be integrated into web services without...

(This article belongs to the Topic Electronic Communications, IOT and Big Data, 2nd Volume)
  • Article
  • Open Access
456 Views
22 Pages

11 June 2026

Unauthorized plucking of flowers, fruits, and vegetables from residential plant beds is a recurring concern in urban and semi-urban household, causing damage to gardening resources, economic loss and inconvenience to sustainable gardening. To address...

  • Article
  • Open Access
673 Views
21 Pages

Converging millimetre-wave (mmWave) radio access with passive optical network (PON) fronthaul under the Open RAN (O-RAN) architecture promises unprecedented capacity for beyond-5G and 6G systems. Yet today, dynamic bandwidth allocation (DBA) in the P...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,342 Views
33 Pages

A Survey of Emerging Technologies for Secure Communication in 6G Networks

  • Shuo Yu,
  • Ahmed S. Khwaja,
  • Waleed Ejaz and
  • Alagan Anpalagan

With the rapid proliferation in communication devices and the expansion of applications, future sixth-generation (6G) networks are expected to enable a truly connected world. They will allow large-scale use cases, such as the Internet of Things (IoT)...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,243 Views
19 Pages

Machine learning (ML) methods for network anomaly detection are emerging as effective proactive strategies in threat hunting, substantially reducing the time required for threat detection and response. However, the challenges in training and maintain...

  • Article
  • Open Access
473 Views
30 Pages

Performance Optimization of Joint STAR-RIS- and MA-Aided Wireless Communication Systems in Coal Mine Scenarios

  • Yuxin Xia,
  • Yuanchao Yan,
  • Xianzhong Li,
  • Yandong Zhao and ,
  • Weimin Liu and
  • Tianhao Guo
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Wireless links in underground coal mines suffer from severe attenuation, blockage, and limited spatial coverage. To improve link quality under these conditions, we study a simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Performance Criteria for Advanced Wireless Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
576 Views
15 Pages

This paper investigates an RIS-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) system without reliable direct links between users and base stations (BSs). Users offload tasks to BSs through reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-reflected links, where offload...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
630 Views
22 Pages

This study proposes a novel hardware-impairment-aware convolutional neural network (CNN)-based hybrid precoding scheme for cell-free massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems operating in the terahertz (THz) band under practical constrain...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Performance Criteria for Advanced Wireless Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
731 Views
28 Pages

Resource-Constrained Temporary Roaming for Cell Outage Mitigation in Suburban Multi-Operator Deployments

  • Omolara Ogundipe,
  • Abimbola Fisusi,
  • Funmilayo B. Offiong,
  • Akinbode A. Olawole and
  • Enoruwa Obayiuwana

Cell outages are conventionally mitigated through cell outage compensation, but national roaming frameworks offer alternative solutions with extra cost and energy efficiency benefits. Most national roaming studies evaluate performance over aggregate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,439 Views
19 Pages

Design, Implementation, and Experimental Evaluation of Cross-Yagi Antennas for VHF/UHF Satellite Ground Station Applications

  • Miriam Litz Xesspe,
  • Carlos Pedrito Ccorahua,
  • Jose E. Velazco and
  • Pablo Raul Yanyachi

This work presents the design, simulation, fabrication, and practical evaluation of low-cost Cross-Yagi antennas for VHF/UHF satellite ground-station applications. The main contribution lies in the integrated development of a low-cost VHF/UHF antenna...

  • Article
  • Open Access
707 Views
10 Pages

Microwave wireless power transfer (MWPT) is a promising technology for powering dedicated industrial Internet of Things (IoT) devices, enabling battery-free operation. However, in realistic MWPT deployments, the received RF signals fluctuate drastica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
641 Views
33 Pages

The rapid increase in interest for Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) networks has created significant challenges in efficient radio resource management. This paper addresses the problem of joint subcarrier assignment and power allocation to maximize the sp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wireless Communications for UAVs, IoT, 5G Technologies, Information and Coding Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,259 Views
19 Pages

ChanEst Dataset: A Reconfigurable Framework and Benchmark for Deep Learning–Based 6G Channel Estimation

  • Obinna Okoyeigbo,
  • Xutao Deng,
  • Ray Sheriff,
  • Daniel Jeremiah and
  • Olamilekan Shobayo

Accurate channel estimation is essential for reliable wireless communication, yet it becomes significantly challenging in 6G due to extreme propagation conditions. Factors such as high mobility, large delay spreads, and low signal-to-noise ratios (SN...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
987 Views
25 Pages

Lightweight Dual Blockchain Authentication for 6G-Enabled IoT Environments

  • Mouchira Bensari,
  • Azeddine Bilami,
  • Karam Eddine Bilami,
  • Pascal Lorenz and
  • Jaafar Gaber

The emergence of 6G heterogeneous networks integrating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs), Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and fog/edge nodes creates new opportunities for intelligent and latency-sensitive appli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,266 Views
21 Pages

Workers’ Exposure Due to Private 5G Networks

  • Blaž Valič,
  • David Plets,
  • Gunter Vermeeren,
  • Christos Apostolidis and
  • Peter Gajšek

Private 5G mobile networks are emerging as a platform for wireless connectivity in professional applications across smart industrial sectors such as automated warehousing, logistics, autonomous vehicle deployments in campus environments, mining, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
643 Views
8 Pages

Mode coupling in multimode step-index polymer optical fibers (SI POFs) plays a critical role in determining signal integrity and bandwidth performance in optical communication systems. It originates from intrinsic random perturbations that influence...

  • Article
  • Open Access
643 Views
24 Pages

SSA-A-BiGCRNN: An Attention-Based Spectrum Prediction Method for Spatio-Temporal Feature Synergy

  • Yueshun He,
  • Hao Song,
  • Ping Du,
  • Linlin He and ,
  • Xiaoyu Cao,
  • Yunzhe Liu and
  • Weiqian Song
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Spectrum prediction is essential for implementing dynamic spectrum management and mitigating spectrum congestion. However, spectrum data in real electromagnetic environments exhibit high non-stationarity, multi-scale features, and complex non-Euclide...

(This article belongs to the Topic Innovations in AI and Signal Processing for Advanced Sensing, Radar, RFID, and Communication Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
439 Views
21 Pages

In response to the shortcomings of current mobile communication network (MCN) fault diagnosis methods, such as the insufficient robustness of time-series-spectrum features and the limited ability to capture long-distance dependencies, an improved con...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Technologies in Communications and Machine Learning)
  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,804 Views
36 Pages

The Evolution of FTTH Networks in Europe and South Korea—Regulatory Power

  • Jorge Duarte,
  • Carlos Serôdio,
  • Sílvia de Castro Pereira,
  • Fernando Santos and ,
  • António Valente,
  • Sérgio Ramos and
  • Sérgio Leitão
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Regulations of next-generation networks (NGNs) have played a central role in the transition from copper networks to broadband networks in Fiber to The Home (FTTH), also allowing for a reduction in asymmetries between incumbent operators and their com...

(This article belongs to the Topic Electronic Communications, IOT and Big Data, 2nd Volume)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,283 Views
23 Pages

Smart microgrids depend on continuous communication between controllers, sensors, and actuators over industrial protocols like Modbus TCP, message queuing telemetry transport (MQTT), and distributed network protocol 3 (DNP3), which were designed with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
608 Views
16 Pages

Industrial 5G Adoption in Ayrshire, Scotland: Evidence, Barriers, and Implications for 6G

  • Hamish Sturley,
  • Pablo Salva-Garcia,
  • Ahren Hart,
  • Leon Irving and ,
  • Chao Guo and
  • Muhammad Zeeshan Shakir
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Fifth-generation (5G) mobile networks are widely positioned as key enablers of industrial digital transformation. However, despite extensive coverage expansion, the deployment landscape remains dominated by Non-Standalone (NSA) architectures integrat...

(This article belongs to the Topic Next-Generation Wireless and Mobile Network Technologies: Architectures, Protocols, and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
887 Views
17 Pages

This article discusses the anti-skid braking control mechanism of aircrafts. Aircrafts use a sliding-mode controller (SMC) to generate the desired braking torque on its wheels to stop while landing. Potential runway variations and load differences on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,176 Views
21 Pages

Underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) support critical applications such as environmental monitoring, offshore exploration, and surveillance; however, their performance is constrained by high propagation delay, limited energy resources, and nod...

  • Article
  • Open Access
768 Views
13 Pages

Designing an ultrashort, fast-rising high-power microwave (HPM) system requires an antenna that simultaneously provides ultrawideband (UWB) operation, high gain, and megawatt-level power handling under strict size, weight, and power (SWaP) constraint...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Microwave, Antenna, and Radio Frequency Technology and Its Applications)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,160 Views
28 Pages

While integrating blockchain technology into Business Process Management (BPM) has gained attention, existing compilation-based approaches suffer from high redeployment costs and isolated network structures. This study proposes an FSM-based workflow...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,326 Views
28 Pages

Seeing Without Being Seen: A Review of Ethical and Human-Centric ISAC in 6G

  • Maria Gardano,
  • Antonio Nocera,
  • Michela Raimondi and
  • Ennio Gambi

Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC), enabling communication infrastructure to simultaneously transmit data and sense the surrounding physical environment, is emerging as a cornerstone technology for sixth-generation (6G) mobile networks. Whil...

(This article belongs to the Topic Next-Generation Wireless and Mobile Network Technologies: Architectures, Protocols, and Applications)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,189 Views
30 Pages

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks continue to escalate in scale and complexity, posing significant threats to modern network infrastructures and cloud services. Although many machine learning and deep learning approaches have been proposed...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
876 Views
17 Pages

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems generate high-dimensional, non-stationary sensor streams under strict memory and computational constraints, limiting the applicability of classical batch dimensionality reduction methods. While incremental...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,514 Views
21 Pages

In the evolving landscape of next-generation wireless networks, ensuring seamless mobility and high-quality service delivery for millions of devices and end users in dynamic scenarios, where the speed of a wireless device keeps changing with time, is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,603 Views
25 Pages

5G Network Deployments: A Greener Connectivity Paradigm for Industry

  • Ahren Hart,
  • Hamish Sturley,
  • Paul Mclean,
  • Pablo Salva-Garcia and
  • Muhammad Zeeshan Shakir

26 April 2026

The UK telecommunications sector’s 5G rollout is projected to consume 2.1% of national electricity by 2030, raising urgent sustainability concerns. This study empirically investigates, under controlled laboratory conditions, the energy performa...

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