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ITU Journal on Future and Evolving Technologies, Volume 1 (2020), Issue 1

Editor-in-Chief’s Message

On behalf of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU),
I welcome you to the inaugural issue of the ITU Journal on Future
and Evolving Technologies (ITU J-FET), an international, archival
and open access journal providing a publication vehicle for complete
coverage of all topics of interest to those involved in all aspects of
communications and networking from academia, industry and
governments, highlighting standardization perspectives.

The ITU Journal will share new techniques and concepts, analyses
and tutorials, and learnings from experiments and physical and
simulated testbeds and discuss the implications of the latest research
results for policy and regulation, legal frameworks, and the economy
and society. As a globally representative publication with a broad
scope of interest and prospective impact, the Journal is well
positioned to deliver unique value to academia and industry and
presents a unique opportunity to share their work with an
international audience invested in the broad scope of issues under the remit of ITU.

Free, fast, for all, the Journal aims to promote accessibility of research to academics and industry
researchers across the world. The publication is free of charge for both readers and authors, highlighting
the true sense of the term, ‘open access’.

ITU J-FET will be committed to the timely publication of very high quality, peer-reviewed, original
papers that advance the state of the art and applications of communications and networking paradigms.
Survey and roadmap papers reviewing the state of the art of relevant topics will also be considered.

A strong editorial board is the key to success. We have created an Editorial Board with truly outstanding,
experienced and distinguished people who are in the forefront of the telecommunications research
world. We are determined to give detailed, constructive feedback on submitted papers, as well as a fast
turn-around time.

All submissions will be handled electronically and must be in PDF format. Please submit your paper
(no page limits) through EDAS here.

The submitted papers should be original, unpublished work, and not currently under review for any
conference or journal. We understand how much effort goes into creating papers and, accordingly, we
aim at a careful, fair treatment of all papers. All of us are committed to doing everything to satisfy our
authors’ expectations! Regular issues will be accompanied by special issues focusing on particular
topics of broad interest within the telecommunications field. If you have any ideas for timely special
issues please do not hesitate to contact us.

I want to express my sincere thanks to all the authors of papers who accepted our invitation and
published their papers in this inaugural issue which includes ten papers that provide an in-depth analysis
of evolving technologies.

Examining the full potential of backscattering in the realization of Internet of Things, “Backscatter
communication with passive receivers: From fundamentals to applications” presents an overview of
recent innovations in hardware architecture for backscatter modulation. “Non-coherent massive MIMO-
OFDM for communications in high mobility scenarios” proposes the use of non-coherent demodulation
schemes to improve performance under scenarios of high mobility while also highlighting new potential
areas for research.

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