Editor-in-Chief

Nei Kato 
Graduate School of Information Sciences
Tohoku University
Sendai, Japan
email: eic-tvt@it.is.tohoku.ac.jp

System Administrator

Hiroaki Hashida 
Graduate School of Information Sciences
Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
email: admin-tvt@it.is.tohoku.ac.jp

Motoko Shiraishi 
Graduate School of Information Sciences
Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
email: admin-tvt@it.is.tohoku.ac.jp

Editorial Board

M. Cenk Gursoy (Area Editor)
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY, USA
email: mcgursoy@syr.edu

Lingyang Song (Area Editor)
Institute of Information and Communications Technology
Department of Electronics
Peking University
Beijing, China
email: lingyang.song@gmail.com

Arafat Al-Dweik 
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Khalifa University
Abu Dhabi, UAE
email: dweik@fulbrightmail.org

Andre L. F. de Almeida
Wireless Telecommunications Research Group
Federal University of Ceara
Fortaleza, CE, Brazil
email: andre@gtel.ufc.br

Xuanyu Cao
Coordinated Science Lab
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL, USA
email: xyc@illinois.edu

Jung-Chieh Chen
Department of Optoelectronics and Communication Engr
National Kaohsiung Normal University
Kaohsiung, Taiwan
email: jcchen@nknu.edu.tw

Wan Choi
Seoul National University
Seoul, South Korea
email: wanchoi@snu.ac.kr

Daniel Benevides da Costa
National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Federal University of Ceara, Brazil
email: danielbcosta@ieee.org

Sinem Coleri
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Koc University
Istanbul, Turkey
email: sergen@ku.edu.tr

Igor Bisio 
DITEN
University of Genoa
Genoa, Italy
email: igor.bisio@unige.it

Boya Di
Department of Computing
Imperial College London
London, UK
email: diboya92@gmail.com

Zhiguo Ding
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
The University of Manchester
Manchester, UK
email: zhiguo.ding@manchester.ac.uk

Rui Dinis
Instituto de Telecomunicacoes
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Lisbon, Portugal
email: rdinis@fct.unl.pt

Xiaodai Dong
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Victoria
Victoria, Canada
email: xdong@ece.uvic.ca

Maged Elkashlan
Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Queen Mary University of London
London, UK
email: maged.elkashlan@eecs.qmul.ac.uk

Kai-Ten Feng
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
National Chiao Tung University
Hsinchu, Taiwan
email: ktfeng@mail.nctu.edu.tw

Yue Gao
Institute for Communication Systems
University of Surrey
Guildford, UK
email: yue.gao@ieee.org

Xiaohu Ge
School of Electronic Information and Communications
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Wuhan, Hubei, China
email: xhge@mail.hust.edu.cn

Yong Liang Guan
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore
email: eylguan@ntu.edu.sg

Hongzhi Guo
Northwestern Polytechnical University
Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
email: hongzhi.guo@nwpu.edu.cn

Walaa Hamouda
Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept.
Concordia University
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
email: hamouda@ece.concordia.ca

Zhu Han
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
University of Houston
Houston, TX, USA
email: zhan2@uh.edu

Jingon Joung
School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Chung-Ang University
Seoul, South Korea
email: jgjoung@cau.ac.kr

Witold Krzymien
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Canada
email: wak@ece.ualberta.ca

Namyoon Lee
Dept. of Electrical Engineering
POSTECH
Pohang, Gyeongbuk, Korea
email: nylee@postech.ac.kr

Hai Lin
Graduate School of Engineering
Osaka Prefecture University
Sakai, Osaka, Japan
email: hai.lin@ieee.org

Jia-Chin Lin
Department of Communication Engineering
National Central University
Taoyuan, Taiwan
email: jiachin@ieee.org

Hsiao-Feng (Francis) Lu
Department of Communications Engineering
National Chiao Tung University
Hsinchu, Taiwan
email: francis@mail.nctu.edu.tw

Yao Ma
Communication Technology Laboratory
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Boulder, CO, USA
email: mayao@ieee.org

Sudhan Majhi
Electrical Engineering
IIT Patna
Patna, Bihar, India
email: smajhi@iitp.ac.in

Dania Marabissi
Laboratorio di Reti di Telecomunicazioni
University of Florence
Via S.Marta 3-50139, Firenze, Italy
email: dania.marabissi@unifi.it

Vuk Marojevic
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Mississippi State University
MI, USA
email: vuk.marojevic@msstate.edu

Bala Natarajan
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Kansas State Univeristy
Manhattan, KS, USA
email: bala@ksu.edu

Ha H. Nguyen
Department of Communication Engineering
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, Canada
email: ha.nguyen@usask.ca

Mugen Peng
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Beijing, China
email: pmg@bupt.edu.cn

Raghunandan M. Rao
Standards and Mobility Innovation Lab
Samsung Research America Inc.
Plano, TX, USA
email: raghumr@vt.edu

Ahmed Hamdi Sakr
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Windsor
Windsor, ON, Canada
email: ahmed.sakr@uwindsor.ca

Byonghyo Shim
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Seoul National University
Seoul, Korea
email: bshim@snu.ac.kr

Li Wang
School of Electronic Engineering
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Beijing, China
email: liwang@bupt.edu.cn

Xianbin Wang
Faculty of Engineering
University of Western Ontario
London, Canada
email: xianbin.wang@eng.uwo.ca

Xiaoxiao Wu
College of Electronics and Information Engineering
Shenzhen University
Shenzhen, China
email: xxwu.eesissi@gmail.com

Chau Yuen
Singapore University of Technology and Design
Singapore
email: yuen@ieee.org

Haijun Zhang
University of Science and Technology Beijing
Beijing, China
email: zhanghaijun@ustb.edu.cn

Lan Zhang
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Michigan Technological University
Houghton, MI, USA
email: lanzhang@mtu.edu

Rongqing Zhang
School of Software Engineering
Tongji University
Shanghai, China
email: rongqingz@tongji.edu.cn

Yiqing Zhou
Institute of Computing Technology
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing, China
email: zhouyiqing@ict.ac.cn

Hongzi Zhu
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Shanghai, China
email: hongzi@sjtu.edu.cn

Huiling Zhu
School of Engineering and Digital Arts
University of Kent
Kent, CT2 7NT, UK
email: H.Zhu@kent.ac.uk

Tomoaki Ohtsuki (Area Editor)
Department of Information and Computer Science
Keio University
Yokohama, Japan
email: ohtsuki@ics.keio.ac.jp

Lin Cai (Area Editor)
Univeristy of Victoria
Victoria, BC, Canada
email: cai@uvic.ca

Giuseppe Araniti 
DIIES Department
University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria
Reggio Calabria, Italy
email: araniti@unirc.it

Chadi Assi 
Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science
Concordia University
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
email: assi@ciise.concordia.ca

Saewoong Bahk 
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Seoul National University
Seoul, Korea
email: sbahk@snu.ac.kr

Kaigui Bian 
School of EECS
Peking University
Beijing, China
email: bkg@pku.edu.cn

Berk Canberk
Department of Computer Engineering
Istanbul Technical University (ITU)
Istanbul, Turkey
email: canberk@itu.edu.tr

Lin Cai
Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago, IL, USA
email: lincai@iit.edu

Zhipeng Cai
Department of Computer Science
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA, USA
email: zcai@gsu.edu

Yu Cheng
Department of Electrical and Engineering
Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago, IL, USA
email: cheng@iit.edu

Swades De
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
New Delhi, India
email: swades@ee.iitd.ac.in

Tomaso de Cola
Institute of Communications and Navigation
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Wessling, Germany
email: tomaso.decola@dlr.de

Xiaojiang Du
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
Temple University
Philadeliphia, PA, USA
email: dxj@ieee.org

Zubair Fadlullah
Lakehead University
Thunder Bay, ON, Canada
email: zubair.fadlullah@lakeheadu.ca

Mostafa Fouda
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Idaho State University
Idaho Falls, ID, USA email: mfouda@ieee.org

Yacine Ghamri-Doudane
Univerity of La Rochelle
La Rochelle, France
email: yacine.ghamri@univ-lr.fr

Giovanni Giambene
Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione e Scienze Matematiche (DIISM)
University of Siena
53100 Siena, Italy
email: giambene@unisi.it

Luigi Alfredo Grieco
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineeering 
Politecnico di Bari
v. Orabona, 4 - 70125, Bari, Italy
email: alfredo.grieco@poliba.it

Linke Guo
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Clemson University
Clemson, SC, USA
email: linkeg@clemson.edu

Yuanxiong Guo
Department of Information Systems and Cyber Security
The University of Texas at San Antonio
San Antonio, TX, USA
email: guoyuanxiong@gmail.com

Takahiro Hara
Osaka University
Suita, Osaka, Japan
email: hara@ist.osaka-u.ac.jp

Hung-Yun Hsieh
Department of Electrical Engineering
Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering
National Taiwan University
email: hungyun@ntu.edu.tw

Rose Qingyang Hu
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Utah State University
Logan, Utah, USA
email: rose.hu@usu.edu

Abbas Jamalipour
School of Electrical and Information Engineering
University of Sydney
Sydney, Australia
email: a.jamalipour@ieee.org

Changhee Joo
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Korea University
Seoul, Korea
email: changhee@korea.ac.kr

Tiago Koketsu Rodrigues
Graduate School of Information Sciences
Tohoku University
Sendai, Japan
email: tiago.gama.rodrigues@it.is.tohoku.ac.jp

Heejo Lee
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Korea University
Seoul, Korea
email: heejo@korea.ac.kr

Kyunghan Lee
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Seoul National University
Seoul, Korea
email: kyunghanlee@snu.ac.kr

Ming Li
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
The University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, TX, USA
email: ming.li@uta.edu

Pascal Lorenz
Department of Computer Sciences
University of Upper Alsace
France
email: lorenz@ieee.org

Beatriz Lorenzo
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA, USA
email: blorenzo@umass.edu

Bin Lin
Department Dean of Communication Engineering
School of Information Science and Technology
Dalian Maritime University
Dalian, Liaoning, China
email: binlin@dlmu.edu.cn

Ying-Dar Lin
National Chiao Tung University
Hsinchu, Taiwan
email: ydlin@cs.nctu.edu.tw

Mario Marchese
DITEN
University of Genoa
Genoa, Italy
email: mario.marchese@unige.it

Guido Marchetto
Department of Control and Computer Engineering
Politecnico di Torino
Torino, Italy
email: guido.marchetto@polito.it

Jelena Misic
George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre
Ryerson University
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
email: jmisic@scs.ryerson.ca

Sudip Misra
Department of Computer Science and Engg
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Kharagpur, India
email: sudip_misra@yahoo.com

Antonella Molinaro
Department of Information Engineering, Infrastructures and Sustainable Energy
University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria
Reggio Calabria, Italy
email: antonella.molinaro@unirc.it

Bartolomeo Montrucchio
Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica (DAUIN)
Politecnico di Torino
Torino, Italy
email: bartolomeo.montrucchio@polito.it

Amiya Nayak
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
email: nayak@uottawa.ca

Dusit Niyato
School of Computer Science and Engineering
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore
email: dniyato@ntu.edu.sg

Ai-Chun Pang
Graduate Institute of Networking and Multimedia
National Taiwan University
Taipei, Taiwan
email: acpang@csie.ntu.edu.tw

Yi Qian
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Omaha, NE, USA
email: yi.qian@unl.edu

Ju Ren
School of Information Science and Engineering
Central South University
Changsha, Hunan, China
email: renju@csu.edu.cn

Qingyang Song
School of Communications and Information Engineering
Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Chongqing, China
email: songqy@cqupt.edu.cn

Daniele Tarchi
Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering
University of Bologna
Bologna, Italy
email: daniele.tarchi@unibo.it

Honggang Wang
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Massachusetts
Dartmouth, MA, USA
email: hwang1@umassd.edu

Feng Ye
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Dalton
Dalton, OH, USA
email: fye001@udayton.edu

Quan Yu
Peng Cheng Laboratory
Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
email: quanyu@ieee.org

Shucheng Yu
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Stevens Institute of Technology
Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
email: shucheng.yu@stevens.edu

Yan Zhang
University of Oslo
Oslo, Norway
email: yanzhang@ieee.org

Zibin Zheng
School of Data and Computer Science
Sun Yat-sen University
Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
email: zibinzheng@yeah.net

Liehuang Zhu
Beijing Institute of Technology
Beijing, China
email: liehuangz@bit.edu.cn

Bilal Akin (Area Editor)
Electrical Engineering Department
University of Texas at Dallas
Richardson, TX, USA
email: bilal.akin@utdallas.edu

Matthias Preindl (Area Editor)
Columbia University
New York, NY, USA
email: matthias.preindl@columbia.edu

Antonio Pedro Aguiar
Faculty of Engineering
University of Porto
Porto, Portugal
email: pedro.aguiar@fe.up.pt

M. Shahgir Ahmed
FCA US LLC
Auburn Hills, MI, USA
email: shahgir.ahmed@fcagroup.com

James Anderson
Data Science Institute
Department of Electrical Engineering
Columbia University
New York, NY, USA
email: james.anderson@columbia.edu

Sohel Anwar
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Purdue School of Engineering and Technology
Indianapolis, IN, USA
email: soanwar@iupui.edu

Rui Araujo
Institute of Systems and Robotics
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Coimbra
Coimbra, Portugal
email: rui@isr.uc.pt

Mohamed E. Benbouzid
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Western Brittany
Brest Cedex, France
email: Mohamed.Benbouzid@univ-brest.fr

Gedare Bloom
University of Colorado - Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs, CO, USA
email: gbloom@uccs.edu

Moussa Boukhnifer
LCOMS
Universite de Lorraine
57000, France
email: moussa.boukhnifer@univ-lorraine.fr

Ricardo Pinto de Castro
University of California - Merced
Merced, CA, USA
email: rpintodecastro@ucmerced.edu

Vito Cerone
Department of Control and Computer Engineering
Politecnico di Torino
Torino, Italy
email: vito.cerone@polito.it

Amitava Chatterjee
Department of Electrical Engineering
Jadavpur University
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
email: achatterjee@ee.jdvu.ac.in

Hicham Chaoui
Department of Electronics
Carleton University
Ottawa, ON, Canada
email: Hicham.Chaoui@carleton.ca

Yan Chen
The Polytechnic School
Arizona State University
Mesa, AZ, USA
email: yanchen@asu.edu

Jun Won Choi
Department of Electrical Engineering
Hanyang University
Seoul, Korea
email: junwchoi@hanyang.ac.kr

Luca D'Acierno
Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Federico II University of Naples
Naples, Italy
email: luca.dacierno@unina.it

Sebastien Delprat
Polytechnic University Hauts-de-France
Valenciennes, Hauts-de-France, France
email: sebastien.delprat@univ-valenciennes.fr

Josko Deur
Faculty of Mech. Eng. & Naval Arch.
University of Zagreb
Croatia
email: josko.deur@fsb.hr

Taner Goktas
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Inonu University
Malatya, Turkey
email: taner.goktas@inonu.edu.tr

Theo Hofman
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Control Systems Technology Group
Eindhoven University of Technology
Eindhoven, The Netherlands
email: t.hofman@tue.nl

Songnam Hong
Department of Electronics Engineering
Hanyang University
Seoul, Republic of Korea
email: snhong@hanyang.ac.kr

Chuan Hu
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, AK, USA
email: chu4@alaska.edu

Xiaosong Hu
Department of Automotive Engineering
Chongqing University
Chongqing, China
email: xiaosonghu@ieee.org

Sukumar Kamalasadan
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of North Carolina
Charlotte, NC, USA
email: skamalas@uncc.edu

Hamid Khayyam
Mechanical and Automotive Engineering
RMIT University
Melbourne, VIC, Australia
email: hamid.khayyam@rmit.edu.au

Mohammad Khodayar
Department of Electrical Engineering
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX, USA
email: mkhodayar@smu.edu

Mithat Kisacikoglu
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL, USA
email: mkisacik@ua.edu

Joongheon Kim
School of Electrical Engineering
Korea University
Seoul, Republic of Korea
email: joongheon@korea.ac.kr

Sunwoo Kim
Department of Electronic Engineering
Hanyang University
Republic of Korea
email: remero@hanyang.ac.kr

Jianjun Lei
School of Electrical and Information Engineering
Tianjin University
Tianjin, China
email: jjlei@tju.edu.cn

Chunhua Liu
School of Energy and Environment
City University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong, China
email: chualiu@eee.hku.hk

Zhigang Liu
School of Electrical Engineering
Southwest Jiaotong University
Chengdu, Sichuan, China
email: liuzg_cd@126.com

Yao Ma
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TX, USA
email: yao.ma@ttu.edu

Zhanyu Ma
Pattern Recognition and Intelligent System Lab.
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Beijing, China
email: mazhanyu@bupt.edu.cn

Ayan Mallik
The Polytechnic School (TPS)
Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ, USA
email: ayan.mallik@asu.edu

Saeed Manshadi
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
San Diego State University
San Diego, CA, USA
email: smanshadi@sdsu.edu

Shima Nazari
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
University of California - Davis
Davis, CA, USA
email: snazari@ucdavis.edu

Ching-Ming Lai
Department of Electrical Engineering
National Chung Hsing University
Taiwan
email: pecmlai@gmail.com

Kanghyun Nam
School of Mechanical Engineering
Yeungnam University
Gyeongsan, Gyeongbuk, South Korea
email: khnam@yu.ac.kr

Mehdi Narimani
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
email: narimanm@mcmaster.ca

Wesley Pennington
Tau Motors, Inc.y
San Carlos, CA, USA
email: wesley@taumotors.com

Mohammad Rastegar
Department of Power and Control
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Shiraz University
Shiraz, Iran
email: mohammadrastegar@shirazu.ac.ir

Hamid Taghavifar
School of Mechanical, Automotive and Aerospace Engineering
Coventry University
Coventry, United Kingdom
email: hamid.taghavifar@gmail.com

Taehyun Shim
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Michigan - Dearborn
Dearborn, MI, USA
email: tshim@umich.edu

Aldo Sorniotti
Centre for Automotive Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering Sciences
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences
University of Surrey
Surrey, UK
email: a.sorniotti@surrey.ac.uk

Miroslav Vasic
Centro de Electronica Industrial
Escuela Tecnica Superior de Ingenieros Industriales
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
Madrid, Spain
email: Miroslav.vasic@upm.es

Efstathios Velenis
Advanced Vehicle Engineering Centre
Cranfiled University
United Kingdom
email: e.velenis@cranfield.ac.uk

Wenshuo Wang
Department of Civil Engineering
McGill University
Montreal, QC, Canada
email: wwsbit@gmail.com

Wei Xu
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Wuhan, Hubei, China
email: weixuforhappy@foxmail.com

Jin Ye
Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Georgia
Atlanta, GA, USA
email: jin.ye@uga.edu

Hui Zhang
Department of Automotive Engineering
Beihang University
Beijing, China
email: huizhang285@gmail.com

Changfu Zou
Department of Electrical Engineering
Chalmers University of Technology
Gothenburg, Sweden
email: changfu@chalmers.se

Richard Yu (Lead Series Editor)
School of IT, Department of SCE
Carleton University
Ottawa, Canada
email: Richard_yu@carleton.ca

Yaser P. Fallah
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Central Florida
Orlando, FL, USA
email: yaserpf@gmail.com

Naveen Chilamkurti
Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering
La Trobe University
Melbourne, VIC, Australia
email: N.Chilamkurti@latrobe.edu.au

Lingjie Duan
Deparment of Engineering Systems and Design Pillar
Singapore University of Technology and Design
Singapore
email: lingjie_duan@sutd.edu.sg

Taneli Riihonen
School of Electrical Engineering
Aalto University
Helsinki, Finland
email: taneli.riihonen@iki.fi

Thanuka Wickramarathne
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Lowell, MA, USA
email: thanuka@uml.edu

Nan Yang
College of Engineering and Computer Science
Australian National University
Acton, Australia
email: nan.yang@anu.edu.au

Yuan Wu
University of Macau
Macau, China
email: yuanwu@um.edu.mo