The ''IEEE Communications Magazine'' is a monthly

magazine A magazine is a periodical publication, generally published on a regular schedule (often weekly or monthly), containing a variety of content. They are generally financed by advertising, purchase price, prepaid subscriptions, or by a combinatio ...

published by the

IEEE Communications Society The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operation ...

dealing with all areas of communications including light-wave telecommunications, high-speed

data communication Data transmission and data reception or, more broadly, data communication or digital communications is the transfer and reception of data in the form of a digital bitstream or a digitized analog signal transmitted over a point-to-point or p ...

s, personal communications systems (PCS),

ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) is a set of communication standards for simultaneous digital transmission of voice, video, data, and other network services over the digitalised circuits of the public switched telephone network. Work ...

, and more. It includes special features, technical articles, book reviews, conferences, short courses, standards, governmental regulations and legislation, new products, and Society news. The magazine is published as IEEE Communications Magazine since 1979, replacing the IEEE Communications Society Magazine (1977-1978) and the Communications Society (1973-1976). According to the ''

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'', the magazine has a 2013

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of 4.460. It is

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in most of the major

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. The current

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is Tarek S. El-Bawab.

Editors

* Tarek S. El-Bawab (

Jackson State University Jackson State University (Jackson State or JSU) is a public historically black research university in Jackson, Mississippi. It is one of the largest HBCUs in the United States and the fourth largest university in Mississippi in terms of studen ...

), 2018-present * Osman Gebizlioglu (

Huawei Technologies Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. ( ; ) is a Chinese multinational technology corporation headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. It designs, develops, produces and sells telecommunications equipment, consumer electronics and various smar ...

), 2015-2017 * Sean Moore (Centripetal Networks), 2013-2014 * Steve Gorshe (PMC-Sierra, Inc.), 2010-2012 * Nim K. Cheung (Telcordia Tech., Inc.), -2009

References

External links

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