The ''IEEE Communications Magazine'' is a monthly

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published by the

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

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s, personal communications systems (PCS),

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, 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 abstracted and indexed 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 university, public Historically Black colleges and universities, historically black research university in Jackson, Mississippi. It is a member of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund and ...

), 2018–present * Osman Gebizlioglu ( Huawei Technologies), 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

* Communications Magazine Telecommunications engineering {{telecom-stub