''IEEE Wireless Communications'' is a bimonthly

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published by the

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. Papers highlight such topics as portable telephones, communicating palmtop computers, protocols,

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, and personalized traffic filtering. It also covers such policy issues as

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, industry structure, and technology evolution. The current editor is Yi Qian of

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, USA. It is

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in most of the major

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. According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2020

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of 11.979.

References

External links

IEEE Communications Society's Digital Library
* Engineering journals

Wireless Communications Wireless communication (or just wireless, when the context allows) is the transfer of information between two or more points without the use of an electrical conductor, optical fiber or other continuous guided medium for the transfer. The most ...

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