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IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters (AWP Letters) is devoted to the rapid electronic publication of short manuscripts in the technical areas of Antennas and Wireless Propagation. These are areas of competence for the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S). AWPL aims to be one of the "fastest" journals among IEEE publications. This means that for papers that are eventually accepted, it is intended that an author may expect his or her paper to appear in IEEE Xplore, on average, around two months after submission.

AWPL is meant to be an avenue to publish rapidly high-quality, novel, research in the field of interest of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (APS). Topics include, but are not limited to: All types of antennas and their analysis and design for all applications; propagation models and methods; analytical, computational and experimental methods and results as applied to antennas and propagation topics; computational electromagnetic methods; materials for antennas such as metamaterials, frequency selective surfaces, etc; antennas for wireless communications including MIMO systems; electromagnetic interactions including bioelectromagnetics.

Since January 2018, AWPL is published in 12 monthly issues. Previously, there was only one volume published at the end of each year.
Papers that are accepted are posted in IEEE Xplore soon after being accepted.
You can go straight to past, current and early access papers on IEEE Xplore at the following links:

We are pleased to announce the following 2024 AWPL Special Clusters:

  • “Electromagnetic Imaging and Sensing: from Innovative Antenna Designs and Processing Algorithms to Advanced Applications”
    (Call for Paper)
    Guest Editor: Maria Garcia-Fernandez, Guillermo Alvarez-Narciandi, Okan Yurduseven, Xiaoming Chen, Murat Torlak and Tie Jun Cui.
  • “Smart Surfaces, Antennas and Propagation for Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC)”
    (Call for Paper)
    Guest Editor: Qingfeng Zhang, Baiyang Liu, Sai-Wai Wong, Kin-Fai Tong, Kai-Kit Wong, and Hang Wong
  • “Intelligent and Highly Efficient Antennas/Metasurfaces for 6G”
    (Call for Paper)
    Guest Editor: Shu-Lin Chen, Geng-Bo Wu, Astrid Algaba-Brazalez, Eva Rajo-Iglesias, Y. Jay Guo and Chi Hou Chan
  • “Advances in Reconfigurable Electromagnetic Devices”
    (Call for Paper)
    Guest Editor: Sawyer D. Campbell, Galestan Mackertich-Sengerdy, Douglas H. Werner, and Yang Hao
  • “Antennas and Metasurfaces for Advanced Wireless Power Transfer”
    (Call for Paper)
    Guest Editor: Martino Aldrigo, Qi Luo, Diego Masotti, Filippo Costa and Yonggang Zhou
  • “Recent Advances in Filtering Antennas and Arrays”
    (Call for Paper)
    Guest Editor: Lehu Wen, Wei Hu, Benito Sanz Izquierdo, Ping Jack Soh and Chunxu Mao
  • “Measurement-Computation Fusion for Advanced Electromagnetic Modeling, Simulation, and Evaluation”
    (Call for Paper)
    Guest Editor: Huapeng Zhao, Giuseppe Vecchi, Marco Righero and Zhizhang David Chen

Potential authors are encouraged to contact the Guest Editors with any questions or to determine the suitability of their contribution for this special cluster.
Papers should be prepared following the same submission instructions as for regular IEEE AWPL manuscripts (four-pages technical content maximum and one reference page, double-column, IEEE format), available via the Information for Authors page. The authors should indicate in the cover letter to the Editor-in-Chief that the manuscript is being submitted in response to the Call for Papers for the focused cluster. Prospective authors should refer to the timeline below for key dates.
Key dates:

  • Submission deadline: March 31, 2024
  • First decision: May 15, 2024
  • Revised manuscript deadline: June 15, 2024
  • Final decision: July 30, 2024
  • Final manuscripts due by: September 1, 2024
  • Online publication: shortly after final manuscript submission
  • Cluster publication: November (or December) 2024 issue of AWPL

2023 Focused Clusters

We are pleased to announce the following 2023 AWPL Special Clusters:

  • “Recent Advances in Conformal Metasurfaces”
    Guest Editors: Jordan Budhu and Anthony Grbic.
  • “Recent Advances in Applications Involving Mutual Coupling”
    Guest Editors: Hoi-Shun Antony Lui, Christophe Craeye, Trevor Bird

Potential authors are encouraged to contact the Guest Editors with any questions or to determine the suitability of their contribution for this special cluster.
Papers should be prepared following the same submission instructions as for regular IEEE AWPL manuscripts (four-pages technical content maximum and one reference page, double-column, IEEE format), available via the Information for Authors page. The authors should indicate in the cover letter to the Editor-in-Chief that the manuscript is being submitted in response to the Call for Papers for the focused cluster. Prospective authors should refer to the timeline below for key dates.
Key dates:

  • Submission deadline: March 31, 2023
  • First decision: May 15, 2023
  • Revised manuscript deadline: June 15, 2023
  • Final decision: July 30, 2023
  • Final manuscripts due by: September 1, 2023
  • Online publication: shortly after final manuscript submission
  • Cluster publication: November 2023 issue of AWPL

2022 Focused Clusters

We are pleased to announce the following 2022 AWPL Special Clusters:

  • “Functionalized metasurface-based covers and unconventional domes for dynamic antenna systems”
    (Call for Paper)
    Guest Editors: Davide Ramaccia, Filiberto Bilotti, Tie Jun Cui, Ariel Epstein, Roberto Flamini, Enrica Martini, Claudio Massagrande.
  • “Disruptive Beam-Steering Antenna Technologies for Emerging and Future Satellite Services”
    (Call for Paper)
    Guest Editors: Karu Esselle, Ladislau Matekovits, Yang Yang, Dushmantha Thalakotuna, Muhammad Usman Afzal, Maria Kovaleva, Khushboo Singh.

 

Potential authors are encouraged to contact the Guest Editors with any questions or to determine the suitability of their contribution for this special cluster.
Papers should be prepared following the same submission instructions as for regular IEEE AWPL manuscripts (four-pages technical content maximum and one reference page, double-column, IEEE format), available via the Information for Authors page. The authors should indicate in the cover letter to the Editor-in-Chief that the manuscript is being submitted in response to the Call for Papers for the focused cluster. Prospective authors should refer to the timeline below for key dates. The publication charges will be at the standard rates for AWPL.
Key dates:

  • Submission deadline: March 31, 2022
  • First decision: May 15, 2022
  • Revised manuscript deadline: June 15, 2022
  • Final decision: July 30, 2022
  • Final manuscripts due by: September 1, 2022
  • Online publication: shortly after final manuscript submission
  • Cluster publication: November 2022 issue of AWPL

2021 Focused Clusters

We are pleased to announce the following 2021 AWPL Special Clusters:

  • “Recent Advances in Antennas for Earth and Planetary Science”
    (Call for Paper)
    Guest Editors: Okan Yurduseven, Mohsen Khalily, Symon Podilchak, Goutam Chattopadhyay, Ronan Sauleau, Nelson Fonseca, Nacer Chahat.
  • “Antenna Considerations for Future Millimeter-wave and Terahertz Wireless Systems”
    (Call for Paper)
    Guest Editors: Masood Ur Rehman, Berardi Sensale-Rodriguez, Akram Alomainy, Qammer H. Abbasi, Raheel M. Hashmi, Xiaodong Yang.

 

Potential authors are encouraged to contact the Guest Editors with any questions or to determine the suitability of their contribution for this special cluster.
Papers should be prepared following the same submission instructions as for regular IEEE AWPL manuscripts (four-pages technical content maximum and one reference page, double-column, IEEE format), available via the Information for Authors page. The authors should indicate in the cover letter to the Editor-in-Chief that the manuscript is being submitted in response to the Call for Papers for the focused cluster. Prospective authors should refer to the timeline below for key dates. The publication charges will be at the standard rates for AWPL.
Key dates:

  • Submission deadline: March 31, 2021
  • First decision: May 15, 2021
  • Revised manuscript deadline: June 15, 2021
  • Final decision: July 30, 2021
  • Final manuscripts due by: September 1, 2021
  • Online publication: shortly after final manuscript submission
  • Cluster publication: November 2021 issue of AWPL

2020 Focused Clusters

We are pleased to announce the following 2020 AWPL Special Clusters:

  • “Space-Time Modulated Antennas and Materials”
    (Call for Paper)
    Guest Editors: Paolo Rocca, Andrea Alu, Christophe Caloz, Shiwen Yang.
  • “5G/6G enabling antenna systems and associated testing technologies”
    (Call for Paper)
    Guest Editors: Shuai Zhang, Xiaoming Chen, Ahmed Kishk, Zhinong Ying, Sven Kühn.

 

Potential authors are encouraged to contact the Guest Editors with any questions or to determine the suitability of their contribution for this special cluster.
Papers should be prepared following the same submission instructions as for regular IEEE AWPL manuscripts (four-pages technical content maximum and one reference page, double-column, IEEE format), available via the Information for Authors page. The authors should indicate in the cover letter to the Editor-in-Chief that the manuscript is being submitted in response to the Call for Papers for the focused cluster. Prospective authors should refer to the timeline below for key dates. The publication charges will be at the standard rates for AWPL.
Key dates:

  • Submission deadline: March 31, 2020
  • First decision: May 15, 2020
  • Revised manuscript deadline: June 15, 2020
  • Final decision: July 30, 2020
  • Final manuscripts due by: September 1, 2020
  • Online publication: shortly after final manuscript submission
  • Cluster publication: November 2020 issue of AWPL

2019 Focused Clusters

We are pleased to announce the following 2019 AWPL Special Clusters:

  • "Antenna-in-Package, Antenna-on-Chip, Antenna-IC Interface:
    Joint Design and Co-integration

    (Call for Paper)
    Guest Editors: Dr. Wonbin Hong, Dr. Rob Maaskant, Dr. Duixian Liu, Dr. Hua Wang, Dr. Atif Shamim, Dr. Bart Smolders, Dr. Dirk Manteuffel and Dr. Yue Ping Zhang
  • "Machine Learning Applications in Electromagnetics, Antennas, and Propagation"
    (Call for Paper)
    Guest Editors: Dr. Zikri Bayraktar, Prof. Douglas H. Werner, Prof. Sawyer D. Campbell, Prof. Andrea Massa, Prof. Sotirios K. Goudos, and Prof. Dimitris E. Anagnostou

 

Protential authors are encouraged to contact the Guest Editors with any questions or to determine the suitability of their contribution for this special cluster.
Papers should be prepared following the same submission instructions as for regular IEEE AWPL manuscripts (four-pages technical content maximum and one reference page, double-column, IEEE format), available via the Information for Authors page. The authors should indicate in the cover letter to the Editor-in-Chief that the manuscript is being submitted in response to the Call for Papers for the focused cluster. Prospective authors should refer to the timeline below for key dates. The publication charges will be at the standard rates for AWPL.
Key dates:

  • Submission deadline: March 31, 2019
  • First decision: May 15, 2019
  • Revised manuscript deadline: June 15, 2019
  • Final decision: July 30, 2019
  • Final manuscripts due by: September 1, 2019
  • Online publication: shortly after final manuscript submission
  • Cluster publication: November 2019 issue of AWPL

2018 Focused Clusters

We are pleased to announce the following AWPL Special Clusters:

  • "Magnet-less Nonreciprocity in Electromagnetics
    (Call for Paper)
    Guest Editors: Prof. Christophe Caloz and Prof. Andrea Alù

 

  • "3D Printed Antennas and Electromagnetic Structures"
    (Call for Paper)
    Guest Editors: Dr. Hao Xin, Dr. Bae-Ian Wu, Dr. Satish Sharma, Dr. Yannis Vardaxoglou and Dr. Chi Hou Chan

Protential authors are encouraged to contact the Guest Editors with any questions or to determine the suitability of their contribution for this special cluster.
Papers should be prepared following the same submission instructions of regular IEEE AWPL manuscripts (four-pages maximum, double-column, IEEE format), available via the Information for Authors page. Prospective authors should refer to the timeline below for key dates. The publication charges will be at the standard rates for AWPL – page one is free, each subsequent page is $200.
Key dates:

  • Submission deadline: March 31, 2018
  • First decision: May 15, 2018
  • Revised manuscript deadline: June 15, 2018
  • Final decision: July 30, 2018
  • Final manuscripts due by: September 1, 2018
  • Online publication: shortly after final manuscript submission
  • Cluster publication: November 2018 issue of AWPL

2016 Focused Clusters

IEEE AWPL Special Cluster on "Antennas and Propagation for Future Transportation Systems"

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters (AWPL) announces a focused article cluster on "Antennas and Propagation for Future Transportation Systems". Articles will appear with an editorial in highlighted sections of the journal, providing a single location for some of the most recent advances in antenna research. To be considered for this focused cluster, please submit your article to AWPL by June 1, 2016, and clearly indicate in your cover letter to the Editor-in-Chief that your manuscript is being submitted in response to the Call for Papers for the focused cluster on "Antennas and Propagation for Future Transportation Systems".
Future Transportation Systems (FTS) are advanced applications which aim to provide innovative services relating to different modes of transport and enable various users to be better informed and safer. Compared with Intelligent Transportation Systems, which are mainly defined in the field of road transport, FTS refers to all modes of transport, such as railway, road, air, water, and space, and the field is divided into infrastructure, vehicles and operations. Recent advances in FTS have led to requirements for improvements and enhancements to systems used for communications. As with any communication system, the performance is determined by the antenna system and propagation channel, and the design, testing, and improvement of the system hinges critically on our understanding of the antenna theory and propagation characteristics. The focus of this Special Cluster is to showcase a unified vision for FTS, including all modes of transport, with an emphasis on antennas and RF front ends, propagation, technology and measurement techniques, numerical methods, new applications, or other relevant aspects. More specifically, the guest editors encourage an emphasis in the following areas:

  • antenna design for FTS bands;
  • adaptive and MIMO antenna systems with high mobility;
  • array configuration of MIMO and Massive MIMO and its impact on FTS design;
  • characterization of propagation in FTS scenarios;
  • dynamic channel simulation, measurement and modeling;
  • propagation-channel-based techniques for security and assurance;
  • electromagnetic analysis techniques for vehicles;
  • antenna and propagation issues of 4G/5G/B5G communications with high mobility.

The Guest Editors of this Focused Cluster are:

  • Prof. Bo Ai, Beijing Jiaotong University, China. Email
  • Prof. Claude Oestges, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium. Email

Potential authors are encouraged to contact the Guest Editors with any questions or to determine the suitability of their contribution for this special cluster.
Papers should be prepared following the same submission instructions of regular IEEE AWPL manuscripts (four-pages maximum, double-column, IEEE format), available via the Information for Authors page. Prospective authors should refer to the timeline below for key dates. The publication charges will be at the standard rates for AWPL – page one is free, each subsequent page is $200.
Key dates:

  • Submission deadline: June 1, 2016;
  • First decision: July 1, 2016;
  • Revised manuscripts deadline: July 30, 2016;
  • Final decision: August 15, 2016;
  • Final manuscripts due by: September 1, 2016;
  • Online publication: October 2016;
  • Print publication: December, 2016.


IEEE AWPL Special Cluster on "Impact of user-related randomness on antennas and channels"

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters (AWPL) announces a focused article cluster on "Impact of user-related randomness on antennas and channels". The articles can deal with propagation studies and characterization/design of antennas and antenna systems and related system performance when the channel is affected by the randomness of close disturbing bodies and, in particular, by the user. This randomness can be caused by fixed or changing disturbances related to:

  • location, size, shape and orientation of close disturbing objects;
  • gripping of hand-held smart phones and tablets in voice or data modes;
  • positioning of laptops in relation to their usage;
  • placement and surroundings of WLAN/femtocell access points;
  • antenna locations on vehicles;
  • body influence on wearables during sport/leisure/professional activities;
  • interactions and coupling between antennas and the human body.

We especially welcome papers based on both theoretical and experimental works that:

  • use statistical methods in order to describe and model the characteristics of the disturbances or their effects;
  • address performance over statistical ensemble of users or of devices;
  • investigate fast or slow fading effects, or both;
  • address massive MIMO systems, in particular at millimeter waves;
  • address body area networks (BAN), especially for on-on and on-off communications;
  • model antennas and propagation channels jointly in relation with close disturbers;
  • investigate throughput or other KPI (Key Performance Indicators) at the system/network level, such as probability of detection of single and multiple bitstreams (easily achieved via a threshold receiver model).

Other related topics will also be considered.
In the early days of telecommunications, most antennas were considered as fixed installations, and their performance was determined in terms of their directivity and radiations patterns when the polarizations of the antennas on the transmitting and receiving sides were aligned. With the birth of satellite communications, there soon became a need for re-using the frequencies by polarization multiplexing, resulting in dual-polarized systems with an even stricter requirement on alignment (and on cross-polarization) in order to avoid interference between the two communication channels. Further, mobile communications resulted in random channels, owing to both fast Rayleigh fading (due to interfering multipaths) and slow shadow fading (due to variations in Line-of-Sight or dominant paths). Nowadays, wireless devices and base stations (access points) are used more and more in hugely differing contexts and environments for terminals (particularly in 4G and 5G networks). Therefore, there is very little control over what happens in their immediate vicinity. For that reason, the 4G LTE wireless standard has been designed to efficiently reduce the impact of fast fading by using both MIMO and OFDM. However, handling slow fading caused by user and other disturbances is still unaddressed. MIMO schemes and related digital signal processing techniques are already flexible enough to handle it, but there is a lack of characterization methods, implementations and demonstrations. Achieving a better understanding and developing standardized models of random joint antenna-channel variations will benefit 4G and 5G systems, especially for Gb/s transmission at mm-wave communications, for which the link instability is very high in changing environments. Vehicular communications are also a strong target, in order to support the upcoming driverless autonomous vehicles, among other needs.
Articles will appear with an editorial in highlighted sections of the journal, providing a single location for some of the most recent advances in antenna research. To be considered for this focused cluster, please submit your article to AWPL by March 1, 2016, and clearly indicate in your cover letter to the Editor-in-Chief that your manuscript is being submitted in response to the Call for Papers for the focused cluster on "Impact of user-related randomness on antennas and channels".
The Guest Editors of this Focused Cluster are:

  • Prof. Per-Simon Kildal, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.
  • Prof. Alain Sibille, Telecom ParisTech. Paris, France. Email

Protential authors are encouraged to contact the Guest Editors with any questions or to determine the suitability of their contribution for this special cluster.
Papers should be prepared following the same submission instructions of regular IEEE AWPL manuscripts (four-pages maximum, double-column, IEEE format), available via the Information for Authors page. Prospective authors should refer to the timeline below for key dates. The publication charges will be at the standard rates for AWPL – page one is free, each subsequent page is $200.
Key dates:

  • Submission deadline: May 1, 2016;
  • First decision: June 11, 2016;
  • Revised manuscripts deadline: July 2, 2016;
  • Final decision: July 23, 2016;
  • Final manuscripts due by: August 31, 2016;
  • Online publication: October 2016;
  • Print publication: December, 2016.


2015 Focused Clusters

IEEE AWPL Special Cluster on Graphene and Two-Dimensional Materials for Antenna Applications

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters (AWPL) announces a focused article cluster on "Graphene and Two-Dimensional Materials for Antenna Applications." Although graphene will be a primary focus, other emerging two- and quasi-two-dimensional materials, such as MoS2 and Black Phosphorous, are also of interest. Articles will appear with an editorial in highlighted sections of the journal, providing a single location for some of the most recent advances in antenna research. To be considered for this focused cluster, please submit your article to AWPL by October 1, 2015, and clearly indicate in your cover letter to the Editor-in-Chief that your manuscript is being submitted in response to the Call for Papers for the focused cluster on Graphene and Two-Dimensional Materials for Antenna Applications.
Historically, antennas were designed and constructed for frequencies below a few GHz, and constructed using metals. At these frequencies, typical metals can be well-approximated as perfect electrical conductors, and so much of the historical antenna literature has focused on metallic elements, often thin wires. However, a confluence of events has lead to the requirement for antennas operating at higher frequencies (e.g., THz and optical regimes, in which metals behave more like lossy dielectrics), for flexible antennas for, e.g., body-area networks, for integrated antennas in on-chip or on-board wireless applications, and for a host of other endeavors. These requirements generally demand a different set of materials and design techniques. Of particular interest are graphene and other two-dimensional materials, as they offer exciting possibilities regarding size, weight, system integration, and material response (e.g., tunability).
The objective of this special cluster of papers is to assemble and establish a body of work that will highlight current research involving the use of two-dimensional materials for advanced and novel antenna applications.
The focused cluster of papers will consider the latest in research in the following areas:

  • New Antenna Topologies/Synthesis/Design/Fabrication — New design techniques that are tailored to the use of two-dimensional materials;
  • Fabrication and Measurement — New methods for fabricating and measuring two-dimensional material antennas;
  • Antenna Models — New models that accurately describe the currents, radiation patterns and electromagnetic properties of antennas utilizing two-dimensional materials;
  • Applications — Papers describing new applications and problems that are solved with novel two-dimensional material antennas are encouraged.

The Guest Editors of this Focused Cluster are:

  • Dr. Hao Xin, University of Arizona, USA. Email
  • Dr. George Hanson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA. Email

Prospective authors are encouraged to contact the Guest Editors with any questions or to determine the suitability of their contribution for this special cluster.
Papers should be prepared following the same submission instructions of regular IEEE AWPL manuscripts (four-pages maximum, double-column, IEEE format), available via the Information for Authors page. Prospective authors should refer to the timeline below for key dates. The publication charges will be at the standard rates for AWPL – page one is free, each subsequent page is $200.
Key dates:

  • Submission deadline: October 1, 2015;
  • First decision: November 1, 2015;
  • Revised manuscripts deadline: November 30, 2015;
  • Final decision: December 15, 2015;
  • Final manuscripts due by: December 31, 2015;
  • Online publication: February 2016;
  • Print publication: December, 2016.


IEEE AWPL Special Cluster on Conformal Antennas and Arrays from New Advanced Materials

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters (AWPL) announces a focused article cluster on "Conformal Antennas and Arrays from New Advanced Materials". Materials of interest include Nanoinks, Phase-Change Materials, Graphene substances, Micro/Nano fibers, Bio-compatible materials, environmentally friendly composites/compounds and related materials. Articles will appear with an editorial in highlighted sections of the journal, providing a single location for some of the latest and unique embodiments of antennas research. To be considered for this focused cluster, please submit your article to AWPL by June 1, 2015, and clearly indicate in your cover letter to the Editor-in-Chief that your manuscript is being submitted in response to the Call for Papers for the focussed cluster on Conformal Antennas and Arrays from New Advanced Materials.
Historically, copper and PCB dielectrics have been used to manufacture the transmission lines, radiating portions and substrates of printed antennas and arrays. This has led to the development of a huge collection of antennas with capabilities well beyond some of the first printed microstrip patches introduced in the 1950s and 1960s. However, in modern communication systems, the demands on radio hardware and antennas is ever increasing. This is because new requirements of

  • conformal shaping;
  • load-bearing capabilities;
  • wearable applications;
  • implantation in the human body; and
  • extreme environments are now becoming more common for antenna and array development.

To meet these more complicated demands, antenna designers are turning to materials not traditionally used in antenna and array designs, such as:

  • novel nanoinks;
  • graphene materials;
  • composite structures with conducting capabilities;
  • microfiber and nanofiber bundles;
  • bio-compatible materials;
  • environmentally friendly composites/compounds;
  • 3D printing techniques;
  • conducting fluids;
  • phase-change materials; and
  • related novel materials.

The objective of this cluster of papers is to assemble and establish a body of work that will bring to light current research on antennas with new advanced (non-traditional) materials.
The focused cluster of papers will consider the latest in research in the following areas:

  • New Antenna Topologies/Synthesis/Design — New design techniques that are dependent on the new advanced material in which the antenna is manufactured with are of interest;
  • Antenna Model development/Measurement techniques — As new designs with unique materials are developed, new models and measurement techniques that accurately describe the currents, radiation patterns and electromagnetic properties of antennas utilising such advanced materials are required and of interest to this cluster of papers;
  • Applications — Papers describing new applications and problems that are solved with these novel antennas are encouraged.

The Guest Editors of this Focused Cluster are:

  • Dr. Benjamin D. Braaten, North Dakota State University, USA. Email
  • Dr. Dimitris E. Anagnostou, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, USA. Email

Prospective authors are encouraged to contact the Guest Editors with any questions or to determine the suitability of their contribution for this special cluster.
Papers should be prepared following the same submission instructions of regular IEEE AWPL manuscripts (four-pages maximum, double-column, IEEE format), available via the Information for Authors page. Prospective authors should refer to the timeline below for key dates. The publication charges will be at the standard rates for AWPL – page one is free, each subsequent page is $200.
Key dates:

  • Submission deadline: September 30, 2015;
  • First decision: November 1, 2015;
  • Revised manuscripts deadline: November 21, 2015;
  • Final decision: December 21, 2015;
  • Final manuscripts due by: January 15, 2016;
  • Online publication: February, 2016;
  • Print publication: December, 2016.



 

2014 Focused Clusters

IEEE AWPL Special Cluster on Transformation Electromagnetics

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters (AWPL) announces a focused article cluster on "Transformation Electromagnetics". Articles will appear with an editorial in highlighted sections of the journal, providing a single location for some of the latest Transformation Electromagnetics research. To be considered for this focused cluster, please submit your article to AWPL by July 30, 2014, and clearly indicate in your cover letter to the Editor-in-Chief that your manuscript is being submitted in response to the Call for Papers for the focussed cluster on Transformation Electromagnetics.
Transformation Electromagnetics (TE) is a design technique that leverages the duality in Maxwell’s Equations between coordinate systems and material refractive index to enable complex electromagnetic (EM) behavior. By applying the principles of TE, many new and interesting components and devices have been predicted and verified to control EM waves, almost arbitrarily, by employing material systems that are, in general, inhomogeneous and anisotropic. This is a drastic divergence from the classical line of thought which is to rely purely on the shape of a device to achieve the same affect. Although new, this topic has been widely evaluated for applications in antennas, near- and far-field focusing lenses, optical components, and many more, including the almost ubiquitous electromagnetic cloak of invisibility.
Recent developments in Transformation Electromagnetics have helped to alleviate some of the implementation and performance struggles that many of the current materials systems (i.e., metamaterials) have. In particular, methods have been developed to eliminate either the inhomogeneous or anisotropic requirements of a materials system. Of course, many challenges still remain when realizing TE-based devices, such that this topic is currently of great interest to the research community.
The objective of this Special Cluster is to bring together current and emerging research performed by the antennas and propagation community in Transformation Electromagnetics. The Special Cluster will highlight the latest work in the subject area. It will include details on the design, simulations, fabricated implementation, and measurements of new TE devices and structures.
The Guest Editors of this Focused Cluster are:

  • Prof. Douglas H. Werner, The Pennsylvania State University, USA. Email
  • Prof. Do-Hoon Kwon, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. Email

Prospective authors are encouraged to contact the Guest Editors for any questions or to determine the suitability of their contribution for this special cluster.
The Guest Editors hope you will consider submitting a manuscript for this highlighted focused cluster. This collection should prove to be a high profile outlet to disseminate your work and place it in context with a critical mass of work by other transformation electromagnetics researchers. Papers should be prepared following the same submission instructions of regular IEEE AWPL manuscripts (four-pages maximum, double-column, IEEE format), available via the Information for Authors page. Prospective authors should refer to the timeline below for key dates. The publication charges will be at the standard rates for AWPL – page one is free, each subsequent page is $200.
Key dates:

  • Submission deadline: July 30, 2014;
  • First decision: August 30, 2014;
  • Revised manuscripts deadline: September 15, 2014;
  • Final decision: October 1, 2014;
  • Final manuscripts due by: October 15, 2014;
  • Online publication: November, 2014;
  • Print publication: December, 2014.


IEEE AWPL Special Cluster on Antennas for Wireless Body Area Networks

Wireless Body Area networks (WBANs) have existed for many decades: indeed, one of the first services of wireless communications, paging, had the receiver placed on the body of the paged persons. However, this last decade has seen a tremendous growth in services requesting a wireless communication or sensing node on or in the body of the user, and application fields range from military and rescue over medical to fashion and sports.
WBAN nodes and the related communication channels can be In-body (e.g., in implanted sensors), On-Body or Off-body (e.g., a base station); however, in all cases, the presence of the host body will greatly influence the link performances. The human body is hostile environment for an electromagnetic signal: it is lossy, inhomogeneous, and its characteristics may change from person to person. Also, the wearer needs to be protected from the potential hazards of exposure to electromagnetic fields (heat, etc.), limiting the power that can be used for WBAN links.
WBAN communication has created the need for dedicated efficient antennas, leading to many promising designs. The requirements for such antennas are, on the one hand, similar to classic mobile communication antennas, in the sense that they should be electrically small, lightweight and well-integrated with the communication device, as the frequency bands considered can be as low as 400 MHz. On the other hand, the specific environment of antennas for WBAN leads to an additional requirement: they should minimize the coupling of EM energy to the wearer, while maximizing the coupling to wanted the communication channel. Only in this way can both communication (e.g., radiation efficiency, data rate, range) and biological (e.g., specific absorption rate) features be optimized for a specific application.
The objective of this Focussed Cluster is to highlight current and emerging research in antennas for WBANs, as well as applications of this technology. The Cluster will bring together the latest work in antennas for In-, On- and Off- Body communication, but also consider the important aspect of SAR (specific absorption rate) estimation and measurement, wearable electronics, RFD tracking and sensing, and the influence of the channel on antenna design.
To be considered for this focused cluster, please submit your article to AWPL by August 31, 2014, and clearly indicate in your cover letter to the Editor-in-Chief that your manuscript is being submitted in response to the Call for Papers for the focussed cluster on Antennas for Wireless Body Area Networks. Manuscripts should conform to the requirements for regular papers as specified in the Information for Authors. Potential contributors may contact one of the Guest Editors by email (with the contact information provided below) to determine the suitability of their contribution to the special issue. All invited and contributed papers must be submitted through Manuscript Central and are subject to the usual page charges – page one is free, each subsequent page is $200.
The Guest Editors of this Focused Cluster are:

  • Prof. Anja Skrivervik, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. Email
  • Prof. Gaetano Marrocco, Universita' di Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy. Email

Key dates:

  • Submission deadline: August 31, 2014;
  • First decision: September 30, 2014;
  • Revised manuscripts deadline: October 15, 2014;
  • Final decision: November 1, 2014;
  • Final manuscripts due by: November 15, 2014;
  • Online publication: December, 2014;
  • Print publication: December, 2014.


IEEE AWPL Special Cluster on "Compressive Sensing as applied to Electromagnetics"

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters (AWPL) announces a focused article cluster on "Compressive Sensing as applied to Electromagnetics". Articles will appear with an editorial in highlighted sections of the journal, providing a single location for some of the latest Compressive Sensing (CS) research, broadly understood, in the area of antennas and propagation. To be considered for this focused cluster, please submit your article to AWPL by August 30, 2014, and clearly indicate in your cover letter to the Editor-in-Chief that your manuscript is being submitted in response to the Call for Papers for the focussed cluster on Compressive Sensing.
The focused cluster will specifically cover the current results and most advanced developments in the following CS areas:

  • Theory: the analysis of the convergence criteria, reliability conditions, and noise robustness bounds of sampling and reconstruction algorithms represent a fundamental topic in CS framework which is currently being addressed by several research groups within the EM community;
  • Algorithms: sparse recovery problems are being currently addressed through several approaches including linear programming techniques, Bayesian algorithms, and constrained minimization methodologies. Nevertheless, research in this field still needs to meet the challenge of developing more robust, fast, and flexible CS recovery approaches applicable in real-world scenarios;
  • Applications: The ability to solve underdetermined systems represents a key feature of CS techniques that is useful in many types of Electromagnetic inverse problems including array synthesis, antenna diagnosis, and microwave and terahertz imaging.

Accordingly, prospective authors are invited to submit papers concerning the application and advancement of CS techniques as applied to Electromagnetic topics including, but not limited to:

  • Antenna Synthesis and Design;
  • Electromagnetic Measurements and Antenna Characterization;
  • Array Signal Processing;
  • Radiation and Propagation;
  • Bioelectromagnetics and Electromagnetic Inverse Problems.

The Guest Editors of this Focused Cluster are:

  • Prof. Andrea Massa, University of Trento, Italy. Email
  • Prof. Fernando L. Teixeira, The Ohio State University, USA. Email

Prospective authors are encouraged to contact the Guest Editors for any questions or to determine the suitability of their contribution for this special cluster.
The Guest Editors hope you will consider submitting a manuscript for this highlighted focused cluster. This collection should prove to be a high profile outlet to disseminate your work and place it in context with a critical mass of work by other compressive sensing researchers. Papers should be prepared following the same submission instructions of regular IEEE AWPL manuscripts (four-pages maximum, double-column, IEEE format), available via the Information for Authors page. Prospective authors should refer to the timeline below for key dates. The publication charges will be at the standard rates for AWPL – page one is free, each subsequent page is $200.
Key dates:

  • Submission deadline: August 30, 2014;
  • First decision: September 30, 2014;
  • Revised manuscripts deadline: October 15, 2014;
  • Final decision: November 1, 2014;
  • Final manuscripts due by: November 15, 2014;
  • Online publication: November, 2014;
  • Print publication: December, 2014.

 

2013 Special Cluster

IEEE AWPL Special Cluster on "Terminal Antenna Systems for 4G and Beyond"

This Special Cluster welcomes articles featuring innovative work in these or related topics to terminal antenna systems for 4G and beyond. To be considered for this cluster, please submit your article to AWPL by Oct. 15, 2013 (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/awpl), and clearly indicate in your cover letter to the Editor-in-Chief that your manuscript is being submitted in response to the Call for Papers on Terminal Antenna Systems for 4G and Beyond.
Guest Editors of this Special Cluster of short manuscripts are:

  • Buon Kiong Lau, Lund University, Sweden, bkl@eit.lth.se
  • Marta Martinez Vazquez, IMST, Germany, martinez@imst.de

Prospective authors are encouraged to contact the Guest Editors for any questions or to determine the suitability of their contribution for this special cluster.
The Guest Editors hope you will consider submitting a manuscript for this highlighted focus cluster. This collection should prove to be a high profile outlet to disseminate your work and place it in context with a critical mass of work by other terminal antenna researchers. Papers should be prepared following the same submission instructions of regular IEEE AWPL manuscripts (four-pages maximum, double-column, IEEE format), available via the Information for Authors page. Prospective authors should refer to the timeline below for key dates. The publication charges will be at the standard rates for AWPL – page one is free, each subsequent page is $200.
Submission Deadline: Oct. 15, 2013 (please submit 1-page abstract until July 21, 2013 for the joint workshop)

  • First Decision: Nov. 15, 2013
  • Revised Manuscripts Deadline: Nov. 30, 2013
  • Final Decision: Dec. 15, 2013
  • Online Publication: January, 2014

 

2012 Special Cluster

IEEE AWPL Special Cluster on Wireless Power and Data Telemetry for Medical Applications

The evolution of wireless power and data telemetry technologies fueled by continued advances in electronic systems and miniaturization of antennas and components is rapidly changing the landscape of wireless medical devices in personal healthcare. This has lead to numerous applications in medical diagnostics and therapeutics ranging from in-vivo cardiac pacemakers and defibrillators to emerging devices in visual prosthesis, brain computer interfaces and body area networks for sensing oxygen, glucose, pH level, pressure, temperature and other medically useful quantities. These practical applications impose stringent requirements at all levels of design. One of the critical design requirements is the data telemetry due to the challenges associated with wireless power and data transfer within or to/from the human body. The performance tradeoffs depend on numerous factors, including but not limited to the operating range, power transmission efficiency, heat dissipation, power delivered to the load, device size, location in the body, body posture, data rate, frequency and bandwidth, system complexity and functionality, safety and regulatory standards. The increased interest in wireless medical applications has spurred engineers to reevaluate existing performance trade-offs and propose new devices. The impact on antennas and propagation for wireless power and data telemetry includes: novel antenna and coil designs, low power electronic front-ends, adaptive impedance matching, analysis and numerical techniques, signal propagation and interaction with biological tissues, and heat effects. We will welcome articles featuring innovative work in these or related topics to wireless power and data telemetry in medical applications. To be considered for this cluster, please submit your article to AWPL by October 15, 2012 (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/awpl), and clearly indicate in your cover letter to the Editor-in-Chief that your manuscript is being submitted in response to the Call for Papers for the Wireless Power and Data Telemetry for Medical Applications Cluster.
Guest Editors of this Special Cluster of short manuscripts on medical wireless power and data telemetry are:

  • Prof. Erdem Topsakal, Mississippi State University, topsakal@ece.msstate.edu
  • Prof. Maysam Ghovanloo, Georgia Institute of Technology, mgh@gatech.edu
  • Prof. Rizwan Bashirullah, University of Florida, rizwan@ufl.edu

Prospective authors are encouraged to contact the Guest Editors for any questions or to determine the suitability of their contribution for this special cluster.
The Guest Editors hope you will consider submitting a manuscript for this highlighted focus cluster. This collection should prove to be a high profile outlet to disseminate your work and place it in context with a critical mass of work by other wireless power and data telemetry researchers. Papers should be prepared following the same submission instructions of regular IEEE AWPL manuscripts (four-pages maximum, double-column, IEEE format), available via the Information for Authors page. Prospective authors should refer to the timeline below for key dates. The publication charges will be at the standard rates for AWPL - page one is free, each subsequent page is $200.
Submission Deadline: Oct. 15th, 2012
First Decision by: Nov. 15th, 2012
Revised Manuscripts Deadline: Nov. 30th, 2012
Publication: December, 2012



IEEE AWPL Special Cluster on Microwave Medical Imaging

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters (AWPL) recently introduced clusters, which are groups of letters on a selected topic. This call for papers is for a 2012 special cluster on the topic of microwave imaging in medicine. The accepted papers in this cluster will be published together along with an editorial, providing a focused collection of some of the latest microwave medical imaging research of interest to the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society. To be considered for this cluster, please submit your article to AWPL by October 15, 2012 (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/awpl), and clearly indicate in your cover letter to the Editor-in-Chief that your manuscript is being submitted in response to the Call for Papers for the Microwave Medical Imaging Cluster.
The concept of using of non-ionizing microwave-frequency electromagnetic waves to image the human body has intrigued engineers and clinicians alike for several decades. Low-power microwaves can be used to sense the dielectric properties of human tissue in a low-cost manner that poses no health risk to the patient. Yet numerous challenges need to be overcome in order to achieve the promise of microwave imaging in a clinical setting. We welcome the submission of manuscripts discussing novel advances that show promise for moving microwave imaging technology towards clinical realization. Letters may examine theoretical and/or experimental issues, including topics ranging from image reconstruction algorithms to antenna elements and complete systems. Application to a specific medical imaging challenge must be briefly described.
The Guest Editors for this special cluster are as follows:

  • Prof. Susan C. Hagness, University of Wisconsin-Madison, hagness@engr.wisc.edu
  • Prof. Elise C. Fear, University of Calgary, fear@ucalgary.ca
  • Prof. Andrea Massa, University of Trento, andrea.massa@ing.unitn.it

Prospective authors are welcome to contact the Guest Editors with questions.
Manuscripts should be prepared following the same submission instructions of regular IEEE AWPL manuscripts (four-pages maximum, double-column, IEEE format), available via the Information for Authors page. Prospective authors should refer to the timeline below for key dates. The publication page charges will be at the standard rates for AWPL (no charge for the first page; subsequent pages are $200/page).
Submission Deadline: Oct. 15, 2012
First Decision: Nov. 15, 2012
Revised Manuscript Submission Deadline: Nov. 30, 2012
Final Decision: Dec. 15, 2012
Online publication: January 2013
"In Print" Publication of 2012 Issue: February 2013



2011 Special Cluster

IEEE AWPL Special Cluster on Metamaterials

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters (AWPL) is introducing a series of focused article clusters. The topic of the first cluster is metamaterials. These articles will appear with an editorial in highlighted sections of the journal, providing a single location for some of the latest metamaterial research in the area of antennas and propagation. To be included in this focus cluster please submit your article to AWPL by 15 October, 2011, and clearly indicate in your cover letter to the Editor-in-Chief that your manuscript is in response to the special cluster on metamaterials call for papers.
The metamaterial concept has captured the imagination of a significant and growing pool of researchers from a wide range of fields, with the move toward practical applications perhaps most evident in the area of antennas and wireless propagation. The idea of using collections of sub-wavelength elements in a structured medium of three dimensions (volumetric metamaterials), two dimensions (meta-surfaces) and even one dimension (meta-wires) provides unprecedented control over medium properties. These mediums can have exotic properties, previously inaccessible, or common properties with uncommon control over spatial variation, polarization sensitivity and frequency dispersion. This expansion of the available parameter space of mediums has spurred engineers to reevaluate existing performance trade-offs and propose new devices. The impact on antennas and propagation includes: high impedance ground planes, engineered reflectance, matching and bandwidth enhancement, multiple-antenna interference reduction, compact resonators, transparent media and low aberration (high gain) refractive elements. In addition, resonator designs initially created for metamaterials have often been used singly or in small groups, as their characteristics became well understood and were found to be favorable. Analysis techniques, numerical methods and experimental characterization methods developed in metamaterial research have also migrated to engineering work not strictly incorporating metamaterials.
Guest Editors of this Special Cluster of short manuscripts on Metamaterials are:

  • Prof. George Eleftheriades, University of Toronto, gelefth@waves.utoronto.ca
  • Prof. David Schurig, University of Utah, david.schurig@utah.edu
  • Prof. David Smith, Duke University, drsmith@ee.utah.edu
  • Prof. Sergei Tretyakov, Aalto University, sergei.tretyakov@aalto.fi

Prospective authors are encouraged to contact the Guest Editors for any questions.
The Guest Editors hope you will consider submitting a manuscript for this highlighted focus cluster. This collection should prove to be a high profile outlet to disseminate your work and place it in context with a critical mass of work by other metamaterial researchers. Papers should be prepared following the same submission instructions of regular IEEE AWPL manuscripts (four-pages maximum, double-column, IEEE format), available via the Information for Authors page. Prospective authors should refer to the timeline below for key dates. The publication charges will be at the standard rates for AWPL - page one is free, each subsequent pages is $200.

  • Submission Deadline: Oct. 15th, 2011
  • First Decision by: Nov. 15, 2011
  • Revised Manuscripts Deadline: Nov. 30, 2011
  • Final Decision: Dec. 15, 2011
  • Online publication: January 2012
  • "In Print" Publication of 2011 Issue: February 2012