EDITORIAL BOARD

Editor-in-Chief

Tom H. Luan   Website
Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
Research Areas: Vehicular Network, Digital Twin Network, Edge Computing, Wireless Multimedia System, 5G/6G Networking, Game Theory, Queuing Theory, Reinforcement Learning, Multi-Agent System, Autonomous Vehicular Network
Email: tom.luan@xjtu.edu.cn

Introduction: Professor Tom H. Luan received his Ph.D. degrees from the University of Waterloo, Canada. He served as a Lecturer in Mobile and Apps at Deakin University, Australia, from 2013 to 2017, and as a Professor in the School of Cyber Engineering at Xidian University from 2017 to 2022. Since 2022, he has been a Professor in the School of Cyber Science and Engineering at Xi’an Jiaotong University, China. He was elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2026 for his significant contributions to vehicular networking and service applications and is consistently listed among Stanford University’s World’s Top 2% Scientists. He has led multiple nationally funded projects supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the National Key R&D Program of China, authored over 270 peer-reviewed papers in leading journals and conferences such as IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), and IEEE INFOCOM, received several Best Paper Awards including those from IEEE MetaCom 2023, IEEE VTC 2023-Fall, IWCMC 2022, and the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society’s 2017 Best Land Transportation Paper Award, and published five academic monographs advancing intelligent networking and next-generation communication systems.

Advisory Board Member


Mohammad S. Obaidat   Website 
University of Jordan, Jordan
Research Areas:
Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Wireless Networks, Internet of Things (IoT), Computers Communications and Telecommunications

Associate Editors

Yuanguo Bi   Website
Northeastern University, China
Research Areas: Wireless Networking, Medium Access Control, Mobility Management and Handover Optimization, Multihop Broadcast and QoS Routing, Space-Air- Ground Integrated Networks, Performance Optimization of Federated Learning, Incentive Mechanism, Security of Federated Learning, Mobile Edge Computing, Large Language Model

Kuan Zhang  Website
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, United States
Research Areas: Cyber Security, Edge/Cloud Computing, Distributed AI, Wireless and Mobile Network, Cyber Physical System, Dynamic Modeling and Estimation for Lithium-ion Battery

Shiva Pokhrel   Website
Deakin University, Australia
Research Areas: Semantic Communication, Federated Learning, Quantum Machine Learning, 6G Networks, Cloud and Quantum Computing, IoT, Cyber-physical Systems, Autonomous Vehicles, Smart Cities

Editorial Board Members

Abdelhamied Ashraf Ateya   Website 
Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia
Research Areas: 
5G/ 6G Communications, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), IoT, AI/ML, Cybersecurity, Cloud Computing, Mobile Edge Computing

Ahmed Jamal Abdullah Al-Gburi   Website 
Asia Pacific University, Malaysia
Research Areas:
Machine Learning, Engineering, Antennas, Microwave Sensors

Amiya Nayak   Website 
University of Ottawa, Canada
Research Areas: 
Mobile Computing, Internet of Things, Wireless Ad Hoc Networking, Vehicular Communications and Connected Vehicles, Information and Network Security, Autonomous Vehicles and Intelligent Transportation

Achilles D. Boursianis    Website 
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greek
Research Areas:
Wireless Sensor Networks, The Internet of Things (IoT), Antenna Design and Optimization, 5G and Beyond Communication Networks, Radio-frequency Energy Harvesting,  Artificial Intelligence. 

Zhengchuan Chen   Website 
Chongqing University, China
Research Areas:
Age of Information (AoI), Massive Machine Type Communications (mMTC), Ultra-reliable and Low Latency Communications (URLLC), Mobile-edge Computing (MEC), 5G and beyond Networks, Internet of Things

Suresh Chavhan   Website 
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram, Indian
Research Areas: 
AI-assisted B5G/6G Wireless Communication and Networking, Network Slicing, AI/ML/Deep and Federated Learning, Edge Intelligence, V2X, Drone Communication Systems, Next-generation Intelligent Transportation Systems.

Ilya Galaktionov   Website 
Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics, Russia
Research Areas: 
Quantum Communication, Wavefront Sensing, Atmospheric Optics, Computer Science

Longxiang Gao   Website 
Qilu University of Technology, China
Research Areas:
Edge AI, Federated Learning, Machine Learning, Quantum Computing

Sherief Hashima   Website 
RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP), Japan
Research Areas:
Wireless Communications, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of things (IoT), Smart Grids, 5G/6G Networks, Vehicular Networks, Signal Processing, Online Learning.

Yixin He   Website 
Jiaxing University, China
Research Areas: 
5G/6G,  Wireless Communications,  Resource Allocation, Vehicular Networks,  UAV Communications

Muazzam Ali Khan Khattak    Website 
Quaid-i-Azam University, Pakistan
Research Areas:
Internet of Things, Internet of Vehicles, Information & Network Security, Multimedia Encryption and Compression,Block Chain & IOTA

Haixia Peng   Website 
Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
Research Areas:
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Communication Systems, Deep Reinforcement Learning, Mobile Edge Computing, Communication Resources

Ramón J. Sánchez Iborra   Website 
University of Murcia, Spain
Research Areas: 
Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE), Management of Complex Network Infrastructure, Internet of Things Systems, 5G and 6G Architectures, Wireless Networks, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Artificial Intelligence

Nazaraf H. Shah   Website 
Coventry University, United Kingdom
Research Areas: 
Machine Learning Service, Oriented Computing, Distributed Applications, Web Application Security, Cloud/Edge Computing and Blockchain Technology.

Shahab Tayeb   Website 
California State University, US
Research Areas:
Network Security, Cybersecurity, Internet of Things, Wireless Sensor Networks, Vehicular Networks

Di Wu   Website 
La Trobe University, Australia
Research Areas:
Trustworthy AI, Federated Learning, Machine Unlearning, Articificial General Intelligence, Quantum AI, AI for Science , AI for Social Good 

Wenchao Xu   Website 
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
Research Areas: 
Mobile Edge Computing, Multimodal Learning, Wireless Networks and Internet-of-Things

Yufei Zhao   Website 
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Research Areas:
Wireless Communication Engineering, Machine Learning, RF & Microwave Systems, Reconfigurable Intelligent surface (RIS), Positioning and Navigation, Rydberg Atom Wireless Receiver.

Yao Zhang   Website 
Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Research Areas:
CrowdNet, Networked Autonomous Driving, Edge Computing

Yong Zhou   Website 
 ShanghaiTech University, China
Research Areas: 
6G Wireless Communications, Over-the-air Computation, Federated Edge Learning and Edge Inference, Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface, Internet of Things