Guest Editorial

Abstract

Radio and Wireless Week (RWW) has emerged as the flagship winter meeting point of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S). Its last edition was held in Orlando (Rosen Plaza Hotel), FL, USA, on January 20–23, 2019, and consisted of five related conferences in a four-day event that focused on the intersection between wireless communication theory, systems, circuits, and device technologies, and emerging applications, including RF wireless sensing. It resulted in a unique forum for engineers and practitioners to exchange their ideas about main RF technologies and techniques for the state-of-the-art wireless systems and their end-use applications. In particular, RWW 2019 was composed of the Radio and Wireless Symposium (RWS), the Topical Conference on Power Amplifiers for Wireless and Radio Applications (PAWR), the Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems (SIRF), the Topical Conference on Wireless Sensors and Sensor Networks (WiSNet), and the Topical Workshop on the Internet of Space (TWIoS). This was the first year that the RWW was co-located with the ARFTG Microwave Measurement Conference, as the premier forum in RF, microwave, and millimeter-wave measurements, calibration, and uncertainty, as well as with the IEEE Internet-of-Things (IoT) Summit, to bring together researchers, policy makers, and companies in the Internet-of-Space (IoS) sector.