Passing the baton [Message From The Editor-In-Chief]

Dear readers, I have been serving as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Wireless Communications for almost three and a half years, and it is time for me to step down to take a break after days and nights of working hard for this magazine. My term as the Editor-in-Chief will officially end at the end of June 2015, and then the baton will be passed to Dr. Hamid Gharavi, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), United States, who will be the next Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Wireless Communications. Therefore, I have invited Dr. Hamid Gharavi to write a message in this Editor's Note to mark this handover. In fact, Dr. Gharavi has been serving as Associate Editor-in-Chief for this magazine since June 2014. Therefore, the handover will definitely be a soft handover, ensuring that the editorial work of this magazine will continue seamlessly. Dr. Gharavi is a longtime IEEE volunteer, and I am fully confident that he has all the experience needed to bring this magazine to a new high level under his strong leadership.