Open call [Editor´s Note]

First, it is my great pleasure to introduce and welcome our new Associate Editor-in-Chief, Professor Nei Kato, from Tohoku University, Japan. He has made significant research contributions to computer and wireless networks. With his wealth of experience as an editor, Professor Kato will bring strong leadership and commitment to IEEE Network. For the IEEE Network November/December 2014 issue, in addition to the Feature Topic on Unveiling 5G Wireless Networks: Emerging Research Advances, Prospects, and Challenges, we are also including six accepted open call articles. The first article, ???Cloud Computing Meets Mobile Wireless Communications in Next Generation Cellular Networks??? by Yegui Cai et al., studies the topology configuration and rate allocation problem in cloud radio access networks (C-RANs) with the objective of optimizing the end-to-end performance of mobile cloud computing (MCC) users in next generation cellular networks. The authors take a decision-theoretic approach to tackle the delayed channel state information problem in C-RANs. In addition, the response latency experienced by each MCC user is modeled as a constraint in the formulation.