ZTE Communications is a quarterly， peer?reviewed international technical journal （ISSN 1673-5188 and CODEN ZCTOAK） sponsored by ZTE Corporation， a major international provider of telecommunications， enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the Mobile Internet. The journal publishes original academic papers and research findings on the whole range of communications topics， including communications and information system design， optical fiber and electro?optical engineering， microwave technology， radio wave propagation， antenna engineering， electromagnetics， signal and image processing， and power engineering. The journal is designed to be an integrated forum for university academics and industry researchers from around the world. ZTE Communications was founded in 2003 and has a readership of 5500. The English version is distributed to universities， colleges， and research institutes in more than 140 countries. It is listed in Inspec， Cambridge Scientific Abstracts （CSA）， Index of Copernicus （IC）， Ulrichs Periodicals Directory， Norwegian Social Science Data Services （NSD）， Chinese Journal Fulltext Databases， Wanfang Data — Digital Periodicals， and China Science and Technology Journal Database. Each issue of ZTE Communications is based around a Special Topic， and past issues have attracted contributions from leading international experts in their fields.endprint