Technical Program Chairs Welcome You to RWW2013

The 2013 IEEE Radio and Wireless Week (RWW2013) technical program that forms the core of the week has expanded significantly since the first Radio and Wireless Symposium (RWS) in 1998. Over the years, this technical meeting has grown from a single conference, RWS, to a weeklong event, RWW, encompassing five conferences: the IEEE RWS, the IEEE Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in Radio Frequency Systems (SiRF), the IEEE Topical Conference on Biomedical Wireless Technologies, Networks, and Sensing Systems (BioWireleSS), the IEEE Topical Conference on RF/Microwave Power Amplifiers (PAWR), and the IEEE Topical Conference on Wireless Sensors and Sensor Networks (WiSNet). The feature articles in this special issue represent the areas covered by the topical conferences BioWireleSS, PAWR, and WiSNet. No other conference brings together the core wireless technologies with this depth and breadth of applications. We hope you enjoy the feature articles and decide to join us at the next in Austin, 20??23 January 2013.