Editorial: Next Generation

Guest Editorial Communication Methodologies for the Next-Generation Storage Systems

INFORMATION is being generated at a rapid pace. To sustain this information revolution, next-generation data storage must be more practical, economical, and reliable than ever before. There are presently more than half a million data centers world-wide and this number is expected to rise even further. Companies like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft have already invested billions of dollars into ...

Convergence of application services in next-generation networks [Guest Editorial]

Editorial: Closed-Loop Systems for Next-Generation Neuroprostheses

Millions of people worldwide are affected by neurological disorders which disrupt the connections within the brain and between brain and body causing impairments of primary functions and paralysis. Such a number is likely to increase in the next years and current assistive technology is yet limited. A possible response to such disabilities, offered by the neuroscience community, is given by Bra...

Editorial Protocols and Architectures for Next-Generation Wireless Sensor Networks

1 CISTER Research Unit, ISEP/IPP, Rua Dr. Antonio Bernardino de Almeida 431, 4200-072 Porto, Portugal 2 Instituto de Telecomunicações, University of Beira Interior, 6201-001 Covilhã, Portugal 3 University ITMO, Saint-Petersburg 197101, Russia 4National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, A. K. Brohi Road H-11/4, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan 5 Telecommunications Technological Centre of Ca...

Strategies and Clinical Applications of Next Generation Sequencing

Abstract DNA sequencing is one of the great valuable techniques in molecular biology, which can be used to detect the sequence of nucleotides in a DNA fragment. The high-throughput se­quencing known as Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) revolutionized genomic research and molecular biology; therefore, the whole human genome can be sequenced with a low cost in several days. NGS technology is simi...