Editorial Second Bi-Monthly 2025 IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials Table of Contents Enabling Intelligent Connectivity: A Survey of Secure ISAC in 6G Networks UAV-Assisted Communications With RF Energy Harvesting: A Comprehensive Survey Active Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: Expanding the Frontiers of Wireless Communication-A Survey Breaking the Interference and Fading Gridlock in Backscatter Communications: State-of-the-Art, Design Challenges, and Future Directions Modeling, Estimation, and Applications of Phase Noise in Wireless Communications: A Survey A Survey on XAI for 5G and Beyond Security: Technical Aspects, Challenges and Research Directions Phishing Webpage Detection: Unveiling the Threat Landscape and Investigating Detection Techniques Artificial Intelligence-Based Cybersecurity for the Metaverse: Research Challenges and Opportunities Applications of Distributed Machine Learning for the Internet-of-Things: A Comprehensive Survey When Crowdsensing Meets Smart Cities: A Comprehensive Survey and New Perspectives Architectures, Benefits, Security, and Privacy Issues of Internet of Nano Things: A Comprehensive Survey, Opportunities, and Research Challenges CrowdTransfer: Enabling Crowd Knowledge Transfer in AIoT Community A Survey on Intelligent Internet of Things: Applications, Security, Privacy, and Future Directions Federated Learning for Urban Sensing Systems: A Comprehensive Survey on Attacks, Defences, Incentive Mechanisms, and Applications Navigating the Road Ahead: A Comprehensive Survey of Radio Resource Allocation for Vehicle Platooning in C-V2X Communications A Survey on Intelligent Solutions for Increased Video Delivery Quality in Cloud–Edge–End Networks AI-Empowered Virtual Network Embedding: A Comprehensive Survey A Survey on Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Improved Rich Media Content Delivery in a 5G and Beyond Network Slicing Context Editorial First Bi-Monthly 2025 IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials Table of Contents Blind Carrier Frequency Offset Estimation Techniques for Next-Generation Multicarrier Communication Systems: Challenges, Comparative Analysis, and Future Prospects Less Data, More Knowledge: Building Next-Generation Semantic Communication Networks Survey on Opportunistic PNT With Signals From LEO Communication Satellites A Survey on Brain-Computer Interface-Inspired Communications: Opportunities and Challenges Semantics-Empowered Space-Air-Ground-Sea Integrated Network: New Paradigm, Frameworks, and Challenges An Overview on IEEE 802.11bf: WLAN Sensing On the Ground and in the Sky: A Tutorial on Radio Localization in Ground-Air-Space Networks Toward the Integration and Convergence Between 5G and TSN Technologies and Architectures for Industrial Communications: A Survey Multi-Modal Fusion Sensing: A Comprehensive Review of Millimeter-Wave Radar and Its Integration With Other Modalities Revealing Protocol Architecture’s Design Patterns in the Volumetric DDoS Defense Design Space Cybersecurity of Satellite Communications Systems: A Comprehensive Survey of the Space, Ground, and Links Segments A Survey on Random Access Protocols in Direct-Access LEO Satellite-Based IoT Communication A Survey of mmWave Radar-Based Sensing in Autonomous Vehicles, Smart Homes and Industry Transitioning From Federated Learning to Quantum Federated Learning in Internet of Things: A Comprehensive Survey Beyond the Edge: An Advanced Exploration of Reinforcement Learning for Mobile Edge Computing, Its Applications, and Future Research Trajectories A Survey on Beyond 5G Network Slicing for Smart Cities Applications Toward 6G Optical Fronthaul: A Survey on Enabling Technologies and Research Perspectives Energy Conservation in Passive Optical Networks: A Tutorial and Survey How Can Optical Communications Shape the Future of Deep Space Communications? A Survey Editorial: Fourth Quarter 2024 IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials. Table of Contents. A Tutorial on Near-Field XL-MIMO Communications Toward 6G. RIS-Empowered Satellite-Aerial-Terrestrial Networks With PD-NOMA. A Tutorial on Radio System-Level Simulations With Emphasis on 3GPP 5G-Advanced and Beyond. Terahertz Communications and Sensing for 6G and Beyond: A Comprehensive Review. Security Analysis of Critical 5G Interfaces. A Survey on Blockchain Scalability: From Hardware to Layer-Two Protocols. Survey on Unified Threat Management (UTM) Systems for Home Networks.