The field of wireless communication systems is moving towards improving energy efficiency, reducing latency, and increasing scalability. Researchers are exploring innovative techniques such as alternative modulation schemes, advanced multiple access protocols, and coordinated spatial reuse to optimize spectrum resource utilization. Notably, the development of new technologies like MD-OFDM and SNOW is enabling significant advancements in areas such as IoT and LPWAN. These advancements have the potential to support emerging applications requiring high throughput, low latency, and high reliability. Noteworthy papers include: MD-OFDM, which achieves superior BER and significantly lower PAPR compared to MMSE MIMO. Enabling Scalability in Asynchronous and Bidirectional Communication in LPWAN, which achieves approximately 9x more scalability in SNOW while being timely in data collection at the BS and energy efficient at the sensors. Improving Wi-Fi 8 Latency with Coordinated Spatial Reuse, which shows delay reduction with Co-SR ranging from 31% to 95% when compared to DCF.