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  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,825 Views
21 Pages

3GPP 5G V2X Scenarios: Performance of QoS Parameters Using Turbo Codes

  • Dimitrios Kosmanos,
  • Costas Chaikalis and
  • Ilias K. Savvas

1 March 2022

Cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) communication has recently gained attention in industry and academia. Different implementation scenarios have been derived by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) 5th Generation (5G) Vehicle-to-Everythi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,591 Views
18 Pages

29 March 2021

Nowadays, many business organizations are operating on the cloud environment in order to diminish their operating costs and to select the best service from many cloud providers. The increasing number of Cloud Services available on the market encourag...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,334 Views
25 Pages

Secure Intelligent Vehicular Network Using Fog Computing

  • Samuel Kofi Erskine and
  • Khaled M. Elleithy

VANET (vehicular ad hoc network) has a main objective to improve driver safety and traffic efficiency. The intermittent exchange of real-time safety message delivery in VANET has become an urgent concern due to DoS (denial of service) and smart and n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,194 Views
15 Pages

1 August 2023

In this paper, an intelligent multiple Quality of Service (QoS) constrained traffic path allocation scheme with corresponding algorithm is proposed. The proposed method modifies deep Q-learning network (DQN) by graph neural network (GNN) and prioriti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,547 Views
34 Pages

Distributed Sensor Architecture for Intelligent Control that Supports Quality of Control and Quality of Service

  • Jose-Luis Poza-Lujan,
  • Juan-Luis Posadas-Yagüe,
  • José-Enrique Simó-Ten,
  • Raúl Simarro and
  • Ginés Benet

25 February 2015

This paper is part of a study of intelligent architectures for distributed control and communications systems. The study focuses on optimizing control systems by evaluating the performance of middleware through quality of service (QoS) parameters and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,104 Views
18 Pages

25 May 2020

In addition to the traditional Quality of Service (QoS) metrics of latency, jitter and Packet Loss Ratio (PLR), Quality of Experience (QoE) is now widely accepted as a numerical proxy for the actual user experience. The literature has reported many m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,825 Views
20 Pages

2 February 2023

In this paper, utilising real-internet traffic data, we modified a popular network emulator to better imitate real network traffic and studied its subjective and objective implications on QoE for cloud-gaming apps. Subjective QoE evaluation was then...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
8,159 Views
16 Pages

An Efficient Trust-Based Scheme for Secure and Quality of Service Routing in MANETs

  • Muhammad Salman Pathan,
  • Nafei Zhu,
  • Jingsha He,
  • Zulfiqar Ali Zardari,
  • Muhammad Qasim Memon and
  • Muhammad Iftikhar Hussain

5 February 2018

Due to the dynamism of topology, sharing of bandwidth and constraint of resources in wireless nodes, the provision of quality of service (QoS) for routing in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) presents a great challenge. Security is another crucial aspe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,261 Views
16 Pages

A QoS Prediction Approach Based on Truncated Nuclear Norm Low-Rank Tensor Completion

  • Hong Xia,
  • Qingyi Dong,
  • Jiahao Zheng,
  • Yanping Chen,
  • Cong Gao and
  • Zhongmin Wang

20 August 2022

With the rise of mobile edge computing (MEC), mobile services with the same or similar functions are gradually increasing. Usually, Quality of Service (QoS) has become an indicator to measure high-quality services. In the real MEC service invocation...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,201 Views
28 Pages

Quality of Service and Associated Communication Infrastructure for Electric Vehicles

  • Rajeshkumar Ramraj,
  • Ehsan Pashajavid,
  • Sanath Alahakoon and
  • Shantha Jayasinghe

20 October 2023

Transportation electrification is pivotal for achieving energy security and emission reduction goals. Electric vehicles (EVs) are at the forefront of this transition, driving the development of new EV technologies and infrastructure. As this trend ga...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,575 Views
20 Pages

Dynamic QoS Prediction Algorithm Based on Kalman Filter Modification

  • Yunfei Yan,
  • Peng Sun,
  • Jieyong Zhang,
  • Yutang Ma,
  • Liang Zhao and
  • Yueyi Qin

28 July 2022

With the widespread adoption of service-oriented architectures (SOA), services with the same functionality but the different Quality of Service (QoS) are proliferating, which is challenging the ability of users to build high-quality services. It is o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,667 Views
16 Pages

In 5G scenarios, the dynamic resource allocation of network slicing is crucial for quality-of-service (QoS) guaranteed under fluctuating traffic demands in rapidly changing communication environments. In this paper, we propose a novel QoS guaranteed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
2,216 Views
13 Pages

Intelligent Traffic Model for Unmanned Ground Vehicles Based on DSDV-AODV Protocol

  • Ali M. Ali,
  • Md Asri Ngadi,
  • Israa Ibraheem Al_Barazanchi and
  • Poh Soon JosephNg

15 July 2023

Traffic systems have been built as a result of recent technological advancements. In application, dependable communication technology is essential to link any system needs. VANET technology is used to communicate data about intelligent traffic lights...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,161 Views
13 Pages

On the Capability of QoE Improvement Based on the Adjustment of RLC Parameters

  • Jessica Mendoza,
  • Isabel de-la-Bandera,
  • David Palacios,
  • Ana Herrera-García and
  • Raquel Barco

27 April 2020

The constant evolution in mobile communications networks have led operators to seek new techniques to optimize their mobile networks with the objective of satisfying the expectations of the users. In this way, traditional optimization techniques base...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,739 Views
26 Pages

8 January 2022

Fog computing emerged as a concept that responds to the requirements of upcoming solutions requiring optimizations primarily in the context of the following QoS parameters: latency, throughput, reliability, security, and network traffic reduction. Th...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,846 Views
20 Pages

ReSQoV: A Scalable Resource Allocation Model for QoS-Satisfied Cloud Services

  • Hassan Mahmood Khan,
  • Fang-Fang Chua and
  • Timothy Tzen Vun Yap

26 April 2022

Dynamic resource provisioning is made more accessible with cloud computing. Monitoring a running service is critical, and modifications are performed when specific criteria are exceeded. It is a standard practice to add or delete resources in such si...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,573 Views
25 Pages

3 February 2024

The development of new telecommunication services requires the implementation of advanced technologies and the next generations of networks. Currently, the Long-Term Evolution (LTE) is a widely used standard. On the other hand, more and more mobile n...

  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,142 Views
33 Pages

Toward QoS Monitoring in IoT Edge Devices Driven Healthcare—A Systematic Literature Review

  • Muhammad Irfan Younas,
  • Muhammad Jawed Iqbal,
  • Abdul Aziz and
  • Ali Hassan Sodhro

1 November 2023

Smart healthcare is altering the delivery of healthcare by combining the benefits of IoT, mobile, and cloud computing. Cloud computing has tremendously helped the health industry connect healthcare facilities, caregivers, and patients for information...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,218 Views
26 Pages

Virtual Router Design and Modeling for Future Networks with QoS Guarantees

  • Mykola Beshley,
  • Natalia Kryvinska,
  • Halyna Beshley,
  • Oleg Yaremko and
  • Julia Pyrih

A virtual router model with a static and dynamic resource reconfiguration for future internet networking was developed. This technique allows us to create efficient virtual devices with optimal parameters (queue length, queue overflow management disc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,603 Views
21 Pages

Reinforcement Learning-Aided Edge Intelligence Framework for Delay-Sensitive Industrial Applications

  • Muhammad Zubair Islam,
  • Shahzad,
  • Rashid Ali,
  • Amir Haider and
  • Hyung Seok Kim

20 October 2022

With the advancement in next-generation communication technologies, the so-called Tactile Internet is getting more attention due to its smart applications, such as haptic-enabled teleoperation systems. The stringent requirements such as delay, jitter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
5,594 Views
29 Pages

Differentiated Data Aggregation Routing Scheme for Energy Conserving and Delay Sensitive Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Xujing Li,
  • Wei Liu,
  • Mande Xie,
  • Anfeng Liu,
  • Ming Zhao,
  • Neal N. Xiong,
  • Miao Zhao and
  • Wan Dai

19 July 2018

Data aggregation is a widely adopted method to effectively reduce the data transmission volume and improve the lifetime of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In the data aggregation networks, some parameters directly determine the delay of aggregation....

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,777 Views
23 Pages

27 September 2019

LoRaWAN infrastructure has become widely deployed to provide wireless communications for various sensor applications. These applications generate different traffic volumes and require different quality of service (QoS). The paper presents an accurate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,283 Views
25 Pages

3GPP 5G V2X Error Correction Coding for Various Propagation Environments: A QoS Approach

  • Dimitrios Chatzoulis,
  • Costas Chaikalis,
  • Dimitrios Kosmanos,
  • Kostas E. Anagnostou and
  • Apostolos Xenakis

Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications is an emerging branch of wireless communications and has recently gained a lot of interest not only from academia but also from the automotive and telecommunications industry. An important feature of V2X tel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
6,030 Views
29 Pages

15 June 2015

In this paper, we address the thermal rise and Quality-of-Service (QoS) provisioning issue for an intra-body Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) having in-vivo sensor nodes. We propose a thermal-aware QoS routing protocol, called TLQoS, that facilitate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
89 Citations
5,587 Views
21 Pages

QoS-Ledger: Smart Contracts and Metaheuristic for Secure Quality-of-Service and Cost-Efficient Scheduling of Medical-Data Processing

  • Abdullah Ayub Khan,
  • Zaffar Ahmed Shaikh,
  • Laura Baitenova,
  • Lyailya Mutaliyeva,
  • Nikita Moiseev,
  • Alexey Mikhaylov,
  • Asif Ali Laghari,
  • Sahar Ahmed Idris and
  • Hammam Alshazly

10 December 2021

Quality-of-service (QoS) is the term used to evaluate the overall performance of a service. In healthcare applications, efficient computation of QoS is one of the mandatory requirements during the processing of medical records through smart measureme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,576 Views
14 Pages

21 September 2010

Traffic in the Internet backbone is expected to grow above a few Tbit/s in 2020. To cope with this, operators are moving to IP/optical network architectures, where IP is the convergence layer for all services. On the other hand, the quality of servic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,377 Views
20 Pages

Mobile Wi-Fi Based Scheduling of Cyber-Physical Systems in Healthcare

  • Safdar Nawaz Khan Marwat,
  • Yasir Mehmood,
  • Farman Ullah,
  • Ahmad Khan,
  • Shahid Khan,
  • Salman Ahmed,
  • Daehan Kwak and
  • Afia Nazir

Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) and Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) have been widely regarded as solution providers for future Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)-based ehealthcare amenities. The IEEE 802.11 standard specifies media access protocol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,937 Views
18 Pages

Network Calculus Approach for Packet Delay Variation Analysis of Multi-Hop Wired Networks

  • Rahul Nandkumar Gore,
  • Elena Lisova,
  • Johan Åkerberg and
  • Mats Björkman

4 November 2022

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has revolutionized businesses by changing the way data are used to make products and services more efficient, reliable, and profitable. To achieve the improvement goals, the IIoT must guarantee the real-time p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,933 Views
19 Pages

A Resource Allocation Algorithm for Cloud-Network Collaborative Satellite Networks with Differentiated QoS Requirements

  • Zhimin Shao,
  • Qingyang Ding,
  • Lingzhen Meng,
  • Tao Yang,
  • Shengpeng Chen and
  • Yapeng Li

28 September 2024

With the continuous advancement of cloud computing and satellite communication technology, the cloud-network-integrated satellite network has emerged as a novel network architecture. This architecture harnesses the benefits of cloud computing and sat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
3,291 Views
17 Pages

Routing Protocol for MANET Based on QoS-Aware Service Composition with Dynamic Secured Broker Selection

  • Rajakumar Ramalingam,
  • Rajeswari Muniyan,
  • Ankur Dumka,
  • Devesh Pratap Singh,
  • Heba G. Mohamed,
  • Rajesh Singh,
  • Divya Anand and
  • Irene Delgado Noya

23 August 2022

MANET is a mobile ad hoc network with many mobile nodes communicating without a centralized module. Infrastructure-less networks make it desirable for many researchers to publish and bind multimedia services. Each node in this infrastructure-less net...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,591 Views
18 Pages

20 September 2024

Over the past few years, life expectancy has increased significantly. However, elderly individuals living independently often require assistance due to mobility issues, symptoms of dementia, or other health-related challenges. In these situations, hi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,113 Views
15 Pages

5 September 2019

Multipath diversity leads to a possible higher performance for real-time high definition video, especially for medical video transmission, which would improve the stability of multiple transmission paths in the symmetrical state, and avoid the potent...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,067 Views
15 Pages

29 December 2015

Packet scheduling is key to quality of service (QoS) capabilities of broadband wired and wireless networks. In a heterogeneous traffic environment, a comprehensive QoS packet scheduler must strike a balance between flow fairness and access delay. Man...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,799 Views
28 Pages

27 March 2022

The prominence of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications in the future wide area communication networks place various challenges to the cellular technologies such as the Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard, owing to the large number of M2M devices ge...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,619 Views
27 Pages

On Providing Multi-Level Quality of Service for Operating Rooms of the Future

  • Vinicius Facco Rodrigues,
  • Rodrigo da Rosa Righi,
  • Cristiano André da Costa,
  • Björn Eskofier and
  • Andreas Maier

18 May 2019

The Operating Room (OR) plays an important role in delivering vital medical services to patients in hospitals. Such environments contain several medical devices, equipment, and systems producing valuable information which might be combined for biomed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,889 Views
14 Pages

12 December 2022

Unreliable networks often use excess bandwidth for data integration in smart cities. For this purpose, Messaging Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) with a certain quality of service (QoS) is employed. Data integrity and data security are frequently c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,675 Views
21 Pages

QoE Optimization in a Live Cellular Network through RLC Parameter Tuning

  • Jessica Mendoza,
  • Isabel de-la-Bandera,
  • David Palacios and
  • Raquel Barco

20 August 2021

The mobile communication networks sector has experienced a great evolution during the last few years. The emergence of new services as well as the growth in the number of subscribers have motivated the search for new ways to optimize mobile networks....

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,962 Views
18 Pages

Cardiometabolic Profile, Physical Activity, and Quality of Life in Breast Cancer Survivors after Different Physical Exercise Protocols: A 34-Month Follow-Up Study

  • Valentina Bucciarelli,
  • Francesco Bianco,
  • Andrea Di Blasio,
  • Teresa Morano,
  • Desiree Tuosto,
  • Francesco Mucedola,
  • Serena Di Santo,
  • Alessandra Cimini,
  • Giorgio Napolitano and
  • Sabina Gallina
  • + 3 authors

20 July 2023

Background: Breast cancer (BC) and cardiovascular (CV) disease share many risk factors associated with worse outcomes, in terms of cancer relapse, CV events, and quality of life (QoL), that could be counteracted by physical exercise (PE). We aimed to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,707 Views
33 Pages

Dynamic RSVP in Modern Networks for Advanced Resource Control with P4 Data Plane

  • Pin-An Pan,
  • Wen-Long Chin,
  • Yen-Chun Huang,
  • Yu-Xiang Huang and
  • Cheng-Hsien Yu

2 April 2025

This study focuses on leveraging the emerging Software-Defined Networking (SDN) technology, P4, to design a data plane for the Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) that can be applied in various scenarios, including both wired and wireless networks....

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,698 Views
24 Pages

Quality of Life within Horse Welfare Assessment Tools: Informing Decisions for Chronically Ill and Geriatric Horses

  • Mariessa Long,
  • Christian Dürnberger,
  • Florien Jenner,
  • Zsófia Kelemen,
  • Ulrike Auer and
  • Herwig Grimm

17 July 2022

Equine Quality of Life (QoL) is an important concern in decision making in veterinary medicine and is especially relevant for chronically ill or geriatric horses towards the end of their lives. To our knowledge, there is no currently available QoL as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,097 Views
14 Pages

16 June 2023

Ubiquitous mobile edge computing (MEC) using the internet of things (IoT) is a promising technology for providing low-latency and high-throughput services to end-users. Resource allocation and quality of service (QoS) optimization are critical challe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,189 Views
21 Pages

CATSWoTS: Context Aware Trustworthy Social Web of Things System

  • Sabeen Javaid,
  • Hammad Afzal,
  • Fahim Arif,
  • Naima Iltaf,
  • Haider Abbas and
  • Waseem Iqbal

12 July 2019

The inevitable revolution of the Internet of Things (IoT) and its benefits can be witnessed everywhere. Two major issues related to IoT are the interoperability and the identification of trustworthy things. The proposed Context-Aware Trustworthy Soci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
6,041 Views
10 Pages

Quality of Life of Women after Giving Birth: Associated Factors Related with the Birth Process

  • Juan Miguel Martínez-Galiano,
  • Antonio Hernández-Martínez,
  • Julián Rodríguez-Almagro and
  • Miguel Delgado-Rodríguez

The World Health Organization (WHO) considers quality of life a fundamental indicator. The effect of birth on women’s long-term quality of life (QoL) has barely been studied. The purpose of this study was to determine the factors related with t...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,461 Views
3 Pages

Quality of Experience (QoE) is becoming an important factor of User-Centred Design (UCD). The deployment of pure technical measures such as Quality of Service (QoS) parameters to assess the quality of multimedia applications is phasing out due to the...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,154 Views
7 Pages

Measuring Quality of Life in Parkinson’s Disease—A Call to Rethink Conceptualizations and Assessments

  • Maria Stührenberg,
  • Carolin S. Berghäuser,
  • Marlena van Munster,
  • Anna J. Pedrosa Carrasco,
  • David J. Pedrosa and
  • on behalf of the iCARE-PD Consortium

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a chronic condition that considerably impacts the perception of quality of life (QoL) in both patients and their caregivers. Modern therapeutic approaches and social efforts strive at maintaining and promoting QoL. I...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,239 Views
35 Pages

21 April 2025

The increasing complexity of cloud service composition demands innovative approaches that can efficiently optimize both functional requirements and quality of service (QoS) parameters. While several methods exist, they struggle to simultaneously mini...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,955 Views
29 Pages

Service-Oriented Cooperation Policies for Intelligent Ground Vehicles Approaching Intersections

  • Kailong Zhang,
  • Ce Xie,
  • Yujia Wang,
  • Min Wang,
  • Arnaud De La Fortelle,
  • Weibin Zhang and
  • Zongtao Duan

13 September 2018

With the coming of intelligent vehicles and vehicular communication, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) of connected vehicles are emerging and now evolving to Cooperative-ITS (C-ITS), as service platforms for smart cities. Considering new servi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
195 Views
17 Pages

QoS-Aware Downlink Paging Control for UAV-Assisted 5G-Advanced Networks with On-Demand Coverage

  • Conghao Li,
  • Haizhi Yu,
  • Weidong Gao,
  • Dengyan Wang,
  • Shouhui Lai,
  • Xu Zhao,
  • Hongzhi Zhang and
  • Gengshuo Liu

10 March 2026

To meet the energy-saving requirements of user equipment (UE) operating in Radio Resource Control idle/inactive states (RRC_IDLE/RRC_INACTIVE) in the 3rd-Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) 5G-Advanced (5G-A) networks, the New Radio (NR) downlink p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,389 Views
19 Pages

Wireless sensor network is a network consisting of many sensor nodes that function to scan certain phenomena around it. WSN has quite a large problem in the form of delay and data loss which results in low WSN performance. This study aims to improve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,069 Views
16 Pages

Comparison of Supervised Learning Algorithms on a 5G Dataset Reduced via Principal Component Analysis (PCA)

  • Joan D. Gonzalez-Franco,
  • Jorge E. Preciado-Velasco,
  • Jose E. Lozano-Rizk,
  • Raul Rivera-Rodriguez,
  • Jorge Torres-Rodriguez and
  • Miguel A. Alonso-Arevalo

11 October 2023

Improving the quality of service (QoS) and meeting service level agreements (SLAs) are critical objectives in next-generation networks. This article presents a study on applying supervised learning (SL) algorithms in a 5G/B5G service dataset after be...

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