The location of user equipments (UEs) allows application developers to customize the services for users to perceive an enhanced experience. In addition, this UE location enables network operators to develop location-aware solutions to optimize networ...
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) deployment and placement are largely dependent upon the available energy, feasible scenario, and secure network. The feasible placement of UAV nodes to cover the cellular networks need optimal altitude. The under or over...
Device-to-Device (D2D) communication technology has become a key factor in wireless sensor networks to form autonomous communication links among sensor nodes. Many research results for D2D have been presented to resolve different technical issues of...
Rural areas often face communication challenges due to limited mobile coverage on remote roads, posing significant difficulties in reporting emergencies and accidents. This study presented an autonomous vehicle tracking system using low-cost radar se...
The fog computing-based device-driven network is a promising solution for high data rates in modern cellular networks. It is a unique framework to reduce the generated-data, data management overheads, network scalability challenges, and help us to pr...
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) can be reliable tools in agricultural management. In this work, a low cost, low power consumption, and simple wireless sensing system dedicated for agricultural environments is presented. The system is applicable to sm...
Fog-radio access networks (F-RANs) alleviate fronthaul delays for cellular networks as compared to their cloud counterparts. This allows them to be suitable solutions for networks that demand low propagation delays. Namely, they are suitable for mill...
Opportunistic networks are becoming a solution to provide communication support in areas with overloaded cellular networks, and in scenarios where a fixed infrastructure is not available, as in remote and developing regions. A critical issue, which s...
To manage a growing number of users and an ever-increasing demand for bandwidth, future 5th Generation (5G) cellular networks will combine different radio access technologies (cellular, satellite, and WiFi, among others) and different types of equipm...
Due to the dense deployment of base stations (BSs) in heterogeneous cellular networks (HCNs), the energy efficiency (EE) of HCN has attracted the attention of academia and industry. Considering its mathematical tractability, the Poisson point process...
The arrival of the Fifth Generation (5G) entails a significant evolution in the context of mobile communication networks. This new technology will bring heterogeneous scenarios with new types of services and an increasingly high number of users and n...
The growing need for efficient and sustainable urban water management has accelerated the adoption of smart monitoring infrastructures based on wireless sensor networks (WSNs). This study proposes a connectivity-aware methodology for the optimal depl...
Multiconnectivity allows user equipment/devices to connect to multiple radio access technologies simultaneously, including 5G, 4G (LTE), and WiFi. It is a necessity in meeting the increasing demand for mobile network services for the 5G and beyond wi...
Handover support is one of the important issues in mobile networks to guarantee the quality of service (QoS) requirements for mobile users. Alongside the development of network technologies, handover management to provide service continuity has been...
In modern Internet-based communication, especially mobile systems, a mobile node (MN) will commonly have more than one possibility for Internet Protocol (IP) connectivity. For example, an MN such as a smartphone may be associated with an IEEE 802.11...
Beyond Fifth Generation (B5G) networks are expected to be the most efficient cellular wireless networks with greater capacity, lower latency, and higher speed than the current networks. Key enabling technologies, such as millimeter-wave (mm-wave), be...
With the rapid evolution in wireless communications and autonomous vehicles, intelligent and autonomous vehicles will be launched soon. Vehicle to Everything (V2X) communications provides driving safety, traffic efficiency, and road information in re...
In this work, an open Radio Access Network (RAN), compatible, scalable and highly flexible Software Defined Radio (SDR)-based Remote Radio Head (RRH) framework is proposed and designed. Such framework can be used to implement flexible wideband radio...
The Internet of Things (IoT) connects numerous sensor nodes and devices, resulting in an increase in the bandwidth and data rates. However, this has led to a surge in data-hungry applications, which consume significant energy at battery-limited IoT n...
Connected vehicles in vehicular networks will lead to a smart and autonomous transportation system. These vehicles have a large number of applications that require wireless connectivity by using cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X). The infrastruct...
The industrial Internet of things (IIoT) has radically modified industrial environments, not only enabling novel industrial applications but also significantly increasing the amount of generated network traffic. Nowadays, a major concern is to suppor...
Several emerging mobile applications and services (e.g., autonomous cars) require higher wireless throughput than ever before. This demand stresses the need for investigating novel methods that have the potential to dramatically increase the spectral...
Software-defined networking (SDN) is the fastest growing and most widely deployed network infrastructure due to its adaptability to new networking technologies and intelligent applications. SDN simplifies network management and control by separating...
The efficiency of the current cellular network is limited due to the imbalance between resource availability and traffic demand. To overcome these limitations, baseband units (BBUs) are deployed on virtual machines (VMs) to form a virtual pool of BBU...
Normal cardiac automaticity is dependent on the pacemaker cells of the sinoatrial node (SAN). Insufficient cardiac pacemaking leads to the development of sick sinus syndrome (SSS). Since currently available pharmaceutical drugs and implantable pacema...
Growing and diverse user needs, along with the need for continuous access with minimal delay in densely populated machine-type networks, have led to a significant overhaul of modern mobile communication systems. Within this realm, the integration of...
Monitoring the curing process of concrete remains a challenging and critical aspect of modern construction, often hindered by labour-intensive, invasive, and inflexible methods. The primary aim of this study is to develop an integrated IoT-enabled pl...
Somatic mutation of signal transduction genes or key nodes of the cellular protein network can cause severe diseases in humans but can sometimes genetically improve plants, likely because growth is determinate in animals but indeterminate in plants....
The Internet of Things (IoT) provides communication service for future smart manufacturing, which is capable of independently exchanging and responding to information to manage industrial production processes. For the purpose of connecting machines,...
In this paper, a new method for irrigation systems in agriculture has been reported. This work aims to design and implement a smart irrigation system based on the ESP32 platform and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies for optimizing water usage man...
In the vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs), wireless access in vehicular environments (WAVE) as the core networking technology is suitable for supporting safety-critical applications, but it is difficult to guarantee its performance when transmitting...
The last era has witnessed an unprecedented demand for digital content. To meet these rigorous demands, researchers have been busy developing content-sharing applications and services. The advancement in technology has aided this process. Unmanned ae...
Stroke remains one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide, yet its clinical management is constrained by substantial biological heterogeneity that single-biomarker and single-omics approaches fail to resolve. The integration of multi...
Benchmarking different optimization algorithms is tasky, particularly for network-based cellular communication systems. The design and management process of these systems involves many stochastic variables and complex design parameters that demand an...
Background: Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) and depression frequently occur together. Identifying the genes that influence both MASLD and depression may facilitate the discovery of biological pathways associated with...