The major function of dynamic networks is to sense information from the environment and process the information to the downstream. Therefore how to measure the information transmission ability of a dynamic network is an important topic to evaluate ne...
Transmission range plays an important role in the deployment of a practical underwater acoustic sensor network (UWSN), where sensor nodes equipping with only basic functions are deployed at random locations with no particular geometrical arrangements...
Low-power wireless sensor networks (WSNs) operating in unlicensed spectrum bands may seriously suffer from interference from other coexisting radio systems, such as IEEE 802.11 wireless local area networks. In this paper, we consider the improvement...
Cyberattacks against the elements of technological data transmission networks represent a rather significant threat of disrupting the management of regional electric power complexes. Therefore, evaluating the functioning quality of data transmission...
In the midst of global efforts to curb the spread of infectious diseases, researchers worldwide are striving to unravel the intricate spatial and temporal patterns of disease transmission dynamics. Mathematical models are indispensable tools for unde...
In the COVID-19 epidemic the mildly symptomatic and asymptomatic infections generate a substantial portion of virus spread; these undetected individuals make it difficult to assess the effectiveness of preventive measures as most epidemic prevention...
With the emergence of vehicular Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications, it is a significant challenge for vehicular IoT systems to obtain higher throughput in vehicle-to-cloud multipath transmission. Network Coding (NC) has been recognized as a promis...
Increasing demand in the backbone Dense Wavelength Division (DWDM) Multiplexing network traffic prompts an introduction of new solutions that allow increasing the transmission speed without significant increase of the service cost. In order to achiev...
Cooperative routing, combining cooperative communication in the physical layer and routing technology in the network layer, is one of the most widely used technologies for improving end-to-end transmission reliability and delay in the wireless multi-...
Handshaking is a common technique used to avoid collisions in terrestrial and underwater content-based networks. However, due to the long propagation delay of the underwater acoustic channel, the conventional handshaking mechanism, which only allows...
This paper discusses an evaluation method of transmission properties of networks described with regular graphs (Reference Graphs) using unevenness coefficients. The first part of the paper offers generic information about describing network topology...
Distributed transmission rate tuning is important for a wide variety of IEEE 802.15.4 network applications such as industrial network control systems. Such systems often require each node to sustain certain throughput demand in order to guarantee the...
This article presents a recursive solution to the power-transmission loss in DC-powered networks. In such a network, the load cannot be modeled as a fixed equivalent resistance value, since the switching regulator may draw more or less current based...
Satellite network is considered a prominent architecture for future space-air-ground integrated networks, where the relay satellite network (RSN) plays an essential role in data transmission. However, the relay satellite network faces practical chall...
This study investigates the effect of distributed Energy Storage Systems (ESSs) on the power quality of distribution and transmission networks. More specifically, this project aims to assess the impact of distributed ESS integration on power quality...
This paper examines applying machine learning to the assessment of the quality of the transmission in optical networks. The motivation for research into this problem derives from the fact that the accurate assessment of transmission quality is key to...
With the rapid development of science and technology and the improvement of people’s living standards, vehicles have gradually become the main means of travel. The increase in vehicles has also brought about an increasing incidence of car accid...
Wireless sensor networks have been attracting research attention for the past decade and will continue to be a hot topic due to the emerging trend of Internet-of-Things (IoT). Edge computing for IoT (Edge-IoT) is a promising framework that can help l...
The energy consumption in wireless sensor networks is the critical concern of different studies, especially because of the great effort, or even the impossibility, to replace the battery of their motes. Consequently, it is fundamental to investigate...
This review paper delves into the challenges and opportunities associated with multimedia transmission in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), with a particular focus on audio-visual transmission using IEEE 802.11p. The currently deployed message dict...
The dynamics of signal transmission in neuronal networks remain incompletely understood. In this study, we propose a novel Rulkov neuronal network model that incorporates Q-learning, a reinforcement learning method, to establish efficient signal tran...
Due to the rapid popularization of various short distance communication mobile devices, the use scenarios of opportunistic networks are increasing day by day. However, in opportunistic networks, because of the complexity of community structure, many...
In 5th generation mobile communication networks, the frequency band of the millimeter band of 30–100 GHz is supported to provide a transmission speed of 20 Gbps or higher. Furthermore, a huge transmission capacity, i.e., up to 1 Tbps, is one of...
Sensors in the Internet of Things (IoT) generate large amounts of data, which requires high-speed data transmission. In order to achieve the parallel transmissions of the wireless sensor network on the transmission layer, the performance of stream co...
The interaction between natural gas and electricity networks is becoming more significant due to the projected large penetration of renewables into the energy system to meet the emission targets. This is due to the role of gas-fired plants in providi...
Coordinated multipoint joint transmission (JT) is one of the critical downlink transmission technologies to improve network throughput. However, multiple cells in a JT group should have the same user data to transmit simultaneously, resulting in a co...
Wireless body area networks will inevitably bring tremendous convenience to human society in future development, and also enable people to benefit from ubiquitous technological services. However, one of the reasons hindering development is the limite...
This paper presents a survey on energy harvesting (EH) wireless communication networks focusing on channel capacity, transmission schemes, and power optimization. While many network researchers focus on energy management policies addressing the inter...
Driven by the emerging mission-critical and data-intensive applications in industrial intelligent manufacturing, the software-defined network (SDN) based fiber-wireless access network (FiWi) is attracting considerable attention thanks to its capabili...
With the popularization of 5G communications, the scale of social networks has grown rapidly, and the types of messages have become increasingly complex. The rapid increases in the number of access nodes and the amount of data have put a greater burd...
As critical national energy arteries, long-distance large-scale cross-regional gas transmission networks are characterized by high operating pressures, extensive spatial coverage, and complex topological structures. Thus, the multi-hazard profiles th...
The Internet-of-things facilitates the development of many groundbreaking applications. A large number of these applications involve mobile end nodes and a sparsely deployed network of base stations that operate as gateways to the Internet. Most of t...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), featured by the high-mobility and high-quality propagation environment, have shown great potential in wireless communication applications. In this paper, a novel UAV-aided small-cell content caching network is propose...
With the rapid development of heterogeneous network technologies, such as mobile edge computing, satellite communications, self-organizing networks, and the wired Internet, satisfying users’ increasingly diversified and complex communication ne...
Recently, with the development of big data and 5G networks, the number of intelligent mobile devices has increased dramatically, therefore the data that needs to be transmitted and processed in the networks has grown exponentially. It is difficult fo...
Existing methods plan the distribution network and sub-transmission network separately. This paper proposes a collaborative renewable energy resource siting and sizing planning method for distribution and sub-transmission networks to increase the ren...
White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus, WTD) spread communicable diseases such the zoonotic coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which is a major public health concern, and chronic wasting disease (CWD), a fatal, highly contagious prion disease occurring in ce...
Recent studies have shown that in realistic wireless sensor network environments links are extremely unreliable. To recover from corrupted packets, most routing schemes with an assumption of ideal radio environments use a retransmission mechanism, wh...
Software-defined networks (SDNs) are expanding their presence beyond laboratories, campus networks, ISPs, and data centre networks, moving into various domains. Although originally designed for campus networks, SDNs face scalability challenges, espec...
In energy harvesting wireless sensor networks (EHWSNs), the energy tension of the network can be relieved by obtaining the energy from the surrounding environment, but the cost on hardware cannot be ignored. Therefore, how to minimize the cost of ene...
In the industrial environment, the data transmission of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) usually has strict deadline requirements. Improving the reliability and real-time performance of data transmission has become one of the critical issues in WSNs r...
Increasing the generation of electric power from renewable energy sources (RESs) creates important challenges to transmission system operators (TSOs) for balancing the power system. To address these challenges, adequate system flexibility is required...
In this paper, we present a novel low power medium access control protocol for wireless sensor networks (WSNs). The proposed protocol, EP-MAC (Efficient MAC with Parallel Transmission) achieves high energy efficiency and high packet delivery ratio un...
Wireless sensor networks collect data from several nodes dispersed at remote sites. Sensor nodes can be installed in harsh environments such as deserts, cities, and indoors, where the link quality changes considerably over time. Particularly, changes...
Transmission power optimization is the most significant factor in prolonging the lifetime and maintaining the connection quality of wireless sensor networks. Un-optimized transmission power of nodes either interferes with or fails to link neighboring...
With the rapid development of mobile networks and devices, real-time video transmission has become increasingly important worldwide. Constrained by the bandwidth limitations of single networks, extensive research has shifted towards video transmissio...
Different from the traditional wired network, the fundamental cause of transmission congestion in wireless ad hoc networks is medium contention. How to utilize the congestion state from the MAC (Media Access Control) layer to adjust the transmission...
Underwater acoustic sensor networks involve deploying sensors underwater in order to establish a wireless network framework aimed at discovering new resources, detecting targets, and monitoring pollution. However, the primary challenge in these netwo...
The communication channel in underwater acoustic sensor networks (UASNs) is time-varying due to the dynamic environmental factors, such as ocean current, wind speed, and temperature profile. Generally, these phenomena occur with a certain regularity,...
Mission-critical applications such as telemedicine demand extremely high communication reliability. Multipath redundant transmission ensures reliable packet delivery by concurrently forwarding replicated packets over multiple paths. However, fewer st...
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