At present, the rapid development of satellite capabilities has prompted the proposal of satellite–terrestrial integrated networks (STIN), which solves the problem of limited signal coverage of terrestrial cellular networks, further promotes the ...

• An access authentication protocol supporting batch verification for STIN is proposed.
• The batch verification mechanism reduces the verification overhead of satellites.
• The handover authentication mechanism is lightweight and ...

With the rapid development of information technology, wireless network has been accepted by the public and widely used in the daily life and work. Especially with the comprehensive deployment of 5G network technology, the application ...

• We improve Parsimonious memory unit (PMU) and design a new RNN method called BIPMU.

• Former trust model standardizations cannot be applied beyond 5G networks.
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In the last years, the number of connections in mobile telecommunication networks has increased rampantly, and in consequence, the number and type of relationships among entities. Should such interactions are to be profitable, entities ...

• The Direction of Arrival (DOA) and uniform circular array beam are formed to scan and find the surrounding sources using various applications (IoT and ...

In recent times, there has been a surge of interest around the usage of adaptive antenna arrays of Internet of Things (IoT) based Drones in the communication systems. Adaptive antenna arrays have the ability to form customized ...

• A Genetic mutation-based particle swarm optimization is proposed for selecting the control nodes.

Now a days, emerging trends in the field of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) tend to work on more complex scenarios and flexible network models as the conventional WSN systems that are based on a classical arrangement of sensors. ...

• Present s a brief taxonomy of neighbor discovery techniques for wireless ad hoc and sensor networks with the directional or sectored antenna

Integration of sectored antenna in wireless networks improves network performance through increased network capacity and extended transmission range. However, incorporating sectored antenna makes the trivial process of discovering ...

• The impact of error control schemes on wireless sensor networks is analyzed.
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Due to the harsh channel conditions of the industrial environments, the data transmission over the wireless channel suffers from erroneous packets. The energy consumption of error control schemes is of great importance for battery-...

Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANET) allows versatile communication between host devices moving around in a state of flux. These networks have no fixed infrastructure thus making the routing of packets a continuous challenge to be optimally ...

• IEEE 802.15.6 based UWC architecture is used firstly in the literature and it is simulated with Riverbed Modeler simulation software.

Nowadays, there are many underground working areas, such as mines and tunnels, which are considered with the scope of the hazardous working area. The use of wireless sensor network (WSN) technologies to ensure the safety of the workers ...

Relay selection technique approaches are increasingly used to improve the reliability of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) communication, thus providing energy efficiency and reducing energy consumption. Due to the adoption of direct ...

• We propose a software-defined scheme for energy efficient and QoS-aware data gathering for WSNs-based SG applications.

The smart grid is an emerging concept that introduces innovative ways to handle the power quality and reliability issues for both service provider and consumers. The key aims of the smart grid (SG) in smart cities (SCs) is to preserve ...

• The demand to meet emerging delay constraint WSN applications has highlighted the need to introduce this new channel allocation method.

Increasing throughput and meeting high packet delivery ratio demands in delay constraint Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) applications have triggered the use of hybrid multi radio and multichannel communication techniques. There are many ...

• The XCI flexibility enables achieving diverse management goals.
• Multi-...

The goal of 5G-Crosshaul is to integrate fronthaul and backhaul operation under the same data and control planes. This paper focuses on the latter, by experimentally showing the flexibility of the 5G-Crosshaul Control Infrastructure (...

• The main objective of the proposed scheduling algorithm is to increase the edge throughput without sacrificing cell throughput in LTE networks.

Radio resource allocation is a crucial task in the LTE networks. To increase the overall user experience, an efficient radio resource allocation algorithm should be utilized. In this work, a new scheduling algorithm has been proposed ...

In this paper, a new interface is developed in detail that provides terminal users with ways for direct and convenient interactions with the wireless sensor networks (WSNs). It also embraces an Internet based subsystem for remote monitoring and ...

In metal cutting processes, an effective monitoring system, based on a suitably developed scheme or set of algorithms can maintain machine tools in good condition and delay the occurrence of tool wear. In this paper, an approach is developed for fault ...

It is common to browse web pages via mobile devices. However, most of the web pages were designed for desktop computers equipped with big screens. When browsing on mobile devices, a user has to scroll up and down to find the information they want ...

Nodes in a sensor network may be lost because of power exhaustion or malicious attacks. Therefore, new node deployment is necessary. Based on elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), this paper presents a new access control protocol for secure wireless sensor ...

Wireless local area networks provide high speed data transferring rate to a mobile device. And it is crucial to integrate together two critical issues, the authentication and roaming in heterogeneous networks. For this, Tsai and Chang proposed a SIM-...

In Mobile Ad-hoc NETwork (MANET), every node could become active dynamically. Therefore, those nodes will affect the stability of network topology because of clustering and de-clustering, and continuously make reconfiguration for the groups of network, ...