Articles

On the performance of physical layer security in virtual full-duplex non-orthogonal multiple access system

This paper investigates physical layer security analysis of cooperative non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) communication system. A virtual full-duplex (VFD) relaying scheme with an untrusted amplify-and-for...

Authors: Weidong Guo and Yuxi Liu

Energy-efficient resource management for OFDM modulated bidirectional relaying with quality-of-service constraint

This paper addressed the energy-efficient resource management problem of an amplify-and-forward relay-assisted bidirectional relay system under a quality-of-service (QoS) constraint. The objective is to develo...

Authors: Xiaodong Ji, Chong Qian, Chenhao Huang and Shu Ye

Shortest link scheduling in wireless networks under the Rayleigh fading model

Many shortest link scheduling algorithms adopt non-fading SINR interference model, which assumes that the received signal power will always remain determinate as long as the transmission power of the correspon...

Authors: Baogui Huang, Jiguo Yu, Chunmei Ma, Fengyin Li and Guangshun Li

Machine type communications: key drivers and enablers towards the 6G era

The recently introduced 5G New Radio is the first wireless standard natively designed to support critical and massive machine type communications (MTC). However, it is already becoming evident that some of the...

Authors: Nurul Huda Mahmood, Stefan Böcker, Ingrid Moerman, Onel A. López, Andrea Munari, Konstantin Mikhaylov, Federico Clazzer, Hannes Bartz, Ok-Sun Park, Eric Mercier, Selma Saidi, Diana Moya Osorio, Riku Jäntti, Ravikumar Pragada, Elina Annanperä, Yihua Ma…

Latency optimization for D2D-enabled parallel mobile edge computing in cellular networks

Edge offloading, including offloading to edge base stations (BS) via cellular links and to idle mobile users (MUs) via device-to-device (D2D) links, has played a vital role in achieving ultra-low latency chara...

Authors: Yan Cai, Liang Ran, Jun Zhang and Hongbo Zhu

A cable supporting test under impact loading based on 5G-IoT

Reliable supporting effect is of utmost important for the deep mining roadway to prevent the hazards during deep mining activities. Traditional supporting equipment are not satisfying in the absence of the ene...

Authors: Xiaokun Sun, Zhaohua Li and Tao Hong

Opportunistic routing based on partial CSI in MIMO random ad-hoc networks

In this paper we consider opportunistic routing in multiple-input–multiple-output (MIMO) random wireless ad-hoc networks (WANETs). Our analysis uses a proper model of the physical layer together with an abstra...

Authors: Yiftach Richter and Itsik Bergel

Secure big data ecosystem architecture: challenges and solutions

Big data ecosystems are complex data-intensive, digital–physical systems. Data-intensive ecosystems offer a number of benefits; however, they present challenges as well. One major challenge is related to the p...

Authors: Memoona J. Anwar, Asif Q. Gill, Farookh K. Hussain and Muhammad Imran

Authentication strategies in vehicular communications: a taxonomy and framework

In intelligent vehicular networks, vehicles have enhanced sensing capabilities and carry computing and communication platforms to enable new versatile systems known as Vehicular Communication (VC) systems. Veh...

Authors: Mir Ali Rezazadeh Baee, Leonie Simpson, Xavier Boyen, Ernest Foo and Josef Pieprzyk

EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking: Special Issue on EuCNC 2019: “Enabling Technologies for Networks beyond 5G”

Authors: Luis M. Correia

Location-sharing protocol for privacy protection in mobile online social networks

Location-based services are becoming more and more popular in mobile online social networks (mOSNs) for smart cities, but users’ privacy also has aroused widespread concern, such as locations, friend sets and ...

Authors: Ou Ruan, Lixiao Zhang and Yuanyuan Zhang

Correction to: Next-generation UWB antennas gadgets for human health care using SAR

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

Authors: Aysha Maryam Ali, Mohammed A. Al Ghamdi, Muhammad Munwar Iqbal, Shehzad Khalid, Hamza Aldabbas and Saqib Saeed

Blockchain-based IoT device identification and management in 5G smart grid

This work investigates the unified coding and identification of smart grid IoT devices, as more and more IoT devices in smart grid need to be managed and controlled. We combine blockchain technology with 5G ME...

Authors: Dong Wang, Huanjuan Wang and Yuchen Fu

User selection and dynamic power allocation in the SWIPT-NOMA relay system

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technology provides an effective solution to massive access with a high data rate demand in new-generation mobile networks. The paper combinations with NOMA and simultaneo...

Authors: Xianzhong Xie, Min Li, Zhaoyuan Shi, Hong Tang and Qian Huang

Improving the performance of a radio-frequency localization system in adverse outdoor applications

In outdoor RF localization systems, particularly where line of sight can not be guaranteed or where multipath effects are severe, information about the terrain may improve the position estimate’s performance. ...

Authors: Marcelo N. de Sousa, Ricardo Sant’Ana, Rigel P. Fernandes, Julio Cesar Duarte, José A. Apolinário Jr. and Reiner S. Thomä

Design of remote control device using wireless sensor network and its use in intelligent monitoring of farmland information

The purpose is to control the growth state of crops remotely, design intelligent detection application of farmland information and improve the efficiency of agricultural information management. Wireless sensor...

Authors: Jian Zhang and Ying Wang

Inductive coupling for wireless power transfer and near-field communication

This paper gives an overview of optimizing wireless power transfer systems using magnetic coupling. Optimization aims to maximize either the power transfer efficiency or the transferred power. The resulting lo...

Authors: Christoph Degen

LacminCC: lightweight anonymous communication model in cloud computing

With increasing application of cloud computing and big data technologies, a large amount of personal information is stored on the Internet, which raises the issue of privacy leakage. To protect people’s data p...

Authors: Fengyin Li, Yanli Wang, Hongwei Ju, Xinying Yu, Zhaojie Wang and Huiyu Zhou

A secure and privacy-preserving authentication protocol for wireless sensor networks in smart city

Smart city can improve the efficiency of managing assets and resources, optimize urban services and improve the quality of citizens’ life. Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) can solve many problems in smart city,...

Authors: Qi Xie, Keheng Li, Xiao Tan, Lidong Han, Wen Tang and Bin Hu

Wireless technologies for the connectivity of the future

This Special Issue originates from the international conference EuCNC 2020 (European Conference on Networks and Communications), which was planned to be held in June 2020 in Dubrovnik (Croatia), but due to the...

Authors: Filipe D. Cardoso, Vlatko Lipovac and Luis M. Correia

Performance analysis of the collaborative caching strategy in an UAV-RAN

Ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (URLLC) is one of the main service categories in the fifth-generation communication systems, which lays the foundation for emerging data-exploring video application...

Authors: Qi Li, Dongyu Wang, Hua Lu, Wei Hong, Qin Mu and Kexin Xiong

Wireless management system of prefabricated construction materials based on BIM technology

The primary goal of material management is to arrange the use of materials reasonably, which is particularly important for the construction industry. Wireless communication can transmit a lot of information in...

Authors: Xinhua Wu

CARAMEL: results on a secure architecture for connected and autonomous vehicles detecting GPS spoofing attacks

The main goal of the H2020-CARAMEL project is to address the cybersecurity gaps introduced by the new technological domains adopted by modern vehicles applying, among others, advanced Artificial Intelligence a...

Authors: Christian Vitale, Nikos Piperigkos, Christos Laoudias, Georgios Ellinas, Jordi Casademont, Josep Escrig, Andreas Kloukiniotis, Aris S. Lalos, Konstantinos Moustakas, Rodrigo Diaz Rodriguez, Daniel Baños, Gemma Roqueta Crusats, Petros Kapsalas, Klaus-Peter Hofmann and Pouria Sayyad Khodashenas

Architecture for integrating vertical customer’s programmability control of network functions and connectivity in a slice-as-a-service schema

Network slicing will permit offering to vertical customers tailored end-to-end logical networks in an on-demand fashion, on top of a common telecom infrastructure, achieving a Slices-as-a-Service (SlaaS) busin...

Authors: Luis M. Contreras, Samier Barguil, Ricard Vilalta and Victor López

Group signature with time-bound keys and unforgeability of expiry time for smart cities

Internet of Things (IoT) lays the foundation for the various applications in smart cities, yet resource-constrained IoT devices are prone to suffer from devastating cyberattacks and privacy leak threats, thus ...

Authors: Junli Fang and Tao Feng

M-ary nonlinear sine chirp spread spectrum for underwater acoustic communication based on virtual time-reversal mirror method

Linear chirp spread spectrum technique is widely used in underwater acoustic communication because of their resilience to high multipath and Doppler shift. Linear frequency modulated signal requires a high spr...

Authors: Songzuo Liu, Habib Hussain Zuberi, Yi Lou, Muhmmad Bilal Farooq, Shahabuddin Shaikh and Waleed Raza

Transient feature extraction method based on adaptive TQWT sparse optimization

Aiming at the problem of strong impact, short response period and wide resonance frequency bandwidth of transient vibration signals, a transient feature extraction method based on adaptive tunable Q-factor wav...

Authors: Xue Liu, Ao Sun and Jian Hu

Performance analysis of power-splitting relaying protocol in SWIPT based cooperative NOMA systems

This paper investigates a relay assisted simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) for downlink in cellular systems. Cooperative non-orthogonal multiple access (C-NOMA) is employed along wit...

Authors: Huu Q. Tran, Ca V. Phan and Quoc-Tuan Vien

Performance measurement for new mobile data services during generation upgrading period: a case of China’s telecom industry

For the global telecom operators, mobile data services have gradually taken the part of traditional voice services to become the main revenue growth point. However, during the upgrading period of new generatio...

Authors: Yu Du, Xiao H. Zhang, Zheng R. Li and Yi J. Guo

Traffic analysis for 5G network slice based on machine learning

With the rise of 5G and Internet of things, especially the key technology of 5G, network slice cuts a physical network into multiple virtual end-to-end networks, each of them can obtain logically independent n...

Authors: Feng Xie, Dongxue Wei and Zhencheng Wang

Trajectory planning in UAV emergency networks with potential underlaying D2D communication based on K-means

At present, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been widely used in communication systems, and the fifth-generation wireless system (5G) has further promoted the vigorous development of them. The trajectory p...

Authors: Shuo Zhang, Shuo Shi, Tianming Feng and Xuemai Gu

Joint UAV channel modeling and power control for 5G IoT networks

This paper studies the communication problem between UAVs and cellular base stations in a 5G IoT scenario where multiple UAVs work together. We are dedicated to the uplink channel modeling and the performance ...

Authors: Xiuhua Fu, Tian Ding, Rongqun Peng, Cong Liu and Mohamed Cheriet

An access control model for the Internet of Things based on zero-knowledge token and blockchain

Information security has become a hot topic in Internet of Things (IoT), and traditional centralized access control models are faced with threats such as single point failure, internal attack, and central leak...

Authors: Lihua Song, Xinran Ju, Zongke Zhu and Mengchen Li

An integrated scheduling algorithm for multi-device-processes with the strategy of exchanging adjacent parallel processes of the same device

At present, Multi-Devices-Process Integrated Scheduling Algorithm with Time-Selective Strategy for Process Sequence (MISATPS) is an advanced algorithm in the field of integrated scheduling with multi-devices-p...

Authors: Zhen Wang, Xiaohuan Zhang, Yuxiao Cao and Guoming Lai

MSE minimized joint transmission in coordinated multipoint systems with sparse feedback and constrained backhaul requirements

In a joint transmission coordinated multipoint (JT-CoMP) system, a shared spectrum is utilized by all neighbor cells. In the downlink, a group of base stations (BSs) coordinately transmit the users’ data to av...

Authors: Mohammad Bagher Nezafati, Mehrdad Taki and Tommy Svensson

Network slicing: a next generation 5G perspective

Fifth-generation (5G) wireless networks are projected to bring a major transformation to the current fourth-generation network to support the billions of devices that will be connected to the Internet. 5G netw...

Authors: Prashant Subedi, Abeer Alsadoon, P. W. C. Prasad, Sabih Rehman, Nabil Giweli, Muhammad Imran and Samrah Arif

Research on task-offloading decision mechanism in mobile edge computing-based Internet of Vehicle

As a technology integrated with Internet of things, mobile edge computing (MEC) can provide real-time and low-latency services to the underlying network and improve the storage and computation ability of the n...

Authors: Jun Cheng and Dejun Guan

Transition technologies towards 6G networks

The sixth generation (6G) mobile systems will create new markets, services, and industries making possible a plethora of new opportunities and solutions. Commercially successful rollouts will involve scaling e...

Authors: Thiago R. Raddo, Simon Rommel, Bruno Cimoli, Chris Vagionas, Diego Perez-Galacho, Evangelos Pikasis, Evangelos Grivas, Konstantinos Ntontin, Michael Katsikis, Dimitrios Kritharidis, Eugenio Ruggeri, Izabela Spaleniak, Mykhaylo Dubov, Dimitrios Klonidis, George Kalfas, Salvador Sales…

A novel method of mobility-based clustering protocol in software defined sensor network

The distributed clustering method is widely used to extend network lifetime in traditional wireless sensor networks. However, it is difficult to achieve the idea performance of the whole network, such as trans...

Authors: Buwen Cao, Shuguang Deng, Hua Qin and Yue Tan

Pulse deinterleaving based on fusing PDWs and PRI extraction process for radar-assisted edge devices considering computational costs

Deinterleaving or radar pulse separation is a very important goal in terms of radar sources for identifying and implementing electronic warfare systems. In order to separate radar pulses, parameters measured b...

Authors: Hamid Hasani and Mohammad R. Khosravi

5G connected and automated driving: use cases, technologies and trials in cross-border environments

Cooperative, connected and automated mobility (CCAM) across Europe requires harmonized solutions to support cross-border seamless operation. The possibility of providing CCAM services across European countries...

Authors: Dirk Hetzer, Maciej Muehleisen, Apostolos Kousaridas, Sokratis Barmpounakis, Stefan Wendt, Kurt Eckert, Andreas Schimpe, Johan Löfhede and Jesus Alonso-Zarate

Evaluation of LiDAR data processing at the mobile network edge for connected vehicles

5G mobile network technology together with edge computing will create new opportunities for developing novel road safety services in order to better support connected and automated driving in challenging situa...

Authors: Tiia Ojanperä, Jukka Mäkelä, Mikko Majanen, Olli Mämmelä, Ossi Martikainen and Jani Väisänen

IDSDL: a sensitive intrusion detection system based on deep learning

Device-free passive (DfP) intrusion detection system is a system that can detect moving entities without attaching any device to the entities. To achieve good performance, the existing algorithms require prope...

Authors: Yanjun Hu, Fan Bai, Xuemiao Yang and Yafeng Liu

End-to-end network slice architecture and distribution across 5G micro-operator leveraging multi-domain and multi-tenancy

Local 5G networks are emerging as a new form for 5G deployment, targeting service delivery for vertical-specific purposes and other local users. These networks are also known as micro-operator networks for whi...

Authors: Idris Badmus, Abdelquoddouss Laghrissi, Marja Matinmikko-Blue and Ari Pouttu

Application of an artificial neural network optimization model in e-commerce platform based on tourism management

The advantages of e-commerce and information technology play an extremely important role in enhancing the competitiveness of the tourism industry and adapting to the needs of global economic integration. The d...

Authors: Cao Wei, Qinan Wang and Chengying Liu

Outage prediction for ultra-reliable low-latency communications in fast fading channels

The addition of redundancy is a promising solution to achieve a certain quality of service (QoS) for ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC) in challenging fast fading scenarios. However, adding mor...

Authors: Andreas Traßl, Eva Schmitt, Tom Hößler, Lucas Scheuvens, Norman Franchi, Nick Schwarzenberg and Gerhard Fettweis

Synchronization in 5G networks: a hybrid Bayesian approach toward clock offset/skew estimation and its impact on localization

Clock synchronization has always been a major challenge when designing wireless networks. This work focuses on tackling the time synchronization problem in 5G networks by adopting a hybrid Bayesian approach fo...

Authors: Meysam Goodarzi, Darko Cvetkovski, Nebojsa Maletic, Jesús Gutiérrez and Eckhard Grass

A cooperative DDoS attack detection scheme based on entropy and ensemble learning in SDN

In order to solve the problem of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack detection in software-defined network, we proposed a cooperative DDoS attack detection scheme based on entropy and ensemble learning...

Authors: Shanshan Yu, Jicheng Zhang, Ju Liu, Xiaoqing Zhang, Yafeng Li and Tianfeng Xu

Performance evaluation of MIMO broadcast systems for advanced digital terrestrial TV

The transmission performance of spatial multiplexing cross-polarized MIMO is studied to determine how to increase the capacity of digital terrestrial broadcasting and make it more robust. In this paper, the pe...

Authors: Takuya Shitomi, Noriyuki Shirai, Akihiko Sato, Shogo Kawashima, Tomoya Ijiguchi, Hiroaki Miyasaka, Shingo Asakura, Tomoaki Takeuchi, Kohei Kambara, Madoka Nakamura, Tsuyoshi Nakatogawa, Masahiro Okano and Kenichi Tsuchida

A line-of-sight channel model for the 100–450 gigahertz frequency band

This paper documents a simple parametric polynomial line-of-sight channel model for 100–450 GHz band. The band comprises two popular beyond fifth generation (B5G) frequency bands, namely, the D band (110–170 G...

Authors: Joonas Kokkoniemi, Janne Lehtomäki and Markku Juntti