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5G IoT-based geohazard monitoring and early warning system and its application

With the expansion of human production activities, geological disasters caused by slope instability are occurring more frequently. Hence, the research on effective monitoring and forecasting of the geotechnica...

Authors: Zhaohua Li, Linquan Fang, Xiaokun Sun and Wang Peng

Deterministic cooperative hybrid ring-mesh network coding for big data transmission over lossy channels in 5G networks

Wired and wireless communication data is getting bigger and bigger at such a high pace. Accordingly, the big data (BD) communication networks should be developed as quickly as the quick increase in the exchang...

Authors: Hani H. Attar, Ahmad A. A. Solyman, Ayat Alrosan, Chinmay Chakraborty and Mohammad R. Khosravi

Leveraging discrete modulation and liquid metal antennas for interference reduction

Recent progress in the understanding of the behavior of the interference channel has led to valuable insights: first, discrete signaling has been discovered to have tangible benefits in the presence of interfe...

Authors: Mirza Uzair Baig, Kareem S. Elassy, Anders Høst-Madsen, Aaron T. Ohta, Wayne A. Shiroma and Aria Nosratinia

Multi-user hybrid precoding for mmWave massive MIMO systems with sub-connected structure

Hybrid precoding achieves a compromise between the sum rate and hardware complexity of millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. However, most prior works on multi-user h...

Authors: Jianhe Du, Zekun Wang, Yang Zhang, Yalin Guan and Libiao Jin

Spectrum sensing based on adaptive sampling of received signal

Spectrum sensing (SS) has been heatedly discussed due to its capacity to discover the idle registered spectrum bands, which effectively alleviates the shortage of spectrum by spectrum reuse. Energy detector (E...

Authors: Jiawu Miao, Youheng Tan, Yangying Zhang, Yuebo Li, Junsheng Mu and Xiaojun Jing

Application of chaotic encryption algorithm based on variable parameters in RFID security

In the development of the Internet of Things technology, RFID technology plays a very important role in the application of the Internet of Things. However, due to the safety problems caused by the non-contact ...

Authors: Yi Guo, Jianfang Yang and Baolong Liu

Computer wireless network integration technology in equipment state data collection

The paper introduces a handheld integrated power data acquisition and analysis equipment based on a computer wireless network mobile platform, an intelligent transportation inspection box. The intelligent tran...

Authors: Lixin Ma

Building an indoor air quality monitoring system based on the architecture of the Internet of Things

With rapidly changing technology, people have more and more requirements for thermal comforts regarding indoor temperature, humidity, and wind speed, and pay more attention to air quality. Indoor air quality h...

Authors: Wen-Tsai Sung and Sung-Jung Hsiao

Novel channel-hopping pattern-based wireless IoT networks in smart cities for reducing multi-access interference and jamming attacks

In smart cities, the Internet-of-Thing (IoT) provides an enabling communication infrastructure to support tremendous amount of data exchange. Most IoT applications, e.g., wireless local area network, Bluetooth...

Authors: Yiming Liu, Qi Zeng, Yue Zhao, Kaijun Wu and Yao Hao

A low-complexity channel training method for efficient SVD beamforming over MIMO channels

Singular value decomposition (SVD) beamforming is an attractive tool for reducing the energy consumption of data transmissions in wireless sensor networks whose nodes are equipped with multiple antennas. Howev...

Authors: Felipe Kettlun, Fernando Rosas and Christian Oberli

An efficient authentication and key agreement protocol for IoT-enabled devices in distributed cloud computing architecture

With the widespread use of Internet of Things and cloud computing in smart cities, various security and privacy challenges may be encountered.The most basic problem is authentication between each application, ...

Authors: Huihui Huang, Siqi Lu, Zehui Wu and Qiang Wei

A novel two-phase cycle algorithm for effective cyber intrusion detection in edge computing

Edge computing extends traditional cloud services to the edge of the network, closer to users, and is suitable for network services with low latency requirements. With the rise of edge computing, its security ...

Authors: Yiguang Gong, Yunping Liu and Chuanyang Yin

Research on the influence of accounting computerization and networking on E-commerce

E-commerce has broken through the pattern and boundary of traditional commodity exchange, so that there is no need for face-to-face transactions between merchants and consumers. This has impacted the tradition...

Authors: Wenquan Shi

Design and implementation of a smart elderly positioning management system based on wireless communication network

Wireless communication refers to long-distance transmission communication between multiple nodes without propagation through conductors or cables, and wireless communication can be carried out by radio and ele...

Authors: Tiantian Yu and Ruping Wang

Miner revenue optimization algorithm based on Pareto artificial bee colony in blockchain network

In order to improve the revenue of attacking mining pools and miners under block withholding attack, we propose the miner revenue optimization algorithm (MROA) based on Pareto artificial bee colony in blockcha...

Authors: Yourong Chen, Hao Chen, Meng Han, Banteng Liu, Qiuxia Chen, Zhenghua Ma and Zhangquan Wang

Research on enterprise business model and technology innovation based on artificial intelligence

Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SEMs) are the important part of economic society whose innovation activities are of great significance for building innovative country. In order to investigate how technolo...

Authors: Sunping Qu, Hongwei Shi, Huanhuan Zhao, Lin Yu and Yunbo Yu

Physical layer security transmission scheme based on artificial noise in cooperative SWIPT NOMA system

Aiming at high energy consumption and information security problem in the simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) multi-user wiretap network, we propose a user-aided cooperative non-orthog...

Authors: Yong Jin, Zhentao Hu, Dongdong Xie, Guodong Wu and Lin Zhou

Modeling of co-channel interference in bluetooth low energy based on measurement data

The intense use of the 2.4 GHz ISM band by several wireless technologies has resulted in increased co-channel interference between networks operating in this frequency band. The aim of this paper is to investi...

Authors: Hamid Kavousi Ghafi, Christian Spindelberger and Holger Arthaber

A four-quadrant mobility model-based routing protocol for post-earthquake emergency communication network

Emergency communication network (ECN) is the important infrastructure to acquire the real-time information after disaster, which is essential for rescue task. However, the existed routing protocols seldom cons...

Authors: Xiaoming Wang and Chang Guo

An image denoising method based on BP neural network optimized by improved whale optimization algorithm

As an important part of smart city construction, traffic image denoising has been studied widely. Image denoising technique can enhance the performance of segmentation and recognition model and improve the acc...

Authors: Chunzhi Wang, Min Li, Ruoxi Wang, Han Yu and Shuping Wang

Classroom student posture recognition based on an improved high-resolution network

Due to the large number of students in a typical classroom and crowded seating, most features of student posture are often obscured, making it difficult to balance the accuracy in identifying student postures ...

Authors: Yiwen Zhang, Tao Zhu, Huansheng Ning and Zhenyu Liu

Correction to: On the achievable rate of bandlimited continuous-time AWGN channels with 1-bit output quantization

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

Authors: Sandra Bender, Meik Dörpinghaus and Gerhard P. Fettweis

Application research of perception data fusion system of agricultural product supply chain based on Internet of things

There are often agricultural product quality problems in the production and circulation of agricultural products. Therefore, there are more and more people on the agricultural product supply chain based on the...

Authors: Xu Sun and Kunliang Shu

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