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In the last decade, the advancement of the Internet of Things (IoT) has caused unlicensed radio spectrum, especially the 2.4 GHz ISM band, to be immensely crowded with smart wireless devices that are used in a wide range of application…
Traffic analysis in Multi-hop Wireless Networks can expose the structure of the network allowing attackers to focus their efforts on critical nodes. For example, jamming the only data sink in a sensor network can cripple the network. We…
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The new generation of power metering system - i.e. Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) - is expected to enable remote reading, control, demand response and other advanced functions, based on the integration of a new two-way communication…
A memoryless state-dependent multiple-access channel (MAC) is considered, where two transmitters wish to convey their messages to a single receiver while simultaneously sensing (estimating) the respective states via generalized feedbacks.…
In this paper, we provide an energy efficient self- healing mechanism for Wireless Sensor Networks. The proposed solution is based on our probabilistic sentinel scheme. To reduce energy consumption while maintaining good connectivity…
Recent trends suggest that cognitive radio based wireless networks will be frequency agile and the nodes will be equipped with multiple radios capable of tuning across large swaths of spectrum. The MAC scheduling problem in such networks…
A new backward compatible WiFi amendment is under development by the IEEE bd Task Group towards the so-called IEEE 802.11bd, which includes the possibility to transmit up to three repetitions of the same packet. This feature increases time…
These days MANET is an amazing remarkably altering or rising technology, for the reason that of its elite nature of scattered mobile devices and self motivated network topology. The mobile adhoc routing protocol follows several principles…
A distributed adaptive algorithm to estimate a time-varying signal, measured by a wireless sensor network, is designed and analyzed. One of the major features of the algorithm is that no central coordination among the nodes needs to be…
Fast rate adaptation has been established as an effective way to improve the PHY-layer raw date rate of wireless networks. However, within the current IEEE 802.11 legacy, MAC-layer throughput is dominated by users with the lowest data…
Data collection in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) draws significant attention, due to emerging interest in technologies raging from Internet of Things (IoT) networks to simple "Presence" applications, which identify the status of the…
This work considers the sensor scheduling for multiple dynamic processes. We consider $n$ linear dynamic processes, the state of each process is measured by a sensor, which transmits their local state estimates over wireless channels to a…
This paper proposes a distributed Reinforcement Learning (RL) based framework that can be used for synthesizing MAC layer wireless protocols in IoT networks with low-complexity wireless transceivers. The proposed framework does not rely on…
Interference mitigation techniques are essential for improving the performance of interference limited wireless networks. In this paper, we introduce novel interference mitigation schemes for wireless cellular networks with space division…
By using experimental measurements of smart grid applications compliant with IEC 61850 in trace-driven WiMAX simulations, we show that the WiMAX MAC protocol efficiency decreases as a function of the number of stations. To avoid this…
The emergence of large-scale wireless networks with partially-observable and time-varying dynamics has imposed new challenges on the design of optimal control policies. This paper studies efficient scheduling algorithms for wireless…
We study a wireless broadcast network, where a single source reliably communicates independent messages to multiple destinations, with the aid of relays and cooperation between destinations. The wireless nature of the medium is captured by…
This paper addresses the design of transmit precoder and receive combiner matrices to support $N_{\rm s}$ independent data streams over a time-division duplex (TDD) point-to-point massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channel with…