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LTE Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) is a 3GPP defined cellular technology that is designed to enable connectivity to many low-cost and low power/throughput IoT devices running delay-tolerant applications. NB-IoT can coexist within…
The Internet of Things (IoT) has important applications in our daily lives including health and fitness tracking, environmental monitoring and transportation. However, sensor nodes in IoT suffer from the limited lifetime of batteries…
Internet of things (IoT) is a revolutionizing technology which aims to create an ecosystem of connected objects and embedded devices and provide ubiquitous connectivity between trillions of not only smart devices but also simple sensors and…
Considering ubiquitous connectivity and advanced information processing capability, huge amount of low-power IoT devices are deployed nowadays and the maintenance of those devices which includes firmware/software updates and recharging the…
Data aggregation is an effective solution to enable cellular support of Internet-of-things (IoT) communications. Indeed, it helps alleviate channel congestion, reduce the communication range, and extend battery-lifetime. In this paper, we…
Energy harvesting is a promising technology for the Internet of Things (IoT) towards the goal of self-sustainability of the involved devices. However, the intermittent and unreliable nature of the harvested energy demands an intelligent…
It is expected that the number of wireless devices will grow rapidly over the next few years due to the growing proliferation of Internet-of-Things (IoT). In order to improve the energy efficiency of information transfer between small…
The Internet of things (IoT) comprises of wireless sensors and actuators connected via access points to the Internet. Often, the sensing devices are remotely deployed with limited battery power and are equipped with energy harvesting…
Internet of Things (IoT) devices have become increasingly ubiquitous with applications not only in urban areas but remote areas as well. These devices support industries such as agriculture, forestry, and resource extraction. Due to the…
Ambient Internet of Things (A-IoT) targets energy harvesting (EH), battery-less devices as a simple connectivity solution for extensive ultra-low-power deployments. These devices typically face intermittent energy availability, making…
With the growing number of deployments of Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure for a wide variety of applications, the battery maintenance has become a major limitation for the sustainability of such infrastructure. To overcome this…
An IoT (Internet of things) system supports a massive number of IoT devices wirelessly. We show how to use Cell-Free Massive MIMO (multiple-input and multiple-output) to provide a scalable and energy efficient IoT system. We employ optimal…
Recently, the paradigm of massive ultra-reliable low-latency IoT communications (URLLC-IoT) has gained growing interest. Reliable delay-critical uplink transmission in IoT is a challenging task since low-complex devices typically do not…
Due to the fundamental tradeoffs, achieving spectrum efficiency and energy efficiency are two contending design challenges for the future wireless networks. However, applying radio-frequency (RF) energy harvesting (EH) in a cognitive radio…
Radio Frequency (RF) wireless power transfer is a promising technology that has the potential to constantly power small Internet of Things (IoT) devices, enabling even battery-less systems and reducing their maintenance requirements.…
One of the main challenges in IoT is providing communication support to an increasing number of connected devices. In recent years, narrowband radio technology has emerged to address this situation: Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT),…
This article addresses an innovative concept to enhance the security for IoT applications in the case of Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer. This is achieved by integrating a complementary security and identification…
RF energy harvesting can be used to power communication devices so that perpetual operation of such devices can be ensured. We consider a RF energy harvesting underlay cognitive radio system operating in slotted fashion. The primary user…
Internet-of-Things (IoT) is featured with low-power communications among a massive number of ubiquitously-deployed and energy-constrained electronics, e.g., sensors and actuators. To cope with the demand, wireless-powered cooperative…
The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) facilitates in-home electronic healthcare, transforming traditional hospital-based medical examination approaches. This paper proposes a novel transmit scheme for fog computing-enabled IoMT that…