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In modern wireless communication systems, there is a rapidly increasing demand for connectivity to wireless networks. Devices such as internet of things (IoT) devices, connected vehicles, smartphones, surveillance systems, and various other…
Wireless powered mobile edge computing has been envisioned as a promising paradigm to enhance the computation capability of low-power wireless devices in Industrial Internet of Things. An efficient resource scheduling method is critical yet…
Fog computing, as a distributed paradigm, offers cloud-like services at the edge of the network with low latency and high-access bandwidth to support a diverse range of IoT application scenarios. To fully utilize the potential of this…
Control of multihop Wireless networks in a distributed manner while providing end-to-end delay requirements for different flows, is a challenging problem. Using the notions of Draining Time and Discrete Review from the theory of fluid…
Efficient radio spectrum utilization and low energy consumption in mobile devices are essential in developing next generation wireless networks. This paper presents a new medium access control (MAC) mechanism to enhance spectrum efficiency…
Carrier Sense Multiple Access (CSMA) protocols have been shown to reach the full capacity region for data communication in wireless networks, with polynomial complexity. However, current literature achieves the throughput optimality with an…
Future wireless communications systems are expected to support multi-service operation, i.e. especially multi-rate as well as multi-level quality of service (QoS) requirements. This evolution is mainly driven by the success of the Internet…
Towards realizing an intelligent networked society, enabling low-cost low-energy connectivity for things, also known as Internet of Things (IoT), is of crucial importance. While the existing wireless access networks require centralized…
A novel approach is presented in this work for context-aware connectivity and processing optimization of Internet of things (IoT) networks. Different from the state-of-the-art approaches, the proposed approach simultaneously selects the…
A spurt of progress in wireless power transfer (WPT) and mobile edge computing (MEC) provides a promising approach for Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) to enhance the quality and productivity of manufacturing. Scheduling in such a…
We propose a novel multiple-access technique to overcome the shortcomings of the current proposals for the future releases of Long-Term Evolution (LTE). We provide a unified radio access system that efficiently and flexibly integrates both…
Mobile-edge computation offloading (MECO) offloads intensive mobile computation to clouds located at the edges of cellular networks. Thereby, MECO is envisioned as a promising technique for prolonging the battery lives and enhancing the…
The Internet of Things (IoT) has been increasingly used in our everyday lives as well as in numerous industrial applications. However, due to limitations in computing and power capabilities, IoT devices need to send their respective tasks…
We consider a wireless distributed computing system, in which multiple mobile users, connected wirelessly through an access point, collaborate to perform a computation task. In particular, users communicate with each other via the access…
Adaptivity, reconfigurability and intelligence are key features of the next-generation wireless networks to meet the increasingly diverse quality of service (QoS) requirements of the future applications. Conventional protocol designs,…
Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Enhanced Collision Avoidance (CSMA/ECA) is a distributed MAC protocol that allows collision-free access to the medium in WLAN. The only difference between CSMA/ECA and the well-known CSMA/CA is that the…
We consider a heterogeneous network (HetNet) of base stations (BSs) connected via a backhaul network of routers and wired/wireless links with limited capacity. The optimal provision of such networks requires proper resource allocation…
This paper studies a combined space partitioning and network flow optimization problem, with applications to large-scale power, transportation, or communication systems. In dense wireless networks, one may want to simultaneously optimize…
Two-way relaying can significantly improve performance of next generation wireless networks. However, due to its dependence on multi-node cooperation and transmission coordination, applying this technique to a wireless network in an…
One basic operation of Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks is aggregating distributed sensing-data over wireless-channels for function-computation, called wireless-data-aggregation (WDA). Targeting dense sensors, a recently developed…