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Device-to-Device (D2D) communication is expected to be a key feature supported by 5G networks, especially due to the proliferation of Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), which has a prominent role in reducing network stress by shifting…
In this paper, the utilization of mobile devices (MDs) as decode-and-forward relays in a device-to-device assisted virtual MIMO (VMIMO) system is studied. Single antenna MDs are randomly distributed on a 2D plane according to a Poisson…
Cellular-based Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) systems are a promising paradigm to provide reliable and fast Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLoS) communication services for UAV operations. However, such systems are facing a serious GPS…
The Fifth Generation (5G) mobile core network is designed as a set of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) hosted on Commercial-Off-the-Shelf (COTS) hardware. This creates a growing demand for general-purpose compute resources as 5G deployments…
The Internet of Things (IoT) is an exploding market as well as a important focus area for research. Security is a major issue for IoT products and solutions, with several massive problems that are still commonplace in the field. In this…
This paper investigates on the problem of combining routing scheme and physical layer security in multihop wireless networks with cooperative diversity. We propose an ad-hoc natured hop-by-hop best secure relay selection in a multihop…
In this paper, we consider user location privacy in mobile edge clouds (MECs). MECs are small clouds deployed at the network edge to offer cloud services close to mobile users, and many solutions have been proposed to maximize service…
In Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) networks that involve multi-hop communication, the Road Side Units (RSUs) typically desire to gather the location information of the participating vehicles to provide security and network-diagnostics features.…
Efficient routing is one of the key challenges of wireless networking for unmanned autonomous vehicles (UAVs) due to dynamically changing channel and network topology characteristics. Various well known mobile-ad-hoc routing protocols, such…
An information-theoretic privacy mechanism design is studied, where an agent observes useful data $Y$ which is correlated with the private data $X$. The agent wants to reveal the information to a user, hence, the agent utilizes a privacy…
Providing network connectivity to mobile users is a key requirement for cellular wireless networks. User mobility impacts network performance as well as user perceived service quality. For efficient network dimensioning and optimization, it…
Frequency Range 2 (FR2) has become an integral part of 5G networks to fulfill the ever increasing demand for user data throughput. However, radio signals in FR2 experience high path and diffraction loss in mobile environments. To address…
In-region location verification (IRLV) in wireless networks is the problem of deciding if user equipment (UE) is transmitting from inside or outside a specific physical region (e.g., a safe room). The decision process exploits the features…
In this paper, we propose a new resource allocation framework for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assisted multicast wireless networks in which the network users according to their request are divided into several multicast groups. We adopt…
The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) network plays important roles in emergency communications. However, it is challenging to design reliable routing strategies that ensure low latency, energy efficiency, and security in the dynamic and…
Vulnerable Road User (VRU) safety has been an important issue throughout the years as corresponding fatality numbers in traffic have been increasing each year. With the developments in connected vehicle technology, there are new and easier…
Vehicular Sensor Network (VSN) is emerging as a new solution for monitoring urban environments such as Intelligent Transportation Systems and air pollution. One of the crucial factors that determine the service quality of urban monitoring…
Network embedding represents network nodes by a low-dimensional informative vector. While it is generally effective for various downstream tasks, it may leak some private information of networks, such as hidden private links. In this work,…
In this document, a privacy-preserving distributed profile matching protocol is proposed in a particular network context called \emph{mobile social network}. Such networks are often deployed in more or less hostile environments, requiring…
5G new radio (NR) provides new opportunities for accurate positioning from a single reference station: large bandwidth combined with multiple antennas, at both the base station and user sides, allows for unparalleled angle and delay…