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This article addresses the market-changing phenomenon of the Internet of Things (IoT), which relies on the underlying paradigm of machine-to-machine (M2M) communications to integrate a plethora of various sensors, actuators, and smart…
Ambient radio frequency (RF) energy harvesting is widely promoted as an enabler for wireless-power Internet of Things (IoT) networks. This paper jointly characterizes energy harvesting and packet transmissions in grant-free opportunistic…
Multiple access communication systems enable numerous users to share common communication resources, playing a crucial role in wireless networks. With the emergence of the sixth generation (6G) and beyond communication networks, supporting…
NarrowBand-Internet of Things (NB-IoT) is a new 3GPP radio access technology designed to provide better coverage for Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) networks. To provide reliable connections with extended coverage, a repetition transmission…
Long-range (LoRa) radio technologies have recently gained momentum in the IoT landscape, allowing low-power communications over distances up to several kilometers. As a result, more and more LoRa networks are being deployed. However,…
Preamble collision in the random access channel (RACH) is a major bottleneck in massive machine-type communication (mMTC) scenarios, typical of cellular IoT (CIoT) deployments. This work proposes a machine learning-based mechanism for early…
The established view on massive IoT access is that the IoT devices are activated randomly and independently. This is a basic premise also in the recent information-theoretic treatment of massive access by Polyanskiy. In a number of…
With the rapid expansion of the Internet of Things, the efficient sharing of the wireless medium by a large amount of simple transmitters is becoming essential. Scheduling-based solutions are inefficient for this setting, where small data…
The limited coexistence capabilities of current Internet-of-things (IoT) wireless standards produce inefficient spectrum utilization and mutual performance impairment. The entity of the issue escalates in industrial IoT (IIoT) applications,…
Massive machine type communication (mMTC) has been identified as an important use case in Beyond 5G networks and future massive Internet of Things (IoT). However, for the massive multiple access in mMTC, there is a serious access preamble…
The newly introduced ultra-reliable low latency communication service class in 5G New Radio depends on innovative low latency radio resource management solutions that can guarantee high reliability. Grant-free random access, where channel…
We consider a system model comprised of an access point (AP) and K Internet of Things (IoT) nodes that sporadically become active in order to send data to the AP. The AP is assumed to have N time-frequency resource blocks that it can…
The security of confidential information associated with devices in the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) network is a serious concern. This article focuses on achieving a nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA)-enabled secure IIoT network…
NarrowBand-Internet of Things (NB-IoT) is a new 3GPP radio access technology designed to provide better coverage for a massive number of low-throughput low-cost devices in delay-tolerant applications with low power consumption. To provide…
Resource allocation and multiple access schemes are instrumental for the success of communication networks, which facilitate seamless wireless connectivity among a growing population of uncoordinated and non-synchronized users. In this…
In cognitive Internet of Things (CIoT) networks, efficient spectrum sharing is essential to address increasing wireless demands. This paper presents a novel deep reinforcement learning (DRL)-based approach for joint cooperative caching and…
Age of information (AoI) is gaining attention as a valuable performance metric for many IoT systems, in which a large number of devices report time-stamped updates to a central gateway. This is the case, for instance, of remote sensing,…
The Internet of Things (IoT) interconnects multiple physical devices in large-scale networks. When the 'things' coordinate decisions and act collectively on shared information, feedback is introduced between them. Multiple feedback loops…
Grant-free random access (GFRA) is now a popular protocol for large-scale wireless multiple access systems in order to reduce control signaling. Resource allocation in GFRA can be viewed as a form of frame slotted ALOHA, where a ubiquitous…
Advances in mobile computing capabilities and an increasing number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices have enriched the possibilities of the IoT but have also increased the cognitive load required of IoT users. Existing context-aware…