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The QUIC protocol is a new approach to combine encryption and transport layer stream abstraction into one protocol to lower latency and improve security. However, the decision to encrypt transport layer functionality may limit the…
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Cross-layer analysis has been gaining an increasing attention as a powerful tool to study and assess different quality-of-service (QoS) mechanisms in wireless networks. Regarding the physical and data-link layers, in this paper we provide a…
When considering unidirectional communication for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as flying Base Stations (BSs), either uplink or downlink, the system is limited through the co-channel interference that takes place over line-of-sight (LoS)…
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