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Supporting applications in emerging domains like cyber-physical systems and human-in-the-loop scenarios typically requires adherence to strict end-to-end delay guarantees. Contributions of many tandem processes unfolding layer by layer…

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In the near future, Internet-of-Things (IoT) is expected to connect billions of devices (e.g., smartphones and sensors), which generate massive real-time data at the network edge. Intelligence can be distilled from the data to support…

NarrowBand-IoT has just joined the LPWAN community. Unlike most of its competitors, NB-IoT did not emerge from a blank slate. Indeed, it is closely linked to LTE, from which it inherits many of the features that undoubtedly determine its…

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Nowadays, the increasing deployment of edge clouds globally provides users with low-latency services. However, connecting an edge cloud to a core cloud via optic cables in terrestrial networks poses significant barriers due to the…

Edge computing is an emerging concept based on distributing computing, storage, and control services closer to end network nodes. Edge computing lies at the heart of the fifth generation (5G) wireless systems and beyond. While current…

This paper proposes Leader in Charge (LiC), a reliable multicast architecture for device-to-device (D2D) radio underlaying cellular networks. The multicast-requesting user equipments (UEs) in close proximity form a D2D cluster to receive…

With the proliferation of computation-extensive and latency-critical applications in the 5G and beyond networks, mobile-edge computing (MEC) or fog computing, which provides cloud-like computation and/or storage capabilities at the network…

The rapid increase in data traffic demand has overloaded existing cellular networks. Planned upgrades in the communication architecture (e.g. LTE), while helpful, are not expected to suffice to keep up with demand. As a result, extensive…

With increasing number of autonomous heterogeneous devices in future mobile networks, an efficient resource allocation scheme is required to maximize network throughput and achieve higher spectral efficiency. In this paper, performance of…

Emerging technologies such as digital twins and 6th Generation mobile networks (6G) have accelerated the realization of edge intelligence in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). The integration of digital twin and 6G bridges the physical…

Through the last decade, we have witnessed a surge of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and with that a greater need to choreograph their actions across both time and space. Although these two problems, namely time synchronization and…

Packet fragmentation has mostly been addressed in the literature when referring to splitting data that does not fit a frame. It has received attention in the IoT community after the 6LoWPAN working group of IETF started studying the…

We propose a concept system termed distributed base station (DBS), which enables distributed transmit beamforming at large carrier wavelengths to achieve significant range extension and/or increased downlink data rate, providing a low-cost…

Broadcasting systems such as P2P streaming systems represent important network applications that support up to millions of online users. An efficient broadcasting mechanism is at the core of the system design. Despite substantial efforts on…

With the explosive demands for data, content delivery networks are facing ever-increasing challenges to meet end-users quality-of-experience requirements, especially in terms of delay. Content can be migrated from surrogate servers to local…

5G networks are required to provide very fast and reliable communications while dealing with the increase of users traffic. In Heterogeneous Networks (HetNets) assisted with Device-to-Device (D2D) communication, traffic can be offloaded to…

Emerging IoT applications are transitioning from battery-powered to grid-powered nodes. DRP, a contention-based data dissemination protocol, was developed for these applications. Traditional contention-based protocols resolve collisions…