The emerging software defined networking (SDN) paradigm separates the data plane from
the control plane and centralizes network control in an SDN controller. Applications interact …

Machine-to-machine (M2M) communication, also referred to as Internet of Things (IoT), is a
global network of devices such as sensors, actuators, and smart appliances which collect …

Matching theory is a powerful tool to study the formation of dynamic and mutually beneficial
relations among different types of rational and selfish agents. It has been widely used to …

The vision of the Internet of Things (IoT) to interconnect and Internet-connect everyday
people, objects, and machines poses new challenges in the design of wireless …

A new generation of Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) will make its appearance in the
market in the forthcoming years based on the amendments to the IEEE 802.11 standards …

An air quality monitoring system (AQMS) based on the IEEE/ISO/IEC 21451 standards is
presented. In the development of an AQMS, we have used the GSM wireless communication …

Machine-to-machine (M2M) communication's severe power limitations challenge the
interconnectivity, access management, and reliable communication of data. In densely …

Providing diverse and strict quality-of-service (QoS) guarantees is one of the most important
requirements in machine-to-machine (M2M) communications, which is particularly need for …

In this paper, we propose an early preamble collision detection (e-PACD) scheme at the first
step of random access (RA) procedure based on tagged preambles (PAs), which consist of …

Rapid growth of machine-to-machine (M2M) communications necessitates the reevaluation
of the Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A) performance, since the current standard is …