This paper provides a state-of-the-art literature review on economic analysis and pricing
models for data collection and wireless communication in Internet of Things (IoT). Wireless …

Blockchain, as the backbone technology of the current popular Bitcoin digital currency, has
become a promising decentralized data management framework. Although blockchain has …

In this article we propose a novel D2D Crowd framework for 5G mobile edge computing,
where a massive crowd of devices at the network edge leverage network-assisted D2D …

In the beyond 5G/6G era, aerial edge computing (AEC) is expected to be used as significant
components in Internet of Things. AEC brings flexible deployment with Line-of-Sight …

The prevalence of high performance mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets has
brought fundamental changes to existing wireless networks. The growth of multimedia and …

Local caching is an effective scheme for leveraging the memory of the mobile terminal (MT)
and short range communications to save the bandwidth usage and reduce the download …

Under the trend of building green and comfortable development, effective control of building
energy consumption has become one of the problems that countries are actively facing to …

Recent developments of smart devices and mobile applications have significantly increased
the level at which human users interact with mobile systems. As a result, human activities …

Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) and Industry 4.0 enable interconnection among various
devices. An opportunistic IoT network is an ad hoc network that is formed by the nodes (eg …

This paper considers user cooperation and a pricing mechanism in a wireless-powered
communication network (WPCN) in which two users harvest energy from a dedicated hybrid …