Abstract Free Space Optical (FSO) networks, also known as optical wireless networks, have
emerged as viable candidates for broadband wireless communications in the near future …

In order to satisfy the power thirst of communication devices in the imminent fifth generation
era, wireless charging techniques have attracted much attention both from the academic and …

Power line communications (PLC) have been an active research area for many years and it
is still the case, mainly because they present economic and technical natural advantages for …

Driven by the special requirements of the low-power and lossy networks (LLNs), the IPv6
routing protocol for LLNs (RPL) was standardized by the IETF some six years ago to tackle …

Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT) era is evolving into sensor initiated, actuation-driven,
and machine intelligence-based decision making platform for smart cities. A smart city …

Transaction-based energy (TE) management and control has become an increasingly
relevant topic, attracting considerable attention from industry and the research community …

Building on the ubiquity of electric power infrastructure, power line communications (PLC)
has been successfully used in diverse application scenarios, including the smart grid and in …

There has been a growing interconnection across the world owing to various multimedia
applications and services. Fixed wireless access (FWA) is an attractive wireless solution for …

The connected vehicle paradigm empowers vehicles with the capability to communicate with
neighboring vehicles and infrastructure, shifting the role of vehicles from a transportation tool …

The extensive enhancement of wireless communication industry over the last decade
revolutionized the change of our daily life. In this scenario, it becomes utmost difficult for the …