In last two decades, various monitoring systems have been designed and deployed in urban
environments, toward the realization of the so called smart cities. Such systems are based …

In recent decade, the number of devices involved with the Internet of Things (IoT)
phenomena has increased dramatically. Parallel to this, fog computing paradigm has been …

Smart technologies play a key role in sustainable economic growth. They transform houses,
offices, factories, and even cities into autonomic, self-controlled systems acting often without …

Commercial buildings contribute to 19% of the primary energy consumption in the US, with
HVAC systems accounting for 39.6% of this usage. To reduce HVAC energy use, prior …

M2M communications are positioned to be one of the fastest growing technology segments
in the next decade. Sensor and actuator networks connect communication machines and …

This paper provides an overview of the use of small cells (eg, femtocells) in the Internet of
Things (IoT) environments. As a result of rapid increase in the number of mobile connected …

Due to the wide variety of uses and the diversity of features required to meet an application,
Internet of Things (IoT) technologies are moving forward at a strong pace to meet this …

The proliferation of embedded systems, wireless technologies, and Internet protocols have
enabled the Internet of Things (IoT) to bridge the gap between the virtual and physical world …

IEEE 802.11 ah is an emerging Wireless LAN (WLAN) standard that defines a WLAN system
operating at sub 1 GHz license-exempt bands. Thanks to the favorable propagation …

In futuristic wireless communications, a massive number of devices need to access networks
with diverse quality of service (QoS) requirements. It is estimated that the number of …