Today, digitalization decisively penetrates all the sides of the modern society. One of the key
enablers to maintain this process secure is authentication. It covers many different areas of a …

The number of devices is expected to radically increase in near future, with an estimate of
above 50 billion connected devices by 2020. The subscribers demand improved data rates …

This paper is dedicated to the analysis of energy efficiency of the D2D direct connection
system in 5G networks. Fast development of 5G networks results in large increase of …

Sensors and smartphones are used in industry and healthcare technology for data
gathering. The sensed data can be acquired by devices and processed through multiple …

Emerging communication network applications require a location accuracy of less than 1 m
in more than 95% of the service area. For this purpose, 5G New Radio (NR) technology is …

Device‐to‐device (D2D) communication is a promising technology for the next generation
mobile communication networks (5G). Indeed, it is expected to allow high throughput …

Abstract Device-to-device (D2D) Communication was primarily introduced to achieve the
fundamental goal of high data rates, ubiquitous coverage with low latency, energy efficiency …

The performance of data delivery in wireless relay networks (WRNs), such as delay-tolerant
networks and device-to-device communications heavily relies on the cooperation of mobile …

Today's dominant design for the Internet of Things (IoT) is a Cloud-based system, where
devices transfer their data to a back-end and in return receive instructions on how to act …

Today, direct contacts between users are being facilitated by the network-assisted device-to-
device (D2D) technology, which employs the omnipresent cellular infrastructure for the …