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Network slicing (NS), a key enabler, plays a crucial role in implementing tactile Internet (TI). This TI promises scalable, customisable, isolated, and logical end-to-end networks (i.e., network slices) by offering dedicated and tailored networking solutions on demand to meet the customer’s need. Research in NS for TI is essential to realise haptic communications to achieve ultra-low latency, high...Show More
Flipped learning revolutionizes the classroom by priming learners with course content before in-person sessions, enabling valuable class time for active learning. While a decade of research uncovers domain-specific outcomes, we share our ongoing experience implementing the Flipped Classroom model across nine Engineering and ICT courses at Auckland University of Technology (AUT). Our paper outlines...Show More
Abdominal cancer is one of the most frequent and dangerous cancers in the world, particularly among the elderly. Major surgery is associated with a significant deterioration in quality of life. Physical fitness and level of activity are considered important factors for patients with cancer undergoing major abdominal surgery. One of the main programmes designed to improve the patient's fitness befo...Show More
Vehicular network (VN) is considered as one of the enabling technologies that requires stable connectivity among the vehicles. The significant dynamics in vehicular structure on the road necessitate the rapid information flow in managing crucial events. Dynamically, each network has a given lifetime from the initial formulation of a networked group to the final diminishment of the group. Throughou...Show More
Light may be suitable for underwater wireless communication of multimedia data. However, current optical solutions face obstacles due to directionality and wavelength-dependent absorption and scattering. Here, we propose a conceptual design using differential signalling and a concave, multiple-aperture array of photodetectors. This combination could increase the field of view, enhance link adaptab...Show More
With more than a decade of research and development, the Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are both promising solutions for various novel healthcare applications. This proves significant for supporting data collection on human movement detection and recognition. The paper discusses a novel concept of the IoT for healthcare applications. The focus is on the follow-up of preh...Show More
Using UAVs as mobile data ferries can amplify ground network performance by mitigating the impact of horizontal radio pollution on the environment. Designing an energy-efficient UAV communication with a randomly distributed ground sensors via enhancing the ground network structure dependent to the UAV path has been one of the challenges for the UAV-assisted WSN data gathering efforts. This paper a...Show More
Empowered by sufficient robotics and haptic hardware at the edges of a communication network system, tactile Internet (TI) is the upcoming transformation that will empower the control of Internet of Things in real time and facilitate a true paradigm shift in making a dream into a reality. However, one of the most crucial challenges in realizing TI is to achieve round-trip time (RTT) of 1 ms or les...Show More
Vehicular network structures present a range of challenges and opportunities for efficiently managing awareness of road dynamics and network connectivity. An enhanced manageable organization can offer a better reaction to safety-related road events, facilitate dynamic topological flexibility, relate to road layout, and interact with unpredictable distribution of the vehicles. Vehicular grouping is...Show More
Vehicular network (VN) has been a significant field of study in the field of wirelessly connected mobile objects. The high speed and significant dynamic in vehicular behavior on the road urge the need for rapid information flow for managing important events. On a highway road, for example, group of vehicles may stay connected for significant amount of journey time. Some vehicles may depart, and ne...Show More
Recent advances in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technologies make their use as data collection sinks feasible for practical applications of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). Using UAVs as mobile data collection agents can improve network performance by reducing the horizontal radio pollution in animal sanctuaries or conservations, for example. This may also positively improve energy consumption of ...Show More
Tactile Internet (TI) is an emerging area of research which is still in its infancy, and facing many issues and challenges. One of the main challenges in TI is to achieve a round trip time (RTT) or latency of 1ms or less. This RTT consists of transmission time, processing time (operator's end), and acknowledgement time (controlled environment end). In this paper, we first present a system framewor...Show More
Due to the dynamic and uncertain behaviors of nodes in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), reliable data delivery becomes challenging task. With the absence of global information and centralised decision maker, the nodes in distributed WSNs need to rely on the surrounding nodes. This reliance requires the nodes to select the most reliable partner to work with in relaying the packets. Thus, the evalua...Show More
Flexible adaptability of complex IoT-based sensor network infrastructures is essential to secure dynamic harmonization with that of the monitored physical phenomena. Considerable level of operational flexibility can be attained through virtualization of the basic three network functions. These are namely the `Leaf node', `Router' and `IoT Gateway' functions with their network topology implementati...Show More
Modern cities are blanketed with Wi-Fi Hotspots. Such network access points can be utilised by Internet of Thing devices to enable wireless sensor network data mining deployments to report to the cloud. Vehicles are such devices that can provide valuable data sensing platforms for both internal operational properties such as speed, fuel and engine heat as well as external environmental features in...Show More
The Device-to-Device communication (D2D) is believed to be one of promising paradigm for 5G wireless communication networks. D2D networks are based on a distributed peer to peer (P2P) network architecture where the nodes are self-organized. Moreover, as the devices are controlled by humans, their behaviours become unpredictable. Trust and reputation management (TRM) emerges as a significant resear...Show More
Connecting wireless sensor networks (WSNs) to remote servers or clouds through the Internet of Things inspires the formation of a highly complex system. This has significant potential to encourage WSN softwarization. Such a network enables interaction between the physical and virtual sensor network, allowing for flexibility within the physical system to adapt with the dynamics of the service requi...Show More
In this paper, we present an adaptive agent-based partner selection mechanism for routing packet in distributed wireless sensor networks. A wireless sensor network is modelled as a multi-agent system by concretely regards each sensor as an agent. Agents in the proposed approach are competitive where they need to cope with limited resources (i.e. availableenergy) in the network. Auction-based schem...Show More
the recent development of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) has contributed to an explosive growth of high-volume, high-velocity and high-variety information assets. Consequently, the concept of Big Data has emerged as a widely recognized trend. In order to accommodate these data-intensive services, a sustainable and resilient network infrastructure is essentially needed, as well as ...Show More
The role of Internet of Things (IoT) in facilitating connectivity of the wireless sensor network (WSN) to the remote server or cloud over the Internet encourages the formation of a highly complex system. This has significant potential for WSN softwarization or open flow through software defined network (SDN). It enables the interaction between the physical and virtual sensor networks resulting in ...Show More
Internet of things based wireless sensor networks have become the leading method for industries across the world to track goods and products. As a combination of wireless sensor nodes established with an internet gateway and cloud database, these networks offer world wide access to current good and product conditions. Significant challenges exist with the large data that is produced by the sensor ...Show More
The role of Internet of Things (IoT) in facilitating connectivity of the wireless sensor network (WSN) to the remote server or cloud over the Internet encourages the formation of a highly complex system with significant potential. This enable the interaction between the physical and virtual sensor clouds resulting in the ability to allow for flexibility within the physical system to adapt with the...Show More
Security issues for Wireless sensor network (WSN) is always crucial due to its nature. The limitation of computing resources and distributed properties in WSN makes the traditional security mechanisms no longer as feasible in protecting WSN as in wired networks. There is an emerging research area to discover the alternative solutions on trust and reputation mechanisms for WSNs nowadays. The recent...Show More
Over the Air Programming (OTAP) is the wireless reprograming of sensor nodes for wireless sensor networks (WSN). Methods of OTAP called code dissemination techniques strive to reduce reprogram time which saves on power and network downtime. A few leading approaches are Sprinkler, Firecracker, Deluge. A comparison of two Sprinkler approaches along with a Firecracker and Deluge approach has been sim...Show More