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Editorial: Fourth Quarter 2017 IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials
Publication Year: 2017,Page(s):2018 - 2025
Cited by: Papers (1)
Editorial: Fourth Quarter 2017 IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials
Year: 2017 | Volume: 19 | Issue: 4
A Survey of Topology-Transparent Scheduling Schemes in Multi-Hop Packet Radio Networks
Udit Narayana Kar;Dipti Dash;Debarshi Kumar Sanyal;Dibyajyoti Guha;Samiran Chattopadhyay
Publication Year: 2017,Page(s):2026 - 2049
Cited by: Papers (11)
The aim of topology-transparent scheduling in multi-hop packet radio networks is to find a schedule for the nodes in such a way that the schedule of the existing nodes need not be recomputed when the network topology changes. It caters to highly dynamic scenarios where topology changes occur faster than the speed at which schedule updates can be orchestrated. Hence, the scheduler is typically expe...Show More
Impact of IEEE 802.11n/ac PHY/MAC High Throughput Enhancements on Transport and Application Protocols—A Survey
Publication Year: 2017,Page(s):2050 - 2091
Cited by: Papers (68)
Since the inception of IEEE 802.11 wireless local area networks (WLANs) in 1997, wireless networking technologies have tremendously grown in the last few decades. The fundamental IEEE 802.11 physical (PHY) and medium access control (MAC) protocols have continuously been enriched with new technologies to provide the last mile wireless broadband connectivity to end users. Consequently, several new a...Show More
Distributed and Collaborative Beamforming in Wireless Sensor Networks: Classifications, Trends, and Research Directions
Publication Year: 2017,Page(s):2092 - 2116
Cited by: Papers (138)
Distributed and collaborative beamforming (DCBF) scheme in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is receiving newfound interest in recent times due to the rapid advancements in wireless technology and embedded systems. Although studies on distributed and collaborative beamforming have been carried out for more than ten years, the DCBF was initially considered impractical due to high complexity and hardl...Show More
Ultra Low Power Wake-Up Radios: A Hardware and Networking Survey
Rajeev Piyare;Amy L. Murphy;Csaba Kiraly;Pietro Tosato;Davide Brunelli
Publication Year: 2017,Page(s):2117 - 2157
Cited by: Papers (217)
In wireless environments, transmission and reception costs dominate system power consumption, motivating research effort on new technologies capable of reducing the footprint of the radio, paving the way for the Internet of Things. The most important challenge is to reduce power consumption when receivers are idle, the so called idle-listening cost. One approach proposes switching off the main rec...Show More
Full-Duplex Communication in Cognitive Radio Networks: A Survey
Muhammad Amjad;Fayaz Akhtar;Mubashir Husain Rehmani;Martin Reisslein;Tariq Umer
Publication Year: 2017,Page(s):2158 - 2191
Cited by: Papers (165)
Wireless networks with their ubiquitous applications have become an indispensable part of our daily lives. Wireless networks demand more and more spectral resources to support the ever increasing numbers of users. According to network engineers, the current spectrum crunch can be addressed with the introduction of cognitive radio networks (CRNs). In half-duplex (HD) CRNs, the secondary users (SUs)...Show More
Exclusive Use Spectrum Access Trading Models in Cognitive Radio Networks: A Survey
Md. Rakib Hassan;Gour C. Karmakar;Joarder Kamruzzaman;Bala Srinivasan
Publication Year: 2017,Page(s):2192 - 2231
Cited by: Papers (64)
Spectrum frequency is a valuable resource for wireless communication but very limited in its availability. Due to the extensive use and ever increasing demand of spectrum bands by wireless devices and newer applications, unlicensed band is becoming congested, while licensed bands are found mostly underutilized. To solve this problem of spectrum scarcity, cognitive radio (CR) devices can share lice...Show More
Comprehensive Survey on T-SDN: Software-Defined Networking for Transport Networks
Rodolfo Alvizu;Guido Maier;Navin Kukreja;Achille Pattavina;Roberto Morro;Alessandro Capello;Carlo Cavazzoni
Publication Year: 2017,Page(s):2232 - 2283
Cited by: Papers (94)
Paradoxically, with an ever-increasing traffic demand, today transport-network operators experience a progressive erosion of their margins. The alarms of change are set, and software define networking (SDN) is coming to the rescue with the promise of reducing capital expenditures and operational expenses. Driven by economic needs and network innovation facilities, today transport SDN (T-SDN) is a ...Show More
A Survey on Fault Management in Software-Defined Networks
Publication Year: 2017,Page(s):2284 - 2321
Cited by: Papers (102)
Software-defined networking (SDN) is an emerging paradigm that has become increasingly popular in recent years. The core idea is to separate the control and data planes, allowing the construction of network applications using high-level abstractions that are translated to network devices through a southbound interface. SDN architecture is composed of three layers: 1) infrastructure layer, responsi...Show More
A Survey on Mobile Edge Computing: The Communication Perspective
Yuyi Mao;Changsheng You;Jun Zhang;Kaibin Huang;Khaled B. Letaief
Publication Year: 2017,Page(s):2322 - 2358
Cited by: Papers (3901)
Driven by the visions of Internet of Things and 5G communications, recent years have seen a paradigm shift in mobile computing, from the centralized mobile cloud computing toward mobile edge computing (MEC). The main feature of MEC is to push mobile computing, network control and storage to the network edges (e.g., base stations and access points) so as to enable computation-intensive and latency-...Show More
How Can Edge Computing Benefit From Software-Defined Networking: A Survey, Use Cases, and Future Directions
Publication Year: 2017,Page(s):2359 - 2391
Cited by: Papers (355)
A novel paradigm that changes the scene for the modern communication and computation systems is the Edge Computing. It is not a coincidence that terms like Mobile Cloud Computing, Cloudlets, Fog Computing, and Mobile-Edge Computing are gaining popularity both in academia and industry. In this paper, we embrace all these terms under the umbrella concept of “Edge Computing” to name the trend where c...Show More
A Survey of Machine Learning Techniques Applied to Self-Organizing Cellular Networks
Paulo Valente Klaine;Muhammad Ali Imran;Oluwakayode Onireti;Richard Demo Souza
Publication Year: 2017,Page(s):2392 - 2431
Cited by: Papers (362)
In this paper, a survey of the literature of the past 15 years involving machine learning (ML) algorithms applied to self-organizing cellular networks is performed. In order for future networks to overcome the current limitations and address the issues of current cellular systems, it is clear that more intelligence needs to be deployed so that a fully autonomous and flexible network can be enabled...Show More
State-of-the-Art Deep Learning: Evolving Machine Intelligence Toward Tomorrow’s Intelligent Network Traffic Control Systems
Zubair Md. Fadlullah;Fengxiao Tang;Bomin Mao;Nei Kato;Osamu Akashi;Takeru Inoue;Kimihiro Mizutani
Publication Year: 2017,Page(s):2432 - 2455
Cited by: Papers (651)
Currently, the network traffic control systems are mainly composed of the Internet core and wired/wireless heterogeneous backbone networks. Recently, these packet-switched systems are experiencing an explosive network traffic growth due to the rapid development of communication technologies. The existing network policies are not sophisticated enough to cope with the continually varying network con...Show More
Smart Cities: A Survey on Data Management, Security, and Enabling Technologies
Ammar Gharaibeh;Mohammad A. Salahuddin;Sayed Jahed Hussini;Abdallah Khreishah;Issa Khalil;Mohsen Guizani;Ala Al-Fuqaha
Publication Year: 2017,Page(s):2456 - 2501
Cited by: Papers (428)
Integrating the various embedded devices and systems in our environment enables an Internet of Things (IoT) for a smart city. The IoT will generate tremendous amount of data that can be leveraged for safety, efficiency, and infotainment applications and services for city residents. The management of this voluminous data through its lifecycle is fundamental to the realization of smart cities. There...Show More
Challenging the IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (RPL): A Survey
Publication Year: 2017,Page(s):2502 - 2525
Cited by: Papers (205)
RPL is the IPv6 routing protocol for low-power and lossy networks, standardized by IETF in 2012 as RFC6550. Specifically, RPL is designed to be a simple and inter-operable networking protocol for resource-constrained devices in industrial, home, and urban environments, intended to support the vision of the Internet of Things with thousands of devices interconnected through multihop mesh networks. ...Show More
The Emergence of Visual Crowdsensing: Challenges and Opportunities
Bin Guo;Qi Han;Huihui Chen;Longfei Shangguan;Zimu Zhou;Zhiwen Yu
Publication Year: 2017,Page(s):2526 - 2543
Cited by: Papers (71)
Visual crowdsensing (VCS), which leverages built-in cameras of smart devices to attain informative and comprehensive sensing of interesting targets, has become a predominant sensing paradigm of mobile crowdsensing (MCS). Compared to MCS tasks using other sensing modalities, VCS faces numerous unique issues, such as multi-dimensional coverage needs, data redundancy identification and elimination, l...Show More
Cellular LTE-A Technologies for the Future Internet-of-Things: Physical Layer Features and Challenges
Publication Year: 2017,Page(s):2544 - 2572
Cited by: Papers (90)
Human-generated information has been the main interest of the wireless communication technologies designs for decades. However, we are currently witnessing the emerge of an entirely different paradigm of communication introduced by machines, and hence, the name machine type communication (MTC). Such paradigm arises as a result of the new applications included in the Internet-of-Things (IoT) framew...Show More
A Survey of Wearable Devices and Challenges
Suranga Seneviratne;Yining Hu;Tham Nguyen;Guohao Lan;Sara Khalifa;Kanchana Thilakarathna;Mahbub Hassan;Aruna Seneviratne
Publication Year: 2017,Page(s):2573 - 2620
Cited by: Papers (523)
As smartphone penetration saturates, we are witnessing a new trend in personal mobile devices-wearable mobile devices or simply wearables as it is often called. Wearables come in many different forms and flavors targeting different accessories and clothing that people wear. Although small in size, they are often expected to continuously sense, collect, and upload various physiological data to impr...Show More
A Survey of Enabling Technologies of Low Power and Long Range Machine-to-Machine Communications
Publication Year: 2017,Page(s):2621 - 2639
Cited by: Papers (164)
Low power and long range machine-to-machine (M2M) communication techniques are expected to provide ubiquitous connections for the wireless devices. In this paper, three major low power and long range M2M solutions are surveyed. The first type of solutions is referred to as the low power wide area (LPWA) network. The design of the LPWA techniques features low cost, low data rate, long communication...Show More
Leveraging MANET-Based Cooperative Cache Discovery Techniques in VANETs: A Survey and Analysis
Publication Year: 2017,Page(s):2640 - 2661
Cited by: Papers (42)
Vehicular networking is an emerging technology that holds the great promise of supporting innovative safety and nonsafety applications. Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) share many of the same challenges that are encountered within more general mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). However, by the very nature of the vehicular environment, each of these challenges may be of greater or lesser significan...Show More
A Survey on Compressed Sensing in Vehicular Infotainment Systems
Publication Year: 2017,Page(s):2662 - 2680
Cited by: Papers (72)
Vehicular infotainment systems have attracted great interests from both academia and industry. A vehicular infotainment system includes two parts: 1) the information part and 2) the entertainment part, which are integrated together to provide a unified platform to drivers and passengers. Although some excellent works have been done on vehicular infotainment systems, there are still some significan...Show More
Current Challenges for Visible Light Communications Usage in Vehicle Applications: A Survey
Publication Year: 2017,Page(s):2681 - 2703
Cited by: Papers (294)
In the context of an increasing interest toward reducing the number of traffic accidents and of associated victims, communication-based vehicle safety applications have emerged as one of the best solutions to enhance road safety. In this area, visible light communications (VLC) have a great potential for applications due to their relatively simple design for basic functioning, efficiency, and larg...Show More
Model-Based Quantitative Network Security Metrics: A Survey
Alex Ramos;Marcella Lazar;Raimir Holanda Filho;Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues
Publication Year: 2017,Page(s):2704 - 2734
Cited by: Papers (64)
Network security metrics (NSMs) based on models allow to quantitatively evaluate the overall resilience of networked systems against attacks. For that reason, such metrics are of great importance to the security-related decision-making process of organizations. Considering that over the past two decades several model-based quantitative NSMs have been proposed, this paper presents a deep survey of ...Show More
Applications of Economic and Pricing Models for Wireless Network Security: A Survey
Nguyen Cong Luong;Dinh Thai Hoang;Ping Wang;Dusit Niyato;Zhu Han
Publication Year: 2017,Page(s):2735 - 2767
Cited by: Papers (24)
This paper provides a comprehensive literature review on applications of economic and pricing theory to security issues in wireless networks. Unlike wireline networks, the broadcast nature and the highly dynamic change of network environments pose a number of nontrivial challenges to security design in wireless networks. While the security issues have not been completely solved by traditional or s...Show More
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Canada Excellence Research Chair, Memorial University
Canada
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Trung Q. Duong
Canada Excellence Research Chair, Memorial University
Canada
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