The growing number of resource-restrained Machine-Type Communications (MTC) gadgets
such as IoT devices are generating challenges toward obtaining miscellaneous …

Cellular networks can provide highly available and reliable communication links to the
Internet of Things (IoT) applications, letting the connected Things paradigm gain much more …

The Narrowband Internet Of Things, better known by the acronym NB-IoT, is spearheading
3GPP's effort to address the massive Machine Type Communication (mMTC) segment of 5G …

With the emergence of the Internet-of-Things (IoT), communication networks have evolved
toward autonomous networks of intelligent devices capable of communicating without direct …

Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) is a new narrowband radio technology in fifth-
generation (5G) networks. In NB-IoT cellular networks, to provide low-power wide-area …

Machine-type Communications (MTC) are expected to dominate cellular networks traffic by
the end of this decade. This makes the radio resource allocation, ie scheduling, on these …

To meet the needs of high energy efficiency (EE) and various heterogeneous services for
6G, in this paper, we probe into the EE of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) sub …

Forthcoming 5G cellular networks will highly encourage the deployment of HetNet
(Heterogeneous Network) or multi-tier network to build-up a high density or ultra-high …

Integrating Device-to-Device (D2D) communications and Femtocells in Heterogeneous
Networks (HetNets) is a promising technology for future cellular networks to satisfy the …

As one of the key technologies of 5G, massive IoT environments provide the ubiquitous IoT
services. Compared with 4G, its structure is more complex, and it has a large number of …