… , we will refer to the IoT networks in which the IoT devices have uninterrupted access to a
reliable energy source, such as power grid or a battery, as the regularly powered networks. …

… In order to investigate the trade-off between the network throughput and the amount of free
resources of an NB-IoT network, we conducted an analysis, increasing the amount of devices …

… Most of the prior works on energy-efficient communications in IoT networks do not address
these two problems and mainly focus on power allocation, wireless power transfer, and …

… SYSTEM MODEL For a certain time-frequency resource block (RB), we consider a UL IoT
network with BSs deployed on a plane according to the hexagonal deployment or the random …

… This article considers uplink NOMA-IoT networks, where multiple IoT users are allowed to
share the same RB based on NOMA techniques. With the aid of RL methods, we propose a …

… of the IoT network for the two considered traffic models is crucial to maintain network … how
to maintain timely updates within an IoT uplink network under the two variants of traffic models, …

… -domain uplink (UL) NOMA scheme for NB-IoT is presented … in the spectral efficiency of IoT
networks under power-domain … frequency blocks in the IoT network into account and provides …

… and network optimization of the NB-IoT system. We aim to analyze and optimize the NB-IoT
networks… In this paper, we construct a random access traffic model including the NB-IoT user …

… IoT use cases over cellular networks in order to reduce the devices’ energy consumption and
enhance network … By adding a simple wake-up receiver at the front-end of the IoT device, …

… of RIS-aided uplink IoT networks. We then formulate the power minimization problem. …
RIS-Aided Uplink IoT Network We consider a single-input multi-output (SIMO) uplink IoT network …