Providing ubiquitous connectivity to diverse device types is the key challenge for 5G and
beyond 5G (B5G). Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to be an important …

Abstract Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are becoming increasingly popular these days.
One among the major technological developments of today are UAVs or drones. The …

A robust and resilient medium access control (MAC) protocol is crucial for numerous
machine-type devices to concurrently access the channel in a machine-to-machine (M2M) …

Due to the drastic growth and an upsurge in the wireless communication devices in the
world in recent years, there is a high demand of uninterrupted and intelligent connectivity in …

Recent developments in intelligent transportation system (ITS) require a reliable medium
access control (MAC) protocol to support the high-priority safety message broadcast. The …

Cooperative spectrum sensing has been shown to yield a significant performance
improvement in cognitive radio networks. In this paper, we consider distributed cooperative …

In order to exchange control information without relying on any fixed control channel,
neighboring cognitive users (CUs) in a multichannel cognitive radio network (CRN) can tune …

Advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) networks, which are an integral component of the
smart grid ecosystem, are practically deployed as a static multihop wireless mesh network …

Recently, machine-to-machine (M2M) communications has become an emerging paradigm
that provides ubiquitous connectivity among numerous devices to support diverse …

The massive growth in modern wireless technologies and devices has resulted in increase
in spectrum demands and energy consumption of wireless sensor network (WSN). To …