Industry 4.0 has revolutionized the traditional production line toward smart factories in a
sustainable environment. It represents an intelligent manufacturing network, where …

As unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can provide flexible and efficient services concerning
the sparse network distribution, we study a UAV-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) …

Blockchains are costly in terms of computing and involve high overhead bandwidth and
delays that are not suitable for smart appliances. Enhancing the precision of output, quality …

Abstract Automotive-Industry 5.0 will use Beyond Fifth-Generation (B5G) communications to
provide robust, abundant computation resources and energy-efficient data sharing among …

The combination of backscatter communication with non-orthogonal multiple access
(NOMA) has the potential to support low-powered massive connections in upcoming sixth …

The integration of Internet of Vehicles (IoV) with social networks has introduced Social IoV
(SIoV) that will offer new applications in vehicular networks, eg, personalized …

Users' security is one of the most important issues in Internet of Things (IoT) due to the high
number of IoT devices involved in different applications. Security threats are evolving at a …

In recent years, the open and standardized interfaces for radio access networks (Open
RAN), promoted by the standard organization O-RAN alliance, demonstrate the potential to …

In the industrial sector, production processes are continuously evolving, but issues and
delays in production are still commonplace. Complex problems often require input from …

Currently, the two developments that are most obvious to the public are machine learning
(ML) and blockchain technology. The first is the development of AI and big data, and the …