Power quality and reliability issues are big challenges to both service provider and
consumers in conventional power grids. The ongoing technological advancements in the …

Smart cities have brought significant improvements in quality of life and services to citizens
and urban environments. They are fully enabled to control the physical objects in real time …

This paper provides an overview of the use of small cells (eg, femtocells) in the Internet of
Things (IoT) environments. As a result of rapid increase in the number of mobile connected …

In the cloud-based Internet of Things (IoT) environments, quantifying uncertainty is an
important element input to keep the acceptable level of reliability in various configurations. In …

The explosion of wireless devices has given rise to numerous data-sharing applications in
smart-cities' Pervasive Sensing (PS) paradigms. This vision has been further expanded in …

A bio-inspired metaheuristics canonical particle multiswarm optimization (CPMSO) algorithm
is presented to investigate the optimal deployment pattern for sensors to improve the …

Abstract Public Safety Networks (PSNs) provide assistance before-and post-disaster events.
With the help of technological advances, PSNs are able to cope with both natural and man …

People and urban economies have benefited greatly from smart cities' better quality of life
and services. They have complete power over physical objects in real-time and can provide …

Innovations in technology that have enabled efficient wireless tiny devices propelled the
concept of Internet of Things. It is expected that mobile data traffic will experience 8-fold …

The goal of the article is to provide a radio propagation algorithm for an outdoor-to-indoor
and indoor-to-indoor environment for 5G mmWave in a populated city. This work is done by …