Internet of things: A comprehensive overview on protocols, architectures, technologies, simulation tools, and future directions

M Mansour, A Gamal, AI Ahmed, LA Said, A Elbaz… - Energies, 2023 - mdpi.com
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a global network of interconnected computing, sensing, and
networking devices that can exchange data and information via various network protocols. It …

A comprehensive review on energy harvesting integration in IoT systems from MAC layer perspective: Challenges and opportunities

G Famitafreshi, MS Afaqui, J Melià-Seguí - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
The Internet of Things (IoT) is revolutionizing technology in a wide variety of areas, from
smart healthcare to smart transportation. Due to the increasing trend in the number of IoT …

Energy-aware design of UAV-mounted RIS networks for IoT data collection

D Tyrovolas, PV Mekikis, SA Tegos… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Data collection in massive Internet of Things networks requires novel and flexible methods.
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are foreseen as a means to collect data rapidly even in …

On the Distribution of the Sum of Double-Nakagami- Random Vectors and Application in Randomly Reconfigurable Surfaces

SA Tegos, D Tyrovolas… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Meta-surfaces intend to improve the performance of future wireless networks significantly by
controlling the wireless propagation and shaping the radio waves according to the …

On the performance of uplink rate-splitting multiple access

SA Tegos, PD Diamantoulakis… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of new multiple access schemes emerges as a necessity in order to efficiently cope
with the massive connectivity, reliability and high throughput requirements of the next …

Congestion control in cognitive IoT-based WSN network for smart agriculture

D Alghazzawi, O Bamasaq, S Bhatia, A Kumar… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wireless sensor networking is being used extensively in agricultural activities to increase
productivity and reduce losses in various ways. The greenhouse simplifies the concept of …

Age of information of SIC-aided massive IoT networks with random access

JF Grybosi, JL Rebelatto… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Age of Information (AoI) has turned to be an outright metric to evaluate information freshness
in Internet of Things (IoT) networks. In this work, we evaluate the average AoI of an uplink …

Performance analysis and resource allocation of STAR-RIS aided wireless-powered NOMA system

K Xie, G Cai, G Kaddoum, J He - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a simultaneous transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent
surface (STAR-RIS) aided wireless-powered non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) …

A hybrid grant NOMA random access for massive MTC service

N Zhang, X Zhu - IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is classified into grant-based (GB) random access
(RA) and grant-free (GF) RA in 5G systems. GF NOMA RA allows user equipments (UE) to …

On the ergodic rate of cognitive radio inspired uplink multiple access

Y Xiao, SA Tegos, PD Diamantoulakis… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the exponential increase of the number of devices in the communication ecosystem
toward the upcoming sixth generation (6G) of wireless networks, more enabling …