With the advent of smart homes, smart cities, and smart everything, the Internet of Things
(IoT) has emerged as an area of incredible impact, potential, and growth, with Cisco Inc …

A growing trend for information technology is to not just react to changes, but anticipate them
as much as possible. This paradigm made modern solutions, such as recommendation …

Drones, also known as mini-unmanned aerial vehicles, have attracted increasing attention
due to their boundless applications in communications, photography, agriculture …

Time-critical and delay-sensitive multimedia applications require more spectrum and
transmission resources. With the provision of cognitive radios (CRs), the underutilized …

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 …

Wireless networks with their ubiquitous applications have become an indispensable part of
our daily lives. Wireless networks demand more and more spectral resources to support the …

Spectrum inference, also known as spectrum prediction in the literature, is a promising
technique of inferring the occupied/free state of radio spectrum from already …

Wireless energy harvesting (EH) is a promising solution to prolong lifetime of power-
constrained networks such as military and sensor networks. The high sensitivity of energy …

In recent years, device-to-device (D2D) communication has attained significant attention in
the research community. The advantages of D2D communication can be fully realized in …

Effective emergency and natural disaster management depend on the efficient mission-
critical voice and data communication between first responders and victims. Land mobile …