Revolution 4.0: Industry vs. agriculture in a future development for SMEs

I Zambon, M Cecchini, G Egidi, MG Saporito… - Processes, 2019 - mdpi.com
The present review retraces the steps of the industrial and agriculture revolution that have
taken place up to the present day, giving ideas and considerations for the future. This paper …

Toward massive machine type communications in ultra-dense cellular IoT networks: Current issues and machine learning-assisted solutions

SK Sharma, X Wang - IEEE Communications Surveys & …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The ever-increasing number of resource-constrained machine-type communication (MTC)
devices is leading to the critical challenge of fulfilling diverse communication requirements …

Architectures and key technical challenges for 5G systems incorporating satellites

A Guidotti, A Vanelli-Coralli, M Conti… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Satellite communication systems are a promising solution to extend and complement
terrestrial networks in unserved or under-served areas, as reflected by recent commercial …

Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT): From physical (PHY) and media access control (MAC) layers perspectives

CB Mwakwata, H Malik, M Mahtab Alam, Y Le Moullec… - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
Narrowband internet of things (NB-IoT) is a recent cellular radio access technology based
on Long-Term Evolution (LTE) introduced by Third-Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) …

Joint computation offloading and multiuser scheduling using approximate dynamic programming in NB-IoT edge computing system

L Lei, H Xu, X Xiong, K Zheng… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Internet of Things (IoT) connects a huge number of resource-constraint IoT devices to
the Internet, which generate massive amount of data that can be offloaded to the cloud for …

Reinforcement learning for real-time optimization in NB-IoT networks

N Jiang, Y Deng, A Nallanathan… - IEEE Journal on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
NarrowBand Internet of Things (NB-IoT) is an emerging cellular-based technology that offers
a range of flexible configurations for massive IoT radio access from groups of devices with …

NOMA aided narrowband IoT for machine type communications with user clustering

A Shahini, N Ansari - IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To support machine type communications (MTCs) in next generation mobile networks,
Narrowband-Internet of Things (NB-IoT) has been released by the third generation …

Multiuser resource control with deep reinforcement learning in IoT edge computing

L Lei, H Xu, X Xiong, K Zheng… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
By leveraging the concept of mobile edge computing (MEC), massive amount of data
generated by a large number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices could be offloaded to MEC …

On the latency-energy performance of NB-IoT systems in providing wide-area IoT connectivity

A Azari, Č Stefanović, P Popovski… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Narrowband Internet-of-Things (NB-IoT) offers a significant link budget improvement in
comparison with the legacy networks by introducing different coverage classes, allowing …

Performance analysis and uplink scheduling for QoS-aware NB-IoT networks in mobile computing

X Chen, Z Li, Y Chen, X Wang - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Low-power wide-area (LPWA) communication has gained increasing attention in recent
years with the rapid growth of fifth generation evolution (5G), the Internet of Things (IoT), and …