A key 6G challenge and opportunity—Connecting the base of the pyramid: A survey on rural connectivity

E Yaacoub, MS Alouini - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Providing connectivity to around half of the world population living in rural or underprivileged
areas is a tremendous challenge, but, at the same time, a unique opportunity. Access to the …

SmartHerd management: A microservices‐based fog computing–assisted IoT platform towards data‐driven smart dairy farming

M Taneja, N Jalodia, J Byabazaire… - Software: practice …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Summary Internet of Things (IoT), fog computing, cloud computing, and data‐driven
techniques together offer a great opportunity for verticals such as dairy industry to increase …

A control-plane perspective on reducing data access latency in LTE networks

Y Li, Z Yuan, C Peng - Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Control-plane operations are indispensable to providing data access to mobile devices in
the 4G LTE networks. They provision necessary control states at the device and network …

A key 6G challenge and opportunity--connecting the remaining 4 billions: a survey on rural connectivity

E Yaacoub, MS Alouini - arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.11541, 2019 - arxiv.org
Providing connectivity to around half of the World population living in rural or
underprivileged areas is a tremendous challenge, but also a unique opportunity. In this …

Smart city sensing and communication sub-infrastructure

M Habibzadeh, W Xiong, M Zheleva… - 2017 IEEE 60th …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Significant recent research activities and initiatives by local governments to establish
resilient smart city infrastructures signal that time is right for smart cities in the near future …

Community-level access divides: A refugee camp case study

P Schmitt, D Iland, E Belding, B Tomaszewski… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Despite the appearance of uniform availability of mobile services, in many locales granular
network analyses reveal the persistence of physical access divides. It stands to reason these …

Smallholder agriculture in the information age: Limits and opportunities

M Zheleva, P Bogdanov, DS Zois, W Xiong… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Recent projections by the United Nations show that the food production needs to double by
2050 in order to meet the nutrition demand of the world's growing population. A key enabler …

Hybrid Encryption for Securing and Tracking Goods Delivery by Multipurpose Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Rural Areas Using Cipher Block Chaining and Physical …

E Yaacoub, K Abualsaud, M Mahmoud - Drones, 2024 - mdpi.com
This paper investigated the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for the delivery of
critical goods to remote areas in the absence of network connectivity. Under such conditions …

AirVIEW: Unsupervised transmitter detection for next generation spectrum sensing

M Zheleva, P Bogdanov, T Larock… - IEEE INFOCOM 2018 …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The current paradigm of exclusive spectrum assignment and allocation is creating artificial
spectrum scarcity that has a dramatic impact on network performance and user experience …

DIY model for mobile network deployment: A step towards 5G for all

MM Kassem, MK Marina, B Radunovic - Proceedings of the 1st ACM …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Mobile phones and innovative data oriented mobile services have the potential to bridge the
digital divide in Internet access and have transformative developmental impact. However as …