In this survey paper, we review the random access (RA) techniques with particular emphasis
on the issues and the possible solutions applicable to satellite networks. RA dates back to …

Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in techniques and systems for rainfall
surveillance on regional scale, with increasingly stringent requirements in terms of the …

There is an urgent need for substantially enhancing random access schemes to be able to
support native massive machine-to-machine communications in the next generation …

We present the NEFOCAST project (named by the contraction of “Nefele”, which is the Italian
spelling for the mythological cloud nymph Nephele, and “forecast”), funded by the Tuscany …

In this paper, we review the key figures of merit to assess the performance of advanced
random access (RA) schemes exploiting physical layer coding, repetitions, and collision …

In this paper, we present results from the NEFOCAST Project, funded by the Tuscany
Region, aiming at detecting and estimating rainfall fields from the opportunistic use of the …

Provisioning of Internet of Things/machine-to-machine (M2M) services over satellite has
been experiencing a continuous growth in the last few years, which is expected to further …

The authors consider a low earth orbit (LEO) mobile satellite system (MSS) that accepts new
and handover calls of multirate service‐classes. New calls arrive in the system as batches …

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technologies are considered key technologies for
terrestrial 5G massive machine-type communications (mMTC) applications. It is less known …

Summary Machine‐to‐machine (M2M) communications being pivotal for internet of things
(IoT) networks are characterized by low‐cost, low complexity, and often energy constrained …