Grant-Free (GF) access has been recognized as a promising candidate for Ultra-Reliable
and Low-Latency Communications (URLLC). However, even with GF access, URLLC still …

Cellular-based networks are expected to offer connectivity for massive Internet of Things
(mIoT) systems. However, their Random Access CHannel (RACH) procedure suffers from …

Long-Term Evolution (LTE) networks are expected to be a key enabler for the massive
Machine-Type Communications (mMTC) service in the 5G context. As highly synchronized …

Traffic control is regarded as a key issue to alleviate congestion in internet of vehicles (IoV)
machine-type communications (MTC). Recently, many traffic control schemes have been …

Thanks to their ubiquitous coverage, Long-Term Evolution (LTE) networks are considered
the most potential enabler for massive Machine-Type Communications (mMTC) service in …

The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) has recently concluded the first phase of 5G
standardization. 5G promises versatile support of heterogenous services with different …

One important issue that needs to be addressed in order to provide effective massive
deployments of IoT devices is access control. In 5G cellular networks, the Access Class …

The worldwide adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT) depends on the massive deployment
of sensor nodes and timely data collection. However, installing the required ground …

The success of the applications based on the Internet of Things (IoT) relies heavily on the
ability to process large amounts of data with different Quality-of-Service (QoS) requirements …

In this article, we study a random access (RA) scheme to alleviate the RA channel (RACH)
overload problem in the massive-machine-type communication (mMTC) environment. We …