Cooperative communication technology has become a research hotspot in wireless sensor
networks (WSNs) in recent years, and will become one of the key technologies for improving …

Device-to-device (D2D) communications underlay to a cellular infrastructure has recently
been proposed to increase spectrum efficiency and expansion of coverage. Relay selection …

This article investigates the reinforcement learning for the relay selection in the delay-
constrained buffer-aided networks. The buffer-aided relay selection significantly improves …

Cooperative communications is a core research area in wireless vehicular networks
(WVNs), thanks to its capability to provide a certain degree of fading mitigation and to …

Cooperative communication aims to achieve spatial diversity gain via the cooperation of
user terminals in transmission without requiring multiple transceiver antennas on the same …

Amidst the rapid development of the fifth generation (5G) networks, Internet of Things (IoT) is
considered as one of the most important part of 5G next generation networks as it can …

Internet of underwater things (IoUT) for underwater monitoring is known worldwide for smart
interlinked underwater things that exhibit the capacity to monitor the vast unexplored waters …

Handling mode changes is one of the most complex and important problems for real-time
systems designers. The challenge is to move a system from running one set of software to …

Due to the proliferation of the Internet of Things (loT), an unprecedented expansion of
wireless devices and communication among these devices for data transmission is expected …

In this paper, we investigate the physical layer security (PLS) of a wireless sensor network
(WSN) that consists of a base station (BS), multiple sensor nodes (SNs), and multiple energy …