Cellular networks have been engineered and optimized to carrying ever-increasing amounts
of mobile data, but over the last few years, a new class of applications based on machine …

The Internet of Things (IoT) is spreading much faster than the speed at which the supporting
technology is maturing. Today, there are tens of wireless technologies competing for IoT and …

Future 5G cellular networks supporting delay-sensitive, low-latency communications could
employ random access communication to reduce the overhead compared to scheduled …

Future Internet of Things (IoT) networks are expected to support a massive number of
heterogeneous devices/sensors in diverse applications ranging from eHealthcare to …

In the future, all devices that benefit from an Internet connection will be connected. Internet of
Things technologies are key enablers of this vision by moving beyond basic connectivity …

Machine Type Communication (MTC) becomes one of enablers of the internet of things, it
faces many challenges in its integration with human-to-human (H2H) communication …

The deployment of billions of machine‐to‐machine (M2M) devices is expected to have an
enticing effluence in cellular networks. Data aggregation is an attractive scheme to decrease …

Latency-critical Internet of Things (IoT) applications, such as factory automation and smart
grids, have received great attention recently. To satisfy the stringent latency requirements for …

Data aggregation is a promising approach to enable massive machine-type communication
(mMTC). Here, we first characterize the aggregation phase where a massive number of …

This thesis presents a comprehensive study of cognitive networking for cellular networks
with contributions that enable them to be more dynamic, agile, and efficient. To achieve this …