In this paper, we review the background and state-of-the-art of the narrow-band Internet of
Things (NB-IoT). We first introduce NB-IoT general background, development history, and …

Rapid growth of machine-to-machine (M2M) communications necessitates the reevaluation
of the Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A) performance, since the current standard is …

In machine-type communication (MTC), a group of devices or sensors may need to send
their data packets with certain access delay limits for delay-sensitive applications or real …

As one of the two fundamental types of multiple access, random access has been widely
adopted in various communication networks, and expected to play an increasingly central …

The age of information (AoI) is a key performance metric for data freshness in real-time
systems, measuring the time elapsed between status updates received at a remote …

In this paper, we consider a mission-critical control system, where an unstable dynamic plant
is monitored by a number of distributed sensors. We propose a novel contention-free …

Due to the emergence of Internet of Things (IoTs), it can be expected that the bandwidth
provided by cellular systems might be consumed up soon. Some applications of them are …

An innovative iterative process is proposed to acquire the dynamic process of multichannel
slotted ALOHA (S-ALOHA). It reveals the direct relation between the number of contending …

Shortening the packet length has been a consensus in wireless network design for
supporting the ultra-low latency Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Yet, with short-packet …

This paper analyzes the end-to-end delay performance in an edge-computing scenario
where a set of Internet of Things devices (IoTDs) access the computation facilities of an …