The inevitable next era of smart living requires unprecedented advances in enabling
technologies. The building blocks of this era are devices such as sensors, actuators, and …

Mobile edge computing (MEC) has been envisaged as a promising technique in the next-
generation wireless networks. In order to improve the security of computation tasks …

The emergence of massive Internet of Things (IoT) mobile devices (MDs) and the
deployment of ultradense 5G cells have promoted the evolution of IoT toward ultradense IoT …

Mobile edge computing (MEC), as a promising technology, provides proximate and prompt
computing service for mobile users on various applications. With appropriate incentives …

Leveraging the concept of software-defined network (SDN), the integration of terrestrial 5G
and satellite networks brings us lots of benefits. The placement problem of controllers and …

Enabling users to move to different geographical locations within a network and still be able
to maintain their connectivity and most essentially, continuity of service, is what makes any …

Abstract Fifth-generation (5G) wireless networks are projected to support a large number of
low-power devices, which are an essential component of Internet of Things (IoT) …

Given the highly dynamic traffic loads of mobile Internet of Things (IoT) devices and their
stringent quality-ofservice requirements, ie, access delay particularly, as well as the …

To meet the surging demands on network throughput and spectrum resources arising with
billions of Internet-of-Things mobile devices (IMDs), ultradense networks are envisioned to …

The densification of base station (BS) deployments is driving the evolution of network
structures towards heterogeneous ultra-dense networks (UDN), making coordinated …