Cellular network performance can significantly benefit from direct device-to-device (D2D)
communication, but interference from cochannel D2D communication limits the performance …

Location Based Social Networks (LBSNs) have recently emerged as a hot research area.
However, the high mobility of LBSN users and the need to quickly provide access points in …

Due to its high speed and low latency, D2D communication plays an important role in
providing proximity data services in 5G systems, which may contain privacy sensitive data …

This paper studies a simultaneous wireless information and power transfer system with a
helping relay in wireless body area network, where the relay harvests energy from the radio …

Stable and reliable wireless communication is one of the critical demands for smart cities to
connect people and devices. Although intelligent terminals can be leveraged to deliver and …

Machine type communication (MTC) is a fundamental technology to realize the concept of
fully connected world in fifth generation (5G) Internet of Things (IoT). The massive roll out of …

The future wireless networks need to improve spectrum and energy efficiency to satisfy the
increasing demand for high data rate. Device-to device (D2D) communications have the …

Due to the pervasiveness of mobile devices, a vast amount of geolocated data is generated,
which allows us to gain deep insight into human behavior. Among other data sources, the …

Device-to-device (D2D) communication can effectively meet the demanding high data rate
by providing direct links among mobile users in cellular networks. In this paper, we analyze …

Smartphone devices can play a key role on emergency scenarios thanks to their
pervasiveness, and the possibility to convey emergency requests from the involved people …