Internet of things (IoT): Present state and future prospects

Y Kawamoto, H Nishiyama, N Kato… - … on Information and …, 2014 - search.ieice.org
The recent development of communication devices and wireless network technologies
continues to advance the new era of the Internet and telecommunications. The various …

Energy-efficient mobile association in heterogeneous networks with device-to-device communications

S Xiao, X Zhou, D Feng, Y Yuan-Wu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With device-to-device (D2D) communications, a user terminal can be used as a relay node
to support multi-hop transmission, so that cell-edge or deeply faded users can obtain a …

Energy-aware clustering and routing in infrastructure failure areas with D2D communication

H Rong, Z Wang, H Jiang, Z Xiao… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The communication infrastructures are likely to fail, in the case of disasters like earthquakes
and debris flow, resulting in blind areas and the inconvenience of residents' communication …

A comprehensive survey of emergency communication network and management

S Debnath, W Arif, S Roy, S Baishya, D Sen - Wireless Personal …, 2022 - Springer
The performance of wireless communication network is important in emergency rescue
operations while ensuring optimum usage of limited wireless resources. Due to the …

Beyond coexistence: Traffic steering in LTE networks with unlicensed bands

N Zhang, S Zhang, S Wu, J Ren… - IEEE wireless …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we study how to efficiently utilize heterogeneous network resources for various
service provisioning in LTE networks with unlicensed bands. Our focus is on traffic steering …

Promoting device-to-device communication in cellular networks by contract-based incentive mechanisms

Y Chen, S He, F Hou, Z Shi, J Chen - IEEE Network, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, device-to-device (D2D) communication has emerged to offer opportunities for high-
rate wireless transmission locally in cellular networks. Such proximity-based communication …

To relay or not to relay: Learning device-to-device relaying strategies in cellular networks

N Mastronarde, V Patel, J Xu, L Liu… - IEEE Transactions …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider a cellular network where mobile transceiver devices that are owned by self-
interested users are incentivized to cooperate with each other using tokens, which they …

Wireless access control in edge-aided disaster response: A deep reinforcement learning-based approach

H Zhou, X Wang, M Umehira, X Chen, C Wu… - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The communication infrastructure is most likely to be damaged after a major disaster
occurred, which would lead to further chaos in the disaster stricken area. Modern rescue …

Joint power allocation and user scheduling for device-to-device-enabled heterogeneous networks with non-orthogonal multiple access

J Liu, G Wu, S Xiao, X Zhou, GY Li, S Guo, S Li - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Device-to-device (D2D) communications-enabled dense heterogeneous networks (HetNets)
with non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) are promising solutions to meet the high …

D2D communication underlaying UAV on multiple bands in disaster area: Stochastic geometry analysis

M Rihan, MM Selim, C Xu, L Huang - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
When communication infrastructure is damaged due to natural disasters, employing
unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as a flying base station (BS) and device-to-device (D2D) …