Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal

Body area networks are being developed to serve a wide range of purposes ranging from providing health care to patients on the move to tracking patients and motion sensing for gaming controls. There has been significant and sizeable amount of research ...

By the widespread use of cloud storage service, users get a lot of conveniences such as low-price file remote storage and flexible file sharing. The research points in cloud computing include the verification of data integrity, the protection of data ...

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Interference in cellular networks is one of the most common problems in the radio access network. In fact, it is the major issue in cellular networks that affects performances and quality of service. Indeed, interference can be caused by a call on the ...

This paper proposes a new superimposed training (ST) scheme for uplink multi-user multi-cell system, where each base station, equipped with a large number of antennas (M), communicates to single antenna users. In uplink training phase, large number of ...

This paper proposed a connectivity-based multi-lane geographic routing protocol (CGRP) for vehicular ad hoc networks. The proposed CGRP is based on an effective selection of road intersections through which a package must pass from source to ...

Security and privacy concerns have been growing with the increased utilisation of RFID technology in our daily lives. To mitigate these issues, numerous privacy-friendly authentication protocols have been published in the last decade. Random number ...

When a new event occurs, the nodes in the neighborhood of the event sense and then send many packets to the sink node. Such circumstances need their networks to be simultaneously reliable and event-driven. Moreover, it should be remove redundant packets ...

Evaluation of the shortest path in a wireless network is to ensure the fast and guaranteed delivery of the data over the established wireless network. Most of the wireless protocols are using a shortest path evaluation technique which is based on the ...

Data aggregation algorithms play a primary role in WSN, as it collects and aggregates the data in an energy efficient manner so that the life expectancy of the network is extended. This paper intends to develop a query-based aggregation model for WSN ...

The quantum of power consumption in wireless sensor nodes plays a vital role in power management since more number of functional elements are integrated in a smaller space and operated at very high frequencies. In addition, the variations in the power ...

Recent developments and advances on electronics and wireless telecommunications have enabled researchers to design and produce low-power and small sensors with reasonable prices which can be used for various applications. Wireless multimedia sensor ...

A magnanimous number of collaborative sensor nodes make up a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). These sensor nodes are outfitted with low-cost and low-power sensors. The routing protocols are responsible for ensuring communications while considering the ...

Cognitive radio (CR) has emerged as an effective solution to spectrum scarcity problem which efficiently utilizes the unused spectrum of licensed primary user (PU). Video applications, as a bandwidth intensive and delay-sensitive application, will ...

This paper proposes RITMC, an asynchronous multichannel receiver-initiated MAC for low-power WSN. Through a comparison with already existing solutions, the RITMC tries to mitigate the message containment and the effect of Idle Listening through an ...

Nowadays, wireless sensor network (WSN) is an important component in IoT environment, which enables efficient data collection and transmission. Since WSN consists of a large number of sensor nodes, network congestion can easily occur which significantly ...

The participants in the Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) are highly resource constraint in nature. The clustering approach in the WSN supports a large-scale monitoring with ease to the user. The node near the sink depletes the energy, forming energy holes ...

One major concern shared by many researchers about underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs), with respect to the limitations and particularities of underwater environment, is the problem of routing. These limitations include three-dimensional ...

In this paper, a single coaxial feed dual polarized triple band stacked microstrip patch antenna for wireless applications is presented. The proposed stacked antenna has two resonating elements with lower layer consisting of a truncated corner square ...

This paper presents the performance of Parallel Big Bang---Big Crunch (PB3C) global optimization algorithm on CEC-2014 test suite. The performance is compared with 16 other algorithms. It has been observed that PB3C gave best performance on 7 functions ...

Handover (HO) is the procedure performed to maintain the ongoing session of mobile User Equipment (UE). In Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A) network, the UE-assisted, network controlled hard HO procedure is suggested by 3GPP. The adoption of the ...

Wireless networks pave a way for faster and quicker transmission. The most important terminology in mesh networking is assigning proper channel for faster transmission. Interference is an important issue in channel assignment. The process of channel ...

Due to the tremendous throughput requirement, current spectrum allocation scheme of 4G long term evolution-advanced system can't satisfy the need for future communications applications. Hence, researches have proposed a non-orthogonal multiple access (...

Unused spectrum is being a limited commodity for the telecom industry. However, up to 500 MHz of unlicensed spectrum in 5 GHz band is in use for several applications and services, particularly in WiFi around the world. Unlicensed spectrum has foreseen ...

Face recognition is a most widely used and rapidly growing biometric technology. Lot of research has been done in this field, due to its significant applications in various sectors and their influence in our daily life such as securing financial ...

With the growth and benefits of network usage, securing the networks by using anomaly intrusion detection systems (IDS) against unknown intrusions has become an important issue. The first step of protecting any network is the detection of attacks. In ...

Proper route selection between source and destination $$(s-d)$$(s-d) connection leads to efficient resource utilization which leads to the availability of resources for future call arrivals. Various choices are available for Routing and Wavelength ...

Data storage has been one of the most prevalent services that has been offered by cloud computing. One of the challenges associated with data storage has been the security of the users data. There have been many models proposed that have tried to secure ...

This communication attempts to characterize the performance metrics of downlink Massive MU-MIMO systems impaired by cochannel interference and additive noise over a Rayleigh fading environment. We obtain close-form solutions for the probability density ...

In this paper the design and experimental characterization of a coplanar waveguide-feed planar inverted F antenna for wearable personal communications are presented. The proposed antenna is designed to operate at GSM 1800 MHz and ISM 2450 MHz bands. ...