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Using Full-dimensional Programmability to Power Self-driving 6G Networks IEEE Netw. (IF 6.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Tong Wu, Haipeng Yao, Tianle Mai, Zunliang Wang, Fu Wang, Mohsen Guizani
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1997-2017 Leading Causes of Death Information Due to Diabetes, Neoplasms, and Diseases of the Circulatory System, Issues Cautionary Weight-Related Lesson to the US Population at Large. IEEE Netw. (IF 6.8) Pub Date : 2019-10-10 Malcolm J D'Souza,Riza C Li,Morgan L Gannon,Derald E Wentzien
In the US, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and diabetes are in the top ten leading causes of death categories. The diseases compromise US life-expectancy and account for significant US health-care costs. This observational study investigates the US population's 1997-2017 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) WONDER ICD-10 mortality records to extract the prevalence rates for leading causes
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A Magnetic Resonance Compatible E4D Ultrasound Probe for Motion Management of Radiation Therapy. IEEE Netw. (IF 6.8) Pub Date : 2017-09-01 Warren Lee,Heather Chan,Pong Chan,Timothy Fiorillo,Eric Fiveland,Thomas Foo,David Mills,Aqsa Patel,James Sabatini,David Shoudy,Scott Smith,Bryan Bednarz
We developed a magnetic resonance compatible real-time, three-dimensional imaging ultrasound probe for motion management of radiation therapy for liver cancer. The probe contains an 18,000-element, 46.8 mm × 21.5 mm matrix array constructed from three tiled transducer modules with integrated beamforming ASICs. The center frequency and -6 dB fractional bandwidth of the probe was 3.6 MHz and 85 percent
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Network Coding in Relay-based Device-to-Device Communications. IEEE Netw. (IF 6.8) Pub Date : 2017-07-28 Jun Huang,Hamid Gharavi,Huifang Yan,Cong-Cong Xing
Device-to-Device (D2D) communications has been realized as an effective means to improve network throughput, reduce transmission latency, and extend cellular coverage in 5G systems. Network coding is a well-established technique known for its capability to reduce the number of retransmissions. In this article, we review state-of-the-art network coding in relay-based D2D communications, in terms of
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Wireless Infrastructure M2M Network For Distributed Power Grid Monitoring. IEEE Netw. (IF 6.8) Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Hamid Gharavi,Bin Hu
With the massive integration of distributed renewable energy sources (RESs) into the power system, the demand for timely and reliable network quality monitoring, control, and fault analysis is rapidly growing. Following the successful deployment of Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) in transmission systems for power monitoring, a new opportunity to utilize PMU measurement data for power quality assessment
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Analyzing and Detecting Money-Laundering Accounts in Online Social Networks IEEE Netw. (IF 6.8) Pub Date : 2017-11-28 Yadong Zhou, Ximi Wang, Junjie Zhang, Peng Zhang, Lili Liu, Huan Jin, Hongbo Jin
Virtual currency in OSNs plays an increasingly important role in supporting various financial activities such as currency exchange, online shopping, and paid games. Users usually purchase virtual currency using real currency. This fact motivates attackers to instrument an army of accounts to collect virtual currency unethically or illegally with no or very low cost and then launder the collected virtual
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Challenges and Solutions in Fog Computing Orchestration IEEE Netw. (IF 6.8) Pub Date : 2017-11-28 Yuxuan Jiang, Zhe Huang, Danny H. K. Tsang
Fog computing, complementary to cloud computing, has recently emerged as a new paradigm that extends the computing infrastructure from the center to the edge of the network. This article explores the design of a fog computing orchestration framework to support IoT applications. In particular, we focus on how the widely adopted cloud computing orchestration framework can be customized to fog computing
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Machine Learning for Networking: Workflow, Advances and Opportunities IEEE Netw. (IF 6.8) Pub Date : 2017-11-28 Mowei Wang, Yong Cui, Xin Wang, Shihan Xiao, Junchen Jiang
Recently, machine learning has been used in every possible field to leverage its amazing power. For a long time, the networking and distributed computing system is the key infrastructure to provide efficient computational resources for machine learning. Networking itself can also benefit from this promising technology. This article focuses on the application of MLN, which can not only help solve the
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Recent Advances of LTE/WiFi Coexistence in Unlicensed Spectrum IEEE Netw. (IF 6.8) Pub Date : 2017-10-27 Yan Huang, Yongce Chen, Y. Thomas Hou, Wenjing Lou, Jeffrey H. Reed
U-LTE is a new wireless technology that is currently being developed by industry and academia to offer LTE service in unlicensed spectrum. U-LTE addresses spectrum shortage from 4G LTE cellular networks by allowing them to operate in unlicensed bands. To ensure fair spectrum sharing among different wireless technologies (LTE and WiFi in particular), a number of coexistence mechanisms have been proposed
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Reliable Formation Protocol for Bluetooth Hybrid Single-hop and Multi-hop Networks IEEE Netw. (IF 6.8) Pub Date : 2017-10-03 Chih-Min Yu, En-Li Lin
There are presently many applications where a non-uniform distribution of devices needs to be established for Bluetooth scatternets. Under the scenario of one dense zone and multiple sparse zones, the dense area has a high probability of generating a single-hop scenario since most devices are within radio range, whereas most devices are out of radio range under the multi-hop scenario in other sparse
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Toward Secure Crowd Sensing in Vehicle-to-Everything Networks IEEE Netw. (IF 6.8) Pub Date : 2017-11-28 Kaigui Bian, Gaoxiang Zhang, Lingyang Song
V2X communication facilitates information sharing between a vehicle and the infrastructure, pedestrians, devices, or any other entity that may affect the vehicle, which is known as a critical component in 5G that promises to realize the vision of connected and autonomous vehicles. Crowd sensing, a.k.a. collective perception, is one of the essential concepts of V2X networks, where vehicles share their
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Going Fast and Fair: Latency Optimization for Cloud-Based Service Chains IEEE Netw. (IF 6.8) Pub Date : 2017-11-29 Yuchao Zhang, Ke Xu, Haiyang Wang, Qi Li, Tong Li, Xuan Cao
State-of-the-art microservices have been attracting more attention in recent years. A broad spectrum of online interactive applications are now programmed to service chains on the cloud, seeking better system scalability and lower operating costs. Different from the conventional batch jobs, most of these applications consist of multiple stand-alone services that communicate with each other. These step-by-step
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Anomaly Detection and Array Diagnosis in Wireless Networks with Multiple Antennas: Framework, Challenges and Tools IEEE Netw. (IF 6.8) Pub Date : 2017-11-28 Bo Wang, Fengye Hu, Yanping Zhao, Terry N. Guo
Anomaly detection and array diagnosis in wireless networks are both important technologies and have many applications ranging from discovering malicious traffic and identifying abnormal nodes, to detecting faulty antennas and so on. In general, anomaly detection mainly depends on relational data, which denotes the links between nodes of the networks, to decide whether abnormal networks caused by intentional
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Unlocking the Door to Mobile Social VR: Architecture, Experiments and Challenges IEEE Netw. (IF 6.8) Pub Date : 2017-10-03 Lanshan Zhang, Linhui Sun, Wendong Wang, Jiangchuan Liu
VR redefines the well known social network by introducing impressive environment sharing and revolutionary face-to-face interaction. Benefiting from better mobility and affordability, mobile social VR is gaining popularity; however, very little is known about how and how well it performs. In this article, we characterize the workflow of mobile social VR, propose a tentative architecture by drawing
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Toward Secure Outsourced Middlebox Services: Practices, Challenges, and Beyond IEEE Netw. (IF 6.8) Pub Date : 2017-08-15 Cong Wang, Xingliang Yuan, Yong Cui, Kui Ren
Modern enterprise networks heavily rely on ubiquitous network middleboxes for advanced traffic processing such as deep packet inspection, traffic classification, and load balancing. Recent advances in NFV have pushed forward the paradigm of migrating in-house middleboxes to third-party providers as software-based services for reduced cost yet increased scalability. Despite its potential, this new service
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Fine-Grained Scheduling in Cloud Gaming on Heterogeneous CPU-GPU Clusters IEEE Netw. (IF 6.8) Pub Date : 2017-11-28 Wei Zhang, Xiaofei Liao, Peng Li, Hai Jin, Li Lin, Bing Bing Zhou
Cloud gaming is a promising approach to provide high-quality gaming services to mobile devices. However, existing cloud gaming systems fail to fully exploit hardware resources due to coarse-grained resource scheduling based on virtual machine migration. In this article, we propose a novel cloud gaming design, referred to as FGCG, with fine-grained scheduling to maximize resource utilization on a heterogeneous
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From Software-Defined to Human-Defined Networking: Challenges and Opportunities IEEE Netw. (IF 6.8) Pub Date : 2017-10-27 Elisa Rojas
The SDN paradigm is still in an early stage of development. Considering full automatization and effortless management as the main objective of these networks, we believe diverse challenges need to be tackled. For this purpose, this article reviews the SDN architecture from top to bottom, paying attention to components yet under standardization or that demand enhancement from a network operator's perspective
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SSDNet: Small-World Super-Dense Device-to-Device Wireless Networks IEEE Netw. (IF 6.8) Pub Date : 2017-10-03 Wei Cheng, Jiguo Yu, Feng Zhao, Xiuzhen Cheng
In this article, we propose a novel networking paradigm called Small-world SSDNet, servicing applications such as public safety, proximity based services, and fog computing based on device-todevice multi-hop wireless communications. The "small-world" feature is determined by the service area, whose size is usually within a community level, and the well known small-world properties existing in SSDNets;
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Narrowband IoT Data Transmission Procedures for Massive Machine-Type Communications IEEE Netw. (IF 6.8) Pub Date : 2017-11-27 Pilar Andres-Maldonado, Pablo Ameigeiras, Jonathan Prados-Garzon, Jorge Navarro-Ortiz, Juan M. Lopez-Soler
Large-scale deployments of massive machine type communications involve several challenges on cellular networks. To address the challenges of massive machine-type communications, or more generally, the Internet of Things (IoT), the 3GPP has developed Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) as part of Release 13. NB-IoT is designed to provide better indoor coverage, support of a massive number of low-throughput devices
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Overview of 3GPP Release 14 Enhanced NB-IoT IEEE Netw. (IF 6.8) Pub Date : 2017-11-27 Andreas Hoglund, Xingqin Lin, Olof Liberg, Ali Behravan, Emre A. Yavuz, Martin Van Der Zee, Yutao Sui, Tuomas Tirronen, Antti Ratilainen, David Eriksson
In 3GPP LTE Release 13, Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) was standardized for providing wide-area connectivity for massive machine-type communications for IoT. In LTE Release 14, NB-IoT was further developed to deliver enhanced user experience in selected areas through the addition of features such as increased positioning accuracy, increased peak data rates, the introduction of a lower device
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Locally and Temporary Shared Spectrum as Opportunity for Vertical Sectors in 5G IEEE Netw. (IF 6.8) Pub Date : 2017-11-27 Maria Dolores Perez Guirao, Andreas Wilzeck, Axel Schmidt, Konstantin Septinus, Christoph Thein
The fifth generation of cellular mobile communication networks is on the horizon and aims to integrate use cases of vertical sectors in its holistic ecosystem of technologies, frameworks, and paradigms. To integrate vertical sectors successfully, their key requirements should be communicated, properly discussed, and finally reflected within the design and standardization process of 5G technologies
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Data Aggregation and Packet Bundling of Uplink Small Packets for Monitoring Applications in LTE IEEE Netw. (IF 6.8) Pub Date : 2017-11-27 Dong Min Kim, Rene Brandborg Sorensen, Kashif Mahmood, Olav Norvald Osterbo, Andrea Zanella, Petar Popovski
In cellular massive machine-type communications, a device can transmit directly to the BS or through an aggregator (intermediate node). While direct device-BS communication has recently been the focus of 5G/3GPP research and standardization efforts, the use of aggregators remains a less explored topic. In this article we analyze the deployment scenarios in which aggregators can perform cellular access
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Pinpointing Anomaly RFID Tags: Situation and Opportunities IEEE Netw. (IF 6.8) Pub Date : 2017-08-15 Xiulong Liu, Xin Xie, Kun Wang, Heng Qi, Jiannong Cao, Song Guo, Keqiu Li
RFID is one of the most important automatic identification techniques in the future IoT world. Compared with the other techniques, RFID has various advantages such as no requirement of line of sight, the capability of wireless communication, low cost, small size, and so on. This article discusses two types of anomaly tags, i.e., missing tags and unknown tags, which usually appear due to theft or product
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Green Femtocells in the IoT Era: Traffic Modeling and Challenges -- An Overview IEEE Netw. (IF 6.8) Pub Date : 2017-11-27 Fadi Al-Turjman, Enver Ever, Hadi Zahmatkesh
The rapid increase in numbers of communicating devices, such as smartphones, PDAs, and notebooks, is causing the demand for mobile data traffic to grow significantly. In recent years, mobile operators have been trying to find solutions to increase the network capacity in order to satisfy mobile users' requests and meet the requirements in terms of various quality of service measures in the case of
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Q-Charge: A Quadcopter-Based Wireless Charging Platform for Large-Scale Sensing Applications IEEE Netw. (IF 6.8) Pub Date : 2017-11-27 Jiming Chen, Songyuan Li, Shuo Chen, Shibo He, Zhiguo Shi
Wireless charging technologies have attracted much attention from both academia and industry due to their great potential of freeing devices from wires and batteries, becoming one of the key research areas in recent years. Many platforms have been designed based on different charging technologies for a wide range of scenarios, including structural monitoring, habitat monitoring, wearable devices, volcano
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Toward the Evolution of Wireless Powered Communication Networks for the Future Internet of Things IEEE Netw. (IF 6.8) Pub Date : 2017-07-19 Parisa Ramezani, Abbas Jamalipour
With the ever-increasing speed of technological advances, more and more objects are being connected to the Internet every day and the world is moving toward the next generation of the Internet, the so called Internet of Things (IoT). However, numerous challenges need to be addressed for the widespread adoption of the IoT paradigm. Energy scarcity is one of these challenges. Recently, the advent of
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Interference Management in Ultra-Dense Networks: Challenges and Approaches IEEE Netw. (IF 6.8) Pub Date : 2017-08-15 Junyu Liu, Min Sheng, Lei Liu, Jiandong Li
Capable of enhancing spatial multiplexing and greatly expanding network capacity, network densification has undoubtedly become a general trend in future wireless networks. However, in addition to the expected advantages, the overuse of spatial resources would result in unpredictable and overwhelming interference as well due to the limited spectrum resources and highly disorganized network infrastructures
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Efficient Management and Fast Handovers in Software Defined Wireless Networks Using UAVs IEEE Netw. (IF 6.8) Pub Date : 2017-11-27 Vishal Sharma, Fei Song, Ilsun You, Han-Chieh Chao
Compared to traditional networking, SDN has better controllability and visibility for network components, which enable better management by using the common controller. In this article, the standard architecture of SDN is enhanced to utilize UAVs as on-demand forwarding switches. The proposed approach can achieve efficient management and fast handovers by decreasing the handover latency, E2E delay
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HetNet: A Flexible Architecture for Heterogeneous Satellite-Terrestrial Networks IEEE Netw. (IF 6.8) Pub Date : 2017-09-11 Bohao Feng, Huachun Zhou, Hongke Zhang, Guanwen Li, Haifeng Li, Shui Yu, Han-Chieh Chao
As satellite networks have played an indispensable role in many fields, how to integrate them with terrestrial networks (e.g., the Internet) has attracted significant attention in academia. However, it is challenging to efficiently build such an integrated network, since terrestrial networks are facing a number of serious problems, and since they do not provide good support for heterogeneous network
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Distributed Gateway Selection for M2M Communication in Cognitive 5G Networks IEEE Netw. (IF 6.8) Pub Date : 2017-08-03 Muhammad Naeem, Waleed Ejaz, L. Karim, Syed Hassan Ahmed, A. Anpalagan, Minho Jo, Houbing Song
M2M communication is an important component for future wireless networks. M2M systems consist of a large number of devices that can operate with minimum or no human intervention. However, spectrum demand rises exponentially with the increase in the number of connected devices. Cognitive 5G networks are key to address the issue of spectrum scarcity. Further, use of multiple gateways in cognitive 5G
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A Framework for Searching Internet-Wide Devices IEEE Netw. (IF 6.8) Pub Date : 2017-08-15 Qiang Li, Xuan Feng, Lian Zhao, Limin Sun
Today, millions of physical devices are visible on the Internet through IP addresses, such as wearables, residential routers, cameras and industrial control devices. Users can access and control online devices, while attackers also target them, bringing potential security concerns. In this article, we propose a conceptual framework for discovering, recognizing and managing these online devices at the
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Ultra-Dense Heterogeneous Networks with Full-Duplex Small Cell Base Stations IEEE Netw. (IF 6.8) Pub Date : 2017-08-15 Guanding Yu, Zihan Zhang, Fengzhong Qu, Geoffrey Ye Li
The FD communication technique has been recently proposed as a new paradigm to increase the spectral efficiency of wireless systems. In this article, we investigate the application of FD communications to ultra-dense heterogeneous networks where small base stations can work in the FD mode. In such networks, it is a challenging task to coordinate various kinds of interference caused by FD communications
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Prospective Positioning Architecture and Technologies in 5G Networks IEEE Netw. (IF 6.8) Pub Date : 2017-08-03 Ying Liu, Xiufang Shi, Shibo He, Zhiguo Shi
Accurate and real-time positioning is highly demanded by location-based services in 5G networks, which are currently being standardized and developed to achieve significant performance improvement over existing cellular networks. In 5G networks, many new envisioned technologies, for example, massive Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO), millimeter Wave (mmWave) communication, ultra dense network (UDN)
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Win-Win Security Approaches for Smart Grid Communications Networks IEEE Netw. (IF 6.8) Pub Date : 2017-10-03 Daojing He, Sammy Chan, Mohsen Guizani
The smart grid introduces communication capability into various components of the power system to facilitate information exchange. This also makes the smart grid more vulnerable to cyber attacks ranging from hacking of customer details to disrupting the operation of the power grid. When the provision of security functions does not lead to a "win-win" situation, it means that at least one participant
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Massive Machine-Type Communications IEEE Netw. (IF 6.8) Pub Date : 2017-11-01 Eryk Dutkiewicz,Xavier Costa-Perez,Istvan Z. Kovacs,Markus Mueck
The articles in this special section address the techology and applications supported by machine-type communications (MTC). Here, MTC is characterized by fully automatic data generation, exchange, processing, and actuation among intelligent machines, without or with low intervention of humans. With the rapid penetration of embedded devices, MTC is becoming the dominant communication paradigm for a
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Editor's Note IEEE Netw. (IF 6.8) Pub Date : 2017-11-01 Nei Kato
2 T to the hard work and outstanding efforts of the Associate Editors, reviewers, authors, and support staff, IEEE Network is now commonly recognized as a leading magazine in the field of computer and communication networks. In this editorial, I would like to take a look back at the state of our magazine during the past six months. We have continued to revise the topic areas to cover new emerging areas
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Take Renewable Energy into CRAN toward Green Wireless Access Networks IEEE Netw. (IF 6.8) Pub Date : 2017-07-01 Deze Zeng,Jie Zhang,Song Guo,Lin Gu,Kun Wang
Wireless networks have experienced fast development in the past decades. Various advanced wireless technologies have been proposed. To catch up with the ever increasing diverse communication needs, one main developing trend is on the network virtualization. CRAN is proposed to abstract the physical network resources to allow flexible and efficient resource use and sharing. It has been widely recognized
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Socially Motivated Data Caching in Ultra-Dense Small Cell Networks IEEE Netw. (IF 6.8) Pub Date : 2017-07-01 Konglin Zhu,Wenting Zhi,Xu Chen,Lin Zhang
UDN is considered as a promising technique to boost the network capacity by reducing the path loss between the base station and UE for the upcoming 5G mobile communication, while the backhaul capacity has become the bottleneck in huge data traffic generated by UEs. One effective approach to coping with the bottleneck is caching the content at the edge of UDNs. Taking advantage of D2D communication
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Cooperative Hierarchical Caching in 5G Cloud Radio Access Networks IEEE Netw. (IF 6.8) Pub Date : 2017-07-01 Tuyen X. Tran,Abolfazl Hajisami,Dario Pompili
Over the last few years, C-RAN is proposed as a transformative architecture for 5G cellular networks that brings the flexibility and agility of cloud computing to wireless communications. At the same time, content caching in wireless networks has become an essential solution to lower the content- access latency and backhaul traffic loading, leading to user QoE improvement and network cost reduction
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Handover Management in Software-Defined Ultra-Dense 5G Networks IEEE Netw. (IF 6.8) Pub Date : 2017-07-01 Tugce Bilen,Berk Canberk,Kaushik R. Chowdhury
Ultra-densification is a key approach aimed at satisfying high data traffic in next-generation 5G networks. However, the high number of small cell eNB deployments in such ultra-dense networks (UDNs) may result in unnecessary, frequent, and back-and-forth handovers, with additional problems related to increased delay and total failure of the handoff process. Additionally, due to the separation of control
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Video Delivery in Dense 5G Cellular Networks IEEE Netw. (IF 6.8) Pub Date : 2017-07-01 Antonios Argyriou,Konstantinos Poularakis,George Iosifidis,Leandros Tassiulas
One of the main challenges for mobile network operators today is the efficient delivery of mobile VoD services. In order to satisfy their requirements, we must revolutionize the way we manage the densely deployed resources in 5G wireless networks, and tailor their operation for video content delivery. Two key approaches that leverage the density of the 5G infrastructure are the systematic usage of
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Ultra-Dense Heterogeneous Relay Networks: A Non-Uniform Traffic Hotspot Case IEEE Netw. (IF 6.8) Pub Date : 2017-07-01 Wei Peng,Min Li,Yuzhou Li,Wei Gao,Tao Jiang
Ultra-dense heterogeneous networks (UD-Het- Nets) with non-uniform traffic hotspots are important scenarios for future wireless networks, which, however, impose challenges on efficient framework and algorithm design due to the heavy congestion incurred by massive hotspot users. Considering these challenges, this article first develops a two-layer interference-aware heterogeneous relay network architecture
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Security-Aware and Privacy-Preserving D2D Communications in 5G IEEE Netw. (IF 6.8) Pub Date : 2017-07-01 Aiqing Zhang,Xiaodong Lin
Device-to-device communication is a promising technology that can offload heavy traffic in 5G networks. However, due to its open nature, there are several security issues. The LTE-A standard introduces security and protection mechanisms, which include mutual authentication between the UEs and the eNB. Unfortunately, D2D communications still face various threats: jamming, data modification, free-riding
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Resource Management in Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Networks for 5G and Beyond IEEE Netw. (IF 6.8) Pub Date : 2017-07-01 Lingyang Song,Yonghui Li,Zhiguo Ding,H. Vincent Poor
Non-orthogonal multiple access techniques have been proposed recently for 5G wireless systems and beyond to improve access efficiency by allowing many users to share the same spectrum. Due to the strong co-channel interference among mobile users introduced by NOMA, it poses significant challenges for system design and resource management. This article reviews resource management issues in NOMA systems
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Efficient and Reliable Multicast Using Device-to-Device Communication and Network Coding for a 5G Network IEEE Netw. (IF 6.8) Pub Date : 2017-07-01 Kaikai Chi,Liang Huang,Yanjun Li,Yi-hua Zhu,Xian-zhong Tian,Ming Xia
How to achieve efficient reliable multicast with 100 percent reliability is an important issue of emerging 5G network. In the 5G network, besides the macro BSs, ultra-dense low-power BSs (e.g., micro, pico, and femto eNBs) are deployed throughout the macrocell to form ultradense small cells, which reduces the number of associated multicast receivers per BS and consequenly reduces the number of retransmissions
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UAV-Assisted Dynamic Coverage in a Heterogeneous Cellular System IEEE Netw. (IF 6.8) Pub Date : 2017-07-01 Yue Li,Lin Cai
The growing popularity of mobile Internet and massive MTC with special traffic characteristics and locations have imposed huge challenges to current cellular networks. Deploying new base stations, however, becomes difficult and expensive, especially for complicated urban scenarios and MTC traffic. The UAV-assisted heterogeneous cellular solution is proposed in this article. It utilizes UAV-based floating
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Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Vehicular Small Cell Networks: Architecture and Solution IEEE Netw. (IF 6.8) Pub Date : 2017-07-01 Li Ping Qian,Yuan Wu,Haibo Zhou,Xuemin Shen
Recently, the concept of 5G vehicular smallcell networking (V-SCN) has been proposed to meet the growing demand of mobile data services in vehicular communications. However, it is a great challenge to explore spectrum and energy efficiency due to the fast vehicle mobility and varying communication environment. In this article, we focus on critical issues, such as interference management and handover
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Cyber Physical Systems for Intelligent Disaster Response Networks: Conceptual Proposal and Field Experiment IEEE Netw. (IF 6.8) Pub Date : 2017-07-01 Hiroki Nishiyama,Katsuya Suto,Hideki Kuribayashi
After large-scale natural disasters, such as the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011, the demand for communication increases and continuously changes due to fluctuating environmental factors and demand from people, seeking to confirm the safety of others and intending to organize forces to react to the disaster situation. However, it is likely that reaching the communication service is difficult because
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Routing at Large Scale: Advances and Challenges for Complex Networks IEEE Netw. (IF 6.8) Pub Date : 2017-07-01 Sahel Sahhaf,Wouter Tavernier,Dimitri Papadimitriou,Davide Careglio,Alok Kumar,Christian Glacet,David Coudert,Nicolas Nisse,Lluis Fabrega,Pere Vila,Miguel Camelo,Pieter Audenaert,Didier Colle,Piet Demeester
A wide range of social, technological and communication systems can be described as complex networks. Scale-free networks are one of the well known classes of complex networks in which nodes� degrees follow a power-law distribution. The design of scalable, adaptive and resilient routing schemes in such networks is very challenging. In this article we present an overview of required routing functionality
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Provisioning Internet Access Using FSO in High-Speed Rail Networks IEEE Netw. (IF 6.8) Pub Date : 2017-07-01 Mina Taheri,Nirwan Ansari,Jianghua Feng,Roberto Rojas-Cessa,Mengchu Zhou
The growing deployment and advanced development of high-speed train (HST) systems, coupled with the reliance on and demand for constant Internet connectivity any time any where, have necessitated the imminent provisioning of broadband Internet services in HSTs. Train-to-ground communications mostly suffers from frequent handoffs due to the high mobility of the trains. To provision high-speed Internet
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Coexistence Issues in Future WiFi Networks IEEE Netw. (IF 6.8) Pub Date : 2017-07-01 Katarzyna Kosek-Szott,Janusz Gozdecki,Krzysztof Loziak,Marek Natkaniec,Lukasz Prasnal,Szymon Szott,Michal Wagrowski
Current advancements within the WiFi domain, such as network densification, traffic offloading, and IoT support, pave the way for increased user and operator satisfaction with future (5G and beyond) network deployments. However, without seamless coexistence of novel and legacy WiFi devices as well as between heterogeneous WiFi networks, the goal of ubiquitous and effortless wireless access may be delayed
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Wireless Energy and Information Transfer in WBAN: An Overview IEEE Netw. (IF 6.8) Pub Date : 2017-05-01 Fengye Hu,Xiaolan Liu,Meiqi Shao,Dan Sui,Liheng Wang
Wireless body area networks (WBANs) aim to improve the speed, accuracy and reliability of communication of sensors/actuators that are energy-limited. Some significant physiological parameters need a higher transmission rate and a larger amount of energy. Since they harvest different amounts of energy from the surrounding environment of the human body, the advances in wireless energy transfer provide
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Intercloud and HetNet for Mobile Cloud Computing in 5G Systems: Design Issues, Challenges, and Optimization IEEE Netw. (IF 6.8) Pub Date : 2017-05-01 Glaucio H.S. Carvalho,Isaac Woungang,Alagan Anpalagan,Muhammad Jaseemuddin,Ekram Hossain
Emerging 5G systems will feature a closer collaboration between mobile network operators and cloud service providers to meet the communication and computational requirements of modern mobile applications and services in a mobile cloud computing (MCC) environment. In this article, we show how the marriage between heterogeneous wireless networks (HetNets) and multiple clouds (a collection of which is
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Adapting LTE/LTE-A to M2M and D2D Communications IEEE Netw. (IF 6.8) Pub Date : 2017-05-01 Jelena Misic,Vojislav B. Misic
Long Term Evolution (LTE) and its revision, Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A), were designed for high performance communications between devices operated by human users. However, when these networks are used for Machineto- Machine (M2M) traffic, i.e., communications between smart electronic devices that do not need human supervision, performance is far from satisfactory. This is mostly due to the