The world is witnessing an unprecedented growth of cyber-physical systems (CPS), which
are foreseen to revolutionize our world via creating new services and applications in a …

The proliferation of heterogeneous devices connected through large-scale networks is a
clear sign that the vision of the Internet of Things (IoT) is getting closer to becoming a reality …

Mobile augmented reality (MAR) applications are gaining popularity due to the wide
adoption of mobile and especially wearable devices. Such devices often present limited …

Supporting massive numbers of machine-type communication (MTC) devices poses several
challenges for future 5G networks, including network control, scheduling, and powering …

Recently, an ad-hoc mobile cloud has emerged as a promising architecture, which allows a
mobile user to offload its computation tasks to nearby mobile devices, namely mobile …

Traffic growth is anticipated to be 1000 times in future fifth generation (5G) networks, which
necessitates dense deployment of small cells in a heterogeneous environment. Currently …

D2D interactions are promoted both in the context of traffic and computation offloading.
Applications with functionalities that are executed in parallel in more than one mobile device …

Federated Learning (FL) has become a key choice for distributed machine learning. Initially
focused on centralized aggregation, recent works in FL have emphasized greater …

This chapter deals with a comprehensive analysis of the challenges behind the introduction
of Device-to-Device (D2D) communications in the context of 5th Generation (5G) …

Reducing energy consumption is a key requirement for Massive Machine-Type
Communication (mMTC) devices operating on battery power. Device-to-Device (D2D) …