The explosive growth of various services boosts the innovation and development in
terrestrial communication systems for the implementation of the next generation mobile …

The number and variety of mobile multicast applications are growing at an unprecedented
and unanticipated pace. Mobile network providers are in front of a dramatic increase in …

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 …

Despite of the undisputed benefits of the long term evolution-advanced (LTE-A) networks,
offering support for group-oriented services challenges the evolved multimedia broadcast …

This paper investigates relay-based schemes in cellular systems, where multihop device-to-
device (D2D) communications are exploited for content uploading toward the eNodeB. All …

Exploiting short-range technologies like Wi-Fi for achieving benefits in terms of throughput
and energy consumption, has been among the first proposals to enhance the data transfer …

This chapter provides an overview on existing standards in vehicular networking and
highlights new emerging trends towards an integrated infrastructure based on the …

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) …

A distributed multistage cooperative-social-multicast-protocol-aided content dissemination
scheme is proposed, which is based on a self-organized ad hoc network of mobile stations …

Based on the common interest of mobile users (MUs) in a social group, the dissemination of
content across the social group is studied as a powerful supplement to conventional cellular …