The deployment of 5G networks will necessarily involve the installation of new base station
(BS) equipment to support the requirements of next-generation mobile services. In a …

The eventual goal of the forthcoming 5G wireless networking is to have relatively fast data
speeds, incredibly low latency, substantial rises in base station's efficiency and major …

Nowadays, at least two billion people are experiencing a complete lack of wireless cellular
network coverage. These users live in rural areas and low-income regions, where network …

The majority of business activity of our integrated and connected world takes place in
networks based on cloud computing infrastructure that cross national, geographic and …

Fog computing is considered as the most promising enhancement of the traditional cloud
computing paradigm in order to handle potential issues introduced by the emerging Interned …

Current trends in telecommunication networks foresee the adoption of the fifth generation
(5G) of wireless networks in the near future. However, a large number of people are living …

Challenged Networks (CNs) are characterized by frequent varying network conditions and
intermittent connectivity. In general, CNs emerge in different scenarios including the disaster …

Featured Application Smart water metering enabling continuous, on-demand and
bidirectional data exchange between metering devices, water flow equipment and utilities …

This paper focuses on the design and deployment of a virtualized evaluation testbed, solely
based on open-source software components to support the full extend of features and …

Future communication networks need to harness the available spectrum more efficiently to
cater the requirements of the ever-increasing digital devices. Higher data rate with low …