The recent progress in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) technology has significantly
advanced UAV-based applications for military, civil, and commercial domains. Nevertheless …

Objective: From medicine via radio to telemedicine, personalized medical care at sea has
improved significantly over the years. Currently, very little research has been conducted on …

DVB-S2 and DVB-SH satellite broadcasting standards currently deploy 16-and 32-amplitude
phase shift keying (APSK) modulation using the consultative committee for space data …

Energy efficiency is one of the main challenges to be faced by mobile communications in the
near future. The growth of the mobile communications market which is boosted by the …

The future generation of High Throughput Satellite (HTS) for broadband distributed user
access is strictly connected to the use of Ka-band and beyond frequencies. This is related to …

In the near future the capability of the human beings to communicate sensations is going to
be enhanced by incorporating the five sensory features in the messages and allowing more …

HAPs may act as floating base stations which deliver broadband communications from 20-
50 km above the ground, positioned between satellite and terrestrial platforms. Since 2012 …

This paper deals with the management of multicast transmissions in Satellite-Long Term
Evolution (S-LTE) networks. With the purpose of offering high session quality by exploiting …

In this paper, the exact closed-form signal-to-interference-noise ratio (SINR) expression, for
the joint impact of carrier frequency offset (CFO) and phase noise (PHN), is derived for each …

This paper presents a peer‐to‐peer cooperative positioning technique together with its
performance assessment. The cooperation between the two GPS receivers is realized by …