Massive MTC over cellular networks is expected to be an integral part of wireless smart city
applications. The LTE/LTE-A technology is a major candidate for provisioning of MTC …

In futuristic wireless communications, a massive number of devices need to access networks
with diverse quality of service (QoS) requirements. It is estimated that the number of …

The integration of the IoT and cloud technology is very important to have a better solution for
an uninterrupted, secured, seamless, and ubiquitous framework. The complementary nature …

To achieve 1000-fold capacity increase in 5G wireless communications, ultradense network
(UDN) is believed to be one of the key enabling technologies. Most of the previous research …

This paper surveys the literature related to the evolution of cellular communications as a key
enabling technology for fundamental operations of smart grid neighborhood area networks …

Machine-to-machine (M2M) communications refer to the autonomous interaction between
connected devices without the human intervention. Recently, the Third-Generation …

The increasing demand for power distribution systems in terms of control with nearly
immediate response requires deploying a new type of user equipment (UE) that demands …

IEEE 802.11 ah is a novel WiFi-based protocol, aiming to provide an access solution for the
machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. In this paper, we propose an adaptive access …

Persistently high traffic loads and heterogeneous quality of service (QoS) requirements
arising from machine-to-machine communication in wireless 5G systems require effective …

In a massive machine-type communication (MTC) environment, a traffic control algorithm is
essential to solving traffic congestion problems. Additionally, as MTC applications have …