Device-to-device (D2D) communications was initially proposed in cellular networks as a
new paradigm for enhancing network performance. The emergence of new applications …

Wireless networked control systems (WNCSs) are composed of spatially distributed sensors,
actuators, and controllers communicating through wireless networks instead of conventional …

Machine-to-machine (M2M) communication is an emerging technology to provide ubiquitous
connectivity among devices without human intervention. The cellular networks are …

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 …

As heterogeneous networks (HetNets) emerge as one of the most promising developments
toward realizing the target specifications of Long Term Evolution (LTE) and LTE-Advanced …

To cope with the unprecedented growth of mobile data traffic, we investigate the
performance gains obtained from unifying coverage-centric 4G mobile networks and …

A key challenge for enabling machine-to-machine (M2M) communications in long-term
evolution (LTE) networks is the intolerably low access efficiency in the presence of massive …

Abstract Machine-to-machine (M2M) communication is becoming an increasingly important
part of mobile traffic and thus also a topic of major interest for mobile communication …

A wide range of information technology applications require the identification of a particular
message or label that represents the identity of an object at a distance, eg, over a wireless …

For wireless systems in which randomly arriving devices attempt to transmit a fixed payload
to a central receiver, we develop a framework to characterize the system throughput as a …