The ever-increasing number of resource-constrained machine-type communication (MTC)
devices is leading to the critical challenge of fulfilling diverse communication requirements …

Recently, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, have attracted a lot of attention,
since they represent a new potential market. Along with the maturity of the technology and …

Machine-type communications (MTC) enables a broad range of applications from mission-
critical services to massive deployment of autonomous devices. To spread these …

This article addresses the market-changing phenomenon of the Internet of Things (IoT),
which relies on the underlying paradigm of machine-to-machine (M2M) communications to …

The Internet of Things (IoT) undergoes a fundamental transformation by augmenting its
conventional sensor network deployments with more advanced and mobile devices, such as …

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 …

In industrial automation, the state of process control could be monitored by spatially
distributed sensors and 5G machine-type communication (MTC) enabled industrial Internet …

The Internet of Things (IoT) will shortly be undergoing a major transformation from a sensor-
driven paradigm to one that is heavily complemented by actuators, drones, and robots. The …

Fifth Generation (5G) wireless systems are expected to connect an avalanche of “smart”
objects disseminated from the largest “Smart City” to the smallest “Smart Home”. In this …

Augmenting the long-term evolution (LTE)-evolved NodeB (eNB) with cloud resources offers
a low-latency, resilient, and LTE-aware environment for offloading the Internet of Things …