Special Issue: Technological Advancements in Wireless and Optical Communication Systems
Published in Wireless Personal Communications
Performance Analysis of MultiACK-SFAMA for Underwater Acoustic Networks
Published in Wireless Personal Communications
MultiACK-Slotted Floor Acquisition Multiple Access (MultiACK-SFAMA) is a medium access control (MAC) protocol that has been proposed for underwater acoustic networks to overcome the problems of repeating the entire Request To Send (RTS) and Clear To Send (CTS) contention and DATA transmission cycle. In Slotted Floor Acquisition Multiple Access (S-F...
Sequence Statistical Code Based Data Compression Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Network
Published in Wireless Personal Communications
Sensors play an integral part in the technologically advanced real world. Wireless sensors are which have powered by batteries with limited capacity. Hence energy efficiency is one of the major issues with wireless sensors. Many techniques have been proposed in order to improve sensor efficiency. This paper discusses to improve energy efficiency of...
Threshold Based Efficient Road Monitoring System Using Crowdsourcing Approach
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This paper describes a road monitoring system using crowdsourcing approach to locate potholes and speed breakers. The continuous monitoring of the real-time road anomalies allows acceptable infrastructure maintenance and management operation. For this purpose, a system has been described and different methods have been presented to monitor the cond...
An Intelligent Channel Assignment Approach for Minimum Interference in Wireless Mesh Networks Using Learning Automata an...
Published in Wireless Personal Communications
Multi-radio multi-channel WMNs are innovative technical kind of WMNs, i.e., the nodes with multi radios and numerous channels for communication. In wireless mesh routers of WMNs, multiple network interfaces caused due to multiple channels typically increases the network throughput, i.e., in multi-channel WMN, whenever two neighboring nodes transfer...
Editorial: Special Issue on “Social Innovation for Sustainable Infrastructure (SISI)”
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Performance Enhancement of 5G OFDM Systems Using Modified Raised Cosine Power Pulse
Published in Wireless Personal Communications
OFDM is a key modulation technology of current wireless communication systems such as 4G LTE/LTE-A. The fifth generation (5G) of wireless cellular networks is required to support a large variety of services such as extreme mobile broadband (xMBB) and novel machine type communication services. In this new scenario, wave-form shaping plays key role t...
Defending Against Flooding Attacks in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks Based on Statistical Analysis
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Due to their specific structure and plenty of their utilization, mobile ad-hoc networks are vulnerable to various attacks. An attack which impacts on network layer is referred to as flooding attack. By transmitting several packets, this attack occupies the processor so that it cannot receive the remaining data and packets. Hence, it causes disrupti...
Sustainable Framework for Smart Transportation System: A Case Study of Karachi
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In this paper, a framework of smart transportation system is proposed, aiming to address the transportation problem in Karachi city. In modern day world, the mega cities and urban areas are on the edge of transformation into smart cities. With the advancement of engineering and technology, smart cities are designed to integrate and utilize these sc...
Low-Complexity Massive MIMO Detectors Under Spatial Correlation and Channel Error Estimates
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The performance, complexity and effectiveness of various massive MIMO (M-MIMO) detectors are analyzed operating under highly spatial correlated uniform planar arrays (UPA) channels. In such context, M-MIMO systems present a considerable performance degradation and also, in some cases, an increased complexity. Considering this challenging, but reali...
