Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, Volume 28

Volume 28, Number 1, January 2017

Research Articles

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  Yegui Cai, F. Richard Yu, Shengrong Bu:
  A decision theoretic approach for clustering and rate allocation in coordinated multi-point (CoMP) networks with delayed channel state information.
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  Johann Leithon, Sumei Sun, Teng Joon Lim:
  Energy management strategies for base stations in a smart grid environment.
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  Jafar Kazemi, Mohammad Javad Omidi, Keivan Navaie:
  Energy-efficient resource allocation for amplify-and-forward relaying in OFDM systems.
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  David Contreras, Mario Castro, David Sánchez de la Torre:
  Performance evaluation of bluetooth low energy in indoor positioning systems.
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  Fatima Hussain, Alagan Anpalagan, Rath Vannithamby:
  Medium access control techniques in M2M communication: survey and critical review.
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  Mohammad Javad Saber, Seyed Mohammad Sajad Sadough:
  Optimisation of cooperative spectrum sensing for cognitive radio networks in the presence of smart primary user emulation attack.
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  Mahdi Pirmoradian, Olayinka Adigun, Christos Politis:
  Entropy-based opportunistic spectrum access for cognitive radio networks.
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  Calin Vladeanu, Ion Banica, Bjørn Olav Hogstad, Matthias Pätzold, Corneliu Eugen D. Sterian:
  Combining super-orthogonal space-frequency trellis coding, constellation shaping by shell mapping, and OFDM for high data rate broadband mobile communications.
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  Lichen Zhang, Xiaoming Wang, Junling Lu, Meirui Ren, Zhuojun Duan, Zhipeng Cai:
  A novel contact prediction-based routing scheme for DTNs.
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  Hyunsoon Kim, Hwangnam Kim:
  Designing interference-aware network selection protocol for WLAN mobile devices.
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  Julio Manco-Vásquez, Steven Van Vaerenbergh, Javier Vía Rodríguez, Ignacio Santamaría:
  Kernel canonical correlation analysis for robust cooperative spectrum sensing in cognitive radio networks.
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  Mohammed El-Absi, Mohamed El-Hadidy, Thomas Kaiser:
  A distributed interference alignment algorithm using min-maxing strategy.
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  Mohammad Osmani-Bojd, Ghosheh Abed Hodtani:
  Multiple-access relay channels with non-causal channel state information at the relay.
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  Young-Hwan You, Won-Jae Shin, Hyoung-Kyu Song, Jong-Ho Paik:
  Computationally effective sampling frequency-offset estimation for OFDM-based LTE downlink systems.
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  Najam Ul Hasan, Waleed Ejaz, Hyung Seok Kim:
  Frame size selection in CSMA-based cognitive radio wireless local area networks.
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  Raed Mesleh, Salama S. Ikki, Hadi M. Aggoune:
  Quadrature spatial modulation-performance analysis and impact of imperfect channel knowledge.
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  Ying Wang, Jing Xu, Wenxuan Lin:
  A novel quantized time-domain compressed feedback scheme in coordinated multipoint LTE-advanced systems.
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  Rasool Esmaeilyfard, Nadia H. Khiadani, Faramarz Hendessi, Sayed Mostafa Safavi Hemami:
  A vehicular network for social services using data dissemination.
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  Imran Shafique Ansari, Ferkan Yilmaz, Mohamed-Slim Alouini, Oguz Kucur:
  New results on the sum of Gamma random variates with application to the performance of wireless communication systems over Nakagami-m fading channels.
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  Ahmed Mohamedou, Aduwati Sali, Borhanuddin Mohd Ali, Mohamed Othman, Hafizal Mohamad:
  Bayesian inference and fuzzy inference for spectrum sensing order in cognitive radio networks.
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  Jun Tao, Yifan Xu, Le Chang, Chengwei Tan, Xiaoxiao Wang:
  LAOF: location-aware opportunistic forwarding scheme in mobile Ad hoc networks.
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  Son Dinh-Van, Yoan Shin, Oh-Soon Shin:
  Resource allocation and power control based on user grouping for underlay device-to-device communications in cellular networks.
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  Siu-Wai Ho, Jialong Duan, Chung Shue Chen:
  Location-based information transmission systems using visible light communications.
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  Bei Dong, Licheng Jiao, Jianshe Wu:
  Graph-based hybrid hyper-heuristic channel scheduling algorithm in multicell networks.
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  Andre Saito Guerreiro, Gustavo Fraidenraich, Richard Demo Souza:
  On the ergodic secrecy capacity and secrecy outage probability of the MIMOME Rayleigh wiretap channel.
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  Yunxiang Jiang, Francis C. M. Lau, Hongbin Chen, Feng Zhao:
  Energy efficiency optimisation in full-duplex relay systems.
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  Minjoong Rim, Seungyeob Chae, Chung Gu Kang:
  Interference mitigation and D2D parameter estimation for distributed-control D2D underlay systems.
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  Elmira Jalali, Indika A. M. Balapuwaduge, Frank Y. Li, Vicent Pla:
  A dynamic channel access strategy for underlay cognitive radio networks: Markov modelling and performance evaluation.
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  Khalid A. Darabkh:
  Fast and upper bounded Fano decoding algorithm: queuing analysis.
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  Peter Jacko, Evsey Morozov, Lyubov Potakhina, Ina Maria Verloop:
  Maximal flow-level stability of best-rate schedulers in heterogeneous wireless systems.
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  Riccardo Petrolo, Valeria Loscrì, Nathalie Mitton:
  Towards a smart city based on cloud of things, a survey on the smart city vision and paradigms.
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  Jafar Kazemi, Mohammad Javad Omidi, Keivan Navaie:
  A novel low complexity energy-efficient resource allocation for OFDM systems.
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  Luís Carlos Gonçalves, Pedro Sebastião, Nuno Souto, Américo Correia:
  On the impact of user segmentation and behaviour analysis over traffic generation in beyond 4G networks.
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  Saizalmursidi Md Mustam, Sharifah Kamilah Syed Yusof, Samad Nejatian:
  Multilayer diffusion-based molecular communication.
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  Yi Liu, Hailin Zhang, Yongzhao Li:
  Space-interweaving-time-convolutional space-time codes for full-duplex MIMO relay networks.
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  Yuemei Xu, Zihou Wang, Yang Li, Fu Chen, Tao Lin, Wenjia Niu:
  Request routing through collaborative in-network caching for bandwidth optimization: a methodology.
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  Savio Sciancalepore, Malisa Vucinic, Giuseppe Piro, Gennaro Boggia, Thomas Watteyne:
  Link-layer security in TSCH networks: effect on slot duration.
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  Charith Perera, Susan Wakenshaw, Tim Baarslag, Hamed Haddadi, Arosha K. Bandara, Richard Mortier, Andy Crabtree, Irene C. L. Ng, Derek McAuley, Jon Crowcroft:
  Valorising the IoT Databox: creating value for everyone.

Volume 28, Number 2, February 2017

Emerging topics in device to device communications as enabling technology for 5G systems
Editorial

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  Wei Xiang, Kan Zheng, Dusit Niyato, Leonardo Militano, Giuseppe Araniti:
  Editorial of ETT Special Issue: emerging topics in device to device communications as enabling technology for 5G systems.

Special Issue Papers

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  Andrea Abrardo, Gábor Fodor, Besmir Tola:
  Network coding schemes for D2D communications based relaying for cellular coverage extension.
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  Néstor J. Hernández Marcano, Janus Heide, Daniel E. Lucani, Frank H. P. Fitzek:
  Throughput, energy and overhead of multicast device-to-device communications with network-coded cooperation.
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  Daniyal Munir, Jaheon Gu, Syed Faraz Hasan, Min Young Chung:
  Reliable cooperative scheme for public safety services in LTE-A networks.
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  Andrey K. Samuylov, Aleksandr Ometov, Vyacheslav Begishev, Roman Kovalchukov, Dmitri Moltchanov, Yuliya Gaidamaka, Konstantin E. Samouylov, Sergey Andreev, Yevgeni Koucheryavy:
  Analytical performance estimation of network-assisted D2D communications in urban scenarios with rectangular cells.
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  Igor Bisio, Fabio Lavagetto, Andrea Sciarrone, Terrence Penner, Mina Guirguis:
  Context-awareness over transient cloud in D2D networks: energy performance analysis and evaluation.
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  Li Wang, Huaqing Wu:
  Jamming partner selection for maximising the worst D2D secrecy rate based on social trust.
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  Jingjing Zhao, Kok Keong Chai, Yue Chen, John A. Schormans, Jesus Alonso-Zarate:
  Joint mode selection and resource allocation for machine-type D2D links.

Research Articles

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  Peter A. Hoeher, Niklas Doose:
  A massive MIMO terminal concept based on small-size multi-mode antennas.
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  Lilatul Ferdouse, Alagan Anpalagan, Sudip Misra:
  Congestion and overload control techniques in massive M2M systems: a survey.
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  Mohammad Aazam, Eui-Nam Huh:
  Cloud broker service-oriented resource management model.
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  Chul Wan Park, Jihyoung Ahn, Tae-Jin Lee:
  Fast object identification with mode switching for coexistence of NFC and RFID.
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  Osamah S. Badarneh, Raed Mesleh:
  Performance analysis of space modulation techniques over α - μ and κ - μ fading channels with imperfect channel estimation.
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  Haoran Ji, Weidong Bao, Xiaomin Zhu:
  Adaptive workflow scheduling for diverse objectives in cloud environments.
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  Emna Charfi, Cédric Gueguen, Lamia Chaari, Bernard Cousin, Lotfi Kamoun:
  Dynamic frame aggregation scheduler for multimedia applications in IEEE 802.11n networks.
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  Samuel Baraldi Mafra, Richard Demo Souza, João Luiz Rebelatto, Glauber Gomes de Oliveira Brante, Ohara Kerusauskas Rayel:
  Outage performance of a network coding aided multi-user cooperative secondary network.
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  Nadia H. Khiadani, Sayed Mostafa Safavi Hemami, Faramarz Hendessi:
  Introducing a handshake for data dissemination using rateless codes in vehicular ad hoc networks.
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  Stavroula Vassaki, Marios I. Poulakis, Athanasios D. Panagopoulos:
  Optimal iSINR-based power control for cognitive satellite terrestrial networks.
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  Yunze Zeng, Parth H. Pathak, Prasant Mohapatra:
  Throughput, energy efficiency and interference characterisation of 802.11ac.
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  Md. Rubaiyat H. Mondal, Kusha Panta:
  Performance analysis of spatial OFDM for pixelated optical wireless systems.
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  Junchao Li, Weiwei Xia, Lianfeng Shen:
  Delay-aware resource control for device-to-device underlay communication systems.
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  Maria A. Lema, Mario García-Lozano, Silvia Ruiz:
  Cubic spline extrapolation for uplink channel quality prediction in LTE-A with carrier aggregation.
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  Guilherme R. Colen, Hugo Schettino, Diogo Fernandes, Lucas M. Sirimarco, Fabrício P. V. de Campos, Weiler A. Finamore, Haniph A. Latchman, Moisés Vidal Ribeiro:
  A temporal compressive resource allocation technique for complexity reduction in PLC transceivers.
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  Diptanil DebBarma:
  Reduction of downlink delay time for heterogeneous users in Fi-Wi indoor networks.

Volume 28, Number 3, March 2017

Future evolution of public safety communications in the 5G Era
Editorial

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  Faouzi Bader, Laurent Martinod, Gianmarco Baldini, Fred Frantz, Kandeepan Sithamparanathan, Oriol Sallent:
  Future evolution of public safety communications in the 5G Era.

Special Issue Articles

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  Andrej Vilhar, Andrej Hrovat, Igor Ozimek, Tomaz Javornik:
  Analysis of strategies for progressive 5G emergency network deployment.
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  S. S. Krishna Chaitanya Bulusu, Markku Renfors, Juha Yli-Kaakinen, Hmaied Shaiek, Daniel Roviras:
  Enhanced multicarrier techniques for narrowband and broadband PMR coexistence.
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  Michel Terré, Luc Fety, Iness Ahriz, Rabah Maoudj, Laurent Martinod, Philippe Mege:
  Blind channel estimation for FBMC-based PMR transmission.
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  Seung-Hoon Park, Jun Suk Kim, Jaheon Gu, Min Young Chung:
  Novel D2D resource partitioning and allocation schemes for SC-FDMA-based public safety systems.
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  Markku Kiviranta, Aarne Mämmelä, Olli Apilo:
  Power efficiency, phase noise, and DC offset in constant envelope OFDM transceivers.
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  Riccardo Fedrizzi, Leonardo Goratti, Karina Mabell Gomez, Tinku Rasheed:
  A novel geometric handover model for aerial 4G networks with WiFi-based X2 interface.
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  Giulio Bartoli, Romano Fantacci, Francesco Gei, Dania Marabissi, Luigia Micciullo:
  Dynamic PSS and commercial networks spectrum sharing in the time domain.
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  Maurizio Casoni, Carlo Augusto Grazia, Martin Klapez:
  A software-defined 5G cellular network with links virtually pooled for public safety operators.

Research Articles

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  Aida Al-Samawi, Aduwati Sali, Liyth Nissirat, Nor Kamariah Noordin, Mohamed Othman, Fazirulhisyam Hashim:
  Wireless network power optimisation using relay stations blossoming and withering technique.
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  Daniele Tarchi, Romano Fantacci, Dania Marabissi:
  An M2M cognitive MAC protocol for overlaid OFDMA environments.
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  Marwane Ben Hcine, Ridha Bouallegue:
  On the dimensioning of LTE and LTE-advanced networks.
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  Xiao Han, Teng Joon Lim, Jie Xu:
  Heterogeneous access class barring with QoS guarantee in machine-type communications.
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  Pham Ngoc Son, Hyung Yun Kong:
  Improvement of the two-way decode-and-forward scheme by energy harvesting and digital network coding relay.
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  Xiaoying Zhang, Alagan Anpalagan, Lei Guo, Ahmed Shaharyar Khwaja:
  An energy-aware load-balanced routing protocol for ad hoc M2M communications.
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  Chunlin Li, Yan Xin, Layuan Li:
  Agents collaboration-based service provisioning strategy for large enterprise business in hybrid cloud.
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  Chao Zhai, Ju Liu, Peng Lan, Fenggang Sun:
  Strive for the spectrum sharing by transferring energy and relaying data for the primary user.
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  Dantong Liu, Yue Chen, Kok Keong Chai, Tiankui Zhang:
  Backhaul aware joint uplink and downlink user association for delay-power trade-offs in HetNets with hybrid energy sources.
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  Shereen A. M. Ahmed, Sharifah Hafizah Syed Ariffin, Norsheila Fisal:
  Analytical model for probabilistic network coding with delay fairness in multihop wireless network.
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  Xiangdong Jia, Mangang Xie, Longxiang Yang, Hongbo Zhu:
  Outage performance and ergodic capacity of multiuser cognitive MIMO AF relaying systems with MUS/MRT/RAS over Nakagami-m fading channels.

Volume 28, Number 4, April 2017

Research Articles

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  Yunxiang Jiang, He Chen, Francis C. M. Lau, Peng Wang, Yonghui Li:
  Full-duplex OFDMA multi-user cellular systems: resource allocation and user pairing.
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  Harneet Kaur, Jing (Selena) He:
  Blocking negative influential node set in social networks: from host perspective.
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  Nikhil Sharma, Ankur Bansal, Parul Garg:
  Relay selection in mixed RF/FSO system over generalized channel fading.
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  A. Naghizadeh, Asadollah Shahbahrami:
  Binary search routing equivalent (BSRE): a circular design for structured P2P networks.
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  Alvin Ting, David Chieng, Kae Hsiang Kwong, Ivan Andonovic, K. D. Wong:
  Scalability study of backhaul capacity sensitive network selection scheme in LTE-WiFi HetNet.
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  Seung-Yeon Kim, Choong-Ho Cho:
  Power efficient CoMP-joint transmission with two stage QoSs.
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  Kamal Ali Alezabi, Fazirulhisyam Hashim, Shaiful J. Hashim, Borhanuddin Mohd Ali, Abbas Jamalipour:
  On the authentication and re-authentication protocols in LTE-WLAN interworking architecture.
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  Elif Tugce Ceran, Tugce Erkilic, Elif Uysal-Biyikoglu, Tolga Girici, Kemal Leblebicioglu:
  Optimal energy allocation policies for a high altitude flying wireless access point.
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  Antonis G. Gotsis, Athanasios D. Panagopoulos:
  On user association and multiple access optimisation in 5G massive MIMO empowered ultra dense networks.
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  Fatima Hussain, Alagan Anpalagan, Ahmed Shaharyar Khwaja, Muhammad Naeem:
  Resource allocation and congestion control in clustered M2M communication using Q-learning.
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  Pratana Kukieattikool, Norbert Goertz:
  Variable-rate staircase codes with RS component codes for optical wireless transmission.
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  Seyyed Mohammad Javad Asgari Tabatabaee, Hossein Zamiri-Jafarian:
  Prototype filter design for FBMC systems via evolutionary PSO algorithm in highly doubly dispersive channels.
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  Nikhil Sharma, Ankur Bansal, Parul Garg:
  Spectrally efficient TWR-aided free-space optical communication over turbulent channel with generalized pointing error.
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  Meng Han, Mingyuan Yan, Zhipeng Cai, Yingshu Li, Xingquan Cai, Jiguo Yu:
  Influence maximization by probing partial communities in dynamic online social networks.
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  Xueli An, Chan Zhou, Riccardo Trivisonno, Riccardo Guerzoni, Alexandros Kaloxylos, David Soldani, Artur Hecker:
  On end to end network slicing for 5G communication systems.
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  Mohammad A. Raayatpanah:
  Subgraph selection over coded packet networks with multiple QoS parameters based on DEA.
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  Seyed Ali Mohajeran, Seyed Mohammad Sajad Sadough:
  Achieved throughput of OFDM-based cognitive radio systems in the presence of inphase quadrature imbalance.
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  Xiangdong Jia, Meng Zhou, Longxiang Yang, Hongbo Zhu:
  Stochastic geometry based asymptotic analysis for two-tier HetNets with massive MIMO relay employing MRC/MRT and ZF processing.
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  Riccardo Guerzoni, Ishan Vaishnavi, David Pérez-Caparrós, Alex Galis, Francesco Tusa, Paolo Monti, Andrea Sgambelluri, Gergely Biczók, Balázs Sonkoly, László Toka, Aurora Ramos, Javier Melian, Olivier Dugeon, Filippo Cugini, Barbara Martini, Paola Iovanna, Giovanni Giuliani, Ricardo Figueiredo, Luis Miguel Contreras Murillo, Carlos Jesus Bernardos, Cristina Santana, Róbert Szabó:
  Analysis of end-to-end multi-domain management and orchestration frameworks for software defined infrastructures: an architectural survey.

Volume 28, Number 5, May 2017

Editorial

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  Mischa Dohler, Luigi Alfredo Grieco:
  Handshake editorial.

Research Articles

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  Meenakshi Munjal, Niraj Pratap Singh:
  Improved network selection for multimedia applications.
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  Chunlin Li, Yanpei Liu, Youlong Luo:
  QoS-based resource allocation across local and public cloud for resource-constrained mobile device.
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  Chungang Yang, Jiandong Li, Waleed Ejaz, Alagan Anpalagan, Mohsen Guizani:
  Utility function design for strategic radio resource management games: An overview, taxonomy, and research challenges.
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  Giuseppe Cocco, Stephan Pfletschinger, Mònica Navarro:
  Seek and decode: Random access with physical-layer network coding and multiuser detection.
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  Rui Teng, Huan-Bang Li, Ryu Miura:
  Mobile base station with conformational selections for the network maintenance in wireless multihop infrastructure.
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  Aashish Mathur, Manav R. Bhatnagar, Bijaya K. Panigrahi:
  PLC performance evaluation with channel gain and additive noise over nonuniform background noise phase.

Erratum

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  Seyed Mohammad Sajad Sadough, Zahra Chamideh, Mohammad Ali Khalighi:
  Erratum: Efficient signal detection for cognitive radio relay networks under imperfect channel estimation.

Volume 28, Number 6, June 2017

Research Articles

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  Apurva S. Gowda, José Alberto Hernández, David Larrabeiti, Leonid Kazovsky:
  Delay analysis of mixed fronthaul and backhaul traffic under strict priority queueing discipline in a 5G packet transport network.
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  Miguel A. del Arco-Vega, Lucas Cuadra, José Antonio Portilla-Figueras, Sancho Salcedo-Sanz:
  Near-optimal user assignment in LTE mobile networks with evolutionary computing.
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  Pawel Kryszkiewicz, Adrian Kliks, Yves Louët:
  PAPR analysis in noncontiguous OFDM systems.
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  Johann Betz, Dirk Westhoff, Günter Müller:
  Survey on covert channels in virtual machines and cloud computing.
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  Maliheh Masoumzadeh, Mohammad Farzan Sabahi, Amir R. Forouzan:
  Weighted sum rate maximization in MIMO interfering broadcast channels exploiting virtual per-user power constraints.
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  Zahra Alavikia, Abdorasoul Ghasemi:
  A multiple power level random access method for M2M communications in LTE-A network.
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  Yufeng Duan, Paolo Giaccone, Pino Castrogiovanni, Dario Mana, Claudio Borean, Claudio Rossi:
  Transparent bandwidth aggregation for residential access networks.
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  George V. Tsoulos, Ömer Bulakci, Dimitra Zarbouti, Georgia E. Athanasiadou, Alexandros Kaloxylos:
  Dynamic wireless network shaping via moving cells: The nomadic nodes case.

Volume 28, Number 7, July 2017

Research Articles

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  Sher Ali, Ayaz Ahmad:
  Resource allocation, interference management, and mode selection in device-to-device communication: A survey.
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  Bayram Cevdet Akdeniz, Burcu Tepekule, Ali Emre Pusane, Tuna Tugcu:
  Novel network coding approaches for diffusion-based molecular nanonetworks.
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  Yae Jee Cho, H. Birkan Yilmaz, Weisi Guo, Chan-Byoung Chae:
  Effective inter-symbol interference mitigation with a limited amount of enzymes in molecular communications.
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  Tingpei Huang, Haiming Chen, Li Cui, Shibao Li:
  An effective discriminator for differentiating the root causes of packet transmission failures in indoor WSNs.
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  A. Mardi, Paeiz Azmi, Nader Mokari, Saeedeh Parsaeefard:
  Resource allocation for full-duplex-based heterogeneous cellular networks considering back-haul capacity.
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  Hamed Mousavi, Babak Ahmadi, Saeed Rahimi:
  A new approach to decrease the computational complexity of e-voting protocols.
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  Malcolm Egan, Gareth W. Peters, Ido Nevat, Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam, Iain B. Collings:
  A ruin theoretic design approach for wireless cellular network sharing with facilities.
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  Simone Soderi, Lorenzo Mucchi, Matti Hämäläinen, Alessandro Piva, Jari H. Iinatti:
  Physical layer security based on spread-spectrum watermarking and jamming receiver.

Volume 28, Number 8, August 2017

Research Articles

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  Dario Bega, Marco Gramaglia, Carlos Jesus Bernardos, Albert Banchs, Xavier Pérez Costa:
  Toward the network of the future: From enabling technologies to 5G concepts.
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  Marzieh Ajirak, Mohammad Javad Omidi, Hamid Saeedi Sourck, Arin Minasian:
  Optimal power allocation for relay-based cooperative communication systems with energy harvesting.
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  Joaquin Alvarez-Horcajo, Isaías Martinez-Yelmo, Elisa Rojas, Juan A. Carral, Diego Lopez-Pajares:
  New cooperative mechanisms for software defined networks based on hybrid switches.
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  Farooq Alam Orakzai, Ayaz Ahmad, Mohammad Toaha Raza Khan, Muhammad Iqbal:
  Optimal energy-efficient resource allocation in uplink SC-FDMA networks.
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  Makan Zamanipour:
  Probabilistic-based secrecy rate maximisation for MIMOME wiretap channels: Towards novel convexification procedures.
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  Leila Nasraoui, Leïla Najjar Atallah, Mohamed Siala:
  Reduced-complexity simply/doubly differential primary synchronization for LTE systems.
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  Gaoqi Dou, Xianwen He, Ren Deng, Lihua Li, Jun Gao:
  Orthogonal superimposed training design for doubly selective channel estimation using basis expansion models.
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  Mangang Xie, Xiangdong Jia, Meng Zhou, Longxiang Yang:
  Secure massive MIMO-enabled full-duplex 2-tier heterogeneous networks by exploiting in-band wireless backhauls.
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  Deepa Das, Susmita Das:
  An intelligent approach for resource allocation in the cognitive radio vehicular ad hoc network.

Volume 28, Number 9, September 2017

5G Wireless Ultra-dense Networks
Editorial

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  Xiaohu Ge, Guoqiang Mao, Han-Chieh Chao, Vicente Casares Giner:
  5G wireless ultradense networks.

Special Issue Articles

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  Bingbing Li, Limei Peng, Yixue Hao, Yiming Miao, Mohammad Mehedi Hassan:
  Energy-efficient multiperiod planning of optical core network to support 5G networks.
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  Hongliang He, Pinyi Ren, Qinghe Du, Li Sun, Yichen Wang:
  Traffic-aware overload control scheme in 5G ultra-dense M2M networks.
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  Zhonglin Chen, Shanzhi Chen, Hui Xu, Bo Hu:
  Security architecture and scheme of user-centric ultra-dense network (UUDN).
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  Zhefeng Jiang, Shiwen Mao, Xin Wang:
  Dynamic downlink resource allocation and access strategy for femtocell networks.
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  Xiaodong Xu, Chunjing Yuan, Jianhui Li, Xiaofeng Tao:
  Energy-efficient active offloading with collaboration communication and power allocations for heterogeneous ultradense networks.
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  Jiang Wang, Jinling Du, Jing Xu, Haoran Wu:
  Harmonious coexistence solution between stand-alone LTE and WiFi in unlicensed band.
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  Ianire Taboada, Samuli Aalto, Pasi E. Lassila, Fidel Liberal:
  Delay- and energy-aware load balancing in ultra-dense heterogeneous 5G networks.

Volume 28, Number 10, October 2017

Research Articles

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  Hamidreza Bagheri, Fernando Alberto Miranda Bonomi, Marcos D. Katz:
  A low-complexity QoS aware resource allocation algorithm for multi pair device-to-device (D2D) communications.
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  Ibrahim Aydin, Ümit Aygölü:
  A new energy-efficient relay selection technique for large-scale randomly distributed wireless networks.
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  Ngoc Phuc Le, Nguyen-Son Vo, Tiep Minh Hoang, Duc-Dung Tran:
  Unified analysis of energy harvesting-based MIMO relay wireless systems over Nakagami-m fading channels.
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  Jaison Jacob, Babita R. Jose, Jimson Mathew:
  An antenna selection scheme with MRE and AWC for decision fusion in cognitive radio.
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  Mina Baghani, Abbas Mohammadi, Mahdi Majidi, Mikko Valkama:
  Uplink resource allocation in multiuser multicarrier cognitive radio networks under power amplifier nonlinearity.
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  Bhagya Amarasekara, Chathurika Ranaweera, Robin J. Evans, Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas:
  Dynamic scheduling algorithm for LTE uplink with smart-metering traffic.
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  Devendra Singh Gurjar, Prabhat Kumar Upadhyay:
  Overlay spectrum sharing for device-to-device communications in two-way cellular networks with nodes mobility.
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  Francisco Hugo Costa Neto, Emanuel Bezerra Rodrigues, Diego Aguiar Sousa, Tarcisio Ferreira Maciel, Francisco Rodrigo Porto Cavalcanti:
  QoS-aware scheduling algorithms to enhance user satisfaction in OFDMA systems.

Volume 28, Number 11, November 2017

Research Articles

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  Mustapha Benssalah, Mustapha Djeddou, Karim Drouiche:
  A provably secure RFID authentication protocol based on elliptic curve signature with message recovery suitable for m-Health environments.
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  Girraj Kumar Verma, B. B. Singh:
  Efficient message recovery proxy blind signature scheme from pairings.
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  Nan Wang, Yue Gao, Fengyi Yang, Qi Bi, Weiliang Xie, Clive Parini:
  Energy detection-based spectrum sensing with constraint region in cognitive LTE systems.
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  Davide Adami, Barbara Martini, Andrea Sgambelluri, Lisa Donatini, Molka Gharbaoui, Piero Castoldi, Stefano Giordano:
  An SDN orchestrator for cloud data center: System design and experimental evaluation.
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  Ahmed El-Awamry, Maher Khaliel, Abdelfattah Fawky, Thomas Kaiser:
  Adaptive spectrum scanning techniques for reducing the identification time of the frequency coded chipless RFID system.
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  Chang Liu, Balasubramaniam Natarajan:
  Modeling and analysis of simultaneous information and energy transfer in Internet of Things.
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  Ahmed H. Abd El-Malek, Anas M. Salhab, Salam A. Zummo, Mohamed-Slim Alouini:
  Power allocation and cooperative jamming for enhancing physical layer security in opportunistic relay networks in the presence of interference.
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  Dharmendra Dixit, P. R. Sahu:
  Performance of dual-hop DF relaying systems with QAM schemes over mixed η-μ and κ-μ fading channels.
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  Guilherme R. Colen, Lucas Giroto de Oliveira, Camila Borelli Zeller, A. J. Han Vinck, Moisés Vidal Ribeiro:
  Statistical analysis and modeling of a novel parameter for resource allocation in multicarrier PLC systems.
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  Mohamed Kadry Elhattab, Mahmoud M. Elmesalawy, Ibrahim I. Ibrahim:
  Distributed device association for multiservice heterogeneous cellular networks with QoS provisioning.
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  Abdulhamid Zahedi, Mohammad Lari, Azhar Albaaj, Qassem Alabkhat:
  Simultaneous energy harvesting and information processing considering multi-relay multi-antenna using maximum ratio transmission and antenna selection strategies.
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  Hengguo Song, Qimei Cui, Huiling Zuo, Xuefei Zhang, Hui Wang:
  Variable rate and power M-QAM for DPS/DPB CoMP with adaptive modulation.
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  Awais Yousaf, Asim Loan, Radu F. Babiceanu, Onaiza Yousaf:
  Physical-layer intrusion detection system for smart jamming attacks.
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  Muhammad Awais Javed, Sherali Zeadally, Muhammad Usman, Guftaar Ahmad Sardar Sidhu:
  FASPM: Fuzzy logic-based adaptive security protocol for multihop data dissemination in intelligent transport systems.
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  Yosbel R. Ortega, Prabhat K. Upadhyay, Daniel Benevides da Costa, Petros S. Bithas, Athanasios G. Kanatas, Ugo Silva Dias, Rafael Timóteo de Sousa Júnior:
  Joint effect of jamming and noise on the secrecy outage performance of wiretap channels with feedback delay and multiple antennas.
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  Atefeh Hajijamali Arani, Mohammad Javad Omidi, Abolfazl Mehbodniya, Fumiyuki Adachi:
  A distributed learning-based user association for heterogeneous networks.
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  Marco Dolfi, Cicek Cavdar, Simone Morosi, Pierpaolo Piunti, Jens Zander, Enrico Del Re:
  On the trade-off between energy saving and number of switchings in green cellular networks.
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  Antonios Tsiflikiotis, Sotirios K. Goudos, George K. Karagiannidis:
  Hybrid teaching-learning optimization of wireless sensor networks.
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  Zhiquan Bai, Shen Gao, Shanshan Peng, Peihao Dong, Xinghai Yang:
  Multiband chirp OCC-UWB system design for suppression of multiple narrowband interferences.
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  Amir Sonee, Ghosheh Abed Hodtani:
  On the secrecy capacity region of 3-user cognitive multiple-access channels with confidential messages.

Corrigendum

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  Andrey K. Samuylov, Aleksandr Ometov, Vyacheslav Begishev, Roman Kovalchukov, Dmitri Moltchanov, Yuliya Gaidamaka, Konstantin E. Samouylov, Sergey Andreev, Yevgeni Koucheryavy:
  Corrigendum: Analytical performance estimation of network-assisted D2D communications in urban scenarios with rectangular cells.

Volume 28, Number 12, December 2017

Research Articles

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  Ameneh Habibzadeh, Shahriar Shirvani Moghaddam, Seyed Mohammad Razavizadeh, Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam:
  Modeling and analysis of traffic-aware spectrum handover schemes in cognitive HetNets.
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  Preeti Chandrakar, Hari Om:
  Cryptanalysis and improvement of a biometric-based remote user authentication protocol usable in a multiserver environment.
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  Masoud Arash, Ehsan Yazdian, Mohammad Sadegh Fazel, Glauber Brante, Muhammad Ali Imran:
  Employing antenna selection to improve energy efficiency in massive MIMO systems.
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  Syed Junaid Nawaz, Shurjeel Wyne, Konstantinos B. Baltzis, Sardar Muhammad Gulfam, Kanapathippillai Cumanan:
  A tunable 3-D statistical channel model for spatio-temporal characteristics of wireless communication networks.
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  Girraj Kumar Verma, B. B. Singh:
  Short certificate-based proxy signature scheme from pairings.
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  Abdulmajid Almqdshi, Aduwati Sali, Mohammad J. Abdel-Rahman, Nor Kamariah Noordin, Shaiful J. Hashim, Rosdiadee Nordin:
  Efficient rendezvous schemes for fast-varying cognitive radio ad hoc networks.
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  Zhenzhen Hu, Ning Wei, Zhongpei Zhang, Haijun Zhang:
  Outage analysis of coded-cooperation cognitive multirelay network with direct link over Nakagami-m fading channels.
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  Mohamad Hassan Gholami, Paeiz Azmi, Nader Mokari, Moslem Forouzesh:
  Radio resource allocation in heterogeneous cellular networks based on effective capacity maximization: Perspective mobile data offloading.
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  Atefeh Hajijamali Arani, Abolfazl Mehbodniya, Mohammad Javad Omidi, Fumiyuki Adachi:
  Distributed ON/OFF switching and dynamic channel allocation: Decreasing complexity and improving energy efficiency.
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  Alain Richard Ndjiongue, Hendrik Christoffel Ferreira, Jian Song, Fang Yang, Ling Cheng:
  Hybrid PLC-VLC channel model and spectral estimation using a nonparametric approach.
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  Yongqiang Hei, Ran Wei, Wentao Li, Cong Zhang, Xiaohui Li:
  Optimization of multiband cooperative spectrum sensing with particle swarm optimization.
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  Luis Alejandro Fletscher, José María Maestre, Catalina Valencia Peroni:
  An assessment of different user-BS association policies for green HetNets in off-grid environments.
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  Elaheh Vaezpour, Mehdi Dehghan:
  Slow adaptive energy-efficient resource allocation in OFDMA HetNets considering demand uncertainty.
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  Ahmad Naeem Akhtar, Abdul Ghafoor, Adnan Rashdi, Fahim Arif:
  Fuzzification supported spectrum decision framework for cognitive radio networks.
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  Ruonan Zhao, Xiaoming Wang, Lichen Zhang, Yaguang Lin:
  A social-aware probabilistic routing approach for mobile opportunistic social networks.
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  Sutanu Ghosh, Tamaghna Acharya, Santi P. Maity:
  Outage analysis in two-way communication with RF energy harvesting relay and co-channel interference.
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  Stavros E. Sagkriotis, Anargyros J. Roumeliotis, Apostolos Z. Papafragkakis, Athanasios D. Panagopoulos:
  The impact of the system state on energy-efficient transmission of multiple users' flows on the uplink.
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  José Carlos Marinello Filho, Cristiano Magalhães Panazio, Taufik Abrão:
  Joint uplink and downlink optimization of pilot assignment for massive MIMO with power control.
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  Sergio Leon Gaixas, Jordi Perelló, Davide Careglio, Eduard Grasa, Diego R. López, Pedro A. Aranda-Gutiérrez:
  Scalable topological forwarding and routing policies in RINA-enabled programmable data centers.
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  Rashad Kasim, Mehmet Kemal Özdemir:
  A novel sea communication topology and IP routing algorithm by using LTE and WMN in NS-3.