…tasks to edge computing servers (cloudlets). Cloudlets leverage their computing and storage capabilities to proactively compute and store cacheable computing results. In this regard, a task popularity estimation and caching…
…to develop a novel model that uses sentiment of United States foreign policy and oil companies’ to forecast the direction of weekly WTI crude oil prices. The investigation is divided…
Vehicle platoons will play an important role in improving on-road safety in tomorrow’s smart cities. Vehicles in a platoon can exploit vehicle- to-vehicle (V2V) communications to collect information, such as…
…environmentally friendly and biodegradable materials is becoming increasingly important and adds on even more value. Herein, we demonstrate two- and three-phase composites of poly(lactic acid), graphite and biochar that can…
…(KPIs) required for peer-to-peer (P2P) energy trading and grid control operations from a communications perspective. A set of cross-disciplinary KPIs, both quantitative and qualitative, are considered from communications, power, business,…
This work assesses the performance of secure machine-type communication networks composed of a legitimate pair of devices communicating in the presence of an eavesdropper. We evaluate the impact of legitimate…
This paper evaluates the opportunity to utilise external sensors through near field communication (NFC) for smartphones, both, in terms of energy consumption from the smartphones’ battery and time consumption of…
…features are computed with classical MFCCs. Feature selection is implemented using the wrapper approach. At the next stage, these motion and audio features are merged to form combined feature vectors…
This paper proposes a real-time movement control algorithm for massive unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that provide emergency cellular connections in an urban disaster site. While avoiding the inter-UAV collision under…
…underscores the cardinal role of IoT on the journey toward the fifth generation of wireless communication systems. IoT technologies augmented with intelligent and big data analytics are expected to rapidly…