Customer churn prediction in telecommunication industry is a very essential factor to be achieved and it makes direct impact to customer retention and its revenues. Developing a good and effective churn prediction model is very important however it is a time-consuming process. This study presents a very good review of customer churn, its effects, identification of its causes, business needs, methods

In this paper, calculations of intercarrier interference (ICI) and bit error probability (BEP) of hyperbolic fractional Fourier transform (FRFT) based systems for the satellite internet of things applications, has been considered. Analysis of ICI power and BEP in Rician flat fading channels has been done, mathematically. Simulations approve that the systems based on the hyperbolic FRFT are resistant

This brief proposes a two-stage cascoded CMOS LNA with common drain envelope detection based power reduction method for the 5G applications of 28 GHz frequency. Dual inductive peaking and stagger tuning techniques are involved to get a 3 dB bandwidth of 2.25 GHz from 26.75 to 29 GHz. Besides, 22 dB of gain is provided by the proposed LNA. Inductive source degeneration helps to reduce the Noise Figure

In modern day communication systems, the massive MIMO architecture plays a pivotal role in enhancing the spatial multiplexing gain, but vice versa the system energy efficiency is compromised. Consequently, resource allocation in-terms of antenna selection becomes inevitable to increase energy efficiency without having any obvious effect or compromising the system spectral efficiency. Optimal antenna

Mobile communications are preparing for the incredible changes from \(4\mathrm{th} \,\hbox {Generation (4G)}\) to \(5\mathrm{th}\hbox { Generation (5G)}\) in the coming years. In this new generation, co-channel interference is one of the critical challenges to be tackled due to network densification by providing high data rates through several macro and small cells working together, configuring the

This paper derives the outage and packet error probabilities of Non Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) systems. In the first time slot, the Base Station transmits a combination of two symbols \(s_w\) and \(s_s\) dedicated for weak and strong users. This signal is received by the two users and a relay. In the second time slot, the relay amplifies the received signal to the two users. Both users use the

With the huge expansion in the telecommunications industry, the need for robust information security is becoming more critical than ever. Physical Layer Security has, recently, emerged as a promising candidate to secure emerging communication systems in a lightweight manner. This approach has proven to be superior to existing schemes, which has motivated many researchers to shift their work towards

In a survivable network design problem in cloud computing, one important goal is minimizing the network building costs, and the other important goal is maximizing the technical capability of the network. The literature investigation shows that the previous studies for computer network design proposed models only considering one of the above-mentioned goals and neglected the other. In this paper, a

In this paper, a Multiband Frequency Reconfigurable Substrate Integrated Waveguide (FR-SIW) cavity backed slot antenna for Cognitive Radio appropriate to Internet of Things (IoT) technology is presented. The proposed antenna is developed to address the specific design challenges posed by the IoT based Cognitive Radio (CR) networks. Reconfiguration of frequency bands is achieved using copper strips

Satellite failures account for heavy, irreparable damages, especially when associated with the Power System which is the heart of a satellite. Anomalies in Satellite Power System (SPS) can lead to complete failure of the mission. This demands the need to understand the causes of power system related failures. Huge number of sensors installed in a satellite system conveys information regarding the health

Analysis of error correction performance for error correcting codes is very important when using such codes in digital communication systems. At medium-to-high signal-to-noise ratios, the distance spectrum of the error correcting code represents a good indicator for the error correction performance of the code. It is desired that the minimum distance of the code is as large as possible and that the

The Heterogeneous Network is widely used in the Fifth Generation wireless network to solve the problem of increasing demand on wireless communication. Femtocell or called Home-evolved NodeB (HeNB) is one of the small cells nominated to be used in this generation. HeNB is a low-power, low-cost, and short coverage area base station randomly assigned by the user. Therefore, HeNB is used in Long Term Evolution

Data center networks are typically characterized by high density communication components that process and exchange large amount of information using shortest paths. Mostly, data centers network topologies contain multi-rooted tree with multiple equal cost shortest paths between pairs of hosts. Usually, data center networks operation is based on the result of shortest path algorithms and per-flow static

The standard IEEE 802.15.4 fails to perform optimally for railway monitoring applications due to the deficiency of guaranteed time slots (GTSs). In the present work, an adaptive GTS allocation algorithm (AGAA) is proposed which efficiently deals with a deficiency of GTSs and slot underutilization problem. The proposed AGAA algorithm saves unutilized bandwidth of GTS and the saved bandwidth is utilized

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and Internet of Things domain comprise of numerous small sized battery powered sensor nodes. Energy efficiency and energy balancing are very important aspects from the perspective of increasing the lifespan of WSN. Energy balancing is more important in case of multi-hop networks with many-to-one communication pattern as the nodes which are closer to the sink have more

In a wireless self-organizing and the network-assisted Device-to-Device (D2D) network, proximal Device Discovery (DD) plays a noteworthy role. It is the foundation for self-governing, coverage expansion and performance improvement for example, cooperative and multi-hop transmission. Energy efficiency and discovery accuracy are critical performance measures for proximal DD. A novel DD procedure using

Disruption-tolerance networks (DTNs) are suitable for applications that may lack continuous network connectivity. Examples of such applications include coupon distribution, crisis relief, traffic notification, and broadcasting news from a website. Generally, these contents have a temporal constraint, so that their value will be decreased over time. DTNs have to utilize mobile relay nodes to transmit

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a part of Internet of Things (IoT), and has been used for sensing and collecting the important information from the surrounding environment. Energy consumption in this process is the most important issue, which primarily depends on the clustering technique and packet routing strategy. In this paper, we propose an Energy efficient Hierarchical Clustering and Routing

Emerging trend of ubiquitous data access is driving the demand for effective wireless communication connectivity. In essence to this, wireless local area network (WLAN) technology seems to be a reliable and cost effective access for the next-generation wireless ecosystem. But the pivotal challenge for WLAN in the next generation wireless networks is to cater the legions of heterogeneous services with

Future online services will be provisioned over the federation of infrastructure providers for economic reasons: for effective usage of resources and for a wide geographic reach of customers. The technical enablers of this setup, envisioned also for 5G services, are the virtualization techniques applied in data centers, and in access and core networks. Business aspects around the provisioning of these

Location information of mobile primary users is one of the essential requirements for an underlay cognitive radio user to utilize the licensed spectrum efficiently. The performance of various location-based applications such as global navigation satellite system, device to device communication in dense urban 5G network also depends on the localization accuracy. In this paper, a collaborative localization

In a non-line-of-sight (NLOS) environment, ultra-wide band (UWB) high accuracy positioning has been one of the hot topics in studying indoor positioning. In this paper, a factor graph-based UWB positioning algorithm has been proposed based on an improved Turkey robust kernel. It has overcome not only the defect of the least squares algorithm for UWB positioning against non-Gaussian noise but also eliminated

Vehicle to Everything (V2X) communication is a technology that provides connectivity between vehicles, pedestrians, and road infrastructure. Dedicated Short-Range Communication (DSRC) is proposed by different standards such as ETSI, IEEE, and others since ten years ago to provide wireless connectivity in V2X. Recently, the LTE-V2X based cellular communication is standardized by the 3rd Generation Partner

Downlink (DL)-uplink (UL) coupled cell association scheme was adopted in 3rd generation (3G) homogeneous network and 4th generation (4G) heterogeneous network (HetNet). In the coupled cell association scheme, a user is associated to single base station (BS) in DL & UL based on the strongest received signal power (SRSP) in DL from a macro base station (MBS) and multiple small base stations (SBS) in

Secondary Users (SU) are guided by Cognitive Radio Device in identifying a channel licensed to Primary Users (PU) when it is free. Whenever PU arrives, SU shall vacate and search for the alternate band by a conditional handoff. Existing handoff methods reduce the network’s efficiency. The proposed stochastic approach under hybrid Spectrum Hand-off is (SHO) employing the Invasive Weed Optimization (IWO)

As power consumption results in greenhouse gas emissions and energy costs for operators, analyzing power consumption in wireless networks and portable devices is of crutial importance. Due to environmental effects resulted from energy generation and exploitation as well as the cost of surging energy, energy-aware wireless systems attract unprecedented attention. Cognitive Radio (CR) is one of the optimal

The seamless vertical handoff from a wireless local area network (WLAN) to a cellular system yet poses a big challenge. While serving by a WLAN, a mobile node (MN) may enter a region with a low data rate before completing a handoff towards a cellular network. To maintain quality of service, a large amount of WLAN bandwidth must be allocated to compensate for the weakness of MN link. However, this mechanism

Multiple description coding (MDC) has been an effective scheme for reliable transmission of videos over error prone networks but requires higher data rates. Recently, perceptual video coding schemes are able to encode videos at a lower data rate, but with the same perceived decoding quality. Such schemes exploit human visual system (HVS) properties to encode videos. Although HVS characteristics have

To check students’ daily language learning tasks and give students corresponding reasonable scores based on their daily behavior is hard for teachers. The existing online language learning systems are vulnerable and easy to be modified by teachers or system managers. Blockchain can provide immutable and trusted storage service and automatic calculation service. Therefore, a blockchain-based online

Adaptive communication for is one of the hottest areas of research in the telecommunication systems including wireless broadcast systems. This is primarily accomplished for sake of boosting the transmission throughput with enhanced quality of service and ideal link utilization. In adaptive communication, various radio transmission parameters like modulation symbol, code-rate and power etc. are carefully

This paper considers simultaneous wireless information and power transfer enabled full-duplex multi-user multiple-input multiple-output cognitive networks. By taking into account imperfect channel state information (CSI) of the links toward primary users (PUs), this paper aims to simultaneously optimize two design objectives, namely the achievable sum-rate and sum harvested energy in the secondary

The new revolution in computing and wireless communications technologies led to Internet of Things (IoT). Information collection scheme performs an important role for energy efficient utilization and latency awareness in IoT environments. The enhancement of an effectual information collection scheme is crucial to improve the overall performance of the internet of things applications. In this paper

Traditional multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) algorithms are used in the handover of user equipment (UE) in an Ultra Dense Network (UDN). UDN refers to the increased density of the Radio Access Technologies (RATs) in a region which leads to the overlapping of the areas covered by individual RATs. MCDM algorithms such as TOPSIS, PROMETHEE and SAW are used to initiate handovers between these RATs

The importance and applications of sensor networks have grown significantly in recent years. These networks are implemented in an ad-hoc manner, where messages pass through multiple intermediate nodes until they reach a central node (sink node). Depending on the type of application, the message loss rate can compromise its performance and even make its use unfeasible. The objective of this work is

The Cloud is a new computing paradigm that has experienced exponential growth in recent years. Therefore, success in the cloud services industry can be a challenge, as satisfying both cloud service users and providers is challenging. Cloud users expect to receive a higher service quality with the lowest possible prices. On the other hand, cloud service providers need to maximize their revenues by utilizing

Inter-Cell Interference (ICI) could affect the performance of the LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) system and can be evaluated according to the user’s Signal to Interference and Noise Ratio (SINR). Owing to this, the power and frequency allocation schemes can be utilized in order to attain an optimum trade-off within the obtained SINR and the resulting interference. In this study, power allocation was integrated

Labeling diversity (LD) is a well-known technique proposed for multi-antenna Wireless local area network (WLAN) applications . In this paper, we propose LD for three-terminal cooperative communication schemes i.e., Decode and Forward (DF) and Coded-cooperative (CC) schemes with each terminal using a single antenna for transmission. The Boosted space-time codeword is jointly constructed by source and

The directional transmission of millimeter wave (mmWave) beam is applied in the satellite cluster, which can efficiently avoid the interference problem caused by the satellites working in the same frequency band. However, due to the dynamic change of the satellite cluster topology and the randomness of the message transmitted by satellite, there will still be interference. In this paper, in terms of

In order to more accurately evaluate or calibrate the electronic torsional vibration test analyzer and analysis method, a torsional vibration signal generator is developed in the present study. The developed device generates a tooth pulse interval sequence based on the inverse solution of the shaft torsional equation. Moreover, a single-frequency signal, inter-harmonic signal, time-varying harmonic

A polarization multiplexed all-optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (AO-OFDM) system is investigated analytically and numerically, with 12.5 Gbaud symbol rate, that is compatible with the International Telecommunication Union flexible grid. We demonstrate that fast adaptive filtering is not require at the receiver and chromatic dispersion with polarization mode dispersion can be compensated

This paper studies the interference graph construction problem for device-to-device (D2D) communications underlaying cellular networks. Firstly, an improved interference graph construction method compared to the previous work in Zhang et al. (IEEE Trans Vehicular Technol 66(4):3293–3305, 2017) is proposed. The difference is mainly that, in this work the BS allocates resources for transmitting probe

The rapid growth of small cells is driving cellular network toward randomness and heterogeneity. The multi-tier heterogeneous network (HetNet) addresses the massive connectivity demands of the emerging cellular networks. Cellular networks are usually modeled by placing each tier (e.g macro, pico and relay nodes) deterministically on a grid which ignores the spatial randomness of the nodes. Several

Software defined networking (SDN) and its most popular southbound implementation OpenFlow (OF) are already greatly exploited in the existing mobile cellular networks as part of data centers and mobile core networks. Due to user’s mobility, it is of upmost importance for the operators to provide the shortest possible interruption when the mobile users are performing the procedure of handover. In this

Power line communication (PLC) medium is a very hostile environment, this is due to the fact that severe impairments adhering this means of communication, which cannot be described as a Gaussian noise. In this paper, we propose a powerful scheme to combat the impulsive noise effect and efficiently increase the transmission bit rate. The proposed technique makes use of a new hybrid coding (HC) process

Confidentiality and integrity are fundamental requirements when transmitting and storing data. In order to guarantee the confidentiality and integrity of speech signal, we present a novel wateRmarking scheme for Encrypted sPeech AuthenticatIon with Recovery (REPAIR) scheme. In REPAIR, an encryption algorithm is first designed based on a hyper-chaotic method to improve the confidentiality of the original

In the current era of IoT, home appliances like dishwashers, washing machines, and coffee makers, etc. are being equipped with internet access and sensing resources to provide autonomous or semi-autonomous functionality to its users. It is foreseeable that these appliances will soon be capable to collaborate by sharing their capabilities enabling dynamic operations as per the context and user preferences

This paper studies the energy efficiency (EE) optimization problem in multiple-user multiple-input–multiple-output heterogeneous wireless powered communication network (HWPCN) in which the users in small cells can harvest energy from the small cell base stations in downlink and use harvested energy for uplink transmission. We consider the joint design problem of wireless energy transmission and wireless

In order to implement the interweave cognitive radio solutions, the research for finding sparsely utilized spectrum bands has revealed the VHF and UHF television broadcast bands, known as television white spaces (TVWS) as the foremost candidate. The TVWS quantification and throughput analysis conducted via several measurement attempts and field trials uncover various facets of the TVWS spectrum measurement

RFC 5180, the IPv6 update of RFC 2544, declared IPv6 transition technologies out of its scope. RFC 8219 defined a benchmarking methodology for IPv6 transition technologies including stateless NAT64 (more properly called SIIT) in the category of single translation solutions. Whereas several research papers have dealt with the performance of different stateful NAT64 implementations, none of them used

Authentication has strong impact on the overall security model of every information system. Various authentication techniques are available for restricting the access of unauthorized users to the enterprise scale networks. IEEE 802.1X defines a secure and reliable authentication framework for 802.11 WLANs, where Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) provides the base to this architecture. EAP is

This paper presents a Broadcast and Reliable Coverage based Efficient Recursive Routing (BRCER) in Large-Scale Wireless Sensor Networks for Event-Driven Applications with Mobile Sinks (MSs). For data routing in the network, the proposed protocol updates the connectivity list by using local broadcast and multicast announcement. Instead of broadcasting in the whole network, the local broadcasting is

Drivers can be provided with several beneficial services associated with video streaming in a vehicular ad-hoc network (VANET). Given the dynamic topology and high mobility of VANETs, a single path cannot support the required quality of service (QoS). To maximize global QoS metrics, a two-path model is proposed based on a disjoint algorithm to forward sub-streams over diverse paths from the transmitter

We explore the RIPless theory for the analysis of single snapshot DOA estimation with uniform linear array using the compressed sensing technique. Starting with a sparse signal recovery model constructed for single snapshot DOA estimation, we prove the isotropy property and incoherence property are fulfilled for the estimation problem. A vital proposition is obtained using the RIPless theory, which

The IPv6 routing protocol for low-power and lossy networks (RPL) is the standard routing protocol for IPv6 based low-power wireless personal area networks (6LoWPANs). In RPL protocol, DODAG information object (DIO) messages are used to disseminate routing information to other nodes in the network. A malicious node may eavesdrop DIO messages of its neighbor nodes and later replay the captured DIO many

In this paper, we propose a new Adaptive Cooperation (AC) protocol for Free Space Optical (FSO) communications. Two versions of the protocol are presented. The first protocol uses the Instantaneous Signal to Noise Ratio (ISNR) to activate the relay only when the corresponding instantaneous throughput is better than that of the direct link. The second protocol uses the Average SNR (ASNR) to activate

Device-free passive wireless indoor localization has attracted great interest due to the widespread deployment of Wi-Fi devices and the rapid growth in demand for location-based services. In this paper, we propose a novel device-free passive wireless localization system with a weighted transferable discriminative dimensionality reduction method (termed TLLOC). It utilizes the channel state information

Crowdsourcing application, deemed as a key evolution on the way to vehicular networking, has great potential to provide real-time services. However, existing cloud-based vehicular networking cannot support real-time data transmission with wasting massive bandwidth resources. This paper studies the crowdsourcing application in edge-assistant vehicular networking. To improve the real-time demand of data

Network slicing technology is a core part of 5G network, which enables users to access the suitable network on demand and increases the flexibility of network resources through appropriate network configuration. However, the group users in dynamic 5G network slices face communication security threats (impersonation attack, network monitoring, identity leakage, etc.). Group key agreement (GKA) protocol

In this paper, the impact of varying path loss exponent (PLE) on user association probability, decoupled uplink coverage probability as well as decoupled uplink average spectral efficiency in downlink uplink decoupled (DUDe) multi-tier heterogeneous networks, is investigated. We investigate the effect of the difference in path loss exponents in both macro and small cell environments over uplink network

We present a new fast polling algorithm (FPA) in a wireless mesh network (WMN) for Narrowband Internet of Things systems using multi-hop WMNs. We focus on wireless networks with stationary IoT remote telemetry units (IoT RTU), such as wireless network monitoring. The goal of the new FPA is to minimize the time required for supervisory control and data acquisition center to poll all RTUs one by one