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Table of contents IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2020-11-20
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Editorial: Fourth Quarter 2020 IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2020-11-20 Ying-Dar Lin
I Welcome you to the fourth issue of the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials in 2020. This issue includes 22 papers covering different aspects of communication networks. In particular, these articles survey and tutor various issues in “Wireless Communications,” “5G and Vehicular Communications,” “Internet of Things,” “Network Security,” and “Miscellaneous.” There are three papers in the miscellaneous
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Distributed Control and Communication Strategies in Networked Microgrids IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2020-09-15 Quan Zhou; Mohammad Shahidehpour; Aleksi Paaso; Shay Bahramirad; Ahmed Alabdulwahab; Abdullah Abusorrah
Networked microgrids (NMGs) provide a promising solution for accommodating various distributed energy resources (DERs) and enhancing the system performance in terms of reliability, resilience, flexibility, and energy efficiency. With the penetration of MGs, the communication-based distributed control is playing an increasingly important role in NMGs for coordinating a multitude of heterogeneous and
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A Tutorial on NB-IoT Physical Layer Design IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2020-09-11 Matthieu Kanj; Vincent Savaux; Mathieu Le Guen
The Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming the whole of society. It represents the next evolution of the Internet and will significantly improve the ability to gather and analyze data, as well as the ability to control devices remotely. In this respect, the usage of connected devices is continuously growing with the expansion of the applications being offered to individuals and industries. To address
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Architectural Design Alternatives Based on Cloud/Edge/Fog Computing for Connected Vehicles IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2020-09-02 Haoxin Wang; Tingting Liu; BaekGyu Kim; Chung-Wei Lin; Shinichi Shiraishi; Jiang Xie; Zhu Han
As vehicles playing an increasingly important role in people’s daily life, requirements on safer and more comfortable driving experience have arisen. Connected vehicles (CVs) can provide enabling technologies to realize these requirements and have attracted widespread attentions from both academia and industry. These requirements ask for a well-designed computing architecture to support the Quality-of-Service
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Machine Learning Techniques for Optical Performance Monitoring and Modulation Format Identification: A Survey IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Waddah S. Saif; Maged A. Esmail; Amr M. Ragheb; Tariq A. Alshawi; Saleh A. Alshebeili
The trade-off between more user bandwidth and quality of service requirements introduces unprecedented challenges to the next generation smart optical networks. In this regard, the use of optical performance monitoring (OPM) and modulation format identification (MFI) techniques becomes a common need to enable the development of next-generation autonomous optical networks, with ultra-low latency and
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Integration of Blockchain and Cloud of Things: Architecture, Applications and Challenges IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2020-08-28 Dinh C. Nguyen; Pubudu N. Pathirana; Ming Ding; Aruna Seneviratne
The blockchain technology is taking the world by storm. Blockchain with its decentralized, transparent and secure nature has emerged as a disruptive technology for the next generation of numerous industrial applications. One of them is Cloud of Things enabled by the combination of cloud computing and Internet of Things. In this context, blockchain provides innovative solutions to address challenges
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Table of contents IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2020-08-21
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Editorial: Third Quarter 2020 IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2020-08-21 Ying-Dar Lin
I Welcome you to the third issue of the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials in 2020. This issue includes 20 papers covering different aspects of communication networks. In particular, these articles survey and tutor various issues in “Wireless, Optical, and Sensor Communications,” “IoT and M2M,” “Network Security,” and “Internet Technologies.” A brief account for each of these papers is given
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On Energy Efficient Resource Allocation in Shared RANs: Survey and Qualitative Analysis IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2020-06-18 Fatma Marzouk; João Paulo Barraca; Ayman Radwan
An expansion of services and unprecedented traffic growth is anticipated in future networks, aligned with the adoption of the long-awaited Fifth Generation (5G) of mobile communications. To support this demand, without exposing mobile operators to the pressure of CAPEX and OPEX, 5G uses new frequency bands, and adopts promising trends, including: densification, softwarization, and autonomous management
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Sharing Distributed and Heterogeneous Resources toward End-to-End 5G Networks: A Comprehensive Survey and a Taxonomy IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2020-06-19 Nina Slamnik-Kriještorac; Haris Kremo; Marco Ruffini; Johann M. Marquez-Barja
Regardless of the context to which it is applied, sharing resources is well-recognized for its considerable benefits. Since 5G networks will be service-oriented, on-demand, and highly heterogeneous, it is utmost important to approach the design and optimization of the network from an end-to-end perspective. In addition, in order to ensure end-to-end performance, this approach has to entail both wireless
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MAC Protocols for Terahertz Communication: A Comprehensive Survey IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2020-08-18 Saim Ghafoor; Noureddine Boujnah; Mubashir Husain Rehmani; Alan Davy
Terahertz communication is emerging as a future technology to support Terabits per second link with highlighting features as high throughput and negligible latency. However, the unique features of the Terahertz band such as high path loss, scattering, and reflection pose new challenges and results in short communication distance. The antenna directionality, in turn, is required to enhance the communication
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Security in Energy Harvesting Networks: A Survey of Current Solutions and Research Challenges IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2020-08-18 Pietro Tedeschi; Savio Sciancalepore; Roberto Di Pietro
The recent advancements in hardware miniaturization capabilities have boosted the diffusion of systems based on Energy Harvesting (EH) technologies, as a means to power embedded wireless devices in a sustainable and low-cost fashion. Despite the undeniable management advantages, the intermittent availability of the energy source and the limited power supply has led to challenging system trade-offs
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Machine-Type Communication for Maritime Internet of Things: A Design IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2020-08-10 Michael Mao Wang; Jingjing Zhang; Xiaohu You
This paper presents a maritime machine-type communication (MTC) concept dedicated to the maritime Internet of Things (IoT). It first outlines the unique maritime MTC requirements on the ubiquity, continuity, heterogeneity, simplicity, interoperability, and scalability for maritime IoT applications and services. It then addresses these requirements through a concrete maritime MTC system design, based
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Indoor Intelligent Fingerprint-Based Localization: Principles, Approaches and Challenges IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2020-08-05 Xiaoqiang Zhu; Wenyu Qu; Tie Qiu; Laiping Zhao; Mohammed Atiquzzaman; Dapeng Oliver Wu
With the rapid development of Internet of Things (IoT) technology, location-based services have been widely applied in the construction of smart cities. Satellite-based location services have been utilized in outdoor environments, but they are not suitable for indoor technology due to the absence of global positioning system (GPS) signal. Therefore, many indoor localization technologies and systems
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A Survey of Rate-Optimal Power Domain NOMA With Enabling Technologies of Future Wireless Networks IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2020-08-03 Omar Maraqa; Aditya S. Rajasekaran; Saad Al-Ahmadi; Halim Yanikomeroglu; Sadiq M. Sait
The ambitious high data-rate applications in the envisioned future beyond fifth-generation (B5G) wireless networks require new solutions, including the advent of more advanced architectures than the ones already used in 5G networks, and the coalition of different communications schemes and technologies to enable these applications requirements. Among the candidate communications schemes for future
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Security and Privacy Challenges in Connected Vehicular Cloud Computing IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2020-07-30 Arooj Masood; Demeke Shumeye Lakew; Sungrae Cho
Vehicular cloud computing (VCC) is an improvement from conventional cloud computing to new revolutionized computing services including intelligent transportation, autonomous driving and vehicle control, Internet browsing, online documentation, and infotainment. It enables vehicles to autonomously share heterogeneous computational resources while solving unanticipated critical problems dynamically.
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IEEE 802.11be Wi-Fi 7: New Challenges and Opportunities IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2020-07-29 Cailian Deng; Xuming Fang; Xiao Han; Xianbin Wang; Li Yan; Rong He; Yan Long; Yuchen Guo
With the emergence of 4k/8k video, the throughput requirement of video delivery will keep grow to tens of Gbps. Other new high-throughput and low-latency video applications including augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and online gaming, are also proliferating. Due to the related stringent requirements, supporting these applications over wireless local area network (WLAN) is far beyond the
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When Machine Learning Meets Privacy in 6G: A Survey IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2020-07-23 Yuanyuan Sun; Jiajia Liu; Jiadai Wang; Yurui Cao; Nei Kato
The rapid-developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology, fast-growing network traffic, and emerging intelligent applications (e.g., autonomous driving, virtual reality, etc.) urgently require a new, faster, more reliable and flexible network form. At this time, researchers in both industry and academia have turned their attention to the sixth generation (6G) communication networks. In the 6G vision
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A Systematic Survey of Industrial Internet of Things Security: Requirements and Fog Computing Opportunities IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2020-07-22 Koen Tange; Michele De Donno; Xenofon Fafoutis; Nicola Dragoni
A key application of the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm lies within industrial contexts. Indeed, the emerging Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), commonly referred to as Industry 4.0, promises to revolutionize production and manufacturing through the use of large numbers of networked embedded sensing devices, and the combination of emerging computing technologies, such as Fog/Cloud Computing and
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Edge Computing in Industrial Internet of Things: Architecture, Advances and Challenges IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2020-07-14 Tie Qiu; Jiancheng Chi; Xiaobo Zhou; Zhaolong Ning; Mohammed Atiquzzaman; Dapeng Oliver Wu
The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is a crucial research field spawned by the Internet of Things (IoT). IIoT links all types of industrial equipment through the network; establishes data acquisition, exchange, and analysis systems; and optimizes processes and services, so as to reduce cost and enhance productivity. The introduction of edge computing in IIoT can significantly reduce the decision-making
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Dynamic TDD Systems for 5G and Beyond: A Survey of Cross-Link Interference Mitigation IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2020-07-13 Hyejin Kim; Jintae Kim; Daesik Hong
Dynamic time division duplex (D-TDD) dynamically allocates the transmission directions for traffic adaptation in each cell. D-TDD systems are receiving a lot of attention because they can reduce latency and increase spectrum utilization via flexible and dynamic duplex operation in 5G New Radio (NR). However, the advantages of the D-TDD system are difficult to fully utilize due to the cross-link interference
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Collective Remote Attestation at the Internet of Things Scale: State-of-the-Art and Future Challenges IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2020-07-13 Moreno Ambrosin; Mauro Conti; Riccardo Lazzeretti; Md Masoom Rabbani; Silvio Ranise
In recent years, the booming of Internet of Things (IoT) has populated the world with billions of smart devices that implement novel services and applications. The potential for cyberattacks on IoT systems have called for new solutions from the research community. Remote attestation is a widely used technique that allows a verifier to identify software compromise on a remote platform (called prover)
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A Survey of Biological Building Blocks for Synthetic Molecular Communication Systems IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2020-07-13 Christian A. Söldner; Eileen Socher; Vahid Jamali; Wayan Wicke; Arman Ahmadzadeh; Hans-Georg Breitinger; Andreas Burkovski; Kathrin Castiglione; Robert Schober; Heinrich Sticht
Synthetic molecular communication (MC) is a new communication engineering paradigm which is expected to enable revolutionary applications such as smart drug delivery and real-time health monitoring. The design and implementation of synthetic MC systems (MCSs) at nano- and microscale is very challenging. This is particularly true for synthetic MCSs employing biological components as transmitters and
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Communication-Efficient Edge AI: Algorithms and Systems IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2020-07-07 Yuanming Shi; Kai Yang; Tao Jiang; Jun Zhang; Khaled B. Letaief
Artificial intelligence (AI) has achieved remarkable breakthroughs in a wide range of fields, ranging from speech processing, image classification to drug discovery. This is driven by the explosive growth of data, advances in machine learning (especially deep learning), and the easy access to powerful computing resources. Particularly, the wide scale deployment of edge devices (e.g., IoT devices) generates
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A Survey on Adaptive 360° Video Streaming: Solutions, Challenges and Opportunities IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2020-07-03 Abid Yaqoob; Ting Bi; Gabriel-Miro Muntean
Omnidirectional or 360° video is increasingly being used, mostly due to the latest advancements in immersive Virtual Reality (VR) technology. However, its wide adoption is hindered by the higher bandwidth and lower latency requirements than associated with traditional video content delivery. Diverse researchers propose and design solutions that help support an immersive visual experience of 360° video
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Caching in Vehicular Named Data Networking: Architecture, Schemes and Future Directions IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2020-06-29 Chen Chen; Cong Wang; Tie Qiu; Mohammed Atiquzzaman; Dapeng Oliver Wu
The TCP/IP stack plays an important role in terms of data transmission, traffic control and address assignment in the Internet of Vehicles (IoV), which has seen phenomenal growth in recent years. However, with the increasing technical requirements and daily demand in IoV, the drawbacks of traditional TCP/IP protocols, e.g., weak scalability in large networks, low efficiency in the dense environment
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Toward Smart Wireless Communications via Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces: A Contemporary Survey IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2020-06-22 Shimin Gong; Xiao Lu; Dinh Thai Hoang; Dusit Niyato; Lei Shu; Dong In Kim; Ying-Chang Liang
This paper presents a literature review on recent applications and design aspects of the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) in the future wireless networks. Conventionally, the network optimization has been limited to transmission control at two endpoints, i.e., end users and network controller. The fading wireless channel is uncontrollable and becomes one of the main limiting factors for performance
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Table of contents IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2020-05-27
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Editorial: Second Quarter 2020 IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2020-05-27 Ying-Dar Lin
I welcome you to the second issue of the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials in 2020. This issue includes 20 papers covering different aspects of communication networks. In particular, these articles survey and tutor various issues in “Wireless and Optical Communications,” “Vehicular Communications,” “IoT and M2M,” “Network Security,” and “Internet Technologies.” A brief account for each of these
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Complementing IoT Services Through Software Defined Networking and Edge Computing: A Comprehensive Survey IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2020-05-26 Wajid Rafique; Lianyong Qi; Ibrar Yaqoob; Muhammad Imran; Raihan Ur Rasool; Wanchun Dou
Millions of sensors continuously produce and transmit data to control real-world infrastructures using complex networks in the Internet of Things (IoT). However, IoT devices are limited in computational power, including storage, processing, and communication resources, to effectively perform compute-intensive tasks locally. Edge computing resolves the resource limitation problems by bringing computation
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Grant-Free Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access for IoT: A Survey IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2020-05-20 Muhammad Basit Shahab; Rana Abbas; Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam; Sarah J. Johnson
Massive machine-type communications (mMTC) is one of the main three focus areas in the 5th generation (5G) of wireless communications technologies to enable connectivity of a massive number of Internet of things (IoT) devices with little or no human intervention. In conventional human-type communications (HTC), due to the limited number of available channel resources and orthogonal resource allocation
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The Road Ahead for Networking: A Survey on ICN-IP Coexistence Solutions IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2020-05-15 Mauro Conti; Ankit Gangwal; Muhammad Hassan; Chhagan Lal; Eleonora Losiouk
In recent years, the usage model of the Internet has changed, pushing researchers towards the design of the Information-Centric Networking (ICN) paradigm as a possible replacement of the existing architecture. Even though both Academia and Industry have investigated the feasibility and effectiveness of ICN, achieving the complete replacement of the Internet Protocol (IP) is a challenging task: (i)
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CubeSat Communications: Recent Advances and Future Challenges IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2020-04-27 Nasir Saeed; Ahmed Elzanaty; Heba Almorad; Hayssam Dahrouj; Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri; Mohamed-Slim Alouini
Given the increasing number of space-related applications, research in the emerging space industry is becoming more and more attractive. One compelling area of current space research is the design of miniaturized satellites, known as CubeSats, which are enticing because of their numerous applications and low design-and-deployment cost. The new paradigm of connected space through CubeSats makes possible
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A Journey From Improper Gaussian Signaling to Asymmetric Signaling IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2020-04-22 Sidrah Javed; Osama Amin; Basem Shihada; Mohamed-Slim Alouini
The deviation of continuous and discrete complex random variables from the traditional proper and symmetric assumption to a generalized improper and asymmetric characterization (accounting correlation between a random entity and its complex conjugate), respectively, introduces new design freedom and various potential merits. As such, the theory of impropriety has vast applications in medicine, geology
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Blockchain Meets Cloud Computing: A Survey IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2020-04-22 Keke Gai; Jinnan Guo; Liehuang Zhu; Shui Yu
Blockchain technology has been deemed to be an ideal choice for strengthening existing computing systems in varied manners. As one of the network-enabled technologies, cloud computing has been broadly adopted in the industry through numerous cloud service models. Fusing blockchain technology with existing cloud systems has a great potential in both functionality/performance enhancement and security/privacy
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Why are My Flows Different? A Tutorial on Flow Exporters IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2020-04-22 Gernot Vormayr; Joachim Fabini; Tanja Zseby
Network flows build the basis of modern network data analysis by aggregating properties of network packets with common characteristics. A consistent and unambiguous definition of the network flow concept is an indispensable prerequisite and starting point for reproducible network research. However, in today’s practice, the flow output of distinct flow exporters, which is software to generate flows
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Table of contents IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2020-03-10
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Editorial: First Quarter 2020 IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2020-03-10 Ying-Dar Lin
I welcome you to the first issue of the IEEE COMMUNICATIONS SURVEYS AND TUTORIALS in 2020. This issue includes 25 papers covering different aspects of communication networks. In particular, these articles survey and tutor various issues in “Wireless and Cellular Communications,” “5G Communications,” “Vehicular and Sensor Communications,” “IoT and M2M,” “SDN and NFV,” “Internet Technologies,” and “Network
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New Radio Beam-Based Access to Unlicensed Spectrum: Design Challenges and Solutions IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2019-10-24 Sandra Lagen; Lorenza Giupponi; Sanjay Goyal; Natale Patriciello; Biljana Bojović; Alpaslan Demir; Mihaela Beluri
This paper elaborates on the design challenges, opportunities, and solutions for New Radio-based access to Unlicensed spectrum (NR-U) by taking into account the beam-based transmissions and the worldwide regulatory requirements. NR-U intends to expand the applicability of 5th generation New Radio access technology to support operation in unlicensed bands by adhering to Listen-Before-Talk (LBT) requirements
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Machine Learning Meets Computation and Communication Control in Evolving Edge and Cloud: Challenges and Future Perspective IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2019-09-24 Tiago Koketsu Rodrigues; Katsuya Suto; Hiroki Nishiyama; Jiajia Liu; Nei Kato
Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is considered an essential future service for the implementation of 5G networks and the Internet of Things, as it is the best method of delivering computation and communication resources to mobile devices. It is based on the connection of the users to servers located on the edge of the network, which is especially relevant for real-time applications that demand minimal latency
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Forwarding Strategies in NDN-Based Wireless Networks: A Survey IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2019-08-16 Asadullah Tariq; Rana Asif Rehman; Byung-Seo Kim
Named Data Networking (NDN) is a promising Internet architecture paradigm of the future that adopts the Content Centric Networking (CCN) approach. Applications and users only care about the contents, while the Internet protocol (i.e., TCP/IP) focuses on communication by specifying and discovering the device location, which makes it more difficult and limiting. NDN supports the efficient distribution
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The Development, Operation and Performance of the 5G Polar Codes IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2019-12-18 Zeynep B. Kaykac Egilmez; Luping Xiang; Robert G. Maunder; Lajos Hanzo
Since their inception in 2008, polar codes have been shown to offer near-capacity error correction performance across a wide range of block lengths and coding rates. Owing to this, polar codes have been selected to provide channel coding in the control channels of Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) New Radio (NR). The operation of the 3GPP NR polar codes is specified in the 3GPP standard TS
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Polar Codes and Their Quantum-Domain Counterparts IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2019-08-27 Zunaira Babar; Zeynep B. Kaykac Egilmez; Luping Xiang; Daryus Chandra; Robert G. Maunder; Soon Xin Ng; Lajos Hanzo
Arikan’s polar codes are capable of approaching Shannon’s capacity at a low encoding and decoding complexity, while conveniently supporting rate adaptation. By virtue of these attractive features, polar codes have found their way into the 5G New Radio (NR). Hence, in this paper we provide a comprehensive survey of polar codes, highlighting the major milestones achieved in the last decade. Furthermore
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Multi-Connectivity as an Enabler for Reliable Low Latency Communications—An Overview IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2019-10-28 Marie-Theres Suer; Christoph Thein; Hugues Tchouankem; Lars Wolf
Emerging applications such as wireless industrial control or vehicular communications pose strict requirements in terms of latency and reliability on wireless communication systems. Since contemporary communication standards are not able to fulfill all of these requirements, reliable low-latency communication is an important research topic. Using multiple communication paths at once, i.e., multi-connectivity
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A Survey on Security Aspects for 3GPP 5G Networks IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2019-11-08 Jin Cao; Maode Ma; Hui Li; Ruhui Ma; Yunqing Sun; Pu Yu; Lihui Xiong
With the continuous development of mobile communication technologies, Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) has proposed related standards with the fifth generation mobile communication technology (5G), which marks the official start of the evolution from the current Long Term Evolution (LTE) system to the next generation mobile communication system (5GS). This paper makes a large number of contributions
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A Survey on Security and Privacy of 5G Technologies: Potential Solutions, Recent Advancements, and Future Directions IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2019-08-08 Rabia Khan; Pardeep Kumar; Dushantha Nalin K. Jayakody; Madhusanka Liyanage
Security has become the primary concern in many telecommunications industries today as risks can have high consequences. Especially, as the core and enable technologies will be associated with 5G network, the confidential information will move at all layers in future wireless systems. Several incidents revealed that the hazard encountered by an infected wireless network, not only affects the security
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A Survey on Coping With Intentional Interference in Satellite Navigation for Manned and Unmanned Aircraft IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2019-10-24 Ruben Morales-Ferre; Philipp Richter; Emanuela Falletti; Alberto de la Fuente; Elena Simona Lohan
Intentional interference in satellite navigation is becoming an increasing threat for modern systems relying on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). In particular, critical applications such as aviation can be severely affected by un-detected and un-mitigated interference and therefore interference management solutions are crucial to be employed. Methods to cope with such intentional interference
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Potential Data Link Candidates for Civilian Unmanned Aircraft Systems: A Survey IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2019-12-17 Maede Zolanvari; Raj Jain; Tara Salman
This survey studies the potential data link candidates for unmanned aircraft vehicles (UAVs). There has been tremendous growth in different applications of UAVs such as lifesaving and rescue missions, commercial use, recreations, etc. Unlike the traditional wireless communications, the data links for these systems do not have any general standardized framework yet to ensure safe co-existence of UAVs
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Named Data Networking in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks: State-of-the-Art and Challenges IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2019-01-23 Hakima Khelifi; Senlin Luo; Boubakr Nour; Hassine Moungla; Yasir Faheem; Rasheed Hussain; Adlen Ksentini
Information-centric networking (ICN) has been proposed as one of the future Internet architectures. It is poised to address the challenges faced by today’s Internet that include, but not limited to, scalability, addressing, security, and privacy. Furthermore, it also aims at meeting the requirements for new emerging Internet applications. To realize ICN, named data networking (NDN) is one of the recent
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A Survey on Anomalous Behavior Detection for Elderly Care Using Dense-Sensing Networks IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2019-10-18 Samundra Deep; Xi Zheng; Chandan Karmakar; Dongjin Yu; Leonard G. C. Hamey; Jiong Jin
Facing the gradual ageing society, elderly people living independently are in need of serious attention. In order to assist them to live in a safer environment, the increasing cost of nursing care and the shortage of health-care workers urges the demand of home-based assisted living in recent times. Therefore, home-based health-care has become an active research domain, particularly the abnormal activities
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A Survey on LoRa Networking: Research Problems, Current Solutions, and Open Issues IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2019-10-25 Jothi Prasanna Shanmuga Sundaram; Wan Du; Zhiwei Zhao
Wireless networks have been widely deployed for many Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications, like smart cities and precision agriculture. Low Power Wide Area Networking (LPWAN) is an emerging IoT networking paradigm to meet three key requirements of IoT applications, i.e., low cost, large scale deployment and high energy efficiency. Among all available LPWAN technologies, LoRa networking has attracted
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Cyber-Physical-Social Systems: A State-of-the-Art Survey, Challenges and Opportunities IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2019-12-12 Yuchen Zhou; F. Richard Yu; Jian Chen; Yonghong Kuo
It is the overriding trend of the present-day world that traditional systems and mobile devices are currently transforming into intelligent systems and smart devices. Against this backdrop, cyber-physical systems (CPSs) and Internet-of-Things (IoT) emerge as the times require. To achieve the parallel interactions between the human world and the computer network, IoT along with wireless mobile communication
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Toward Massive Machine Type Communications in Ultra-Dense Cellular IoT Networks: Current Issues and Machine Learning-Assisted Solutions IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2019-05-10 Shree Krishna Sharma; Xianbin Wang
The ever-increasing number of resource-constrained machine-type communication (MTC) devices is leading to the critical challenge of fulfilling diverse communication requirements in dynamic and ultra-dense wireless environments. Among different application scenarios that the upcoming 5G and beyond cellular networks are expected to support, such as enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), massive machine type
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A Survey on Controller Placement in SDN IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2019-08-15 Tamal Das; Vignesh Sridharan; Mohan Gurusamy
In recent years, Software Defined Networking (SDN) has emerged as a pivotal element not only in data-centers and wide-area networks, but also in next generation networking architectures such as Vehicular ad hoc network and 5G. SDN is characterized by decoupled data and control planes, and logically centralized control plane. The centralized control plane in SDN offers several opportunities as well
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A Survey on FPGA Support for the Feasible Execution of Virtualized Network Functions IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2019-09-25 Gabriel S. Niemiec; Luis M. S. Batista; Alberto E. Schaeffer-Filho; Gabriel L. Nazar
Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) has received considerable attention in the past few years, both from industry and academia, due to its potential for reducing capital and operational expenditures, thus enabling faster innovation in networks. NFV proposes decoupling network functions from fixed hardware platforms and implementing them as virtual machines on off-the-shelf servers. Although potentially
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QoE Management of Multimedia Streaming Services in Future Networks: A Tutorial and Survey IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2019-12-10 Alcardo Alex Barakabitze; Nabajeet Barman; Arslan Ahmad; Saman Zadtootaghaj; Lingfen Sun; Maria G. Martini; Luigi Atzori
The highly demanding Over-The-Top (OTT) multimedia applications pose increased challenges to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) for assuring a reasonable Quality of Experience (QoE) to their customers due to lack of flexibility, agility and scalability in traditional networks. The future networks are shifting towards the cloudification of the network resources via Software Defined Networks (SDN) and
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A Survey on Fusion-Based Indoor Positioning IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2019-11-01 Xiansheng Guo; Nirwan Ansari; Fangzi Hu; Yuan Shao; Nkrow Raphael Elikplim; Lin Li
Demands for indoor positioning based services (IPS) in commercial and military fields have spurred many positioning systems and techniques. Complex electromagnetic environments (CEEs) may, however, degenerate the accuracy and robustness of some existing single systems and techniques. To overcome this drawback, fusion-based positioning of multiple systems and/or techniques have been proposed to revamp
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IETF 6TiSCH: A Tutorial IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2019-09-04 Xavier Vilajosana; Thomas Watteyne; Tengfei Chang; Mališa Vučinić; Simon Duquennoy; Pascal Thubert
The IETF IPv6 over the TSCH mode of IEEE802.15.4e (6TiSCH) working group has standardized a set of protocols to enable low power industrial-grade IPv6 networks. 6TiSCH proposes a protocol stack rooted in the Time Slotted Channel Hopping (TSCH) mode of the IEEE802.15.4-2015 standard, supports multi-hop topologies with the IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (RPL) routing protocol
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Security of the Internet of Things: Vulnerabilities, Attacks, and Countermeasures IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor. (IF 23.7) Pub Date : 2019-11-13 Ismail Butun; Patrik Österberg; Houbing Song
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) constitute one of the most promising third-millennium technologies and have wide range of applications in our surrounding environment. The reason behind the vast adoption of WSNs in various applications is that they have tremendously appealing features, e.g., low production cost, low installation cost, unattended network operation, autonomous and longtime operation.
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