Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, Volume 25

Volume 25, Number 1, January 2014

Smart Cities - Trends & Technologies Editorial

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  Mischa Dohler, Carlo Ratti, Luis Muñoz, Periklis Chatzimisios:
  Editorial of ETT Feature Issue: Smart Cities - Trends & Technologies. 1-2

Special Issue - Smart Cities

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  Bo Yang, Guangxi Zhu, Weimin Wu, Youjun Gao:
  M2M access performance in LTE-A system. 3-10
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  Antonio Cimmino, Tommaso Pecorella, Romano Fantacci, Fabrizio Granelli, Talha Faizur Rahman, Claudio Sacchi, Camillo Carlini, Piyush Harsh:
  The role of small cell technology in future Smart City applications. 11-20
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  Gianluca Aloi, Luca Bedogni, Marco Di Felice, Valeria Loscrì, Antonella Molinaro, Enrico Natalizio, Pasquale Pace, Giuseppe Ruggeri, Angelo Trotta, Nicola Roberto Zema:
  STEM-Net: an evolutionary network architecture for smart and sustainable cities. 21-40
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  María Victoria Moreno Cano, Miguel A. Zamora, Antonio Fernandez Gómez-Skarmeta:
  User-centric smart buildings for energy sustainable smart cities. 41-55
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  Ludimar Guenda, Emanuel Santana, Ana Collado, Kyriaki Niotaki, Nuno Borges Carvalho, Apostolos Georgiadis:
  Electromagnetic energy harvesting - global information database. 56-63
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  Atif Manzoor, Constantinos Patsakis, Alistair Morris, Jessica McCarthy, Gabriel Mullarkey, Han Pham, Siobhán Clarke, Vinny Cahill, Mélanie Bouroche:
  CityWatch: exploiting sensor data to manage cities better. 64-80
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  Charith Perera, Arkady B. Zaslavsky, Peter Christen, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos:
  Sensing as a service model for smart cities supported by Internet of Things. 81-93
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  David Rebollo-Monedero, Andrea Bartoli, Juan Hernández-Serrano, Jordi Forné, Miguel Soriano:
  Reconciling privacy and efficient utility management in smart cities. 94-108
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  Taewook Heo, Kwangsoo Kim, Hyunhak Kim, Changwon Lee, Jae Hong Ryu, Youn Taik Leem, Jong Arm Jun, Chulsik Pyo, Seung-Mok Yoo, JeongGil Ko:
  Escaping from ancient Rome! Applications and challenges for designing smart cities. 109-119
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  Claudio M. de Farias, Henrique Soares, Luci Pirmez, Flávia Coimbra Delicato, Igor Leão dos Santos, Luiz Fernando Rust C. Carmo, José Neuman de Souza, Albert Y. Zomaya, Mischa Dohler:
  A control and decision system for smart buildings using wireless sensor and actuator networks. 120-135
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  S. Evenepoel, Jan Van Ooteghem, Sofie Verbrugge, Didier Colle, Mario Pickavet:
  On-street smart parking networks at a fraction of their cost: performance analysis of a sampling approach. 136-149

Volume 25, Number 2, February 2014

Short Research Letters

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  Joan Melià-Seguí, Joaquín García-Alfaro, Jordi Herrera-Joancomartí:
  On the similarity of commercial EPC Gen2 pseudorandom number generators. 151-154
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  Bin Sheng:
  Blind timing synchronization in OFDM systems by exploiting cyclic structure. 155-160

Research Articles

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  Ghasem Alipoor, Mohammad Hasan Savoji:
  Nonlinear backward ADPCM speech coding using kernel methods and online sparsification. 161-172
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  Naveed Ul L. Hassan, Mohamad Assaad:
  Downlink beamforming and resource allocation in multicell MISO-OFDMA systems. 173-182
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  Linchao Zhang, Renato Ferrero, Erwing Ricardo Sanchez, Maurizio Rebaudengo:
  Performance analysis of reliable flooding in duty-cycle wireless sensor networks. 183-198
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  Kun-Chan Lan, Chien-Ming Chou, Tzu-Nung Wang, Mei-Wen Li:
  Using body sensor networks for motion detection: a cluster-based approach for green radio. 199-216
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  Lawrence Ong, Sarah J. Johnson, Christopher M. Kellett:
  On the capacity of the binary-symmetric parallel-relay network. 217-230
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  Guoru Ding, Qihui Wu, YuLong Zou, Jinlong Wang, Zhan Gao:
  Joint spectrum sensing and transmit power adaptation in interference-aware cognitive radio networks. 231-238
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  Adel Alti, Sébastien Laborie, Philippe Roose:
  Dynamic semantic-based adaptation of multimedia documents. 239-258
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  Michael Peleg, Shlomo Shamai:
  On sparse sensing and sparse sampling of coded signals at sub-Landau rates. 259-272
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  Roberto Gonzalez, Alfonso Muñoz, José Alberto Hernández, Rubén Cuevas:
  On the tweet arrival process at Twitter: analysis and applications. 273-282

Volume 25, Number 3, March 2014

Short Research Letter

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  Lei Liu, Wuyang Zhou, Shengli Zhou:
  Design of nonbinary quasi-cyclic low-density parity-check codes by maximising the minimum distance. 289-293

Research Articles

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  Guo-an Zhang, Jin-yuan Gu, Zhihua Bao, Chen Xu, Shibing Zhang:
  Joint routing and channel assignment algorithms in cognitive wireless mesh networks. 294-307
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  Mehdi M. Molu, Norbert Goertz:
  A comparison of soft-coded and hard-coded relaying. 308-319
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  Margot Deruyck, Wout Joseph, Luc Martens:
  Power consumption model for macrocell and microcell base stations. 320-333
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  Salama S. Ikki:
  Optimisation study of power allocation and relay location for amplify-and-forward systems over Nakagami- m fading channels. 334-342
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  Margot Deruyck, Erik Vanhauwaert, Daan Pareit, Bart Lannoo, Wout Joseph, Ingrid Moerman, Luc Martens:
  WiMAX-based monitoring network for a utility company: a case study. 343-353
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  Perumalsamy Deepalakshmi, S. Radhakrishnan:
  An ant colony-based, receiver-initiated multicast mesh protocol for collaborative applications of mobile ad hoc networks. 354-369
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  Virasit Imtawil, Mongkol Kupimai, Anan Kruesubthaworn, Apirat Siritaratiwat, Anupap Meesomboon:
  Low-complexity high-rate irregular QC-LDPC codes with applications to PR2 and EPR2 channels. 370-382

Volume 25, Number 4, April 2014

Information-Centric Networking for Multimedia, Social and Peer-to-Peer Communications

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  Angelos-Christos G. Anadiotis, Charalampos Z. Patrikakis, A. Murat Tekalp:
  Information-centric networking for multimedia, social and peer-to-peer communications. 383-391
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  Giuseppe Piro, Luigi Alfredo Grieco, Gennaro Boggia, Periklis Chatzimisios:
  Information-centric networking and multimedia services: present and future challenges. 392-406
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  Sha Yuan, Tao Lin, Guoqiang Zhang, Wei An, Yang Li, Song Ci:
  A hybrid anycast network architecture and intelligent server selection strategy for multimedia services. 407-421
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  John P. Papanis, Stavros Papapanagiotou, Aziz S. Mousas, Georgios V. Lioudakis, Dimitra I. Kaklamani, Iakovos S. Venieris:
  On the use of Attribute-Based Encryption for multimedia content protection over Information-Centric Networks. 422-435
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  Salvatore D'Oro, Laura Galluccio, Giacomo Morabito, Sergio Palazzo:
  SatCache: a profile-aware caching strategy for information-centric satellite networks. 436-444

Research Articles

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  Azzam Y. Al-nahari, Ioannis Krikidis, Ahmed S. Ibrahim, Moawad I. Dessouky, Fathi E. Abd El-Samie:
  Relaying techniques for enhancing the physical layer secrecy in cooperative networks with multiple eavesdroppers. 445-460
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  Shao-I Chu, Hung-Peng Lee, Hsin-Chiu Chang, Wei-Cheng Lin:
  On the performance of amplify-and-forward protocol with generalised order selection combining. 461-467
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  Rongpeng Li, Zhifeng Zhao, Xuan Zhou, Honggang Zhang:
  Energy savings scheme in radio access networks via compressive sensing-based traffic load prediction. 468-478

Volume 25, Number 5, May 2014

Short Research Letters

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  Liansheng Tan, Zhongxun Zhu, Cao Yuan, Wei Zhang:
  A novel approach for bandwidth allocation among soft QoS traffic in wireless networks. 479-484
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  Gyanendra Prasad Joshi, Seung Yeob Nam, Sung Won Kim:
  An analysis of channel access delay in synchronized MAC protocol for cognitive radio networks. 485-489
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  Lisheng Fan, Xianfu Lei, Hongbin Chen, Wen Zhou:
  Impact of channel estimation error on fixed-gain two-way relay network with user/antenna selection. 490-495

Research Articles

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  Matadeen Bansal, Aditya Trivedi:
  Cross-layer optimization for fair end-to-end rate allocation in WMNs with MIMO links. 496-506
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  Fanggang Wang:
  Wireless MIMO switching: network-coded MMSE relaying and user group selection. 507-514
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  Keivan Navaie, Nader Mokari:
  Relay assisted OFDMA spectrum sharing systems. 515-529
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  Andrej Stefanov, Milica Stojanovic:
  Hierarchical underwater acoustic sensor networks with (virtual) transmit/receive arrays. 530-538
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  Terpsichori-Helen N. Velivasaki, Panagiotis Karkazis, Theodore B. Zahariadis, Panagiotis Trakadas, Christos N. Capsalis:
  Trust-aware and link-reliable routing metric composition for wireless sensor networks. 539-554
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  Qi Shao, Chaoqin Gan:
  High-reliable multi-wavelength optical access network expanding by a single-fiber tangent ring. 555-562

Invited Paper

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  Nurul Huda Mahmood, Ferkan Yilmaz, Mohamed-Slim Alouini, Geir E. Øien:
  Heterogeneous next-generation wireless network interference model - and its applications. 563-575

Volume 25, Number 6, June 2014

Optical Wireless Communication
Editorial

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  Sajid Sheikh Muhammad, Hoa Le Minh:
  Editorial. 577-578

Special Issue Papers

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  Kasun Bandara, Yeon-ho Chung:
  Novel colour-clustered multiuser visible light communication. 579-590
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  Andrew Burton, Zabih Ghassemlooy, Sujan Rajbhandari, Shien-Kuei Liaw:
  Design and analysis of an angular-segmented full-mobility visible light communications receiver. 591-599
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  Vuong V. Mai, Ngoc-Anh Tran, Truong C. Thang, Anh T. Pham:
  Performance analysis of TCP over visible light communication networks with ARQ-SR protocol. 600-608
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  Juraj Poliak, Pirmin Pezzei, Peter Barcik, Erich Leitgeb, Lucie Hudcova, Otakar Wilfert:
  On the derivation of exact analytical FSO link attenuation model. 609-617
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  Muhammad Saleem Awan, Erich Leitgeb:
  Modeling of fog droplet size distributions from infrared light attenuation measurements. 618-628
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  Paul Brandl, Horst Zimmermann:
  Development of an optoelectronic integrated circuit for indoor optical wireless communication systems. 629-637
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  Nicolas Barbot, Stephanie Sahuguede, Anne Julien-Vergonjanne, Jean-Pierre Cances:
  Low-density parity-check and fountain code performance over mobile wireless optical channels. 638-647
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  Wei-Chiang Wu, Chieh-Yen Hsu:
  Performance analysis of optical CDMA communication systems with M-ary PWM signalling. 648-659
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  Shlomi Arnon:
  Optimised optical wireless car-to-traffic-light communication. 660-665

Research Articles

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  Helal Chowdhury, Marcos D. Katz:
  Cooperative data download on the move in indoor hybrid (radio-optical) WLAN-VLC hotspot coverage. 666-677

Volume 25, Number 7, July 2014

Research Articles

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  Xiaonan Wang, Shan Zhong:
  Research on mobility handover for IPv6-based MANET. 679-691
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  Sasan Adibi, Amin Mobasher, Tom Tofigh:
  LTE networking: extending the reach for sensors in mHealth applications. 692-706
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  Jin-Yuan Wang, Jun-Bo Wang, Xiaoyu Song, Ming Chen, Jie Zhang:
  Network planning for distributed antenna-based high-speed railway mobile communications. 707-722
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  Prem Nath, Chiranjeev Kumar:
  Mobility agent based on activity rate of user and adaptive paging for location management in wireless networks. 723-735
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  Sami Touati, Hatem Boujemaa, Nazha Abed:
  Outage probability analysis of optimal and suboptimal interference aware routing protocols for multihop underlay cognitive radio networks. 736-744
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  Chunguo Li, John M. Cioffi, Luxi Yang:
  Optimal energy efficient joint power allocation for two-hop single-antenna relaying systems. 745-751
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  George Athanasiou, Leandros Tassiulas:
  Dynamic frequency management in 802.11-based multi-radio wireless networks. 752-768

Volume 25, Number 8, August 2014

High Performance Mobile Opportunistic Systems
Editorial

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  Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis, Lei Shu, Tasos Dagiuklas, Yang Xiao:
  High performance mobile opportunistic systems. 769-770

Special Issue Papers

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  Skander Azzaz, Leïla Azouz Saïdane:
  Maintenance strategies for wireless sensor networks: from a reactive to a proactive approach. 771-784
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  Athina Bourdena, Evangelos Pallis, Georgios Kormentzas, George Mastorakis:
  Efficient radio resource management algorithms in opportunistic cognitive radio networks. 785-797
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  Rossitza Goleva, Dimitar Atamian, Seferin Mirtchev, Desislava C. Dimitrova, Lubina Grigorova:
  3G network traffic sources measurement and analysis. 798-814
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  João A. Dias, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, Liang Zhou:
  Performance evaluation of cooperative strategies for Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks. 815-822
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  Nikolaos Nomikos, Demosthenes Vouyioukas, Themistoklis Charalambous, Ioannis Krikidis, Prodromos Makris, Dimitrios N. Skoutas, Mikael Johansson, Charalabos Skianis:
  Joint relay-pair selection for buffer-aided successive opportunistic relaying. 823-834
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  Li-Ping Tung, Yi-Chao Chen, Kun-Chan Lan, Ling-Jyh Chen:
  MetroNet: a disruption-tolerant approach for mobile downloads on metro systems. 835-851
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  Radu-Ioan Ciobanu, Radu-Corneliu Marin, Ciprian Dobre:
  Interaction predictability of opportunistic networks in academic environments. 852-864
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  Yalong Xiao, Jianxin Wang, Shigeng Zhang, Jiannong Cao:
  An energy-preserving spectrum access strategy in mobile cognitive radio networks. 865-874

Volume 25, Number 9, September 2014

Short Research Letter

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  Runhua Shi, Hong Zhong, Liusheng Huang:
  A novel anonymous authentication scheme without cryptography. 875-880

Research Articles

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  Xiaolan Tang, Juhua Pu, Yang Gao, Mohammad Aziz Z. Alshehri, Zhang Xiong, Yueliang Wan:
  Knowledge-based replica deletion scheme using directional anti-packets for vehicular delay-tolerant networks. 881-894
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  Seok-Hwan Park, Osvaldo Simeone, Onur Sahin, Shlomo Shamai (Shitz):
  Multi-layer transmission and hybrid relaying for relay channels with multiple out-of-band relays. 895-904
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  Prabhat Kumar Sharma, Parul Garg:
  Performance analysis of full duplex decode-and-forward cooperative relaying over Nakagami-m fading channels. 905-913
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  Weiwei Fang, Zishuo Wang, Jaime Lloret, Daqiang Zhang, Zhijun Yang:
  Optimising data placement and traffic routing for energy saving in Backbone Networks. 914-925
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  Mingjun Dai, Peng Wang, Shengli Zhang, Bin Chen, Hui Wang, Xiaohui Lin, Cong Sun:
  Survey on cooperative strategies for wireless relay channels. 926-942
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  Ayad Atiyah Abdulkafi, David Chieng, Sieh Kiong Tiong, Alvin Ting, Johnny Siaw Paw Koh, Abdulaziz M. Ghaleb:
  Energy-aware load adaptive framework for LTE heterogeneous network. 943-953
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  Chengdan Sun, Mugen Peng, Biling Zhang, Yaohua Sun, Yuan Li, Chonggang Wang:
  A coalitional game scheme for cooperative interference management in cloud radio access networks. 954-964

Volume 25, Number 10, October 2014

Research Articles

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  Xiaolan Tang, Juhua Pu, Yang Gao, Zhang Xiong, Yuelong Weng:
  Energy-efficient multicast routing scheme for wireless sensor networks. 965-980
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  Ahlem Saddoud, Lamia Chaari Fourati, Lotfi Kamoun:
  A new CAC and packet scheduling scheme for mobile WiMAX networks. 981-992
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  Nitin Sharma, Alagan Anpalagan:
  Joint subcarrier and power allocation in downlink OFDMA systems: an multi-objective approach. 993-1008
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  Alvaro Llaria, Jaime Jiménez, Octavian Curea:
  Study on communication technologies for the optimal operation of smart grids. 1009-1019
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  Zesong Fei, Jiqing Ni, Niwei Wang, Chengwen Xing, Jingming Kuang:
  A robust and distributed design for coordinated downlink beamforming for secure MISO interference channels. 1020-1027
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  Lutful Karim, Alagan Anpalagan, Nidal Nasser, Jalal Almhana, Isaac Woungang:
  Fault tolerant, energy efficient and secure clustering scheme for mobile machine-to-machine communications. 1028-1044
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  Min Lin, Kang An, Jian Ouyang, Heng Wei, Jun-Hong Dang:
  Effect of feedback delay on dual-hop fixed gain relay networks over mixed fading channels. 1045-1055

Volume 25, Number 11, November 2014

Research Articles

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  Sancho Salcedo-Sanz, Juan Eulogio Sánchez-García, José Antonio Portilla-Figueras, Silvia Jiménez-Fernández, Amir M. Ahmadzadeh:
  A coral-reef optimization algorithm for the optimal service distribution problem in mobile radio access networks. 1057-1069
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  Román Belda, Ismael de Fez, Francisco Fraile, Pau Arce, Juan Carlos Guerri:
  Hybrid FLUTE/DASH video delivery over mobile wireless networks. 1070-1082
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  Jue-Sam Chou:
  A constant-time identifying large-scale RFID tags using lines on a plane. 1083-1094
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  Rosa Vilardi, Luigi Alfredo Grieco, Chadi Barakat, Gennaro Boggia:
  Lightweight enhanced monitoring for high speed networks. 1095-1113
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  Hirley Alves, Richard Demo Souza, Gustavo Fraidenraich:
  Outage, throughput and energy efficiency analysis of some half and full duplex cooperative relaying schemes. 1114-1125
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  Xiaobo Tan, Hang Zhang, Qian Chen, Jian Hu:
  Opportunistic channel selection based on time series prediction in cognitive radio networks. 1126-1136
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  Jerzy Domzal, Robert Wójcik, Víctor López, Javier Aracil, Andrzej Jajszczyk:
  EFMP - a new congestion control mechanism for flow-aware networks. 1137-1148

Volume 25, Number 12, December 2014

Short Research Letter

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  Minjoong Rim, Woongsup Kim:
  Channel quality estimation for cooperative demodulation in coded OFDM systems with decode-and-forward relays. 1149-1153

Research Articles

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  Pere Tuset-Peiró, Albert Anglès-Vazquez, José López Vicario, Xavier Vilajosana-Guillen:
  On the suitability of the 433 MHz band for M2M low-power wireless communications: propagation aspects. 1154-1168
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  Zhihang Li, Hao Wang, Zhiwen Pan, Nan Liu, Xiaohu You:
  Heterogenous QoS-guaranteed load balancing in 3GPP LTE multicell fractional frequency reuse network. 1169-1183
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  Ahmed M. Shamsan Saleh, Borhanuddin Mohd Ali, Mohd Fadlee A. Rasid, Alyani Ismail:
  A survey on energy awareness mechanisms in routing protocols for wireless sensor networks using optimization methods. 1184-1207
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  Shree Krishna Sharma, Mohammad N. Patwary, Mohamed Abdel-Maguid:
  Enhanced information throughput in multiple input multiple output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing based systems using fractional sampling and iterative signal processing. 1208-1218
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  Long Zhao, Kan Zheng, Hang Long, Hui Zhao:
  Performance analysis for downlink massive MIMO system with ZF precoding. 1219-1230
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  Mateen Ashraf, Sarmad Sohaib:
  Energy-efficient delay tolerant space time codes for asynchronous cooperative communications. 1231-1237
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  Brage Ellingsæter:
  Frequency allocation game in satisfaction form. 1238-1251