Physical Communication, Volume 48

Volume 48, October 2021

Special Section on UAV-enabled B5G/6G networks: Emerging Trends and Challenges

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  Fahad Saeed, Amjad Mehmood, Muhammad Faran Majeed, Carsten Maple, Khalid Saeed, Muhammad Kashif Khattak, Huihui Wang, Gregory Epiphaniou:
  Smart delivery and retrieval of swab collection kit for COVID-19 test using autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. 101373
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  Vinod Kumar, Sanjay Soni, N. S. Raghava:
  A new time-domain heuristic diffraction coefficient for characterization of diffracted and transmitted field with UWB applications. 101398
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  Maksym A. Girnyk:
  Deep-learning based linear precoding for MIMO channels with finite-alphabet signaling. 101402
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  Shailendra Singh, Matadeen Bansal:
  Outage analysis of cooperative NOMA based hybrid cognitive radio system with channel estimation errors. 101404
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  Jiacheng Lu, Jun Zhang, Shizhao Yang, Shu Cai, Yiyang Ni:
  Joint precoder and decoder design in downlink multi-user MIMO C-RAN with imperfect CSI. 101406
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  Vahideh Vahidinia, Mahmoud Atashbar, Shahram Hosseinzadeh:
  Orbital angular momentum and mode multiplexing based index modulation. 101407
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  Mohamed Amine Brahimi, Fatiha Merazka, Gunes Karabulut-Kurt:
  Secure network coding for data encoded using subspace codes. 101408
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  Chao Liu, Zhongshan Zhang, Qian Zeng:
  Distributed connectivity maintenance for Flying Ad-hoc Networks considering bridging links. 101409
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  Farshad Miramirkhani, Mehdi Karbalayghareh, Murat Uysal:
  Effect of scattering phase function on underwater visible light communication channel models. 101410

Special Section on Architecture, Protocols and Management of Indoor Wireless Communications

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  Pudi Sekhar, E. Laxmi Lydia, Mohamed Elhoseny, Marwan Al-Akaidi, Mahmoud Mohamed Selim, K. Shankar:
  An effective metaheuristic based node localization technique for wireless sensor networks enabled indoor communication. 101411
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  Mohsen Kazemian, Jamshid Abouei, Alagan Anpalagan:
  A low complexity enhanced-NOMA scheme to reduce inter-user interference, BER and PAPR in 5G wireless systems. 101412
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  Shayan Zargari, Shahrokh Farahmand, Bahman Abolhassani:
  Joint design of transmit beamforming, IRS platform, and power splitting SWIPT receivers for downlink cellular multiuser MISO. 101413
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  Kardes Aslan, Tansal Gucluoglu:
  Performance analysis of downlink-NOMA over generalized-k fading channels. 101414
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  Nidhi Sharma, Krishan Kumar:
  Resource allocation trends for ultra dense networks in 5G and beyond networks: A classification and comprehensive survey. 101415
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  Gang Qiao, Xinyu Liu, Lu Ma, Muhammad Muzzammil, Anfu Zhu:
  Iterative turbo receiver design for superposition coding based downlink underwater acoustic OFDM communication system. 101422
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  Jiliang Zhang, Xiaojun Pan, Yongzhi Zhuang, Gaofeng Pan, Hongjiang Lei:
  Secrecy performance for underlay cognitive multi-relaying MISO-RF/SIMO-FSO networks with outdated CSI. 101423

Special Section on Advanced Signal Processing (ASP) and Its Applications in B5G Wireless Communication Networks

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  Bai Zhao, Huaicong Kong, Xiaoyu Liu, Min Lin, Jian Ouyang, Wei-Ping Zhu:
  Transmit diversity and performance analysis for aeronautical broadband satellite communication systems. 101424
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  Fuxing Chang, Changzhen Li, Hongjiang Zheng, Junyi Yu, Kun Yang, Wei Chen:
  Measurement-based characteristics of V2V channel for the scenarios of two vehicles meeting. 101425

Special Section on Beyond 5G Wireless Networks: Convergence of Intelligent Sensing, Communication, Computing, and Control

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  Juan Wang, Guan Gui, Hikmet Sari:
  Generalized automatic modulation recognition method based on distributed learning in the presence of data mismatch problem. 101428
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  Shiyin Li, Junchang Sun, Shuai Ma, Hui Zhou:
  Parameterization of channel characteristics based on statistical analysis at refuge chamber. 101429
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  Maryam Miriestahbanati, O. Saatlou, M. Reza Soleymani:
  Maximizing the spectral efficiency of finite dimensional multiuser massive MIMO. 101430
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  Md Sadek Ali, Md. Shohidul Islam, Muhammad Hunain Memon, Muhammad Asif, Fujiang Lin:
  Optimum DCT type-I based transceiver model and effective channel estimation for uplink NB-IoT system. 101431
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  Yixin Xu, Fulai Liu, Ruiyan Du, Zhenxing Sun:
  Pilot and data power allocation for spatially correlated massive MIMO systems with imperfect CSI. 101432
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  Sinh Cong Lam, Xuan Nam Tran:
  Fractional Frequency Reuse in Ultra Dense Networks. 101433
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  Hediyeh Soltanizadeh, Abolfazl Falahati:
  On the channel tracking under uncertain state model for multiuser massive MIMO in high-rate Internet-of-Things. 101434
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  Shih-Yu Chang, Hsiao-Chun Wu, Scott C.-H. Huang:
  New algebraic studies of pattern attributes in maximum-length shift-register sequences. 101435
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  Anahid Rafieifar, Seyed Mohammad Razavizadeh:
  Secrecy rate maximization in multi-IRS mmWave networks. 101436
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  Akanksha Srivastava, Gurjit Kaur:
  Resource management for traffic imbalance problem in green cognitive radio networks. 101437
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  Liang Guo, Shaopeng Wang, Jie Yin, Yu Wang, Jie Yang, Guan Gui:
  Federated user activity analysis via network traffic and deep neural network in mobile wireless networks. 101438

Special Section on UAV-enabled B5G/6G networks: Emerging Trends and Challenges

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  Hui-Jie Zhu, Chunheng Liu, Ming Li, Bodong Shang, Mingqian Liu:
  Passive detection of unmanned aerial vehicle in space-air-ground integrated networks. 101439
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  Hanaa Abumarshoud, Lina S. Mohjazi, Sami Muhaidat:
  Amplitude, phase, and quadrant (APQ) modulation for indoor visible light communications. 101440
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  Mujtaba Ghous, Ahmad Kamal Hassan, Ziaul Haq Abbas, Ghulam Abbas:
  Modeling and analysis of self-interference impaired two-user cooperative MIMO-NOMA system. 101441
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  Changjie Hu, Quanzhong Li, Liang Yang, Jiayin Qin:
  Joint power allocation and collaborative beamforming for physical layer security in underlay CR NOMA relay systems. 101442
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  Ahmet Emir, Ferdi Kara, Hakan Kaya, Xingwang Li:
  Deep learning-based flexible joint channel estimation and signal detection of multi-user OFDM-NOMA. 101443
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  Sajjad Hussain:
  Investigation of corner diffraction for different materials in vehicular channels at urban street intersection. 101445