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This survey article discusses the revolutions of wireless communication technologies right from the prehistoric man's fire signals to today's space optical communications. A brief description of evaluations of communication technologies from the ancient ...

Invisibility of alpha‐stable (α‐stable) noise as carrier signals, in the presence of additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) as channel noise, is a key factor to ensure covert transmission by employing random communication systems (RCSs). This study ...

In this study, the performances of commonly used precoding schemes are evaluated based on channel measurements carried out at 28 GHz in a railway station for a massive antenna system configuration. And a hybrid precoding algorithm for a fifth generation (...

Identification of modulation and space‐time block code (STBC) is an important task of receivers in applications such as military, civilian, and commercial communications. Here, we consider multiple‐input multiple‐output (MIMO) systems. We propose two ...

Different from conventional proper Gaussian signalling (PGS), whose achievable rate depends on the input signals' covariances only, the capacity of channels with improper Gaussian signalling (IGS) is a function with the signals' covariances and pseudo‐...

The multi‐radio–multi‐channel wireless mesh networks (MRMC WMNs) have attracted much attention due to their low cost, reliable coverage, stable topology, and so forth. Load balancing among gateways (GWs) is a challenging task in MRMC WMNs. The GW nodes ...

This study focuses on an efficient fairness aware beam allocation strategy which is based on user position approach. The proposed algorithm is efficient to cope with the effects of user position uncertainties and imperfect channel state information (CSI). ...

Interleaver design has been an intense research area since the invention of turbo codes, both from theoretical and technological perspectives, still receiving the attention of engineers. This work is a theoretical treatment on the subject of interleaver ...

In the era of internet‐of‐things (IoT), many applications utilise wireless sensor networks (WSNs)including smart grids (SGs). Designing WSNs to fulfill the SGs requirementsimposes some challenges such as limited power and signal propagationimpairments, ...

Beam hopping (BH) is the key technology to improve the system throughput and decrease the transmission delay in multibeam satellite systems. The objective of this study is to find a policy to maximise the expected long‐term resource utilisation. The BH ...

The authors consider a content‐centric two‐tier heterogeneous cellular network where the macro base stations (MBSs) and small base stations (SBSs) are spread based on two independent Poisson point processes. The set of contents are stored in the MBSs ...

The addition of analogue processing to the digital precoding, known as hybrid beamforming (HB), is an efficient solution for massive multiple‐input multiple‐output (MIMO) systems. The design of a phase shifter (PS) network plays an important role in the ...

Mobile crowdsourcing‐based applications, widely popular, exploit the sensing data crowdsourced from smartphone users without putting any burden on the extra cost of data sensing and collection. However, user participation in crowdsourcing incurs resource ...

Low‐density parity‐check (LDPC) codes and compressed sensing (CS) share many common environments. In this study, a novel approach for constructing a new class of deterministic sparse sensing matrices based on array quasi‐cyclic (QC) LDPC codes via Singer ...

A system for the correlated Gaussian sources to perform compression forwarding via the multi‐relay network in the additive white Gaussian noise channel is proposed in this study. The characteristic of the newly proposed system is that it is composed of ...

The large demand for smart metering and control, asset tracking, remote monitoring, and other applications has resulted in the emergence of innovative new internet of things (IoT) low‐power wide‐area networks (LPWANs) featuring low power consumption, low ...

In vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), mobility among vehicles can result in rapid topology changes with frequent link breakage and unstable communications, which cause collision and packet loss. Conversely, cooperative transmission can improve ...

The applicability of cognitive radio (CR) techniques into satellite communications has received considerable attention in recent years. This study considers the integration of relay transmission into CR‐based satellite terrestrial network, which offers ...

In this paper, analytical performance of efficient soft‐data combining schemes (SDCSs) for cognitive radio network (CRN) is investigated. The performance is investigated in the presence of noise and generalized η−μ fading. In more detail, each CRU senses ...

Fountain codes are promising forward error correction codes suitable for broadcast and multicast applications where many users with different capabilities are involved in the system. Fixed‐rate codes need a priori information about each channel to decide ...

Designing a new pulse‐shaping filter that satisfies the Nyquist condition to mitigate inter‐symbol interference and achieve better stopband attenuation is a new step towards the development of next‐generation mobile communication systems. In this study, ...

Cellular users on‐board vehicles often experience low quality of service (QoS) due to the vehicular penetration loss. Hence, the so‐called mobile‐cells (MCs) have been proposed as a solution. The envisaged MCs will require additional radio resources, ...

In a conventional cellular network underlaid with femtocells, the authors employ interference alignment (IA) to restrict cross‐layer co‐channel interference (X‐interference). In their scenario, locally obtained channel state information is allowed to be ...

In this study, the authors investigate the security and reliability trade‐off (SRT) performance of a multiuser wireless network, where an eavesdropper attempts to overhear the confidential transmissions between a base station and multiple users under the ...

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) networks have recently emerged as a promising telecommunication medium for transmitting voice signal. One of the essential aspects that interests researchers is how to estimate the quality of transmitted voice over VoIP ...

In this study, the authors propose a novel three‐dimensional (3D) non‐stationary geometry‐based stochastic model (GBSM) and the corresponding deterministic and stochastic simulation models for non‐isotropic unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) multiple‐input ...