Communication Aspects of the Integration of Wireless IoT Devices with Distributed Ledger Technology
The pervasive need to safely share and store information between devices calls for the replacement of centralized trust architectures with the decentralized ones. Distributed Ledger Technologies...
Grant-Free Radio Access for Short-Packet Communications over 5G Networks
Radio access management plays a vital role in delay and energy consumption of connected devices. The radio access in existing cellular networks is unable to efficiently support massive...
Repeat-Authenticate Scheme for Multicasting of Blockchain Information in IoT Systems
We study the problem of efficiently disseminating authenticated blockchain information from blockchain nodes (servers) to Internet of Things (IoT) devices, through a wireless base station (BS). In...
Frameless ALOHA with Reliability-Latency Guarantees
One of the novelties brought by 5G is that wireless system design has increasingly turned its focus on guaranteeing reliability and latency. This shifts the design objective of random access...
Wireless Access for Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communication (URLLC): Principles and Building Blocks
Ultra-reliable low latency communication (URLLC) is an important new feature brought by 5G, with a potential to support a vast set of applications that rely on mission-critical links. In this...
Massive M2M Access with Reliability Guarantees in LTE Systems
Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications are one of the major drivers of the cellular network evolution towards 5G systems. One of the key challenges is on how to provide reliability guarantees to...
Efficient LTE Access with Collision Resolution for Massive M2M Communications
LTE random access procedure performs satisfactorily in case of asynchronous, uncorrelated traffic arrivals. However, when the arrivals are correlated and arrive synchronously, the performance of...
Reengineering GSM/GPRS Towards a Dedicated Network for Massive Smart Metering
GSM is a synonym for a major success in wireless technology, achieving widespread use and high technology ma- turity. However, its future is questionable, as many stakeholders indicate that the...