Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal

This paper investigates the inter-cell interference coordination (ICIC) for heterogeneous networks (HetNets) with full-duplex (FD) small cell base stations to maximize the overall system throughput. To be compatible with the enhanced ICIC (eICIC) and ...

Addressing plays vital role in the communication of wired and wireless network. We proposed masking of internet protocol (IP) address by using the image abstraction of the mobile user. Every image is with independent Gray scale values varying from image ...

In a process simulator, the distributed wireless liquid level control experiments have been performed by using the generalized predictive control algorithm. The wireless local area network was established with antennas between process simulator in Unit ...

In this paper, we develop a three-dimensional (3D) eccentricity-based cylindrical geometrical channel model for nonisotropic multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems under umbrella macrocellular environment. We use elliptic ...

Wireless sensor network contains several small sensor nodes that are designed to work autonomously. Coverage preservation is an underlying requirement to efficiently deliver certain services in WSNs. During network operation, some sensor nodes die ...

Carrier aggregation (CA) is a promising bandwidth extension technique which in turn increases the data rate. A scalable and flexible Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) can be considered as a key element in 5G wireless communications. The ...

The paper aims to give an extensive overview of the energy constraints in Wireless Sensor Networks and the power management strategies used in the literature as power efficiency is considered as the most challenging issue in WSNs. The paper opted for an ...

Hybrid heterogeneous wireless networks utilizing both traditional microwave frequency band and millimetre wave band are currently been investigated as a potential approach to meet the increasing demand for ultra-high rate transmission with the severe ...

Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) is the most common cardiovascular disease which has the highest mortality rate in developing countries. To predict and prevent the risk of CHD in its early stages from remote sites, real time monitoring and analysis of an ...

Microwave multi-band bandpass filter using substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) and corrugated SIW (CSIW) over Neltec NH9320 with dielectric constant of 3.2, thickness 30 mil and loss tangent tanýý=ý0.0024 are presented in this paper. Firstly, 150° bend ...

Transmit Precoding (TPC) considerably improves the performance of Space Shift Keying (SSK) systems. Codebook-based TPC is able to tackle several difficulties encountered by non-codebook TPC techniques. Channel State Information (CSI) is required at the ...

The wireless body sensor network (WBSN) an extensive of WSN is in charge for the detection of patient's health concerned data. This monitored health data are essential to be routed to the sink (base station) in an effective way by approaching the ...

In this paper, a group-based fast symbol detection scheme is proposed for massive Group-wise Space---Time Block Code Multiple-Input Multiple-Output systems. The proposed scheme first chooses a number G, (e.g. $$G=4,6,8$$G=4,6,8) as the size of each ...

The determination of the path clearance is one of the most important factors for channel propagation models because most of them classify their models into line-of-sight (LOS) and non-LOS (NLOS) environments. In particular, the path for vehicle-to-...

In the article we discuss solutions of the maximum lifetime broadcasting problem in wireless sensor networks. Due to limited energy resources of the network nodes to find an optimal transmission route of the broadcasted data we minimize the maximum ...

Wireless sensor networks consist of low cost sensor nodes which have limited power supplies, memory capacity, processing capability and transmission rate. Sensor nodes gather information from the environment and send the collected information to base ...

In open air environment, Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver can determine its position with very high accuracy. Inside a building the GPS signal is degraded, the position estimation from the GPS receiver is very erroneous and of no practical use. ...

The vision of advanced long-term evolution (LTE-A) project is set to ultimate increase of network capacity in heterogeneous networks (HetNets). In HetNets with small cell configuration, a considerable majority of user devices is eventually connected to ...

This paper shows the trade off between different modulation techniques such as multi level quadrature amplitude modulation, multi level phase shift keying, and multi level differential phase shift keying for upgrading direct detection optical orthogonal ...

The trustworthiness and connectivity of the network depends on the energy drain rate of mobile nodes. Colluders like vampire nodes in ad hoc network make it more vulnerable as they rapidly drain considerable amount of energy. This generic vampire ...

In this paper, estimation of mobility using received signal strength (RSS) is presented. In contrast to standard methods, speed can be estimated without the use of any additional hardware like accelerometer, gyroscope or position estimator. The pattern ...

An underwater acoustic modem (UAM) is an essential component of an underwater wireless sensor network (UWSN). The applications of UWSNs include, but are not limited to, monitoring of aquatic environments and coral reefs, coastal surveillance, etc. The ...

The Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO) is an important component of the transceiver which consumes significant energy as compared to the other transceiver components. Since RF application systems such as WiFi, Bluetooth or Zigbee uses battery energy, ...

Sudden accident in factories causes huge damage to human life and property which is a serious problem. The fire incident of Baldia Town factory Karachi, Pakistan on September 11, 2012, took precious lives of approximately 259 workers. In order to ...

Over the past decades, satellites have been used to provide a variety of services like voice, data, negation and video. Frequencies above 10 GHz provide new opportunities to meet high bandwidth demands especially for small, maritime, areal and mobile ...

Elliptic curve cryptography provides better security and is more efficient as compared to other public key cryptosystems with identical key size. In this article, we present a new method for the construction of substitution boxes(S-boxes) based on ...

New innovation in technology has led to a lot of improvement in medical devices and system. A traditional method used in healthcare has a lot of concerns which need to be eliminated to make human life more comfortable and hassle free. With the advent of ...

Designing an efficient routing protocol for cognitive radio networks is critical due to the dynamic behavior of the primary users. Based on empirical studies, the primary users activity on the licensed channels has periodicity comprised of several ...

Cell residence time is a key system parameter for the performance analysis of cellular mobile systems and their related applications. In order to save cost and time before wide implementation and deployment of a mobile system, various network ...

Segmentation of lung fields is an important pre-requisite step in chest radiographic computer-aided diagnosis systems as it precisely defines the region-of-interest on which different operations are applied. However, it is immensely challenging due to ...