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  • The global epidemiology and health burden of the autism spectrum: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. 

    Santomauro, Damian; Erskine, Holly; Herrera, Ana; Miller, Paul; Shadid, Jamileh; ... more authors ( Elsevier , 2024 , Article)
    High-quality estimates of the epidemiology of the autism spectrum and the health needs of autistic people are necessary for service planners and resource allocators. Here we present the global prevalence and health burden ...
  • Enhancing passive UHF RFID communication in multipath fading channels using time-varying continuous wave signals 

    Ben-Jabeur, Taoufik; Kadri, Abdullah ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) , 2015 , Conference)
    In this paper, time-varying continuous wave (CW) signals are proposed for passive ultrahigh frequency radio frequency identification (UHF RFID) communication in multipath fading channels. The energy of the CW signals ...
  • IoT-based occupancy monitoring techniques for energy-efficient smart buildings 

    Akkaya, Kemal; Guvenc, Ismail; Aygun, Ramazan; Pala, Nezih; Kadri, Abdullah ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) , 2015 , Conference)
    With the proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as smartphones, sensors, cameras, and RFIDs, it is possible to collect massive amount of data for localization and tracking of people within commercial ...
  • An optimization model for antenna selection and deployment in single and multi-cell RFID systems 

    Zou, Sicheng; Crisp, Michael; Sabesan, Sithamparanathan; Kadri, Abdullah; Penty, Richard V.; ... more authors ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) , 2015 , Conference)
    This paper presents an optimization model for antenna selection and deployment in ceiling mounted, single and multi-cell RFID systems. The proposed model utilises a three-dimensional (3D) antenna radiation pattern, taking ...
  • Experimental performance evaluation of passive UHF RFID systems under interference 

    Çiftler, Bekir Sait; Kadri, Abdullah; Guvenc, Ismail ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) , 2015 , Conference)
    Performance of passive ultrahigh frequency radio-frequency identification (UHF RFID) systems is determined by the ability of the RFID reader to precisely decode the RF signal backscattered by the RFID tag. For a successful ...
  • Infrastructure-assisted efficient broadcasting in hybrid vehicular networks 

    Mir, Zeeshan Hameed; Kim, Jaebeom; Filali, Fethi; Ko, Young Bae ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) , 2016 , Conference)
    Transmission power adaptation has been widely employed to improve on the network performance. However designing an adaptation technique that could lower the number of collisions and delay under unreliable connectivity and ...
  • An hybrid platform for remote health monitoring: From concept to deployment 

    Heurtefeux, Karel; Mohsin, Nasreen; Menouar, Hamid ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) , 2015 , Conference)
    This paper presents experimental results from a platform consisting of multiple wearable body area networks (BAN) connected to a wireless mesh network. The proposed platform collects, processes and wirelessly transmits ...
  • A novel cryptography based privacy preserving solution for urban mobility and traffic control 

    Badra, Mohamad; Ben Hamida, Elyes ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) , 2015 , Conference)
    Due to the proliferation of high-speed mobile networks and powerful smartphones featuring on-board GPS and multi-modal sensors devices, urban sensing has recently emerged as a novel computing paradigm for enabling future ...
  • Realistic simulation scenario for hybrid LTE/IEEE 802.11p vehicular communication 

    Möller, Andreas; Baumgarten, Johannes; Hameed Mir, Zeeshan; Filali, Fethi; Kürner, Thomas ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) , 2015 , Conference)
    In this paper, a top-down approach to create a realistic simulation scenario for joint IEEE 802.11p and Long Term Evolution (LTE) performance evaluations is presented. Applying this approach, a scenario suited for both ...
  • Data-driven analytics for automated cell outage detection in Self-Organizing Networks 

    Zoha, Ahmed; Saeed, Arsalan; Imran, Ali; Imran, Muhammad Ali; Abu-Dayya, Adnan ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) , 2015 , Conference)
    In this paper, we address the challenge of autonomous cell outage detection (COD) in Self-Organizing Networks (SON). COD is a pre-requisite to trigger fully automated self-healing recovery actions following cell outages ...
  • On Inferring the Time-Varying Traffic Connectivity Structures of an Urban Environment 

    Chawla, Sanjay; Sarkar, Somwrita; Borge-Holthoefer, Javier; Ahmad, Shameem; Hammady, Hossam; ... more authors ( HBKU Press , 2015 , Conference)
    Road networks shape traffic mobility in a city. These dynamics are often represented as traffic flows in and out of defined urban travel zones. The functional dynamics of traffic zones can be represented by time-dependant ...
  • Enhancing RPL resilience against routing layer insider attacks 

    Heurtefeux, Karel; Erdene-Ochir, Ochirkhand; Mohsin, Nasreen; Menouar, Hamid ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) , 2015 , Conference)
    To gather and transmit data, low cost wireless devices are often deployed in open, unattended and possibly hostile environment, making them particularly vulnerable to physical attacks. Resilience is needed to mitigate such ...
  • Interleaving-based orphan channel Scanning for the IEEE 802.15.4m in TVWS smart grid networks 

    Kim, Jaebeom; Han, Jina; Ko, Young Bae; Filali, Fethi ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) , 2015 , Conference)
    IEEE 802.15.4m utilizing TVWS Multichannel Cluster Tree PAN (TMCTP) technology provides cost-effective and spectrum-efficient communication in a last-mile smart grid network. However, the performance of the IEEE 802.15.4m ...
  • Eco-Routing Using V2I Communication: System Evaluation 

    Elbery, Ahmed; Rakha, Hesham; Elnainay, Mustafa; Drira, Wassim; Filali, Fethi ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) , 2015 , Conference)
    Eco-routing is a technique proposed to optimize the fuel consumption in transportation networks. User feedback is used to compute the route's fuel consumption level for other vehicles to build their minimum path routes. ...
  • Performance impact of security on cooperative awareness in dense urban vehicular networks 

    Ben Brahim, Mohamed; Ben Hamida, Elyes; Filali, Fethi; Hamdi, Noureddine ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) , 2015 , Conference)
    Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS) communication technology is expected to be the near-future pioneer in the traffic management and road-safety control area by provisioning timely accurate and location-aware ...
  • Behavior of wireless body-to-body networks routing strategies for public protection and disaster relief 

    Ben Arbia, Dhafer; Alam, Muhammad Mahtab; Attia, Rabah; Ben Hamida, Elyes ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) , 2015 , Conference)
    Critical and public safety operations require realtime data transfer from the incident area(s) to the distant operations command center going through the evacuation and medical support areas. Any delay in communication may ...
  • Data dissemination strategies for emerging wireless body-to-body networks based Internet of Humans 

    Ben Arbia, Dhafer; Alam, Muhammad Mahtab; Attia, Rabah; Ben Hamida, Elyes ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) , 2015 , Conference)
    With the recent advent of Internet of Humans (IoH), wireless body-to-body networks (WBBNs) are emerging as the fundamental part of this new paradigm. In particular with reference to newly emerging applications, the research ...
  • A lightweight CoAP-based software defined networking for resource constrained AMI devices 

    Kim, Jaebeom; Filali, Fethi; Ko, Young Bae ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) , 2016 , Conference)
    Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) network is the capillary communication network for smart grid that does not only provide the data collection from each household but also delivers configuration requests from intelligent ...
  • Green collaboration in cognitive radio cellular networks with roaming and spectrum trading 

    Sboui, Lokman; Ghazzai, Hakim; Rezki, Zouheir; Alouini, Mohamed Slim ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) , 2015 , Conference)
    In this paper, we propose a new cognitive cellular network architecture based on the coexistence of primary and secondary networks, (PN) and (SN), respectively. The PN aims to minimize its energy consumption by switching ...
  • Optimized Demand Side Management for Competitive HetNets Powered by Smart Grid 

    Ghazzai, Hakim; Kadri, Abdullah ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) , 2015 , Conference)
    This paper investigates the interactions between multiple heterogeneous cellular networks and energy retailers existing in the smart grid. The energy procurement decision of cellular networks is optimized while considering ...

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