QMIC Research: Recent submissions
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An hybrid platform for remote health monitoring: From concept to deployment
( 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 ... -
On Inferring the Time-Varying Traffic Connectivity Structures of an Urban Environment
( 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 ... -
Interleaving-based orphan channel Scanning for the IEEE 802.15.4m in TVWS smart grid networks
( 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 ... -
Enhancing RPL resilience against routing layer insider attacks
( 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 ... -
Performance Analysis of Passive UHF RFID Systems under Cascaded Fading Channels and Interference Effects
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) , 2015 , Article)In this paper, the performance of monostatic and bistatic passive ultra high frequency radio frequency identification (UHF RFID) systems under the effects of cascaded fading channels and interference is studied. The ... -
Behavior of wireless body-to-body networks routing strategies for public protection and disaster relief
( 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
( 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 ... -
Optimized energy procurement for cellular networks powered by smart grid based on stochastic geometry
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) , 2015 , Conference)In this paper, we investigate the energy procurement decision of cellular networks powered by smart grid. Multiple retailers producing energy from different sources characterized by their prices and pollutant emission ... -
A lightweight CoAP-based software defined networking for resource constrained AMI devices
( 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 ... -
Optimized Demand Side Management for Competitive HetNets Powered by Smart Grid
( 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 ... -
Green collaboration in cognitive radio cellular networks with roaming and spectrum trading
( 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 ... -
Performance impact of security on cooperative awareness in dense urban vehicular networks
( 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 ... -
Eco-Routing Using V2I Communication: System Evaluation
( 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. ... -
A new mHealth communication framework for use in wearable WBANs and mobile technologies
( Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) , 2015 , Article)Driven by the development of biomedical sensors and the availability of high mobile bandwidth, mobile health (mHealth) systems are now offering a wider range of new services. This revolution makes the idea of in-home health ... -
HCBLS: A Hierarchical Cluster-Based Location Service in Urban Environment
( Hindawi , 2015 , Article)Vehicle location information is central tomany location-based services and applications inVANETs. Tracking vehicles positions and maintaining an accurate up-to-date view of the entire network are not easy due to the high ... -
Trends and potentials of the smart grid infrastructure: From ICT sub-system to SDN-enabled smart grid architecture
( Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) , 2015 , Article)Context and situational awareness are key features and trends of the smart grid and enable adaptable, flexible and extendable smart grid services. However, the traditional hardware-dependent communication infrastructure ... -
A learning-based approach for autonomous outage detection and coverage optimization
( John Wiley and Sons , 2015 , Article)To be able to provide uninterrupted high quality of experience to the subscribers, operators must ensure high reliability of their networks while aiming for zero downtime. With the growing complexity of the networks, there ... -
A cell outage management framework for dense heterogeneous networks
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) , 2015 , Article)In this paper, we present a novel cell outage management (COM) framework for heterogeneous networks with split control and data planes - a candidate architecture for meeting future capacity, quality-of-service, and energy ... -
Wearable Wireless Networks for Internet of Humans: Trends and Challenges
( Hilaris Publishing , 2015 , Other)Interconnected internet of humans (IoH) is a new paradigm in which wearable wireless networks (WWN) are emerging as a key enabling technology. WWN is revolutionizing health-care, sports and fitness, rescue and emergency ... -
Large-scale simulations and performance evaluation of connected cars - A V2V communication perspective
( Elsevier , 2017 , Article)Performance evaluation is integral to the vast majority of research on Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) technology enabled connected cars. To validate ideas and concepts, researchers have been continuously striving towards the ...
