Electrical Engineering: Recent submissions

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    • Incentive-Vacation Queueing in Extreme Edge Computing: An Analytical Reward-Based Framework 

      Azmy, Sherif B.; Zorba, Nizar; Hassanein, Hossam S. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2024 , Article)
      Edge Computing (EC) emerged to address the cloud's shortcomings in meeting demand and latency requirements, leading to a shift in computation closer to the end-user. Extreme Edge Computing (XEC) extends this approach by ...

    • Physics and AI-Based Digital Twin of Multi-Spectrum Propagation Characteristics for Communication and Sensing in 6G and beyond 

      He, Danping; Guan, Ke; Yan, Dong; Yi, Haofan; Zhang, Zhao; ... more authors ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2023 , Article)
      To realize intelligent connection of everything and the digital twin (DT) of the physical world in 6G and beyond, new communication and sensing solutions are demanded. The potential of multiple spectrums is maximized for ...

    • A New NOMA-Based Two-Way Relaying Scheme 

      Althunibat, Saud; Hassan, Heyam; Khattab, Tamer; Zorba, Nizar ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2023 , Article)
      Two-Way Relaying (TWR) has been widely investigated in the literature as an efficient relaying scheme for dual-hop cooperative transmissions. In TWR, two nodes exchange data through an intermediate relay, where both nodes ...

    • Performance evaluation of power demand scheduling scenarios in a smart grid environment 

      Vardakas, John S.; Zorba, Nizar; Verikoukis, Christos V. ( Elsevier , 2015 , Article)
      Smart grid technology is considered as the ultimate solution to challenges that emerge from the increasing power demands, the subsequent increase in pollution, and the outmoded power grid infrastructure. The successful ...

    • Performance Analysis of Resource Allocation in THz-Based Subcarrier Index Modulation Systems for Mobile Users 

      Alzard, Mohannad; Althunibat, Saud; Umebayashi, Kenta; Zorba, Nizar ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Article)
      The recent demand for connections to a huge number of users with very high data rates have motivated research communities to investigate communications into the higher frequency bands, such as millimeter waves and TeraHertz ...

    • Robust Positioning for Road Information Services in Challenging Environments 

      El-Wakeel, Amr S.; Osman, Abdalla; Zorba, Nizar; Hassanein, Hossam S.; Noureldin, Aboelmagd ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Article)
      Next-generation Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) of future road traffic monitoring will be required to provide reports on traffic status, road conditions, and driver behaviour. Road surface anomalies contribute to ...

    • Quality Estimation for Scarce Scenarios within Mobile Crowdsensing Systems 

      Azmy, Sherif B.; Zorba, Nizar; Hassanein, Hossam S. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Article)
      Mobile crowdsensing (MCS) is a paradigm that exploits the presence of a crowd of moving human participants to acquire, or generate, data from their environment. As a part of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) paradigm, MCS serves ...

    • IoT-Based Crowd Management Framework for Departure Control and Navigation 

      Elbery, Ahmed; Hassanein, Hossam S.; Zorba, Nizar; Rakha, Hesham A. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Article)
      This paper exploits crowdsensing to propose a novel IoT-Based Vehicle Crowd Management (IoT-VCM) framework. By efficiently managing vehicle departures and navigation, the IoT-VCM clears the network in a shorter time, while ...

    • Dynamic Spectrum Sharing in the Age of Millimeter-Wave Spectrum Access 

      Hamdaoui, Bechir; Khalfi, Bassem; Zorba, Nizar ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Article)
      Next-generation wireless networks are facing spectrum shortage challenges, mainly due to, among other factors, the projected massive numbers of IoT connections and the emerging bandwidth-hungry applications that such ...

    • Vehicular Crowd Management: An IoT-Based Departure Control and Navigation System 

      Elbery, Ahmed; Hassanein, Hossam S.; Zorba, Nizar ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Conference)
      Large sport and entertainment events such as soccer games or concerts attract an immense number of fans, most of whom use personal vehicles to get to the event. Such a large number of cars presents a 'vehicular crowd' that ...

    • Traffic Forecasting using Temporal Line Graph Convolutional Network: Case Study 

      Ramadan, Abdelrahman; Elbery, Ahmed; Zorba, Nizar; Hassanein, Hossam S. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Conference)
      Traffic forecasting is imperative to Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), and it has always been considered as a challenging research topic, due to the complex topological structure of the urban road network and the ...

    • IoTShare: A Blockchain-Enabled IoT Resource Sharing On-Demand Protocol for Smart City Situation-Awareness Applications 

      Hamdaoui, Bechir; Alkalbani, Mohamed; Rayes, Ammar; Zorba, Nizar ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Article)
      We propose a blockchain-based, distributed protocol for enabling the deployment of Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks on-demand on top of IoT devices. Specifically, the proposed protocol leverages blockchain technology to: ...

    • Drones for Sheep Livestock Monitoring 

      Al-Thani, Najla; Albuainain, Alreem; Alnaimi, Fatima; Zorba, Nizar ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Conference)
      Nowadays, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) have been included in many more applications such as package delivery, traffic monitoring, etc; and one of its potential applications is agriculture. This work demonstrates the ...

    • Delay analysis of converged optical-wireless networks with quality of service support 

      Vardakas, John S.; Moscholios, Ioannis D.; Zorba, Nizar; Logothetis, Michael D.; Verikoukis, Christos V. ( Institution of Engineering and Technology , 2014 , Article)
      The convergence of two popular access technologies, namely Worldwide interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) and passive optical network (PON) is a promising access solution that combines the mobility feature of WiMAX ...

    • Performance analysis of M2M communication networks for QoS-differentiated smart grid applications 

      Vardakas, John S.; Zorba, Nizar; Skianis, Charalabos; Verikoukis, Christos V. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2015 , Conference)
      We study the performance of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications in Long Term Evolution Advanced (LTE-A) networks. The proposed analysis is applied to the random access procedure within LTE-A for the calculation of the ...

    • Optimized handover strategy with hybrid satisfaction mechanisms 

      Zorba, Nizar; Hassanein, Hossam S. ( Springer , 2015 , Article)
      One of the key features of cellular systems is the possibility to switch the connection over several cells while the user is moving. This handover between cells has been upgraded to tackle different operator/users' objectives, ...

    • Joint uplink-downlink carrier aggregation scheme in LTE-A 

      Zorba, Nizar; Verikoukis, Christos ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference)
      Long Term Evolution Advanced (LTE-A) supports a wide range of applications that continuously demand for more resources in order to satisfy the customers' needs. Starting from release 10, Carrier Aggregation (CA) technology ...

    • A Survey on Demand Response Programs in Smart Grids: Pricing Methods and Optimization Algorithms 

      Vardakas, John S.; Zorba, Nizar; Verikoukis, Christos V. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2015 , Article)
      The smart grid concept continues to evolve and various methods have been developed to enhance the energy efficiency of the electricity infrastructure. Demand Response (DR) is considered as the most cost-effective and ...

    • Crowd management 

      Hassanein, Hossam; Zorba, Nizar; Han, Shuai; Kanhere, Salil S.; Shukair, Mutaz ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2019 , Article)
      The articles in this special section focus on crowd management in areas that are increasingly experiencing growths in populations. In its 2018 Revision of the World Urbanization Prospects, the United Nations projects that ...

    • Adaptive Cooperative Network Coding based MAC protocol for device-to-device communication 

      Datsika, Eftychia; Antonopoulos, Angelos; Zorba, Nizar; Verikoukis, Christos ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2015 , Conference)
      Device-to-Device (D2D) communication allows the direct connection of mobile devices in a cellular network. In D2D networking, cooperative communication is inherent due to the proximity of the devices that are able to ...