QMIC Research
Recent Submissions
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Robust road map inference through network alignment of trajectories
( Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Publications , 2018 , Conference Paper)In this paper we address the challenge of inferring the road network of a city from crowd-sourced GPS traces. While the problem has been addressed before, our solution has the following unique characteristics: (i) we ... -
Achievable Rates of UAV-Relayed Cooperative Cognitive Radio MIMO Systems
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Conference Paper)We study the achievable rate of an uplink MIMO cognitive radio system where the primary user (PU) and the secondary user (SU) aim to communicate to the closest primary base station (BS) via a multi-access channel through ... -
UAVs-assisted Data Collection in Vehicular Network
( IARIA , 2018 , Conference Paper)In vehicular network, nodes generate and transmit timely measured data by embedded sensors. Some data needs to be gathered by remote devices. The limited communication range of the vehicular wireless system requires to ... -
Distributed Upstream Data Cleaning in VANET
( IARIA , 2017 , Conference Paper)The mobile road stations in Vehicular Ad~hoc NETworks (VANET) are generating huge quantities of traffic-related data over wireless communication medium. For different business purposes, data has to be collected by heterogeneous ... -
Real Deployment of the V2X-Based Data Probe Application and its Integration with a Commercial Traffic Platform
( IARIA , 2019 , Conference Paper)In Vehicle to vehicle and vehicle to infrastructure communication the vehicles are expected to transmit continuously and frequently information that include their velocity and location coordinates. Such real-time geographical ... -
Data Routing Challenges in UAV-assisted Vehicular Ad hoc Networks
( IARIA , 2017 , Conference Paper)Reliable and efficient transportation system in smart cities relies on effective integration of connected and autonomous vehicles. Although there has been a lot of improvements in this technology, additional support from ... -
On building realistic reference scenarios for IEEE 802.11p/LTE-based vehicular network evaluations
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Conference Paper)In recent years, a combined utilization of ad-hoc communication and cellular mobile radio systems has been considered for vehicular networking in future Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs). The development of hybrid ... -
Near optimal power splitting protocol for energy harvesting based two way multiple relay systems
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Conference Paper)This paper proposes an optimized transmission scheme for Energy Harvesting (EH)-based two-way multiple- relay systems. All relays are considered as EH nodes that harvest energy from renewable and radio frequency (RF) ... -
Energy management in cellular HetNets assisted by solar powered drone small cells
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Conference Paper)This paper proposes an energy management framework for cellular heterogeneous networks (HetNets) supported by dynamic drone small cells. A 3-tier HetNet is considered where macrocell, on/off switching micro cells, and ... -
On the Interrelation of Security, QoS, and Safety in Cooperative ITS
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Article)Cooperative intelligent transport system (C-ITS) is an emerging technology that enables secure and safe road travel using wireless communications. Vehicles regularly share their mobility information with the neighborhood ... -
Energy-efficient management of unmanned aerial vehicles for underlay cognitive radio systems
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Conference Paper)Micro unmanned aerial vehicles (MUAVs) have attracted much interest in multiple applications. Most of the MUAV-based applications require time-limited access to the spectrum to complete data transmission due to limited ... -
P2P group formation enhancement for opportunistic networks with Wi-Fi direct
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Conference Paper)The Wi-Fi Direct technology was proposed by Wi-Fi Alliance in order to facilitate device-to-device communications in Wi-Fi. The Wi-Fi Direct technology offers new possibilities to deploy opportunistic and cooperative ... -
Optimization of a power splitting protocol for two-way multiple energy harvesting relay system
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Conference Paper)Energy harvesting (EH) combined with cooperative communications constitutes a promising solution for future wireless technologies. It enables additional efficiency and increased lifetime to wireless networks. This paper ... -
An exploratory search strategy for data routing in flying ad hoc networks
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Conference Paper)This paper investigates the problem of data routing in flying ad hoc networks (FANETs) composed of multiple flying nodes, i.e., unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), supported by communication platforms. The objective is to ... -
Exploiting land transport to improve the uav's performances for longer mission coverage in smart cities
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2019 , Conference Paper)This contribution presents a solution to improve the performances of micro unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) by increasing their missions coverage in terms of distance and time. This is achieved by letting the UAV ride ... -
Optimal Sequential and Parallel UAV Scheduling for Multi-Event Applications
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Conference Paper)In this paper, a generic scheduling framework to manage a fleet of micro unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is proposed. The objective is to employ multiple UAVs in sequential and parallel ways to cover spatially and temporally ... -
Effective Urban Structure Inference from Traffic Flow Dynamics
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Conference Paper)Mobility in a city is represented as traffic flows in and out of defined urban travel or administrative zones. While the zones and the road networks connecting them are fixed in space, traffic flows between pairs of zones ... -
On the Placement of UAV Docking Stations for Future Intelligent Transportation Systems
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Conference Paper)Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) have attracted a lot of attention in a variety of fields especially in intelligent transportation systems (ITS). They constitute an innovative mean to support existing technologies to control ... -
Energy efficient data collection for wireless sensors using drones
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Conference Paper)This paper proposes an energy-efficient solution to employ a drone to gather data from spatially distributed wireless sensors. Specifically, we minimize the energy consumption of the drone while accomplishing a tour to ... -
Adaptive security provisioning for vehicular safety applications
( Inderscience Publishers , 2017 , Article)Vehicular ad hoc network provides safety applications for next generation intelligent transport systems. By periodically transmitting mobility information in basic safety messages (BSMs), vehicles get an overview of the ...