Qatar Mobility Innovations Center: Recent submissions
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Improved multi-hop routing in integrated VANET-LTE hybrid vehicular networks
( Association for Computing Machinery, Inc , 2016 , Conference)The VANET-LTE integration offers many potential advantages for vehicular networks such as high data rates, low latency and extended communication range. However, utilizing these advantages requires novel protocols and ... -
Dynamic Scheduled Access Medium Access Control for Emerging Wearable Applications
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference)Context and Motivation Wearable technology is emerging as one of the key enablers for the internet of everything (IoE). The technology is getting mature by every day with more applications than ever before consequently ... -
Scalable multimedia streaming in wireless networks with device-to-device cooperation
( Association for Computing Machinery, Inc , 2016 , Conference)We present a scalable mobile multimedia streaming system with device-to-device cooperation that enables common content distribution in dense wireless networking environments. This is particularly applicable to use cases ... -
CROW2: Internet of humans-based platform for disaster relief and emergency communication
( IEEE , 2017 , Conference)During a disaster incident, existing network infrastructures might either be damaged or overloaded. However, disaster operations require real-time and low latency data communication, especially live video and audio streaming, ... -
A Simulation-based Study on the Environment-Specific Propagation Model for Vehicular Communications
( IGI Global Scientific Publishing , 2017 , Article)Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communication environment vary significantly in radio channel characteristics. Therefore, simulation-based studies on V2V propagation models that consider random and time-varying characteristics ... -
A stochastic geometry-based demand response management framework for cellular networks powered by smart grid
( IEEE , 2016 , Conference)In this paper, the production decisions across multiple energy suppliers in smart grid, powering cellular networks are investigated. The suppliers are characterized by different offered prices and pollutant emissions levels. ... -
Novel Vehicle Awareness Measure for Secure Road Traffic Safety Applications
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference)Future intelligent transport systems (ITS) are envisaged to offer drivers with a safer and comfortable driving experience by using wireless data exchange between vehicles. A number of applications could be realized with ... -
Front-end intelligence for large-scale application-oriented internet-of-things
( IEEE , 2016 , Article)The Internet-of-things (IoT) refer to the massive integration of electronic devices, vehicles, buildings, and other objects to collect and exchange data. It is the enabling technology for a plethora of applications touching ... -
A Heuristic Self-Adaptive Medium Access Control for Resource-Constrained WBAN Systems
( IEEE , 2016 , Article)This paper presents a heuristic-based approach to self-adapt and reconfigures the wake-up schedule of the nodes in wireless body area networks (WBANs). A latency-energy-optimized traffic-aware dynamic medium access control ... -
Development and testing of a 3G/LTE adaptive data collection system in vehicular networks
( IEEE , 2016 , Article)Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) are a special case of mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). The distinctive characteristics of VANETs include high-speed vehicular nodes and significant variability in node density. Collecting ... -
Channel-aware ECDSA signature verification of basic safety messages with K-means clustering in VANETs
( IEEE , 2016 , Conference)Vehicular ad hoc network facilitates cooperative awareness applications by periodically sharing basic safety messages (BSMs) with the neighborhood vehicles. As these applications impact human safety, authenticity of BSMs ... -
A data traffic steering algorithm for IEEE 802.11p/LTE hybrid vehicular networks
( IEEE , 2016 , Conference)Reliable vehicular communication is considered an important precondition for future intelligent transportation systems (ITSs). Recently, a combination of ad-hoc direct communication and infrastructure based cellular networks ... -
Simulation and Performance Evaluation of Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) Propagation Model in Urban Environment
( IEEE , 2016 , Conference)Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communications offer support to several applications that can make the modern day travel safer, more efficient and enjoyable. However, reliable and efficient V2V application development requires ... -
Eco-Routing: An ant colony based approach
( SciTePress , 2016 , Conference)Global warming, environmental pollution, and fuel shortage are currently major worldwide challenges. Ecorouting is one of several tools that attempt to address this challenge by minimizing network-wide vehicle fuel consumption ... -
Adaptive security mechanisms for safety applications in Internet of Vehicles
( IEEE , 2016 , Conference)Internet of Vehicles (IoV) is an important constituent of next generation smart cities that enables city wide connectivity of vehicles for traffic management applications. A secure and reliable communications is an important ... -
Performance evaluation of IEEE 802.15.6-based WBANs under co-channel interference
( Inderscience Publishers , 2017 , Article)In this paper, interference mitigation and coexistence strategies proposed in IEEE 802.15.6 standard are investigated within the context of co-channel interference. A comparative evaluation of the reference scenario (which ... -
Optimized energy procurement for cellular networks with uncertain renewable energy generation
( IEEE , 2016 , Conference)Renewable energy (RE) is an emerging solution for reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from cellular networks. One of the challenges of using RE sources is to handle its inherent uncertainty. In this paper, a RE powered ... -
Wireless RF-based energy harvesting for two-way relaying systems
( IEEE , 2016 , Conference)In this paper, we investigate the Energy Harvesting (EH)-based two-way relaying system using Amplify-And-Forward (AF) and Decode-And-Forward (DF) strategies. The relay is considered as an EH node that harvests the received ... -
Energy sharing framework for microgrid-powered cellular base stations
( IEEE , 2016 , Conference)Cellular base stations (BSs) are increasingly becoming equipped with renewable energy generators to reduce operational expenditures and carbon footprint of wireless communications. Moreover, advancements in the traditional ... -
A multi-relay selection scheme for time switching energy harvesting two-way relaying systems
( IEEE , 2016 , Conference)In this paper, a multiple relay selection scheme for Energy Harvesting (EH)-based two-way relaying is investigated. All the relays are considered as EH nodes that harvest energy from renewable and radio frequency sources, ...
