The most challenging issue in WiMAX network planning is to measure and enhance the Quality of Service (QoS) of WiMAX networks. In this paper, a comprehensive WiMAX simulator is proposed to evaluate the performance of the ...

One of the challenges in WiMAX networks is to increase resource and power efficiency by optimizing the downlink (DL) burst construction. This paper proposes an energy-efficient scheme that maximizes the use of resources ...

Smartphones are evolving at a fast rate in terms of their computational, storage, and communications capabilities. A high-end smartphone is equipped with multiple wireless interfaces with varying bit rates, energy consumption ...

Due to the exploding traffic demands and the diversity of novel applications requiring extensive computation and radio resources, research has been active to devise mechanisms for responding to these challenges. Mobile ...

The curricular structure and the complexity of the prerequisite dependencies in a curriculum are essential factors that impact student progression, and ultimately graduation rates. However, we are not aware of any closed-form ...

Continuously collecting sensor data on mobile devices helps in capturing important contextual information related to the user location, activity, and surrounding environment. This contextual information is required by ...

Due to the exploding traffic demands with the ubiquitous anticipated spread of 5G and Internet of Things, research has been active to devise mechanisms for meeting these demands while maintaining high quality user experience. ...

Cognitive radios are expected to play a major role towards meeting the exploding traffic demand over wireless systems. A cognitive radio node senses the environment, analyzes the outdoor parameters, and then makes decisions ...

Traffic offloading via device-to-device communications is expected to play a major role to meet the exponential data traffic growth in wireless networks. In this work, we focus on the problem of user capacity maximization ...

In hazardous Internet of Things (IoT) environments with the unlinked control server, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) swarm is leveraged to relay commands with strict reliability and latency requirements. This letter optimizes ...