Selected Papers from ICTC 2022

A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Microwave and Wireless Communications".

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Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue aims to provide a further discussion on the most recent advances in the emerging information and communication technology (ICT) all under the name of “Accelerating Digital Transformation with ICT Innovation” from ICTC 2022. ICTC is the unique global premier event for researchers, industry professionals, and academics interested in the latest developments in the emerging industrial focus centered around ICT. More specifically, it will address challenges with realizing ICT convergence over the various industrial sectors, including the internet infrastructures and applications in wireless and mobile communications, smart devices and consumer appliances, mobile cloud computing, green communication, healthcare and bio-informatics, and intelligent transportation.

Prof. Dr. Soo Young Shin
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Keywords

  • information and communication technology
  • digital transformation
  • ICT convergence
  • wireless
  • mobile

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Blockchain-Based Secure Firmware Update Using an UAV
by Jong Wan Seo, Anik Islam, Md Masuduzzaman and Soo Young Shin
Electronics 2023, 12(10), 2189; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12102189 - 11 May 2023
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This paper proposes a blockchain-based firmware update method using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to solve one of the security issues arising in the Internet of Things (IoT) environment, which is the firmware security problem. It has high scalability and transaction speed using private [...] Read more.
This paper proposes a blockchain-based firmware update method using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to solve one of the security issues arising in the Internet of Things (IoT) environment, which is the firmware security problem. It has high scalability and transaction speed using private blockchains and solves the limitations of internet connections by updating the firmware using an UAV. The proposed firmware update system safely manages the IoT device and firmware information through four processes: participant registration, firmware registration/update, firmware update request, and firmware update. The verification of IoT devices and UAVs is performed using the IoT device’s public key and Bloom filter, and firmware updates can be safely performed using public-key encryption communication. To prove the security of the proposed method, a security analysis based on the STRIDE model was conducted, and the performance of the blockchain network was analyzed by simulation on the Hyperledger. Full article
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Optimal Power Allocation and Power Splitting Ratio Assignments for SWIPT-Enabled Orthogonal Multiple Access with Distributed Antenna Systems
by Dongjae Kim, Minseok Choi and Dong-Wook Seo
Electronics 2023, 12(9), 1995; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12091995 - 25 Apr 2023
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This study proposes an integrated framework of single-selection distributed antenna systems (DAS) and simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) with orthogonal multiple access (OMA), and analyzes the synergetic effects of SWIPT and DAS. To demonstrate the performance gains of the proposed SWIPT-enabled [...] Read more.
This study proposes an integrated framework of single-selection distributed antenna systems (DAS) and simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) with orthogonal multiple access (OMA), and analyzes the synergetic effects of SWIPT and DAS. To demonstrate the performance gains of the proposed SWIPT-enabled OMA with DAS, we jointly optimize power allocation for the OMA and power splitting (PS) ratio for energy harvesting of SWIPT with three different optimization goals: sum-rate maximization, user fairness, and energy efficiency. Although all of the above optimization problems are non-convex, the closed-form solutions of the problems maximizing the sum-rate and fairness are presented. Owing to difficult analytical tractability of the problem maximizing the energy efficiency, the problem is divided into three subproblems: power allocation for the base station (BS), power allocation for radio remote unit (RRU), and PS ratio assignment. Then, an iterative algorithm is presented to provide the energy-efficient SWIPT-enabled OMA with DAS. Theoretical findings are validated by numerical results, which show that the framework of applying DAS to SWIPT-OMA improves data rates and energy efficiency compared to SWIPT-OMA without DAS, while satisfying the minimum rate and harvested energy requirements. Full article
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