Smart Sensing in Device to Device Communication
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Internet of Things".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2021) | Viewed by 3092
Special Issue Editors
Interests: wireless networks; communication & coding theory; device-to-device communications; energy-efficiency; 5G communication systems; machine learning for future networks; mobile edge computing
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Interests: IoT; wireless and mobile networks; network and system security
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Device-to-device (D2D) communications are among the key technologies for the emerging 5G systems and applications. Its benefits include boosting the throughput, reducing the power consumption, extending the coverage, offloading network traffic, and increasing the spectrum efficiency, all of these achievable by exploiting direct interaction between the devices without using the support of the network infrastructure. In parallel, the expected widespread deployment of sensing devices in infrastructures, smart cities, and cyber-physical systems in the coming years arises as one of the areas where D2D is likely to play a fundamental role for reducing the latency of communications and enabling massive machine type communications (mMTC). In order to cope with this diversity of usage cases and requirements, the devices in a D2D system will have to apply novel and advanced solutions to dynamically monitor their environment while efficiently using the available resources at any moment, either for spectrum reuse, mitigation of interference, caching information, multiple access, selection of its peer device(s), or switching its communication mode. Embedding smart sensing procedures into the devices will allow autonomous D2D operational scenarios capable of context-aware optimal decisions.
This Special Issue solicits the submission of high-quality and unpublished papers from academia and industry that aim to solve open technical problems or challenges in the context of smart sensing for device-to-device communication. Original and innovative contributions on all aspects, both theoretical and experimental, are all welcomed.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Dynamic spectrum and cognitive techniques for D2D communication
- Orthogonal and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) for D2D
- D2D communications for IoT devices
- Network architectures and protocols for large-scale smart sensor networks
- Performance evaluation of opportunistic D2D communications
- Energy efficient mechanisms for D2D communications
- Cache-aided protocols and policies for D2D systems
- Context-aware D2D applications and use cases
- Collaborative and distributed D2D
- Localization of devices
- Security and privacy issues in D2D
- Social media exploitation for sensing and D2D
Prof. Dr. Manuel Fernandez-Veiga
Prof. Dr. Pedro Pinto
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Smart sensing
- Device-to-Device Communication
- Mobile networks
- Sensor Networks
- Context-aware applications
- Security and Privacy
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