Special Issue: Technological Advancements in Wireless and Optical Communication Systems

Special Issue on Security of Wireless Communication Systems

Wireless communication weaknesses are on the increase due to emergence of advanced services, the need of roaming, and the large deployment of mobile technologies. This has created challenging issues in the security of wireless systems and applications operating in wireless environments. The objective of the special issue is to seek for the development of new techniques, models and theories that...

Wireless Optical Communication Systems WIRELESS OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

Special issue on "Recent Advancements in Ubiquitous Computing"

The first paper, “Interpreting human activity from electrical consumption data using reconfigurable hardware and Hidden Markov Models”, presents the design and development of low cost and embedded hardware tools to obtain disaggregated power consumption with the aim to interpret human activity, providing successful results. The second paper, “Self-configuration in humanized cyber-physical syste...

Special issue on energy-efficient wireless communication networks with QoS

Nowadays, we are witnessing a huge increase in the number of mobile subscribers, and also the forecast on the telecommunications market assumes an increase per subscriber’s data rate and the roll out of additional base stations for next generation mobile networks. An undesired consequence is the growth of wireless networks’ energy consumption that will cause an increase of the global carbon dio...

Special issue on satellite communication systems and networking

Satellite Communications (SatCom) will have a crucial role in Next Generation Networks and in shaping the Future Internet. This is mainly due to the inherent features of SatCom Networks such as global coverage, cost effectiveness for broadcasting and multicasting connectivity, capability for providing broadband interactive services in remote areas, and emergency services. SatCom networks provid...