Ubiquitous computing called pervasive one is based on the thought of pervading ability of computation in daily life applications. In other words, it aims to include computation in devices such as electronic equipment and automobiles. This has led to disengagement of computers from desktop form. Accordingly, the notice in ubiquitous computing being taken of a world steeped in remote and wireless...

Today, increasing number of industrial application cases rely on the Machine to Machine (M2M) services exposed from physical devices. Such M2M services enable interaction of physical world with the core processes of company information systems. However, there are grand challenges related to complexity and “vertical silos” limiting the M2M market scale and interoperability. It is here expected t...

Although the machine to machine (M2M) communication has been emerging in recent years, many vendors’ specific proprietary solutions are not suitable for vital M2M applications. While the main focus of those solutions is management and provisioning of machines, real-time monitoring and communication control are also required to handle a variety of access technologies, like WiFi and LTE, and unle...

This paper explores the convergence of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) systems with Network-Centric Operations (NCO), and analyzes the perspective of integrating selforganizing gossip protocols as an information dissemination solution. An overview of the M2M communication paradigm and current standardization efforts regarding architecture are given. The paper includes an overview of the network-centri...

This paper reviews the multiple access techniques for machine-to-machine (M2M) communications in future wireless cellular networks. M2M communications aims at providing the communication infrastructure for the emerging Internet of Things (IoT), which will revolutionize the way we interact with our surrounding physical environment. We provide an overview of the multiple access strategies and exp...

The low-energy consumption of IEEE 802.15.4 networks makes it a strong candidate for machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. As multiple M2M applications with 802.15.4 networks may be deployed closely and independently in residential or enterprise areas, supporting reliable and timely M2M communications can be a big challenge especially when potential hidden terminals appear. In this paper, we...

Large scale multiple-input multiple-output (LSMIMO) is a relatively new concept which can be used to increase the data rate and throughput of wireless networks. In this paper, performance analysis for LS-MIMO has been carried out for mobile-to-mobile (M2M) communication network over N-α-μ fading channels. The orthogonality condition for LS-MIMO over cascaded independent and identically distribu...

This paper presents an intelligent traffic monitoring system using wireless vision sensor network that captures and processes the real-time video image to obtain the traffic flow rate and vehicle speeds along different urban roadways. This system will display the traffic states on the front roadways that can guide the drivers to select the right way and avoid potential traffic congestions. On t...

In M2M communication, there is critical requirement of robust MAC protocol to enable multiple M2M devices to access the channel. For this purpose, a frame based hybrid MAC protocol consisting of CSMA-based contention period and TDMA based transmission period is presented in the literature. During contention period, the devices compete for the channel access and those devices which win a slot in...