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Ultra-Reliable-and-Available Low-Latency Communications for 5G/B5G-enabled IoT

The Internet of Things (IoT) provides continuous connectivity for various physical objects (e.g., sensors, mobile phones, vehicles, RFID tags, other electronic embedded devices, etc.) as well as humans by allowing them to communicate and exchange data. IoT encompass a massive number of low-cost and low-power devices that must transmit a diverse set of messages observed from their environment in a reliable and available way to deliver a plethora of smart applications. Moreover, one of the critical missions of IoT is envisioned to enable real-time control and automation of dynamic processes in various fields (e.g., industrial process automation and manufacturing, energy distribution, intelligent transport systems, etc.). This mission requires communications with very high reliability and availability, as well as very low end-to-end latency at the millisecond level.

This special issue intends to bring together the leading researchers and developers from both academia and industry to present their latest research and innovation on ultra-reliable-and-available, low-latency (URALL) communications for 5G/B5G-enabled IoT. All submissions should neither have been published previously nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. The submitted papers will undergo a strict peer review process based on originality, quality, and relevance to this special issue and the journal.

Edited by: Chunguo Li, Yunfei Chen, Zheng Chang, Nan Zhao, Junhui Zhao

  1. With the massive growth of wireless networks comes a bigger impact of collisions and interference, which has a negative effect on throughput and energy efficiency. To deal with this problem, we propose an in-b...

    Authors: Tom Vermeulen, Brecht Reynders, Fernando E. Rosas, Marian Verhelst and Sofie Pollin
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2021 2021:87
  2. The energy cost minimization for mission-critical internet-of-things (IoT) in mobile edge computing (MEC) system is investigated in this work. Therein, short data packets are transmitted between the IoT device...

    Authors: Yaru Fu, Xiaolong Yang, Peng Yang, Angus K. Y. Wong, Zheng Shi, Hong Wang and Tony Q. S. Quek
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2021 2021:26
  3. In this paper, we design the simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) protocol for massive multi-input multi-output (mMIMO) system with non-linear energy-harvesting (EH) terminals. In this ...

    Authors: Kui Xu, Ming Zhang, Jie Liu, Nan Sha, Wei Xie and Lihua Chen
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2019 2019:72
  4. This paper investigates a wireless powered communication system, where a base station (BS) and relay first harvest energy from the power beacon and use it for data transmission. Using non-orthogonal multiple a...

    Authors: Xianghua Liu and Jianlin Mo
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2019 2019:206
  5. This letter investigated a device-to-device (D2D) communication underlaying cellular system, where one wireless device (WD) can directly transmit information to two inner users under non-orthogonal multiple ac...

    Authors: Ping Deng, Wei Wu, Xinmeng Shen, Pei Li and Baoyun Wang
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2019 2019:185
  6. Ambient backscatter communications is an emerging paradigm and a key enabler for pervasive connectivity of low-powered wireless devices. It is primarily beneficial in the Internet of things (IoT) and the situa...

    Authors: Furqan Jameel, Tapani Ristaniemi, Imran Khan and Byung Moo Lee
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2019 2019:166
  7. Emerging 5G applications impose stringent requirements on network latency and reliability. In this work, we propose a low-latency reliable device-to-device (D2D) relay network framework to improve the cell cov...

    Authors: Yahui Wang, Yanhua He, Chen Xu, Zhenyu Zhou, Shahid Mumtaz, Jonathan Rodriguez and Haris Pervaiz
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2019 2019:111

    The Correction to this article has been published in EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2019 2019:235

  8. Multi-numerology waveform-based 5G new radio (NR) systems offer great flexibility for different requirements of users and services. However, there is a new type of problem that is defined as inter-numerology i...

    Authors: Ahmet Yazar and Hüseyin Arslan
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2019 2019:110
  9. This paper analyzes current cloud computing, cloud rendering industry, and related businesses. In this field, cloud system performance lacks unified evaluation criterion. A novel analysis method and a related ...

    Authors: Ronghe Wang, Bo Zhang, Manqing Wu, Jun Zhang, Xiaolei Guo, Xinhai Zhang, Huibo Li, Dong Jiao and Shilong Ma
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2019 2019:79
  10. In this paper, we propose an optimal resource allocation policy for sparse code multiple access (SCMA) networks supporting ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC). The network is assumed to operate w...

    Authors: Qinwei He, Yulin Hu and Anke Schmeink
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2018 2018:282
  11. In this paper, we study the hybrid beamforming for the wideband mmWave multiuser MIMO-OFDM system. We characterize the frequency-dependent beam angle problem, i.e., beam squint effect. Firstly, we extend the m...

    Authors: Bin Liu and Hongbo Zhu
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2018 2018:267
  12. This paper focuses on a full-duplex (FD) two-way relay network with one base station (BS), one FD amplify-and-forward (AF) relay, and one user, and the BS is equipped with massive multiple-input multiple-outpu...

    Authors: Baofeng Ji, Yuqi Li, Yinghui Meng, Yi Wang, Kang Song, Congzheng Han, Hong Wen and Liang Song
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2018 2018:265
  13. For the uplink multicell massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) block fading systems, a two-dimensional smoothed l0 channel estimation method (2D-SL0-CE) with the aid of virtual channel representation is f...

    Authors: Xinrong Ye, Aiqing Zhang, Gan Zheng, Li You and Xiqi Gao
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2018 2018:238
  14. In this paper, a super-resolution direction-of-arrival (DoA) algorithm for strictly non-circular sources is introduced. The proposed algorithm is based on subspace-weighted mixed-norm minimization. Firstly, we...

    Authors: Weijie Tan, Xi’an Feng, Xinrong Ye and Lianyou Jing
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2018 2018:225
  15. We investigate the uplink and downlink achievable rates of full-duplex (FD) massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems with low-resolution analog-digital converters/digital-to-analog converters (ADCs/DACs...

    Authors: Juan Liu, Jianxin Dai, Jiangzhou Wang, Xiaohui Yin, Zhifang Jiang and Jinyuan Wang
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2018 2018:222
  16. We analyze the downlink multiuser precoding of massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) system, where the base station (BS) has ideal channel state information (CSI) and adopts three types of different li...

    Authors: Weiqiang Tan, Wei Huang, Xi Yang, Zheng Shi, Wen Liu and Lisheng Fan
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2018 2018:210
  17. In cloud radio access network (Cloud-RAN), most previous research aims to reduce the energy consumption of the total system and ignores specific requirements of energy-saving in mobile users. For the meantime,...

    Authors: Yuan Sun, Shidang Li and Luxi Yang
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2018 2018:188