IEEE Communications Magazine

Recent advancements in wireless networks and sensor technologies have enabled continuous monitoring of remote patients. This has opened doors for exploring new frontiers in the domain of smart healthcare, especially patient monitoring and diagnosis. Scientists and researchers have scouted the novel domain of human bond communications (HBC), which suggests detection and transmission of information ... View full abstract»

In this article, we introduce a human bond communication (HBC) method, based on head-mounted displays (HMDs), which enables continuous bidirectional communication among multiple users with or without Internet connections. The disadvantages of the existing technologies limit the scope of this study to provide a communication platform for HMD-based HBC. However, the features of the optical camera co... View full abstract»

Exhaled breath can be used in retrieving information and creating innovative communication systems. It contains several volatile organic compounds and biological entities that can act as health biomarkers. For instance, the breath of an infected human contains a nonnegligible amount of pathogenic aerosol that can spread or remain suspended in the atmosphere. Therefore, the exhaled breath can be ex... View full abstract»

This article presents FORTIKA, an ongoing EU-funded project which is a resilient cyber-security solution that can easily be tailored and adjusted to the versatile and ever changing needs of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). To fulfill its vision, FORTIKA adopts a security-by-design hybrid approach that adequately integrates hardware and software with business needs and behavioral patterns... View full abstract»

More and more industrial applications require high reliability while relying on low-power devices for their flexibility. Unfortunately, radio transmissions are prone to unreliability and are very sensitive to external interference. Therefore, a great amount of effort has been put into channel hopping approaches, which help to combat external interference by reducing the number of packet losses. Th... View full abstract»

With the ubiquitous usage of mobile devices, we are witnessing the emergence of commercial crowdsourcing applications that leverage the power of the crowd (workers) to collect massive data. However, the participation unbalance problem commonly occurs in existing location-dependent mobile crowdsourcing applications as workers tend to select nearby tasks while far away tasks are ignored. In this art... View full abstract»

The excessive use of digital devices such as cameras and smartphones in smart cities has produced huge data repositories that require automatic tools for efficient browsing, searching, and management. Data prioritization (DP) is a technique that produces a condensed form of the original data by analyzing its contents. Current DP studies are either concerned with data collected through stable captu... View full abstract»

Security issues represent the greatest obstacle to the growth of edge computing and the Internet of Things (IoT). In this paradigm, IoT applications are migrating to edge devices. As a result, potential security risks are arising, and unauthorized access to data from IoT edge devices is becoming a real concern. Thus, there is a need for a comprehensive, end-toend security approach since the system... View full abstract»

In modern implantable medical devices (IMDs), wireless data transmission between inside and outside of the body is essential to control IMD parameters and report the acquired data to the external part of the system. Unlike conventional far-field data communication, which is more suitable for free space, near-field data transfer techniques have been widely adopted for transcutaneous data links in I... View full abstract»

In this article, we study feasibility issues of mission-critical push-to-talk (MCPTT), which is an evolution of a group communication service for public safety use. Along with the overall standardization of the MCPTT in the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), distinguishing features of MCPTT are investigated in comparison with Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) PTT over cellular (PoC). Based on t... View full abstract»

mmWave communications have been shown to be feasible in future networks. Thanks to their very large available bandwidth, they have captured the interest of academia and industry alike as a key enabler to solve the spectrum crunch problem. Nevertheless, the new characteristics of mmWaves call for a paradigm change in wireless protocols and many challenges still remain unaddressed. Among these, an i... View full abstract»

WBANs offer a variety of medical applications and have received considerable attention in recent years. Due to the limited energy of sensors, prolonging network lifetime is of paramount importance for WBANs. Although duty-cycling techniques can conserve energy consumption and energy harvesting techniques can provide extra energy supply, the former leads to huge data delivery delay and the latter c... View full abstract»