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On the Interplay of Artificial Intelligence and Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks: A Survey
Adilya Bakambekova, Nour Kouzayha, Tareq Al-Naffouri
Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks (SAGINs), which incorporate space and aerial networks with terrestrial wireless systems, are vital enablers of the emerging sixth-generation (6…
Characterization of the Global Bias Problem in Aerial Federated Learning
Ruslan Zhagypar, Nour Kouzayha, Hesham ElSawy +2
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) mobility enables flexible and customized federated learning (FL) at the network edge. However, the underlying uncertainties in the aerial-terrestria…
Cloud-Enabled High-Altitude Platform Systems: Challenges and Opportunities
Khaleel Mershad, Hayssam Dahrouj, Hadi Sarieddeen +3
Augmenting ground-level communications with flying networks, such as the high-altitude platform system (HAPS), is among the major innovative initiatives of the next generation of w…
The Role of UAV-IoT Networks in Future Wildfire Detection
Osama M. Bushnaq, Anas Chaaban, Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri
The challenge of wildfire management and detection is recently gaining increased attention due to the increased severity and frequency of wildfires worldwide. Popular fire detectio…
Optimal Deployment of Tethered Drones for Maximum Cellular Coverage in User Clusters
Osama M. Bushnaq, Mustafa A. Kishk, Abdulkadir Çelik +2
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assisted cellular communication is gaining significant interest recently. Although it offers several advantages over terrestrial communication, UAV co…
Opportunistic Routing for Opto-Acoustic Internet of Underwater Things
Abdulkadir Celik, Nasir Saeed, Basem Shihada +2
Internet of underwater things (IoUT) is a technological revolution that could mark a new era for scientific, industrial, and military underwater applications. To mitigate the hosti…
Analysis of 3D Localization in Underwater Optical Wireless Networks with Uncertain Anchor Positions
Nasir Saeed, Abdulkadir Celik, Mohamed-Slim Alouini +1
Localization accuracy is of paramount importance for the proper operation of underwater optical wireless sensor networks (UOWSNs). However, underwater localization is prone to host…
A Software-Defined Opto-Acoustic Network Architecture for Internet of Underwater Things
Abdulkadir Celik, Nasir Saeed, Basem Shihada +2
In this paper, we envision a hybrid opto-acoustic network design for the internet of underwater things (IoUT). Software-defined underwater networking (SDUN) is presented as an enab…
End-to-End Performance Analysis of Underwater Optical Wireless Relaying and Routing Techniques Under Location Uncertainty
Abdulkadir Celik, Nasir Saeed, Basem Shihada +2
On the contrary of low speed and high delay acoustic systems, underwater optical wireless communication (UOWC) can deliver a high speed and low latency service at the expense of sh…
On Distributed Routing in Underwater Optical Wireless Sensor Networks
Rawan Alghamdi, Nasir Saeed, Hayssam Dahrouj +2
Underwater optical wireless communication (UOWC) is becoming an attractive technology for underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) since it offers high-speed communication links…
Performance Analysis of Connectivity and Localization in Multi-Hop Underwater Optical Wireless Sensor Networks
Nasir Saeed, Abdulkadir Celik, Mohamed-Slim Alouini +1
Underwater optical wireless links have limited range and intermittent connectivity due to the hostile aquatic channel impairments and misalignment between the optical transceivers.…
Aeronautical Data Aggregation and Field Estimation in IoT Networks: Hovering & Traveling Time Dilemma of UAVs
Osama M. Bushnaq, Abdulkadir Celik, Hesham ElSawy +2
The next era of information revolution will rely on aggregating big data from massive numbers of devices that are widely scattered in our environment. Most of these devices are exp…
Underwater Optical Wireless Communications, Networking, and Localization: A Survey
Nasir Saeed, Abdulkadir Celik, Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri +1
Underwater wireless communications can be carried out through acoustic, radio frequency (RF), and optical waves. Compared to its bandwidth limited acoustic and RF counterparts, und…
Handover Management in 5G and Beyond: A Topology Aware Skipping Approach
Rabe Arshad, Hesham ElSawy, Sameh Sorour +2
Network densification is found to be a potential solution to meet 5G capacity standards. Network densification offers more capacity by shrinking base stations' (BSs) footprints, th…
Velocity-Aware Handover Management in Two-Tier Cellular Networks
Rabe Arshad, Sameh Sorour, Hesham Elsawy +2
While network densification is considered an important solution to cater the ever-increasing capacity demand, its effect on the handover (HO) rate is overlooked. In dense 5G networ…
Network-Coded Macrocell Offloading in Femtocaching-Assisted Cellular Networks
Yousef N. Shnaiwer, Sameh Sorour, Parastoo Sadeghi +2
The femtocaching idea was proposed as a solution to compensate for the weak backhaul capacity, by deploying coverage-limited nodes with high storage capacity called femtocaches (FC…
Handover Management in Dense Cellular Networks: A Stochastic Geometry Approach
Rabe Arshad, Hesham ElSawy, Sameh Sorour +2
Cellular operators are continuously densifying their networks to cope with the ever-increasing capacity demand. Furthermore, an extreme densification phase for cellular networks is…
Partially Blind Instantly Decodable Network Codes for Lossy Feedback Environment
Sameh Sorour, Ahmed Douik, Shahrokh Valaee +2
In this paper, we study the multicast completion and decoding delay minimization problems of instantly decodable network coding (IDNC) in the case of lossy feedback. In such enviro…