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Delay Optimization for Industrial Wireless Control Systems Based on Channel Characterization

Wireless communication is gaining popularity in the industry for its simple deployment, mobility, and low cost. Ultralow latency and high reliability requirements of mission-critical industrial applications are highly demanding for wireless …

Wirelessly-Powered Sensor Networks : Power Allocation for Channel Estimation and Energy Beamforming

Wirelessly-powered sensor networks (WPSNs) are becoming increasingly important in different monitoring applications. We consider a WPSN where a multiple-antenna base station, which is dedicated for energy transmission, sends pilot signals to estimate …

Guest Editorial Millimeter-Wave Networking

Online Congestion Measurement and Control in Cognitive Wireless Sensor Networks

A lightweight distributed MAC protocol is proposed in this paper to regulate the coexistence of high-priority (primary) and low-priority (secondary) wireless devices in cognitive wireless sensor networks. The protocol leverages the available spectrum …

Voltage Control Using Limited Communication

In electricity distribution networks, the increasing penetration of renewable energy generation necessitates faster and more sophisticated voltage controls. Unfortunately, recent research shows that local voltage control fails in achieving the …

Using a Large Data Set to Improve Industrial Wireless Communications Latency, Reliability, and Security

Trealize the Industry 4.0 vision and enable mobile connectivity and flexible deployment in harsh industrial environments, wireless communication is essential. But before wireless communications technology can be widely deployed for critical control …

Packet Detection by a Single OFDM Symbol in URLLC for Critical Industrial Control : A Realistic Study

Ultra-high reliable and low-latency communication (URLLC)is envisaged to support emerging applications with strict latency and reliability requirements. Critical industrial control is among the most important URLLC applications where the stringent …

1-bit Phase Shifters for Large-Antenna Full-Duplex mmWave Communications

Millimeter-wave using large-antenna arrays is a key technological component forthe future cellular systems, where it is expected that hybrid beamforming along withquantized phase shifters will be used due to their implementation and cost …

Smart Antenna Assignment is Essential in Full-Duplex Communications

Full-duplex communications have the potential to almost double the spectralefficiency. To realize such a potentiality, the signal separation at base station’s antennasplays an essential role. This paper addresses the fundamentals of such separationby …

Adaptive Distributed Association in Time-Variant Millimeter Wave Networks

The underutilized millimeter-wave (mm-wave) band is a promising candidate to enable extremely high data rate communications in future wireless networks. However, the special characteristics of the mm-wave systems such as high vulnerability to …