Jin Su Kim¹, Min-Gu Kim¹, Jae Myung Kim^1,2, Sung Bum Pan^1,2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.2, pp. 2997-3007, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.026572

Abstract As fifth generation technology standard (5G) technology develops, the possibility of being exposed to the risk of cyber-attacks that exploits vulnerabilities in the 5G environment is increasing. The existing personal recognition method used for granting permission is a password-based method, which causes security problems. Therefore, personal recognition studies using bio-signals are being conducted as a method to access control to devices. Among bio-signal, surface electromyogram (sEMG) can solve the existing personal recognition problem that was unable to the modification of registered information owing to the characteristic changes in its signal according to the performed operation. Furthermore, as an advantage, sEMG… More >

Waleed Shahjehan¹, Abid Ullah¹, Syed Waqar Shah¹, Imran Khan¹, Nor Samsiah Sani², Ki-Il Kim^3,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.2, pp. 2797-2810, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.026185

Abstract Millimeter-Wave (mmWave) Massive MIMO is one of the most effective technology for the fifth-generation (5G) wireless networks. It improves both the spectral and energy efficiency by utilizing the 30–300 GHz millimeter-wave bandwidth and a large number of antennas at the base station. However, increasing the number of antennas requires a large number of radio frequency (RF) chains which results in high power consumption. In order to reduce the RF chain's energy, cost and provide desirable quality-of-service (QoS) to the subscribers, this paper proposes an energy-efficient hybrid precoding algorithm for mmWave massive MIMO networks based on the idea of RF chains… More >

Mubashir Ashfaq¹, Shahid Bashir^1,*, Syed Imran Hussain Shah², Nisar Ahmad Abbasi³, Hatem Rmili^4,5, Muhammad Abbas Khan⁶

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.2, pp. 3601-3611, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.025558

Abstract This article presents a Sub-6 GHz microstrip patch antenna (MPA) with enhanced gain using metamaterial (MTM) superstrate. The source MPA operates at 4.8 GHz and has a peak gain of 5.3 dBi at the resonance frequency. A window-shaped unit cell is designed and investigated through the material wave propagation technique. The unit cell shows an Epsilon Near Zero (ENZ)-Mu Very Large (MVL) behavior around 4.8 GHz. The unit cell has a fourfold geometry which makes it a polarization independent metamaterial. A double layer antenna is designed by placing a 4 × 4 MTM slab as a superstrate above the MPA at a… More >

Ahmed. A. Rosas^*, Mona Shokair, M. I. Dessouky

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.2, pp. 3751-3762, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.025226

Abstract With the obvious throughput shortage in traditional cellular radio networks, Device-to-Device (D2D) communications has gained a lot of attention to improve the utilization, capacity and channel performance of next-generation networks. In this paper, we study a joint consideration of power and channel allocation based on genetic algorithm as a promising direction to expand the overall network capacity for D2D underlaied cellular networks. The genetic based algorithm targets allocating more suitable channels to D2D users and finding the optimal transmit powers for all D2D links and cellular users efficiently, aiming to maximize the overall system throughput of D2D underlaied cellular network… More >

M. Almutiq¹, L. Sellami^1,2,*, B. Alaya^1,3

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.2, pp. 3493-3510, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.024571

Abstract Nowadays, video streaming applications are becoming one of the tendencies driving vehicular network users. In this work, considering the unpredictable vehicle density, the unexpected acceleration or deceleration of the different vehicles included in the vehicular traffic load, and the limited radio range of the employed communication scheme, we introduce the “Dynamic Vehicular Clustering” (DVC) algorithm as a new scheme for video streaming systems over vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANET). The proposed algorithm takes advantage of the small cells concept and the introduction of wireless backhauls, inspired by the different features and the performance of the Long Term Evolution (LTE)-Advanced network. Vehicles… More >

Arun Kumar^1,*, Sandeep Gupta², Himanshu Sharma³, Mehedi Masud⁴

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.43, No.1, pp. 193-201, 2022, DOI:10.32604/csse.2022.023991

Abstract Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) is an ideal choice for 5G waveforms due to their characteristics such as high data rate, massive device connectivity, high spectral access, and effective frequency selective fading. Thus, it permits gigantic connectivity. The spectrum overlaps with NOMA, which consents several operators to segment the spectrum at the same frequency. These features make NOMA more suitable for use beyond 5G. Peak to Average Power (PAPR) is a major problem in Multi-Carrier Techniques (MCT) like NOMA and it also degrades the performance of the amplifier. The Partial Transmission Sequence (PTS) is a superior algorithm for moderating the PAPR.… More >

Fadhil Mukhlif^1,*, Norafida Ithnin¹, Omar B. Abdulghafoor², Faiz Alotaibi³, Nourah Saad Alotaibi⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.1, pp. 1561-1578, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.026074

Abstract With the help of network densification, network coverage as well as the throughput can be improved via ultra-dense networks (UDNs). In tandem, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) communications have recently garnered much attention because of their high agility as well as widespread applications. In this paper, a cognitive UAV is proposed for wireless nodes power pertaining to the IoT ground terminal. Further, the UAV is included in the IoT system as the source of power for the wireless nodes as well as for resource allocation. The quality of service (QoS) related to the cognitive node was considered as a utility function… More >

Changsung Lee^1,3, Junsung Kim^2,3, Jaewook Jung³, Jungsuk Baik³, Jong-Moon Chung^3,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.1, pp. 727-738, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.024824

Abstract Packet duplication (PD) with dual connectivity (DC) was newly introduced in the 5G New Radio (NR) specifications to meet the stringent ultra reliable low latency communication (URLLC) requirements. PD technology uses duplicated packets in the packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) layer that are transmitted via two different access nodes (ANs) to the user equipment (UE) in order to enhance the reliability performance. However, PD can result in unnecessary retransmissions in the lower layers since the hybrid automatic retransmission request (HARQ) operation is unaware of the transmission success achieved through the alternate DC link to the UE. To overcome this issue,… More >

Suleiman A. Babale¹, Muhammad K. Ishfaq^2,*, Ali Raza², Jamal Nasir³, Ahmad Fayyaz³, Umer Ijaz²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.1, pp. 925-937, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.024711

Abstract This paper presents the design and implementation of a miniaturized beam steering network that produces broadside beams when it is fed with a compact antenna array. Butler Matrix (BM) was used as the beam steering network. It was completely built from a miniaturized 3 dB hybrid-couplers in planar microstrip technology. It was configured by feeding the BM with a Planar Inverted-E Antenna (PIEA) array separated at 0.3 λ as against the 0.5 λ separation. This makes the BM produce a major radiation pattern at the broadside. Apart from the miniaturization, no modification was made from the BM side. However, employing effective… More >

Shahid Khan^1,2, Adil Bashir³, Haider Ali⁴, Abdul Rauf⁵, Mohamed Marey^6,*, Hala Mostafa⁷, Ikram Syed⁸

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.1, pp. 301-314, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.023397

Abstract This article presents a novel modified chuck wagon dinner bell shaped millimeter wave (mm-wave) antenna at 28 GHz. The proposed design has ultra-thin Rogers 5880 substrate with relative permittivity of 2.2. The design consists of T shaped resonating elements and two open ended side stubs. The desired 28 GHz frequency response is achieved by careful parametric modeling of the proposed structure. The maximum achieved single element gain at the desired resonance frequency is 3.45 dBi. The efficiency of the proposed design over the operating band is more than 88%. The impedance bandwidth achieved for −10 dB reference value is nearly… More >