Handoff Management in Radio over Fiber 60 GHz Indoor Networks

Because of high data rate multimedia applications such as HD and UHDTV, online games, etc., the future home networks are expected to support short-range gigabit transmission. With the worldwide availability of 5 GHz spectrum at the 60 GHz band, it creates the opportunity for a promising air interface for future home networks. This dissertation...

Advanced Wireless Local Area Networks in the Unlicensed Sub-1GHz ISM-bands

This dissertation addresses the challenges of wireless local area networks (WLANs) that operate in the unlicensed sub-1GHz industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) band. Frequencies in the 900MHz spectrum enable a wider coverage due to the longer propagation characteristics of the radio waves. To utilize globally available sub-1GHz (S1G) ISM...

Fairness and resource allocation in device-to-device wireless regional area network

With the rapid development in wireless devices, applications and networks, radio frequencies have become scarce resources. Therefore, it is critical to make efficient use of the radio frequencies. A promising way to solve this problem is the use of cognitive radio (CR). In CR, radio frequencies are allocated to licensed users, also called...

An Empirical Approach Towards Zero Energy Networks (ZEN)

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is changing the way we live and has become an essential part of our life. With the advent of Internet of Things (IoT), and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) in particular, the number of devices that are networked is increasing exponentially over the years. With the increase in number of ICT devices...