Nowadays, the digital divide is one of the major issues facing the global community. Around 3 billion people worldwide are still not-connected or under-connected. In this article, we investigate th…
Numerous researchers have studied innovations in future sixth-generation (6G) wireless communications. Indeed, a critical issue that has emerged is to contend with society's insatiable demand for h…
The next generation of satellite communication systems aims to achieve terabit-per-second throughput. Because of the limited spectrum available, traditional radio frequency (RF) communication links…
In future wireless networks, one of the use cases of interest is the Internet of Vehicles (IoV). Here, IoV refers to two different functionalities, namely, serving the in-vehicle users and supporti…
As COVID-19 has increased the need for connectivity around the world, researchers are targeting new technologies that could improve coverage and connect the unconnected in order to make progress to…
Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite plays an indispensable role in the equal access network because of its low latency, large capacity, and seamless global coverage. For such an unprecedented extensive…
Despite global connectivity being one of the main requirements for future generations of wireless networks driven by the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals, telecom providers are economi…
In the context of sixth-generation (6G) networks, emergency management systems based on wireless communications have recently gained increasing interest. Hereby, fundamentals and open problems of p…
Visible light communications (VLC) based indoor positioning is a promising approach to serve an increasing need for location-aware services. Received signal strength (RSS) fingerprints based visibl…