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Smart Sensing in Device to Device Communication

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Internet of Things".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2021) | Viewed by 2694

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Manuel Fernandez-Veiga

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Escuela de Ingeniería de Telecomunicación & AttlanTTic researech center, University of Vigo, 36310 Vigo, Spain
Interests: wireless networks; communication & coding theory; device-to-device communications; energy-efficiency; 5G communication systems; machine learning for future networks; mobile edge computing
Dr. Pedro Pinto

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Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, 4900-347 Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Interests: IoT; wireless and mobile networks; network and system security
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Device-to-device (D2D) communications are among the key technologies for the emerging 5G systems and applications. Its benefits include boosting the throughput, reducing the power consumption, extending the coverage, offloading network traffic, and increasing the spectrum efficiency, all of these achievable by exploiting direct interaction between the devices without using the support of the network infrastructure. In parallel, the expected widespread deployment of sensing devices in infrastructures, smart cities, and cyber-physical systems in the coming years arises as one of the areas where D2D is likely to play a fundamental role for reducing the latency of communications and enabling massive machine type communications (mMTC). In order to cope with this diversity of usage cases and requirements, the devices in a D2D system will have to apply novel and advanced solutions to dynamically monitor their environment while efficiently using the available resources at any moment, either for spectrum reuse, mitigation of interference, caching information, multiple access, selection of its peer device(s), or switching its communication mode. Embedding smart sensing procedures into the devices will allow autonomous D2D operational scenarios capable of context-aware optimal decisions.

This Special Issue solicits the submission of high-quality and unpublished papers from academia and industry that aim to solve open technical problems or challenges in the context of smart sensing for device-to-device communication. Original and innovative contributions on all aspects, both theoretical and experimental, are all welcomed.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

  • Dynamic spectrum and cognitive techniques for D2D communication
  • Orthogonal and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) for D2D
  • D2D communications for IoT devices
  • Network architectures and protocols for large-scale smart sensor networks
  • Performance evaluation of opportunistic D2D communications
  • Energy efficient mechanisms for D2D communications
  • Cache-aided protocols and policies for D2D systems
  • Context-aware D2D applications and use cases
  • Collaborative and distributed D2D
  • Localization of devices
  • Security and privacy issues in D2D
  • Social media exploitation for sensing and D2D

Prof. Dr. Manuel Fernandez-Veiga
Prof. Dr. Pedro Pinto
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • Smart sensing
  • Device-to-Device Communication
  • Mobile networks
  • Sensor Networks
  • Context-aware applications
  • Security and Privacy

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An Architecture for Reliable Transportation of Delicate Goods
by Paulo Matos, José Rufino and Rui Lopes
Sensors 2021, 21(8), 2645; https://doi.org/10.3390/s21082645 - 09 Apr 2021
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Abstract
Adequate conditions are critical to avoiding damage or degradation of products during transportation, especially in the case of delicate goods like food products, live animals, precision machinery or art items, among others. The damages are not always readily identified: sometimes they are only [...] Read more.
Adequate conditions are critical to avoiding damage or degradation of products during transportation, especially in the case of delicate goods like food products, live animals, precision machinery or art items, among others. The damages are not always readily identified: sometimes they are only detected several days or weeks after the merchandise has been delivered. Moreover, it may be hard to assess if the problems resulted from the transport conditions, and it may be even harder to prove it, making it difficult to determine and assign responsibilities. Also, transport is a global business, typically involving different companies and means (truck, train, plane, ship, …). Usually, customers hire the service to a single commercial entity, but the service is performed by several companies, like transporters, stockists and dispatchers. To know whether the transport requirements are fulfilled or not is thus essential to assessing responsibilities and encouraging compliance by all the players in the process. In this paper, the authors propose an architecture that allows certifying, in an exempt manner, the conditions under which the transport of sensitive goods are carried out. In case of compliance, it protects the entities of the transport chain and ensures the customer that the merchandise has not been subject to conditions that may have affected its integrity or quality. If problems are detected, it allows to identify the non-compliant players and to assign responsibilities. The solution is based on ultra-low-power, low-cost devices (equipped with several sensors, a real-time clock, and Bluetooth Low Energy services), a mobile application and several cloud services (including a Coordinated Universal Time service). Full article
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