EAI Endorsed Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications

EAI Endorsed Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications is an open access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal focused on all aspects of mobile communications theories, technologies, systems, and applications. The journal publishes research articles, review articles, commentaries, editorials, technical articles, and short communications with a triannual frequency. Authors are not charged for article submission and processing.

Editor(s)-in-Chief: Lin Yun, Vanlin Sathya, Vincent A. Cicirello and Arianna D'Ulizia

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The application of mobile technologies in communication systems could be tracked back into 1980s. The emerging of cognitive radio targeted on the revolutionary spectrum access paradigm has sparked a radical change on wireless mobile system design, development, and performance analysis. Since then, the state-of-the art of wireless communications has been significantly advanced, from substantial improvement on spectrum usage, smart adaptation and coexistence in radio and network environments, fundamental enhancement on performance and capacity, to considerable reduction of complexity in mobile network management. This trend will strengthen even more with the advent of fifth generation (5G) communication networks that will impose new challenges, related mainly to the heterogeneity of such networks, the improvement of the quality of experience of users, and the efficient and sustainable use of network resources. Solutions for energy efficient, sustainable future Internet are heavily relied on advanced technologies, new ways of thinking on network design and development, as well as new theoretic foundations. Mobile communication ecosystems need to be equipped with advanced intelligence coming from machine learning, data analytics, and cognitive computing to meet the challenges. We believe mobile communications will remain an important and active area of research for the next several decades. It becomes necessary to provide a common forum to publish high quality papers, and to offer readers a single source to get inspiring ideas and important findings in this area.

To fulfill this purpose, it is our honor to provide the EAI Endorsed Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications. This journal is an open access, peer-reviewed scholarly archival journal that is committed to the timely publication of high-quality original research papers on all aspects of mobile communications theories, technologies, systems, and applications. All submissions will go through a rigorous peer-review process and be reviewed by expert referees and evaluated by the editorial board. The aims of the transactions are:

to provide a dedicated platform for timely publishing of high quality, peer-reviewed, original papers in fields of mobile communications.
to be a leading journal that publish contributions from a wide range of cross-disciplinary and collaborative domain knowledge related to mobile technologies, theories, systems, and applications, such as information science, computer science, mathematics, and physics.

The Transactions provide flexible means to publish latest results in a timely manner. It accepts the submission of:

regular research papers, for original scientific contributions,
fast-track communications, for short findings,
technical articles, for real, hands-on experiences.
topical reviews, for up-to-date overviews of the hot topics.

Areas of interests include but are not limited to:

Mobile cellular networks
Mobile ad hoc networks
Mobile Internet
WiMAX networks
Vehicular networks
Wireless sensor networks
Satellite communications systems
Mobile system and network architectures
Network control and management
Self-organizing, self-aware, and self-adaptive networks
Mobility management
Modulation and coding techniques
Quality of service
Reliability and fault tolerance
Trust, security and privacy
Mobile applications and services
Performance modelling and analysis
Spectrum sensing algorithm and white space modeling
Spectrum sharing architecture and mechanism
Spectrum-efficient design
Dynamic spectrum management
Spectrum pricing, auction, and trading a
Game theory for dynamic spectrum access
Spectrum mobility control
Reconfigurable wireless platforms
Medium access control design for cognitive radio networks
Spectrum agile and adaptive routing
Security of wireless systems in the context of spectrum sharing
Interference analysis, measurements, and statistical models of spectrum usage
Information-theoretic aspects of next-generation mobile systems
Coexistence with legacy wireless systems
Novel radio architectures and antennas
Simulation tools, testbeds, hardware, and software prototypes
Regulation and standardization
Artificial intelligence and machine learning for mobile communications
Energy-efficiency design in mobile communication systems
Mobile big data analytics
Mobile communications for the Internet of Things (IoT)
Applications enabled by mobile communication systems

Call for Papers: Special issue on: Improving the Security and Privacy Policies through Artificial Intelligence for NextGen (6G) Mobile Networks (Manuscript submission deadline: 2021-09-30; Notification of acceptance: 2021-11-18; Submission of final revised paper: 2022-01-10; Publication of special issue (tentative): 2021-07-30)

Guest Editor: Dr Basim Alhadidi, PhD. Khalaf (Al-Balqa Applied University, Jordan) Guest Editor: Dr Hong Jer Lang (Taylor's University, Malaysia) Guest Editor: Dr A M Viswa Bharathy, M.E., Ph.D. (JNTUH University, India)

Dr. Nirwan Ansari (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
Dr. Raj Jain (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
Dr. Tigang Jiang (UESTC)
Dr. Nei Kato (Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Japan)
Dr. Tiffany Jing Li (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Lehigh University, USA)
Dr. Tommaso Melodia (Department of Electrical Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)
Dr. Claude Oestges (Microwave Laboratory, Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium)
Dr. Kostas Pentikousis (European Research Centre, Huawei Technologies, Germany)
Dr. Charles E. Perkins (WiChorus Inc., USA)
Dr. Martin Reisslein (Department of Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University, USA)
Dr. David Simplot-Ryl (Fundamental Computer Science Laboratory, Centre de recherche INRIA Lille,
Dr. Wenye Wang (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University, USA)
Dr. Baoxian Zhang (Graduate University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Dr. Cristian Borcea (NJIT)
Dr. Paolo Bellavista (University of Bologna)
Dr. Jian Ren (Michigan State University)
Dr. Lei Chen (Georgia Southern University)
Dr. Houbing Song (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University)
Dr. Dalei Wu (The University of Tennessee at Chattanoog, USA)
Dr. Jianjun Yang, Department of Computer Science, University of North Georgia, USA
Dr. Qing Yang (University of North Texas)
Dr. Shaoen Wu (Ball State University, USA)
Dr. Dapeng Wu (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications)
Dr. Ruoling Zhou, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA
Dr. Ashutosh Kumar Dubey, Chitkara University, India
Brij Bhooshan Gupta, National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, India
Dr. Anand Nayyar, Duy Tan University, Vietnam
Prof. Wen-Cheng Lai, National Penghu University of Science and Technology, Vietnam
Dr A M ViswaBharathy, Malla Reddy College of Engineering and Technology, India
Bo Li, Harbin Institute of Technology at Weihai, China
Klaus Moessner, University of Surrey, UK
Murat Kuscu, Koc University, Turkey
Xuanheng Li, Dalian University of Technology, China

Lin Yun¹

Yun Lin (M'14) received the B.S. degree from Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, China, in 2003, the M.S. degree from the Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, in 2005, and the Ph.D. degree from Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China, in 2010. He was a research scholar with Wright State University, USA, from 2014 to 2015. Now, he is currently a full professor in the College of Information and Communication Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, China. His current research interests include machine learning and data analytics over wireless networks, signal processing and analysis, cognitive radio and software defined radio, artificial intelligence and pattern recognition. He had published more than 200 international peer-reviewed journal/conference papers, such as the IEEE IoT, TII, TVT, TCCN, TR, Access, INFOCOM, GLOBECOM, ICC, VTC, ICNC. He had four high-cited papers and several best conference papers. He is serving as an editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON RELIABILITY, KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, and International Journal of Performability Engineering. In addition, he served as General Chair of ADHIP 2020, TPC Chair of MOBIMEDIA 2020, ICEICT 2019 and ADHIP 2017, and TPC member of GLOBECOM, ICC, ICNC and VTC. He had successfully organized several international workshops and symposia with top‐ranked IEEE conferences, including INFOCOM, GLOBECOM, DSP, ICNC, among others.

Vanlin Sathya²

Vanlin Sathya is currently a postdoc research scholar at the University of Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an adjunct faculty at the University of Illinois (UIC) in Chicago. He authored more than 60 IEEE and ACM publications. His novel research ideas generated considerable interest in an industry-led IEEE 802.11 coexistence workshop and ETSI standards. His recent research interests lie in design, analysis, and implementation of wireless network algorithms and particularly interested in 5G NR-U/LAA Wi-Fi Coexistence in 5GHz & 6GHz unlicensed spectrum, 5G mmWave Technologies, Device-to-Device (D2D) networking, Interference Management in 5G NR network, Internet of Things (IoT), LTE Wi-Fi Aggregation (LWA), Handover and Placement of Femto (small cells) in LTE, Full Duplex in 5G cellular communication, Data offloading, Bandwidth aggregation and routing between Wi-Fi and cellular, M2M congestion and scheduling issues. Dr. Vanlin Sathya serves as TPC and Session Chair in ICNC, ICBTA, ICSNC, CECNET, SPCOM, NCC, COMSNET. He is also a review board member in the Future Internet Journal and also reviewer in the top journals such as IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Communication Letter, IEEE Wireless Communication Letter, IEEE Networking Letters, IEEE Access.

Vincent A. Cicirello³

Vincent A. Cicirello, Ph.D. is a Professor of Computer Science at Stockton University in Galloway, NJ, USA, where he has been a faculty member since 2005. He is also among the founding faculty of Stockton University's Behavioral Neuroscience program, an interdisciplinary undergraduate minor. He earned a Ph.D. in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University in 2003, and also graduated from Drexel University in 1999 with an M.S./B.S. in Computer Science, and a B.S. in Mathematics. His research interests include artificial intelligence, computational intelligence, evolutionary computation, machine learning, and swarm intelligence. He was designated an ACM Senior Member in 2011, received the 2005 AAAI Outstanding Paper award, and was nominated for the 2006 GECCO Best Genetic Algorithm Track Paper award. He received a U.S. Patent in 2010, and has published over 50 journal and conference publications. He is a member of AAAI (Life member), ACM (Senior Member), ACM SIGCSE, ACM SIGAI, ACM SIGEVO, CCSC, IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, and SIAM.

Arianna D'Ulizia⁴

Arianna D’Ulizia graduated in Computer Science Engineering from the “La Sapienza” University in Rome in 2005 and obtained a PhD in Computer Science and Automation from the “Roma Tre” University in Rome in 2009. She is currently a researcher with the Italian National Research Council Institute of Research on Population and Social Policies, Rome.

She is author of more than 70 papers in international journals, conferences and books. She is mainly interested in human-computer interaction, multimodal interaction, visual languages, geographical query languages, social computing, risk governance, knowledge management and innovation.

From 2006 to 2018, she was programme chair for several international workshops and conferences, such as the Workshop on Mobile and Networking Technologies for Social Applications (MONET 2006, MONET 2007, MONET 2008, MONET 2009, MONET 2010, MONET 2011), the Workshop on SOcial and MObile COmputing for Collaborative Environments (SOMOCO 2012, SOMOCO 2013), the Workshop on Mobile and Social Computing for Collaborative Interactions (MSC 2014, MSC 2015), and the International Conference on Responsible Research and Innovation in Science, Innovation and Society (RRI-SIS 2017, RRI-ICT 2018).

She is associate editor of the IEEE Access Journal. She is involved in the editorial board of several international journals in the field of computer science, such as the Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS), the International Journal of Applied Logistics (IJAL) and the International Journal of Mobile Computing and Multimedia Communications (IJMCMC), the EAI Endorsed Transactions on Scalable Information Systems.

She is also a reviewer for several international journals, such as Multimedia Tools And Applications (MTAP), PLoS One, Control & Cybernetics, Sensors, Applied sciences, IEEE Access, International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development, IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, Advanced Robotics, etc.

She has been a guest editor for several special issues of various international journals, such as the Journal of Computing Science and Engineering, Journal of Next Generation Information Technology, Multimedia Tools and Applications, and ISPRS International Journal of geo-information.

Since 2016, she has been a scientific reviewer for several PRIN, FCS-H2020 PON and Italian “Rita Levi Montalcini” young researchers’ projects. She is part of many programme committees for national and international conferences and workshops.

From 2005 to date, she has participated in 19 European and national projects.

1: Harbin Engineering University, China
2: University of Chicago, USA
3: Stockton University, USA
4: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Italy

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6LoWPAN plays a major role within the protocol stack for the future Internet of Things. Its fragmentation mechanism enables transport of IPv6 datagrams with the required minimum MTU of 1280 bytes over 802.15.4-based networks. With the goal of a fully standardized WSN protocol stack currently nece…6LoWPAN plays a major role within the protocol stack for the future Internet of Things. Its fragmentation
mechanism enables transport of IPv6 datagrams with the required minimum MTU of 1280 bytes over
802.15.4-based networks. With the goal of a fully standardized WSN protocol stack currently necessitating a route-over approach, i.e., routing at the IP-layer, there are two main choices for any 6LoWPAN implementation with regard to datagram fragmentation: Hop-by-hop assembly or a cross-layered direct mode, which forwards individual 6LoWPAN fragments before the whole datagram has arrived. In addition to these two straightforward approaches, we propose enhancements based on adaptive rate-restriction for the direct forwarding and a retry control for both modes to reduce the number of losses of larger datagrams. An evaluation of these modes in a simulation environment and a hardware testbed indicate that the proposed enhancements can considerably improve PRR and latency within 6LoWPAN networks.
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Simulating LTE Mobility Management in presence of coverage holes with ns-3
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mca 16(8): e2

Authors:
Zoraze Ali, Nicola Baldo, Josep Mangues-Bafalluy, Lorenza Giupponi

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In this paper, we present our approach to simulate mobility management scenarios for LTE heterogeneous network deployments defined by challenging radio propagation scenarios, such as the presence of coverage holes. We focus on the LTE module of ns-3, which is also known as LENA. Our contribution i…In this paper, we present our approach to simulate mobility management scenarios for LTE heterogeneous network deployments defined by challenging radio propagation scenarios, such as the presence of coverage holes. We focus
on the LTE module of ns-3, which is also known as LENA. Our contribution is twofold. On one hand, we propose a set of new features for the LTE module, including a new model for simulating obstacles blocking the propagation of radio signals, and a handover model suitable for the offline
evaluation of mobility management solutions. On the other hand, we describe in detail the setup of the simulation scenario, highlighting the challenges that we faced during the implementation and discussing the chosen configuration parameters. Finally, we present some simulation results that
we obtained with the proposed approach.
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Implementation of Cognitive Radio Network Testbed for Multimedia Communications
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mca 18(15): e2

Authors:
Patrick DaSilva, Anuja Ghising, Siddharth Patil, Honggang Wang

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A cognitive radio is a form of wireless communication in which a transceiver can intelligently detect which communication channels are in use and which are not, and instantly move into vacant channels while avoiding occupied ones. This intelligently avoids interference amongst users and provides th…A cognitive radio is a form of wireless communication in which a transceiver can intelligently detect which communication channels are in use and which are not, and instantly move into vacant channels while avoiding occupied ones. This intelligently avoids interference amongst users and provides the ability to use up all available bandwidth on the RF spectrum. There are many ways in which the communication can be demonstrated. This paper examines how we have implemented a cognitive radio network testbed using software defined radios (SDRs) for multimedia communications, where components that have been traditionally implemented in hardware are instead implemented by means of software on a personal computer or embedded system to communicate and transfer a file between each other. We attempt to demonstrate potential use of SDRs for future multimedia applications.
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Automated control signal reception acknowledgement system using nRF24L01P wireless transceiver module and Arduino
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mca 19(16): e3

Author:
Mobasshir Mahbub

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In this era of modern technology wireless control system is a most used method to control electrical or electronic devices and/or monitoring from a distant part. It is very easier and cost effective to implement a wireless system. Because there are barriers in implementing wired system. That is w…In this era of modern technology wireless control system is a most used method to control electrical or electronic
devices and/or monitoring from a distant part. It is very easier and cost effective to implement a wireless system.
Because there are barriers in implementing wired system. That is why wireless system is much effective than wired.
But the wireless system has also some problems or deficits. One of them is signal loss during the transmission due to
various causes like surrounding environmental reason and others. If transmitted signal is lost the receiver will remain
completely blind as it is not receiving the signal. Another one can be the receiver is unable to receive signal due to the
technical fault of receiver end whether the transmitted signal is stable. That is why an acknowledgement system is
necessary to determine whether the receiver is receiving the transmitted signal or not. The developed system is an
effective and low cost system with nRF24L01P transceiver module and Arduino Uno to determine that the receiver is
working accordingly or not or is there any technical fault.
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Towards autonomous vehicular clouds
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mca 11(1): e2

Authors:
Stephan Olariu, Mohamed Eltoweissy, Mohamed Younis

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The dawn of the 21st century has seen a growing interest in vehicular networking and its myriad potential applications. The initial view of practitioners and researchers was that radio-equipped vehicles could keep the drivers informed about potential safety risks and increase their awareness of roa…The dawn of the 21st century has seen a growing interest in vehicular networking and its myriad potential applications. The initial view of practitioners and researchers was that radio-equipped vehicles could keep the drivers informed about potential safety risks and increase their awareness of road conditions. The view then expanded to include access to the Internet and associated services. This position paper proposes and promotes a novel and more comprehensive vision namely, that advances in vehicular networks, embedded devices and cloud computing will enable the formation of autonomous clouds of vehicular computing, communication, sensing, power and physical resources. Hence, we coin the term, autonomous vehicular clouds (AVCs). A key feature distinguishing AVCs from conventional cloud computing is that mobile AVC resources can be pooled dynamically to serve authorized users and to enable autonomy in real-time service sharing and management on terrestrial, aerial, or aquatic pathways or theaters of operations. In addition to general-purpose AVCs, we also envision the emergence of specialized AVCs such as mobile analytics laboratories. Furthermore, we envision that the integration of AVCs with ubiquitous smart infrastructures including intelligent transportation systems, smart cities and smart electric power grids will have an enormous societal impact enabling ubiquitous utility cyber-physical services at the right place, right time and with right-sized resources.
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Hybrid Satellite - Wireless Sensor Networks Architecture for Telemedicine Applications in the Context of Emergency Satellite Communications in Ku/Ka/Q/V Bands
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mca 14(5): e1

Authors:
Rahim Kacimi, Ponia Pech

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Thanks to the facilities offered by telecommunications, telemedicine today allows physicians and clinicians to access, monitor and diagnose patients remotely. Telemedicine includes several applications such as remote monitoring of chronically ill patients, monitoring people in their everyday lives …Thanks to the facilities offered by telecommunications, telemedicine today allows physicians and clinicians to access, monitor and diagnose patients remotely. Telemedicine includes several applications such as remote monitoring of chronically ill patients, monitoring people in their everyday lives to provide early detection and intervention for various types of diseases, computer-assisted physical rehabilitation in ambulatory settings, and assisted living for the elderly at home, as well as remote monitoring of injured people in a post-disaster situation. These new applications require a reliable, wireless communication link between the devices implanted in the patient’s skin and a clinician. In this article, this issue is discussed and a list of performance criteria for the different communication links used are addressed, especially focusing on the satellite link. Then an adaptive air interface which is designed to meet the performance constraints of bidirectional satellite communication links in an emergency situation in Ku/Ka/Q/V bands where when strong channel impairments occur is described and analysed.
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Optimal ZF Precoder for MU massive MIMO Systems over Ricean Channel with per Antenna Power Allocation
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mca 18(15): e3

Authors:
James Kweku Nkrumah Nyarko, Christian Ango Mbom

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Multiuser massive multiple-input multiple-output systems have the potential to increase the data rate. However, with a large base station (BS) antenna, the non-square channel matrix restricts the zero-forcing (ZF) precoder rotations to obtain the best optimal solution with the per-antenna power all…Multiuser massive multiple-input multiple-output systems have the potential to increase the data rate. However, with a large base station (BS) antenna, the non-square channel matrix restricts the zero-forcing (ZF) precoder rotations to obtain the best optimal solution with the per-antenna power allocation. In this paper, we propose the beamforming and lattice reduction (LR) approach to restrain the channel matrix and transform the lattice of the channel vectors to be near orthogonal. Numerical results show that the LR-based ZF precoder outperforms other ZF precoder schemes, such as, the norm approximation of the beamforming matrix. In particular, the sum rate of the proposed optimal ZF precoder requires a small number of BS antenna. Subsequently, with the strong line of sight (LoS) channel, the optimal power allocations in the subchannels depend on the dominance of the users in order to achieve substantial multiplexing and diversity gains. Speciﬁcally, the Ricean channel gain with the water-ﬁlling allocation at high SNR is non-negligible.
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A Privacy-Preserving NFC Mobile Pass for Transport Systems
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mca 14(5): e4

Authors:
Ghada Arfaoui, Guillaume Dabosville, Sébastien Gambs, Patrick Lacharme, Jean-François Lalande

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The emergence of the NFC (Near Field Communication) technology brings new capacities to the next generation of smartphones, but also new security and privacy challenges. Indeed through its contactless interactions with external entities, the smartphone of an individual will become an essential auth…The emergence of the NFC (Near Field Communication) technology brings new capacities to the next generation of smartphones, but also new security and privacy challenges. Indeed through its contactless interactions with external entities, the smartphone of an individual will become an essential authentication tool for service providers such as transport operators. However, from the point of view of the user, carrying a part of the service through his smartphone could be a threat for his privacy. Indeed, an external attacker or the service provider himself could be tempted to track the actions of the user. In this paper, we propose a privacy-preserving contactless mobile service, in which a user’s identity cannot be linked to his actions when using the transport system. The security of our proposition relies on the combination of a secure element in
the smartphone and on a privacy-enhancing cryptographic protocol based on a variant of group signatures. In addition, although a user should remain anonymous and his actions unlinkable in his daily journeys, we designed a technique for lifting his anonymity in extreme circumstances. In order to guarantee the usability of our solution, we implemented a prototype demonstrating that our solution meets the major functional requirements for real transport systems: namely that the mobile pass can be validated at a gate in less than 300 ms, and this even if the battery of the smartphone is exhausted.
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Publisher: EAI
ISSN: 2032-9504
Number of Volumes: 6

Last Published: 2021-07-14

EAI Endorsed Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications

Lin Yun1

Vanlin Sathya2

Vincent A. Cicirello3

Arianna D'Ulizia4

Lin Yun¹

Vanlin Sathya²

Vincent A. Cicirello³

Arianna D'Ulizia⁴