Author:Onumanyi, Adeiza J; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MI; Hancke, GDate:Feb 2021Self-adaptive threshold adjustment algorithms (SATAs) are required to reconfigure their parameters autonomously (i.e. to achieve self-parameter adjustment) at runtime and during online use for effective signal detection in cognitive radio ...Read more
Author:Mathebula, I; Isong, B; Gasela, N; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Nov 2020Software-Defined Wireless Sensor Networks (SDWSN) has received significant attention in recent years due to its inherent challenges such as network security, trust management, inefficient energy consumption, and so on. In particular, inefficient ...Read more
Author:Ramotsoela, TD; Hancke, GP; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Oct 2020There has been an increasing number of attacks against critical water system infrastructure in recent years. This is largely due to the fact that these systems are heavily dependent on computer networks meaning that an attacker can use ...Read more
Author:Gbadamosi, SA; Hancke, GP; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Oct 2020Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) is a type of low-power wide-area (LPWA) technology standardized by the 3 rd - Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) and based on long-term evolution (LTE) functionalities. NB-IoT has attracted significant ...Read more
Author:Adetunji, KE; Hofsajer, IW; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MI; Cheng, LDate:Feb 2021Distributed generation (DG) units are power generating plants that are very important to the architecture of present power system networks. The primary benefits of the addition of these units are to increase the power supply and improve the ...Read more
Author:Mntuwaphi, ND; Isong, B; Gasela, N; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Nov 2020Internet of things (IoT) is an innovative technology that has gained significant research attention in recent years and is still gaining momentum. This technology permits communication between humans and objects or objects with objects to ...Read more
Author:Ntshabele, K; Isong, B; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:May 2021Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) is a network technology that emanated from the swift advancement of the Internet of Things (IoT) market. It is characterized by low cost, long-range communications, low power consumptions, and better area ...Read more
Author:Charles, L; Isong, B; Lugayizi, F; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Oct 2021Long Range Wide Area Networking (LoRaWAN) has established itself as one of the leading Media Access Control (MAC) layer protocols in the realm of Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN). Although the technology itself is quite mature, the resource ...Read more
Author:Heyns, R; Ndiaye, M; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Jun 2021In this work, we proposed an automated smart cart system for use in the shopping industry. A smart cart equipped with sensors and computing resources would classify as an edge device for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). In our design ...Read more
Author:Ogbodo, E; Dorrell, D; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Jul 2021The development of a modern electric power grid has triggered the need for large-scale monitoring and communication in smart grids for efficient grid automation. This has led to the development of smart grids, which utilize cognitive radio ...Read more
Author:Liu, Y; Ma, X; Shu, L; Hancke, GP; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Jun 2020The three previous industrial revolutions profoundly transformed agriculture industry from indigenous farming to mechanized farming and recent precision agriculture. Industrial farming paradigm greatly improves productivity, but a number of ...Read more
Author:Onumanyi, Adeiza J; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MI; Hancke, GPDate:Jan 2021Parameter-based adaptive threshold estimators (ATEs) are widely used for signal detection in cognitive radio (CR) systems. However, their performance deteriorates under dynamic spectra conditions owing to a lack of valid methods to accurately ...Read more
Author:Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Jun 2021UMAN society has experienced three industrial revolutions from mechanization, and electricity to information automation. Every industrial revolution significantly alters the form of agricultural industry from labor-intensive farming, mechanized ...Read more
Author:Olatinwo, DD; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MI; Hancke, GPDate:Mar 2021This study proposes a hybrid MAC protocol that can efficiently and effectively optimize the communication channel access of a WBAN multi-class system. The proposed protocol consists of two major processes that include the contention phase ...Read more
Author:Daniel, OA; Markus, ED; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Mar 2021Internet of Things has had a tremendous effect in several fields, including the healthcare sector, to enhance network operation and users' quality of experience. In healthcare applications, people with cognitive, mental, and physical impairment ...Read more
Author:Adetunji, KE; Hofsajer, IM; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MI; Cheng, LDate:Jun 2021The integration of renewable energy and electric vehicles in smart grids aims to improve the grid network and reduce carbon emissions. In this regard, this study presents a new Energy Management Scheme (EMS) for the optimal charging and ...Read more
Author:Mtetwa, SN; Sibeko, N; Tarwireyi, P; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Nov 2020LoRaWAN is one of the LPWAN technologies that has become popular in both industries and research. LoRaWAN aims to provide long-range communication and empowers lowpowered devices to last for years in the field. LoRaWAN relies on the symmetric ...Read more
Author:Skosana, Vusi J; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Nov 2021Video encoding is challenging in the energy-constrained environments Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSN) operate. Among the many design considerations when developing a video encoding scheme, the first is the sparsity transform, however, ...Read more
Author:Magubane, Z; Tarwireyi, P; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MI; Adigun, MODate:Nov 2020Nowadays physical objects have an ability to connect to the internet, process, analyze the data to the real world through the Internet of Things (IoT). These physical objects have a limited processing space, storage, memory, and bandwidth. ...Read more