Mobile M2M communication architectures, upcoming challenges, applications, and future directions

Eurasip Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking

Volumn 2015, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-37

  Mehmood, Yasir ^a   Görg, Carmelita ^a   Muehleisen, Maciej ^b   Timm Giel, Andreas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

5G; End to end; Internet of Things; Long term evolution advanced; Machine to machine; Standardization efforts

Indexed keywords

INTERNET; INTERNET OF THINGS; LONG TERM EVOLUTION (LTE); MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; STANDARDIZATION; STANDARDS; SURVEYS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

5G; DIVERSE APPLICATIONS; END TO END; INTERNET OF THING (IOT); MACHINE TO MACHINES; MACHINE-TO-MACHINE COMMUNICATIONS; MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; SERVICE REQUIREMENTS;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84948438445     PISSN: 16871472     EISSN: 16871499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13638-015-0479-y     Document Type: Review

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