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A trust framework based smart aggregation for machine type communication

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Machine type communication (MTC) is one of the significant communication paradigms in the fifth generation networks. The existing cellular networks are not designed for massive access of the MTC devices. Therefore, data aggregation and relaying are advocated to reduce the massive MTC access besides other physical layer solutions. In this paper, we propose a secured multiple mobile relay selection algorithm that smartly aggregates data from adjacent MTC devices through multiple user equipments and transmits it to the base station (BS). The paper also presents a framework for the selection of trusted relays to cooperatively aggregate MTC data and render two-hop connectivity to the BS. Our proposed algorithm is compared with existing algorithms on the basis of energy efficiency, system capacity, communication delay and outage probability. Our proposed algorithm outperforms the other schemes by improving outage probability and communication delay by 33% and 25%, respectively.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61325006, 61461136002) and 111 Project of China (Grant No. B16006).

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  1. National Engineering Laboratory for Mobile Network Technologies, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunication, Beijing, 100876, China

    Tabinda Salam, Waheed ur Rehman, Xiaofeng Tao, Yu Chen & Ping Zhang

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Peshawar, Peshawar, 25000, Pakistan

    Waheed ur Rehman

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Salam, T., Rehman, W.u., Tao, X. et al. A trust framework based smart aggregation for machine type communication. Sci. China Inf. Sci. 60, 100306 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11432-017-9186-6

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