International Journal of Wireless and Microwave Technologies (IJWMT)

IJWMT Vol. 13, No. 2, Apr. 2023

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REGULAR PAPERS

Investigating Coupling Interactions in Split-Ring Resonator Dimers

By Akaa Agbaeze Eteng Ngozi Peggy Udeze

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijwmt.2023.02.01, Pub. Date: 8 Apr. 2023

Topological wireless power transfer (TWPT) arrays provide directional power transfer, which are robust to external disturbances. Often realized as a chains of dimers, the ability to adjust the coupling between constituent resonator elements is an important means of establishing necessary conditions for power transfer. This paper explores the coupling interactions that are possible within dimers consisting of paired split-ring resonators (SRRs) in close proximity. Transfer efficiencies and through impedances are computationally studied for various rotational orientations of edge-and broadside-coupled SRRs. The obtained results reveal that relative rotational orientation can be employed as a sensitive design parameter to provide a variety of high- and low-coupling options within and between SRR dimers, with different power transfer efficiency implications.

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A Systematic Review of Privacy Preservation Models in Wireless Networks

By Namrata J. Patel Ashish Jadhav

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijwmt.2023.02.02, Pub. Date: 8 Apr. 2023

Privacy preservation in wireless networks is a multidomain task, including encryption, hashing, secure routing, obfuscation, and third-party data sharing. To design a privacy preservation model for wireless networks, it is recommended that data privacy, location privacy, temporal privacy, node privacy, and route privacy be incorporated. However, incorporating these models into any wireless network is computationally complex. Moreover, it affects the quality of services (QoS) parameters like end-to-end delay, throughput, energy consumption, and packet delivery ratio. Therefore, network designers are expected to use the most optimum privacy models that should minimally affect these QoS metrics. To do this, designers opt for standard privacy models for securing wireless networks without considering their interconnectivity and interface-ability constraints. Due to this, network security increases, but overall, network QoS is reduced. To reduce the probability of such scenarios, this text analyses and reviews various state-of-the-art models for incorporating privacy preservation in wireless networks without compromising their QoS performance. These models are compared on privacy strength, end-to-end delay, energy consumption, and network throughput. The comparison will assist network designers and researchers to select the best models for their given deployments, thereby assisting in privacy improvement while maintaining high QoS performance.Moreover, this text also recommends various methods to work together to improve their performance. This text also recommends various proven machine learning architectures that can be contemplated & explored by networks to enhance their privacy performance. The paper intends to provide a brief survey of different types of Privacy models and their comparison, which can benefit the readers in choosing a privacy model for their use.

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Geospatial Cloud-Based Model for Mitigating Impact of Natural Disaster and Security Threats using Smart Digital Devices

By Akinwale O. Akinwunmi Halleluyah O. Aworinde Segun Adebayo Jacob A. Akinpelu

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijwmt.2023.02.03, Pub. Date: 8 Apr. 2023

Human beings live in a world that is vulnerable to disasters and huge security threats. The common occurrence of global natural disasters and security threats call for major attention by the government of nations and the International community. Man continues to live under perpetual fear of the unknown because of these events. Notably, the human being is at the receiving end of these events either as a victim or at times as a perpetrator. Locating and rescuing victims or perpetrators of these events can be effectively achieved using smart digital devices that are configured with their unique identities and this will aid in achieving sustainable peace and stability in society. Equally, the global proliferation of digital devices is always on the rise; hardly today is there anyone on the planet earth without a form of one digital device or the other. This study is exploring the use of smart mobile digital devices, geospatial, cloud, communication, and technologies in mitigating the impact of natural and security threats with the significance of promoting peaceful human co-existence in the society. A Google App for finding a device, clock- timer app, an Internet speed check app and an online weather app were used for the experiments conducted for the proof of concept of the model. A test of model robustness was evaluated using response time and visibility. The model consistently showed good attributes of robustness in its behavior. Furthermore, the following parameters: latency, upload speed, download speed, air quality index, visibility, humidity, wind gust and temperature were observed against the response time in the experiments. A single sample (one-tail) t-test for the response time with a mean population of 0.9 gave a t-test value of 1. The value of p is 0.162791 and the result is not significant at p<.05. This indicates that there was no significant difference in the response time of the model irrespective of the time of the day, weather conditions, and the communication parameters. The result showed that the response time of the conceptual model was fast and consistent with the experiments indicating that the model can be leveraged, to address the problem identified in an affordable manner. The study is highly significant due to the fact that exploring the technologies that support location-based systems has greater potential in addressing the problem occasioned by natural disasters and security threats to humans. Future consideration is focused on enhancing the model by scaling up the biometrics features of the victim or perpetrator for speedy location.

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Performance Analysis of HWMP Protocol in Wireless Mesh Network

By Jyoti Mishra Awadhesh Kumar Akash Raghuvanshi

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijwmt.2023.02.04, Pub. Date: 8 Apr. 2023

Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) play a vital role in next-generation wireless networking, with applications ranging from last-mile wireless internet, transportation systems enterprise, enterprise networks, home networking, and wireless community networks are all examples of wireless community networks.Individual vendors created several proprietary mesh systems, but IEEE organized the IEEE 802.11s task force to design a meshed networking exposition to assure interoperability.In this paper, we evaluate the Quality of service parameters such as throughput, delay, PDR and jitter of mesh protocol.We simulated the HWMP protocol's performance,the present work is an attempt to address the problem related to wireless mesh networks by minimizing the delay and maximizing the throughput of the network.

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Design of Dual Band Microstrip Patch Antenna for 5G Communication Operating at 28 GHz and 46 GHz

By Anurag Nayak Shreya Dutta Sudip Mandal

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijwmt.2023.02.05, Pub. Date: 8 Apr. 2023

The design of suitable compact antenna for 5G applications with superior return loss and bandwidth is still a fascinating task to the researchers. In this paper, the authors have designed a dual band microstrip patch antenna for 5G communications at 28 GHz and 46 GHz using CST studio. Rectangular patch antenna with double slots is considered to serve the purpose. The performance of the proposed patch antenna is very satisfactory in terms of return loss, VSWR, bandwidth and directivity. The values of S11 are well below -39dB and values of VSWR are very close to 1 for both resonance frequencies. The bandwidths for both cases are greater than 1.8 GHz which is an essential characteristic of 5G patch antennas for high speed connectivity and efficiency. Directivities are above 6 dB which are very suitable for the present problem. The simulation results are also compared with existing dual band 5G patch antennas and it has been observed that proposed antenna has outperformed the existing patch antennas that worked in 28GHz and 46GHz frequency range. The main advantage of this patch antenna is that it’s simple structure and good return loss, bandwidth and gain.

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