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In the next-generation wireless networks, cooperative communication is one of the auspicious techniques through which spatial diversity could be achieved by permitting the single antenna to act as virtual multiple input multiple output (VMIMO). The fundamental principle of cooperative communication was established on different types of relaying protocols and implementation of different relaying protocols according to the requirements of communication scenarios. The challenging task for achieving a high performance in cooperative communication is to find out the optimal relay node (RN) among different prevailing RNs. The basic purpose of cooperative communication is to maximize the performance of the network and minimize the overhead triggered by RNs by considering different communication metrics, i.e., signal to noise ratio (SNR), channel state information (CSI), and bit error rate (BER). This study presents a review of different cooperative relaying protocols with best relay selection techniques in the next-generation wireless network. Moreover, the different challenges faced by millimeter wave in 5G wireless networks and the role of cooperative communication to overcome those challenges are discussed. Turkey is that it transmits the duplicates of a signal to the destination independently. Many ideas regarding cooperative communication were first derived by Nichola et al. [5]. In the next-generation wireless network, cooperative communication may be one of the promising approaches for achieving the high data rates as well as efficient utilization of the bandwidth. Cooperative communication uses a RN, to provide coverage in the holes within the Long-Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A) cellular networks [6]. Similarly, in mm-wave communication that is considered in 5G, the relaying techniques are used to overcome different challenges of link blockage, backhaul connectivity, and path loss etc. Moreover, to make this technology more efficient and reliable, further improvements are required to achieve these goals.This study presents a broad overview of different relaying protocols with optimal relay selection methods used in different wireless networks. In addition, this study presents the potential benefits of using cooperative communication to overcome different challenges faced by the next generation of wireless networks. The remainder of this article is organized as follows. Section 2 presents existing research on cooperative communication. Section 3 gives an overview of cooperative communication, in which different relaying protocols are presented and comparison between them. In Section 4, we discuss the review of optimal relay selection techniques. In Section 5, we explain the different challenges faced by mm-wave and how to overcome them by cooperative communication. Section 6 summarizes the future challenges in cooperative communication and finally the conclusion is given in Section 7. Sami et al. [7] demonstrate a survey and taxonomy on medium access control for cooperative communication. This study classifies ...

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The Internet of things (IoT) is the next technological revolution that includes many industries and applications. IoT can offer solutions for many problems. However, it requires many skills from different disciplines that current electrical and computer engineers lack. In order to encourage the seamless internalization of the IoT and the technologies it supports, a new method should be considered in training electrical and computer engineers. The new methods should focus on applications and projects that involve the use of components such as hardware, software, and cloud platforms that are available in the market rather than class oriented theories. In this study, we introduce a methodology for teaching an IoT systems course that will encourage students to study how to develop and accomplish IoT applications in real time, at a reasonable cost, and for general use rather than meeting the detailed needs of one merchant. We exploit universally available open source software and cloud platforms to enhance teaching IoT course. The proposed course is taught at the undergraduate level in the computer engineering departments of Kocaeli and Sakarya Universities in Turkey. The results show that the designed method can have a constructive influence on the progress of computer engineering education by timely and positive assistance in educating the new IoT engineers.

Network survivability is an important element in telecommunication network design nowadays because of the social and economic reliance on the Internet and the significant cost associated with service interruption. Moreover, the fact that submarine fiber-optic cables are susceptible to man-made or natural disasters, such as earthquakes, is well recognized. A disaster-resilient submarine cable deployment can save cost incurred by network operators such as the capacity loss cost, the cruising cost and the repair cost of the damaged cables, in order to restore network service when a cable break is prompted by a disaster occurrence. In this work, we investigate disaster-aware submarine cable deployment problem. While selecting a path for the cables, our approach aims to minimize the total expected loss cost, considering that submarine fiber-optic cables may break because of natural disasters, subject to deployment budget, path uniqueness, regular protection, elliptic shape, and linearization constraints. In our approach, we assume disaster-unrelated failures are handled by providing a backup cable along with primary cable. We consider a scenario with two nodes located on two different lands separated by a water body (sea/ocean). We then consider an elliptic cable shape to formulate the problem, which can be extended to other cable shapes, subject to avoiding deploying cable in disaster zones. We provide an Integer Linear Programming formulation for the problem. Finally, we present illustrative numerical examples that show the potential benefit of our approach as well as conclusion and future work.