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Publications & Open Access

Peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and conference papers from COMMECT partners. Each entry links to its DOI and, where available, an open-access version on Zenodo.

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Journal Articles
  • Ramírez-Arroyo, A., López, M., Rodriguez Larrad, I., Bro Damsgaard, S., & Mogensen, P. (2025). Multi-connectivity solutions for rural areas: Integrating terrestrial 5G and satellite networks to support innovative IoT use cases.
    Smart Agricultural Technology, 12.
    DOI: 10.1016/j.atech.2025.101260 · Open access download (Zenodo)
  • Ramírez-Arroyo, A., Sørensen, T. B., & Mogensen, P. (2025). Terrestrial 5G and Starlink NTN Multi-Connectivity towards 6G Communications Integration Era.
    IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (Early Access, June 2025).
    DOI: 10.1109/OJCOMS.2025.3579240 · Open access download (Zenodo)
  • Raftopoulou, M., Awan, M. F., Ramírez-Arroyo, A., Sağlam, M. I., Jorguseski, L., Drijver, F., Maćkowiak, P., & Palattella, M. R. (2025). Deployment and performance evaluation of 5G private networks, enabling use cases in rural remote areas.
    IEEE Access, 13.
    DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3603591 · Open access download (Zenodo)
  • Ozkan, H. U., Savran, M. K., Kaptan, S., Sağlam, I., & Kor, C. V. (2023). In Rural Areas Internet Connection Problems and Solution Recommendations Experienced in The Process of Using Smart Agriculture Methods in Olive Farming.
    International Journal of Innovative Approaches in Agricultural Research, 7(3), 336–346.
    DOI: 10.29329/ijiaar.2023.602.8 · Open access download (Zenodo)
Book Chapters
  • Stiri, S., Palattella, M. R., Awan, M. F., Ramírez-Arroyo, A., Pradas, D., Politis, C., Raftopoulou, M., Jorguseski, L., & İzzet Sağlam, M. (2025). Integration of terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks for extending connectivity in rural remote areas.
    In Non-Terrestrial Networks, Elsevier.
    DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-443-26526-6.00002-5 · Open access download (Zenodo)
Conference & Workshop Papers
  • Nesse, P. J., Linton, G., & Nordli, A. (2025). Digital innovations for rural industry create socio-economic and environmental impacts.
    2025 IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology, and Innovation (ICE/ITMC).
    DOI: 10.1109/ICE/ITMC65658.2025.11106541 · Open access download (Zenodo)
  • Awan, M. F., Jorguseski, L., Raftopoulou, M., Cherifi, A., Maćkowiak, P., Drijver, F., Sağlam, M. I., & Palattella, M. R. (2025). 5G Private Networks for Rural Communities: Use Cases and Field Trials.
    IEEE WCNC 2025.
    DOI: 10.1109/WCNC61545.2025.10978562 · Open access download (Zenodo)
  • Ramírez-Arroyo, A., Villanueva-Fernández, M., Pradas, D., Nørremark, M., Schimann Hansen, J., & Mogensen, P. (2025). Drive Test Across Europe for 5G Cellular Multi-Connectivity in Roaming Scenarios: The Livestock Transport Use Case.
    IEEE WFCS 2025 (Rostock, 10–13 June 2025).
    DOI: 10.1109/WFCS63373.2025.11077645 · Open access download (Zenodo)
  • Petrou, M., Ettinger, M., Garcia-Guillen, S., Ramírez-Arroyo, A., & Pradas, D. (2025). Leveraging Satellite Constellations to Boost 5G Reliability for Connected Livestock Transport.
    IEEE WFCS 2025 (Rostock, 10–13 June 2025).
    DOI: 10.1109/WFCS63373.2025.11077653 · Open access download (Zenodo)
  • Stiri, S., Yang, T., Machwitz, M., Politis, C., Gilcher, M., Charvet, S., & Palattella, M. R. (2024). Multiple Connectivity Solutions to Enable Digital Applications for Viticulture: Insights from the COMMECT Living Lab Luxembourg.
    EuCNC/6G Summit 2024 (Antwerp).
    DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15341430 · Open access download (Zenodo)
  • McDonnell, K., Palattella, M. R., Awan, M. F., Pradas, D., Camacho, F., Nørremark, M., & Krčo, S. (2024). Integrated Networks and Services for Sustainable Rural Digitalization.
    IEEE IHTC 2024 (Bari, 27–30 Nov).
    DOI: 10.1109/IHTC61819.2024.10855145 · Open access download (Zenodo)
  • Maurya, P., Ramírez-Arroyo, A., & Sørensen, T. B. (2024). Cellular-Satellite Multi-Connectivity with Link Activation based on Random Forest Classifier.
    IEEE WiMob 2024.
    DOI: 10.1109/WiMob61911.2024.10770436 · Open access download (Zenodo)
  • Nesse, J., & Nordli, A. J. (2024). Connected Forestry – Proposed Method for Impact Assessment of 5G/IoT Enabled Solutions.
    ICECCME 2024 (Malé).
    Open access download (Zenodo)
  • Xie, M., Awan, M. F., Pajo, J. F., Cherifi, A., Lajoie, E., & Gill, J. (2023). iCORA – A Large-Scale Experimentation Platform for End-to-End 5G Services.
    TELSIKS 2023 (Niš).
    DOI: 10.1109/TELSIKS58128.2023.10464493 · Open access download (Zenodo)
  • Xie, M., Pajo, J. F., Awan, M. F., Cherifi, A., Esmaeily, A., Grøndalen, O., Dubbelman, S., Felici, F., Geordzhev, N., & Purohit, A. (2023). Experimentation-as-a-Service for Validating 5G Use Cases in a Large-Scale 5G Platform.
    SoftCOM 2023 (Split).
    DOI: 10.23919/SoftCOM58365.2023.10597052 · Open access download (Zenodo)
  • López, M., Damsgaard, S. B., Rodríguez, I., & Mogensen, P. (2023). Connecting Rural Areas: an Empirical Assessment of 5G Terrestrial-LEO Satellite Multi-Connectivity.
    IEEE VTC 2023-Spring (Florence).
    DOI: 10.1109/VTC2023-Spring57618.2023.10199206 · Open access download (Zenodo)
  • López, M., Damsgaard, S. B., Rodríguez, I., & Mogensen, P. (2022). An Empirical Analysis of Multi-Connectivity between 5G Terrestrial and LEO Satellite Networks.
    IEEE Globecom Workshops 2022 (Rio).
    DOI: 10.1109/GCWkshps56602.2022.10008752 · Open access download (Zenodo)
  • Lechuga, M. M. L., Nørremark, M., Jorguseski, L., D'Acunto, L., Politis, C., & Palattella, M. R. (2023). Multi-Connectivity for Livestock Transport in Rural Areas.
    EuCNC & 6G Summit 2023 (Gothenburg).
    Open access download (Zenodo)
  • Sağlam, M. I. (2023). Conditional Handover for Non-Terrestrial Networks.
    IEEE WINCOM 2023 (Istanbul).
    DOI: 10.1109/WINCOM59760.2023.10322919 · Open access download (Zenodo)
  • Aygul, A. M., Turkmen, H., Sağlam, I., Çırpan, H. A., & Arslan, H. (2023). Centralized and Decentralized ML-Enabled Integrated Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Networks.
    arXiv:2207.11028.
    Open access download (Zenodo)
  • Afhamisis, M., Alshikh Khalil, M. A., & Palattella, M. R. (2025). Towards digital agriculture: IoT connectivity through a multilayer NTN.
    IEEE International Conference on Learning and Communications in IoT (LCIoT 2025).
    DOI: 10.1109/LCIoT59330.2025.11118562
  • Nesse, P. J., Nielsen, N. V., Davidson, S., Gillund, L., & Awan, M. F. (2023). 5G in Rural Forest enables Real Time decision support and new Remote Operation solutions.
    2023 International Conference on Electrical, Computer, Communications and Mechatronics Engineering (ICECCME), Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.
    DOI: 10.1109/ICECCME57830.2023.10253125 · Open access download (Zenodo)