About the Authors

Usman Ali

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Telecommunication Engineering, University of Engineering & Technology, Mardan, Pakistan

Sadiq Ullah

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

ladislau.matekovits@polito.it (LM); sadiqullah@uetmardan.edu.pk (SU)

Affiliation Department of Telecommunication Engineering, University of Engineering & Technology, Mardan, Pakistan

Abdul Basir

Roles Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland

Sen Yan

Roles Validation

Affiliation School of Information and Communications Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China

Hongwei Ren

Roles Validation

Affiliation School of Information and Communications Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China

Babar Kamal

Roles Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Center of Intelligent Acoustics and Immersive Communications, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China

Ladislau Matekovits

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ladislau.matekovits@polito.it (LM); sadiqullah@uetmardan.edu.pk (SU)

Affiliations Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Politecnico di Turin, Turin, Italy, National Research Council of Italy, Istituto di Elettronica e di Ingegneria dell’Informazione e delle Telecomunicazioni, Turin, Italy, Politehnica University Timişoara, Timişoara, Romania

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.