In-band Network Telemetry (INT) has emerged as a promising network measurement technology. However, existing network telemetry systems lack the flexibility to meet diverse telemetry requirements and are also difficult to adapt to dynamic network ...

In edge environment, many smart application instances are triggered randomly by resource-constrained Internet of Things (IoT) devices. These application instances usually consist of dependent computation components, which can be modeled as workflows in ...

Remote surgery is an emerging medical business derived from information networking technology and plays an increasingly essential role in the medical system. In remote surgery, it is imperative to facilitate cross-regional information transmission and ...

In multi-access edge computing (MEC) networks, network slicing enables the MEC network service provider (MEC-NSP) to provide customizable MEC services for user devices (UDs) with diverse QoS (Quality of Service) demands. In MEC network slicing, slice ...

The SFC deployment problem has proved to be NP-hard and has attracted great research interests. At present, most existing studies focus on deploying SFC through virtual network functions (VNFs) and few studies involve hybrid VNF and physical network ...

Integrating the User Plane Function (UPF), which is responsible for forwarding user data in 5G, with the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite networks can facilitate communication among users and take advantage of satellite edge computing. Satellite UPF (S-UPF)...

In the sixth-generation fixed network (F6G), network security becomes an important topic. Encryption is an effective method to prevent network attacks and realize network security. Quantum key distribution (QKD) is a promising technology to effectively ...

With the rapid development of the Internet worldwide, network security issues are becoming increasingly prominent. Network intrusion detection systems (NIDSs) play a vital role in ensuring computer network security due to their ability to identify ...

Network threat detection and identification are essential tasks in the defense of cyberspace. However, current network threat detection methods have limitations such as narrow feature extraction, targeted feature effects, and limited generalization ...

The Multipath TCP (MPTCP) protocol has received more attention due to the increasing number of terminals with multiple network interfaces. To meet the higher network performance demand of terminal services, many researches leverage reinforcement learning (...

Using satellite communications as backhaul links facilitates extending network coverage to unconnected areas. However, providing high-quality video streaming service via satellite backhaul is not economical. This paper presents SatSR, a mobile edge ...

The onion router (Tor) is a network system for anonymous communication. However, website fingerprinting (WF) attacks have threatened the anonymity of Tor. WF attackers can passively monitor and collect traffic, classify the victims’ traffic based ...

Anomaly detection plays an essential role in network security and traffic classification. Many studies have focused on anomaly detection to improve network security, including machine learning and deep learning methods. These methods often require ...

Due to the distributed deployment and inter-network dependence, distributed cloud network (DCN) is vulnerable to large-scale damage, making emergent system recovery of vital importance. Given limited resources at an early stage of network recovery, we ...

Encrypted Traffic Classification (ETC) is crucial for network security management and Quality of Service (QoS) improvement. There have been many attempts to tackle various ETC tasks, however, which generally suffer from task dependency and limited ...

Automated log analysis with AI technologies is commonly used in network, system, and service operation and maintenance to ensure reliability and quality assurance. Log parsing serves as an essential primary stage in log analysis, where unstructured logs ...

In the context of Software Defined Networking (SDN) scenarios, the deployment of multi-path routing has been trending as one of the practical approaches. It serves the two-fold objective of improving the reliability of Service Function Chains (SFCs) and ...

Integrating terrestrial cellular network with Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation has been a popular trend in beyond 5G and 6G eras, called Satellite-Terrestrial Integrated Core Network (STICN). Core Network (CN) is an essential component ...

Recent advances in Cloud Computing have shown great power in enhancing intelligent devices to support various applications. Nevertheless, conventional Cloud Computing fails to keep up with the ever-advancing requirements of efficient task execution, ...

The computing power network (CPN) has emerged as a promising networking paradigm in recent times. Since the characteristics of high bandwidth, low delay and high reliable communication, optical networks have been identified as potential frameworks for ...