Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking

We consider an access link carrying data generated by streaming and elastic services requested by fixed or mobile end users, and subjected to an admission control (AC) algorithm. For the performance analysis of such link we develop a new queuing ...

Unlike image data, Human Activity Recognition (HAR) data is collected through sensors placed on different parts of the body. Each sensor may have varying importance for different human actions. Attention mechanisms can dynamically identify the ...

With the rapid development of the Internet of Vehicles technology and the continuous advancement of intelligent transportation, vehicle network traffic is growing exponentially. Traditional caching solutions transmit content through the core ...

Real-time analytics on video data from mobile devices demands intensive computation resources for the application like traffic monitoring and anomaly detection. Leveraging edge computing allows for the offloading of computation-intensive tasks to ...

In this paper, we investigate ‘optimistic’ online caching policies, distinguished by their use of future request predictions derived, for example, from machine learning models. Traditional online optimistic policies, grounded in the Follow-The-...

EAP-OAUTH is a novel Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) method that integrates the OAuth 2.0 framework to provide a secure and flexible authentication mechanism for LANs and WLANs that implement the IEEE 802.1X framework. EAP-OAUTH ...

Integrating sharded blockchain with IoT presents a solution for trust issues and optimized data flow. Sharding boosts blockchain scalability by dividing its nodes into parallel shards, yet it is vulnerable to the 1% attacks where dishonest nodes ...

This paper considers network sum-rate maximization for network-coded clustered uplink non-orthogonal multiple-access (NOMA) networks with simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT)-enabled relays. Specifically, the aim is to ...

In recent years, the concept of Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) has become a prominent and ongoing research area in mobile communications, as mobile operators strive to enhance the intelligence, efficiency, and vendor independence of their RAN (...

Federated Learning (FL) is a decentralized machine learning approach in which multiple participants collaboratively train a model. Participants keep data locally, train their local models, and aggregate them in a single global model in a ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a huge step towards the emergence of powerful and smart decision-makers which can optimally tune the network parameters. In this work, a novel idea of an intelligent pipe (iPipe) routing scheme for a network of ...

This paper introduces a novel dynamic multipath routing, modulation level, spatial and spectrum assignment algorithm for space division multiplexing (SDM) enabled elastic optical networks (EON) with the aim of minimizing the blocking probability ...

In recent years, Maritime Transportation Systems (MTS) have experienced significant advancements through the adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) technology. The introduction of 6G mobile networks has further expanded possibilities by offering ...

Mobile edge computing (MEC) integrated with the Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) technique has been regarded as a promising solution for flexible services provision and user service experience improvement. However, existing service ...

The influence of blockchain on technology, especially in the field of finance, has brought about the age of cryptocurrencies and decentralized control, spreading its impact across various industries to ensure precision. As the trend moves towards ...

• Blockchain’s impact on trust and privacy in digital societies.
• Decentralized networks as privacy-enhancing alternatives.
• Decentralized social networks, countering centralization risks.
• Analyzing trust models in decentralized ...

The rapid growth of industrial digitalization in the Industry 4.0 era is fundamentally transforming the industrial sector by connecting products, machines, and people, offering real-time digital models to allow self-diagnosis, self-optimization ...

• We present a literature survey on Digital Twin for future IoT networks.
• We describe 5G digital twins research projects and tooling and use cases.
• We discuss standardization efforts in the realm of digital twins.
• we delve into ...

In the realm of real-time communications, WebRTC-based multimedia applications are increasingly prevalent as these can be smoothly integrated within Web browsing sessions. The browsing experience is then significantly improved with respect to ...

Active Queue Management (AQM) is a mechanism employed to alleviate transient congestion in network device buffers, such as routers and switches. Traditional AQM algorithms use fixed thresholds, like target delay or queue occupancy, to compute ...

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• AQM is employed to alleviate transient congestion in network devices.
• Traditional AQM algorithms use fixed thresholds, like target delay or queue occupancy, to compute random packet drop probabilities.
• Due to dynamic network ...

In light of the ever growing energy needs of the ICT sector, a value that is becoming increasingly important for a mobile network is its power consumption. However, the transition away from legacy network deployments tightly coupled with the ...

This paper proposes a distributed, JANUS-based protocol that enables an underwater acoustic network to reach consensus on arbitrary local opinions as numeric state variables. An envisioned scenario where nodes shall agree on parameters describing ...

The massive growth of live streaming, especially gaming-focused content, has led to an overall increase in global bandwidth consumption. Certain services see their quality diminished at times of peak consumption, degrading the quality of the ...

Virtual Reality (VR) applications that require extremely low delay and high image quality are widely used in online games and other 5G scenarios, becoming a hot research field in recent years. However, the limited bandwidth in 5G edge networks ...

The rapidly evolving landscape of network security, particularly in Software Defined Networks (SDNs), presents a critical need for efficient and adaptive DDoS attack detection methods, especially in the face of TCP SYN DDoS attacks. These attacks ...

Datacenter applications desire low latency for short messages to provide a better user experience. Therefore, one of the goals of datacenter networks is to minimize flow completion time (FCT), especially for short flows. Multiple scheduling ...

Today’s advancement in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANET) constitutes a cornerstone in ensuring traffic safety in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). In this context, vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications are a pivotal enabler for road ...

• We propose a DID-based reputation scheme for VANET compliant with ETSI standards.
• We provide the research community with the first ETSI-compliant V2V dataset.
• We implement and evaluate DIVA in 5G-enabled scenarios proving its ...