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As we navigate the ever-evolving landscape of the internet, the intricate and dynamic nature of modern communication networks presents formidable challenges in their management, operation, and optimization. The emergence of the Digital Twin paradigm, a ...

Configuration synthesis is a fundamental technology in the context of self-driving networks, aimed at mitigating network outages by intelligently and automatically generating configurations that align with network intents. However, existing tools often ...

Network architecture is key to mobile communication networks, which determines network resource efficiency, service modalities, and industry trends. In the future 6G network, the ever-changing scenarios, refined service classification, and diversified ...

Network digital twin, as a fundamental enabling technology in emerging network scenarios and applications, establishes a connection between the physical and virtual networks through real-time representation and synchronization of physical entities. The ...

As an innovative paradigm for the next-generation 6G communication, integrated space and terrestrial networks (ISTNs) combine emerging satellite mega-constellations and existing terrestrial network infrastructures, promising to provide ubiquitous and high-...

Digital twin has revolutionized optical communication networks by enabling their full life-cycle management, including design, troubleshooting, optimization, upgrade, and prediction. While extensive literature exists on frameworks, standards, and ...

Network digital twin is a key enabler for the human-centric wireless metaverse, requiring fine-grained replication, high-fidelity screen rendering, and the integration of emerging intelligent technologies. However, existing frameworks for the network ...

The advantages of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite networks including high throughput, short latency, and seamless coverage have inspired increasing vendors to construct their own satellite constellations. And the widely recognized 6G technology, Satellite-...

The extant physical networks are swiftly undergoing transformation, furnishing heightened bandwidth, diminished latency, and deterministic network services tailored for industries such as industrial manufacturing, smart transportation, and remote ...

As a key technology in intelligent driving, Cooperative Vehicle Infrastructure System is an advanced communication framework that enables cooperative and information exchange between vehicles and infrastructure. However, this system encounters challenges ...

Quantum communication researchers have achieved significant progress during the recent decades and quantum networking has shown promise in terms of improving the overall functional benefits of the Internet and enabling applications with no counterpart in ...

Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites present a compelling opportunity for the establishment of a global quantum information network. However, satellite-based entanglement distribution from a networking perspective has not been fully investigated. Existing ...

The Quantum Internet (QI) is a hypothetical global network infrastructure that exploits quantum mechanics principles to distribute qubits worldwide. The QI will enable breakthrough applications like unconditional security, distributed quantum computing, ...

As a key paradigm of future 6G networks, Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks (SAGIN) has been envisioned to provide numerous intelligent applications that necessitate the cooperation of a multitude of terrestrial devices for machine learning (ML) model ...

The design of the Quantum Internet protocol stack is at its infancy and early-stage conceptualization. And different heterogeneous proposals are currently available in the literature. The underlying assumption of the existing proposals is that they ...

The quantum internet is envisaged to connect quantum systems at a global scale to provide diverse applications unimaginable with the classical internet. However, the technological shortcomings and practical challenges of noisy intermediate-scale quantum (...

Quantum federated learning (QFL) is a novel framework that integrates the advantages of classical federated learning (FL) with the computational power of quantum technologies. This includes quantum computing and quantum machine learning (QML), enabling ...

Remote entanglement distribution plays a crucial role in quantum networks, which can support many essential and exciting quantum applications. As the network scale expands, it is urgent to design a general and efficient remote entanglement distribution ...

Quantum routing, the entanglement of an input quantum signal over multiple output paths, will be an important aspect of future quantum networks. Implementation of such routing in nearterm quantum networks via the noisy quantum devices currently under ...

Quantum Internet has the potential to support a wide range of applications in quantum communication and quantum computing by generating, distributing, and processing quantum information. Generating a long-distance quantum entanglement is one of the most ...

Quantum networks serve as the means to transmit information, encoded in quantum bits or qubits, between quantum processors that are physically separated. Given the instability of qubits, the design of such networks is challenging, necessitating a careful ...

With the rapid development of wireless communication technology and wide implementation of mobile devices, the distributed clouding has changed our lives. As one of the fundamental building blocks in distributed clouding, the connectivity problem on the ...

The rapid growth of IoT (Internet of Things) and smart services facilitate many CPS (Cyber-Physical Systems) such as smart health, smart grid and so on. Nevertheless, the communication security issues in CPS are becoming more and more important with the ...

On-device deep learning technology has attracted increasing interest recently. CPUs are the most common commercial hardware on devices and many training libraries have been developed and optimized for them. However, CPUs still suffer from poor training ...

Next-generation wireless networks require the integration of cognitive networks (CNs) and decision-making techniques to improve the spectrum efficiency. The conventional spectrum sharing schemes require full channel state information of CNs and cannot ...

Recent advances in edge computing and its imminent adoption in Sixth Generation (6G) wireless networks have led to a propitious paradigm defined as 6G edge computing. However, due to the communication mode and network virtualization of the 6G architecture,...

With the advantages of low cost and flexible deployment, low earth orbit satellite (LEO-Sat) communications have received widespread attentions, such as providing global wireless access with enhanced data rates in future 6G networks. However, due to the ...

With the advent of 5G and facing future 6G, various networks tend to be linked together to form an integrated heterogeneous network (Inte-HetNets). Inte-HetNets bring new challenges to routing due to the need of crossing multiple network domains. ...

The vision for 6G networks is to offer pervasive intelligence and internet of intelligence, in which the networks natively support artificial intelligence (AI), empower smart applications and scenarios in various fields, and create a “ubiquitous-...

Deep automation provided by self-organizing network (SON) features and their emerging variants such as zero touch automation solutions is a key enabler for increasingly dense wireless networks and pervasive Internet of Things (IoT). To realize their ...