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The Scanning the Literature column offers succinct overviews of recently published papers in the networking field. Each summary outlines the paper’s primary concept, methodology, and technical contributions. The column’s objective is to ...

Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN), defined by the O-RAN Alliance, is quickly emerging as one of the most critical RAN architectures for designing and deploying future cellular networks. O-RAN aims to use openness and intelligence to solve new research ...

Currently, the research field is extensively focused in Network Slicing technology. But for End-to-End (E2E) NS implementations, Network Slice (NS) modelling features from Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs) are still not fully taken into account. ...

Data-driven solutions hold significant promise for improving network protocols and services in wide area networks. However, their practical adoption in production networks has been limited. This paper investigates the potential of leveraging network data ...

Integrated terrestrial and non-terrestrial power internet of things (IPIoT) has emerged as a paradigm shift to three-dimensional vertical communication networks for power systems in the 6G era. Computation offloading plays key roles in enabling real-time ...

This article provides an overview of five physical-layer security mechanisms: Physical-Layer Authentication (PLA), Physical-Layer Confidential Communications (PLCC), Physical-Layer Key Generation (PLKG), Physical-Layer Communications with Low Probability ...

The increase of on-vehicle applications has brought explosive computation demands to autonomous vehicles and overwhelmed their limited onboard resources. Edge computing can offload application load and effectively alleviate this problem. However, the ...

The recent COVID-19 pandemic has driven researchers from different spectrum to develop novel solutions that can improve detection and understanding of SARS-CoV-2 virus. In this article we propose the use of Intelligent Reflector Surface (IRS) and ...

IP spoofing is prevalently used for anonymity and reflection attacks, e.g., distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, which have shown increasingly destructive power in recent years because today’s Internet lacks validation on source addresses. ...

Mobile communication standards were developed for enhancing transmission and network performance by using more radio resources and improving spectrum and energy efficiency. How to effectively address diverse user requirements and guarantee everyone’...

The serverless computing model has evolved as one of the key solutions in the cloud for fast autoscaling and capacity planning. In edge computing environments, however, the serverless model is challenged by the system heterogeneity and performance ...

The current 5G and conceived 6G era with ultra-high density, ultra-high frequency bandwidth, and ultra-low latency can support emerging applications like Extended Reality (XR), Vehicle to Everything (V2X), and massive Internet of Things (IoT). With the ...

Space communication network (SCN) is a feasible and flexible solution to enable global seamless coverage, as well as service orchestration in a wide range. It’s emerged as a promising perspective for the next-generation communication network. ...

The big data processing in distributed Internet of Things (IoT) systems calls for innovative computing architectures and resource provisioning techniques to support real-time and cost-effective computing services. This article introduces a novel ...

Additive Manufacturing (AM) is transforming the way that we fabricate, deliver, and consume a wide range of products and components, including those for consumers, medical devices, automobiles, and aircraft. In AM, 3D-printers are used to fabricate ...

Recently, Programmable Data Planes (PDPs) have brought new opportunities to unprecedented innovations in network protocols and architectures. Among them, programmable data plane intelligence, including achieving networking for Machine Learning (ML) and ML ...

The deployment of D2D communications (also known as ProSe or sidelink transmissions) in cellular networks benefits from proximity, multi-hop, and spatial reuse gains. In this article, we first describe the main advancements of NR sidelink compared to LTE-...

Edge computing promises low-latency and high-throughput real-time processing to enable critical and life-changing future applications such as fully autonomous driving and metaverse, and is receiving wide interest from application designers, service ...

With the human friendly declarative intent policy expression, intent-driven network can make network management and configuration autonomous without human intervention. However, the availability and dependability of these refined policies from the ...

The integration of space and terrestrial networks results in a promising future network architecture, which exploits the high data rate and low latency of terrestrial networks as well as the wide-range coverage of satellite networks. However, space-ground ...

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) can transform mobile communications, enable new applications and services, and pave the way beyond 5G. The adoption of AI/ML may also advance network optimizations and service life-cycle management. ...

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have been considered as a promising technology for the sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks that can control wireless channels in a desirable way and significantly enhance the network performance. Simultaneous ...

Along with the rapid development of quantum information technologies, quantum networks that transmit quantum states have gradually shifted from laboratory to reality. However, the high cost of building a quantum network testbed seriously hinders the ...

Although the TCP/IP protocols have made great contributions to the development of the Internet, there is a consensus that the Internet needs improvement to solve the address space exhausted, content-oriented service, and so on. The academic community has ...

The collaborative Satellite-Terrestrial network plays an important role in the future 6G mobile communication network, which can realize the global ubiquitous connection and support everyone-centric customized services. Taking into account the multi-layer ...

Machine learning (ML) is widely being regarded as a powerful technology to solve various complex problems in fiber-optic communication networks. Recently, ML algorithms have been considered for a variety of use-cases in optical networks ranging from the ...

Failure management is one of the key aspects in cellular networks. 5G technology is introducing several novel features that will cause the occurrence of new problems in the network. The objective of the present work is to identify which features may lead ...

As the Metaverse is iteratively being defined, its potential to unleash the next wave of digital disruption and create real-life value becomes increasingly clear. With distinctive features of immersive experience, simultaneous interactivity, and user ...

Federated learning is a new learning paradigm for extracting knowledge from distributed data. Due to its favorable properties in preserving privacy and saving communication costs, it has been extensively studied and widely applied to numerous data ...

Facing the upcoming era of Internet-of-Things and connected intelligence, efficient information processing, computation, and communication design becomes a key challenge in large-scale intelligent systems. Recently, Over-the-Air (OtA) computation has been ...