The prevalence of video streaming applications has led to an escalation in users' demands for high-quality services. Numerous endeavors have been undertaken in the realm of quality-of-experience (QoE) models and adaptive bitrate (ABR) algorithms to ...

Analog backscatter enables sensing and communication at lower power consumption than digital backscatter. In analog tags, a sensor typically changes the resistance or capacitance value that then translates into a frequency change that is backscattered ...

Open RAN is an emerging paradigm in mobile networks where the Radio Access Network (RAN) functions are disaggregated and virtualized on commodity servers. Despite the importance of Open RAN research, existing platforms often lack the fidelity and ...

The emergence of latency-critical use cases for cellular networks has necessitated the need for real-time (RT) network performance optimization. While solutions such as the O-RAN architecture provide primitives for non-RT and near-RT control, the ...

In this paper, we concentrate on modeling and simulation aspects of the Open Radio Access Networks (O-RAN). In detail, we present the solution in the form of an xApp considering the Quality-of-Service (QoS) Based Resource Optimization Use Case (QBRO-...

The wide availability of light-emitting diode (LED)-based light sources makes possible the use of visible light communication (VLC) for both indoor and vehicular wireless connectivity. Earlier works on VLC have predominantly used photodetectors as ...

We present a systems approach for tracking of mobile systems in an avalanche scenario using an ultra-wideband (UWB)-based ranging and localization system. UWB-based positioning is particularly challenging in outdoor scenarios covering large distances ...

Low-Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN) offer long-range communication with low energy consumption, making them ideal for IoT applications powered by energy harvesting. However, unpredictable energy harvesting rates can lead to sub-optimal device ...

It is expected to be pervasive sensors to integrate physical and digital world. Low-latency and wide-covering networks are hence urged, which lead to costly infrastructure. We are proposing ARCH based on smart contract and Self-sovereign Identity (SSI)...

With the 5G commercial deployments rapidly proceeding, operating mobile networks efficiently has become a great challenge. Self-organizing networks have been proposed to focus on automatically monitoring, analyzing and optimizing networks. Regarding ...

Given the central role that the mobile core plays in supporting mobile network operations, the efficiency, cost-effective dynamic scalability and resilience of the core control plane are paramount. Achieving these goals, however, presents two main ...

Enhancing the safety of Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs) poses a significant research challenge in the context of connected mobility and a plethora of technological opportunities trying to balance efficiency and widespread applicability. This paper presents ...

As the Platform for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) in rural broadband, the ARA wireless living lab features the deployment of first-of-its-kind wireless access and backhaul platforms in real-world agriculture and rural settings, and preliminary ...

The use of frequencies above 100 GHz has received increasing attention due to the large amount of available bandwidth. Given the high chance of signal blockage, reflected paths play a key role in 100+ GHz networks. Interestingly, at these frequencies, ...

With 30 billion RFID tags sold worldwide in 2021, a common basic functionality needed by RFID-enabled applications is cardinality estimation --- to quickly estimate the number of distinct tags in an RFID system. Although many advanced solutions have ...

Having been studied for more than a decade, Wi-Fi human sensing still faces a major challenge in the presence of multiple persons, simply because the limited bandwidth of Wi-Fi fails to provide a suficient range resolution to physically separate multiple ...

Virtualized radio access networks (vRANs), which allow running RAN processing on commodity servers instead of proprietary hardware, are gaining adoption in cellular networks. Two properties of the vRAN's "Distributed Unit (DU)" that implements the ...

Cloud providers, such as AWS and Azure, have started providing 5G services on their cloud infrastructure. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of X-Plane, a system that uses commercial programmable ASICs and DRAM servers on today's ...

Underwater backscatter is a recent networking technology that enables net-zero-power communication and sensing in underwater environments. Existing research on underwater backscatter has focused on designing and demonstrating early systems with ...

With the advancement of the Internet of Things (IoT), many devices will be connected to the Internet, enabling digital twin and smart home applications. However, currently, these IoT devices are operating at lower frequency bands of the wireless ...