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- research-articleAugust 2024
Analyzing Remote Peering Deployment and Its Implications for Internet Routing
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Volume 32, Issue 4Pages 2950–2959https://doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2024.3375898Internet eXchange Points (IXPs) have significantly transformed the structure and economics of the Internet by allowing many nearby networks to connect directly, avoiding the need for service providers. These large IXPs are so beneficial that they are not ...
- research-articleMay 2024
A Low-Power Demodulator for LoRa Backscatter Systems With Frequency-Amplitude Transformation
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Volume 32, Issue 4Pages 3515–3527https://doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2024.3396509The radio range of backscatter systems continues growing as new wireless communication primitives are continuously invented. Nevertheless, both the bit error rate and the packet loss rate of backscatter signals increase rapidly with the radio range, ...
- research-articleMay 2024
When Classic Meets Intelligence: A Hybrid Multipath Congestion Control Framework
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Volume 32, Issue 4Pages 3575–3590https://doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2024.3395356Multipath TCP (MPTCP) is a burgeoning transport protocol which enables the server to transmit the traffic across multiple network interfaces in parallel. Classic MPTCPs have good friendliness and practicality such as relatively low overhead, but are hard ...
- research-articleMay 2024
Mobility-Aware Resource Allocation for mmWave IAB Networks: A Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Approach
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Volume 32, Issue 4Pages 3559–3574https://doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2024.3396214MmWaves have been envisioned as a promising direction to provide Gbps wireless access. However, they are susceptible to high path losses and blockages, which can only be partially mitigated by directional antennas. That makes mmWave networks coverage-...
- research-articleMay 2024
Enabling Multi-Frequency and Wider-Band RFID Sensing Using COTS Device
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Volume 32, Issue 4Pages 3591–3605https://doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2024.3394974RFID shows great potentials to build useful sensing applications. However, current RFID sensing can obtain mainly a single-dimensional sensing measurement from each reader-to-tag query, such as phase, RSS, etc. This is sufficient to fulfill the designs ...
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- research-articleMay 2024
Delay-Optimal Distributed Computation Offloading in Wireless Edge Networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Volume 32, Issue 4Pages 3376–3391https://doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2024.3394789In this paper, we explore distributed edge computation offloading (DECO) that offloads computation to distributed edge devices connected wirelessly, which perform the offloaded computation in parallel. By integrating edge computing with parallel computing,...
- research-articleApril 2024
Throughput Analysis for Parallel Decoding of Irregular Repetition Slotted ALOHA With Noise
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Volume 32, Issue 4Pages 3544–3558https://doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2024.3392960Due to its simplicity and scalability, the Irregular Repetition Slotted ALOHA (IRSA) system that uses the successive interference cancellation (SIC) technique is a promising solution for uncoordinated multiple access of a massive number of Internet-of-...
- research-articleApril 2024
On the Benefits of Traffic “Reprofiling” the Multiple Hops Case—Part I
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Volume 32, Issue 4Pages 3421–3436https://doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2024.3392030This paper considers networks where user traffic is regulated through deterministic traffic profiles, e.g., token buckets, and requires cleanrequires guaranteed clean hard delay bounds. The network’s goal is to minimize the resources it needs to ...
- research-articleApril 2024
RALoRa: Rateless-Enabled Link Adaptation for LoRa Networking
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Volume 32, Issue 4Pages 3392–3407https://doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2024.3392342Both our experiments and previous studies show that LoRa links vary dynamically, which makes data transmission unreliable and consumes much energy of sensor nodes by retransmissions. This paper presents RALoRa, a Rateless-enabled link Adaptation system ...
- research-articleApril 2024
Minimizing Age of Incorrect Information Over a Channel With Random Delay
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Volume 32, Issue 4Pages 2752–2764https://doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2024.3389964We consider a transmitter-receiver pair in a slotted-time system. The transmitter observes a dynamic source and sends updates to a remote receiver through an error-free communication channel that suffers a random delay. We consider two cases. In the first ...
- research-articleApril 2024
Hermes: Low-Overhead Inter-Switch Coordination in Network-Wide Data Plane Program Deployment
- Xiang Chen,
- Hongyan Liu,
- Qingjiang Xiao,
- Qun Huang,
- Dong Zhang,
- Haifeng Zhou,
- Boyang Zhou,
- Chunming Wu,
- Xuan Liu,
- Qiang Yang
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Volume 32, Issue 4Pages 2842–2857https://doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2024.3361324Network administrators usually realize network functions in data plane programs. They employ the network-wide program deployment that decomposes input programs into match-action tables (MATs) while deploying each MAT on a specific switch. Since MATs may ...
- research-articleApril 2024
HyLink: Toward High Throughput LPWANs With LoRa Compatible Communication
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Volume 32, Issue 4Pages 3315–3330https://doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2024.3388890This paper presents the design and implementation of HyLink which aims to fill the gap between limited link capacity of LoRa and the diverse bandwidth requirements of IoT systems. At the heart of HyLink is a novel technique named parallel Chirp Spread ...
- research-articleApril 2024
K-Backup: Load- and TCAM-Aware Multi-Backup Fast Failure Recovery in SDNs
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Volume 32, Issue 4Pages 3347–3360https://doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2024.3386091The Proactive Recovery (PR) mechanism in Software-Defined Networking (SDN) provides good failure recovery resilience for the Beyond Fifth-Generation/Sixth-Generation (B5G/6G) delay-sensitive applications. However, PR’s fixed single backup path ...
- research-articleApril 2024
Optimal Back-Off Distribution for Maximum Weighted Throughput in CSMA
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Volume 32, Issue 4Pages 3158–3172https://doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2024.3387322We consider a generalized version of Carrier-Sense Multiple Access (CSMA), where the contention window size is a constant and the back-off probability distribution can be varied. We address the optimization of a weighted throughput metric, identifying the ...
- research-articleApril 2024
Communication Efficient Compressed and Accelerated Federated Learning in Open RAN Intelligent Controllers
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Volume 32, Issue 4Pages 3361–3375https://doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2024.3384839The disaggregated and hierarchical architecture of Open Radio Access Network (ORAN) with openness paradigm promises to deliver the ever demanding 5G services. Meanwhile, it also faces new challenges for the efficient deployment of Machine Learning (ML) ...
- research-articleApril 2024
Optimizing Peak Age of Information in MEC Systems: Computing Preemption and Non-Preemption
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Volume 32, Issue 4Pages 3285–3300https://doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2024.3384706The freshness of information in real-time monitoring systems has received increasing attention, with Age of Information (AoI) emerging as a novel metric for measuring information freshness. In many applications, update packets need to be computed before ...
- research-articleApril 2024
MAMS: Mobility-Aware Multipath Scheduler for MPQUIC
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Volume 32, Issue 4Pages 3237–3252https://doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2024.3382269Multi-homing technologies are promising to support seamless handoff and non-interrupted transmissions. Scheduling packets across multiple paths, however, has the known issue of out-of-order (OFO) due to the heterogeneity of the paths, which is detrimental ...
- research-articleApril 2024
Optimal AoI for Systems With Queueing Delay in Both Forward and Backward Directions
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Volume 32, Issue 4Pages 3173–3188https://doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2024.3379895Age-Of-Information (AoI) is a metric that focuses directly on the application-layer objectives, and a canonical AoI minimization problem is the update-through-queues models. Existing results in this direction fall into two categories: The open-loop ...
- research-articleMarch 2024
ACP+: An Age Control Protocol for the Internet
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Volume 32, Issue 4Pages 3253–3268https://doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2024.3380622We present the age control protocol ACP+, a transport layer protocol that regulates the rate at which update packets carrying information from a source are sent over the Internet to a monitor. The source would like to minimize the average age of ...
- research-articleMarch 2024
Reviving Peer-to-Peer Networking for Scalable Crowdsourced Live Video Streaming
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Volume 32, Issue 4Pages 3205–3220https://doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2024.3380395The rising crowdsourced live video streaming (CLVS) poses great challenges to Internet transport scalability, where a broadcaster’s live video is expected to reach thousands and even millions of viewers in real time. To accommodate such huge ...