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Caching at the edge of wireless networks is a keytechnology to reduce traffic in the backhaul link. However, aconcentrated amount of requests during peak-periods may causethe outage of the system, meaning that the network is not ableto…
Optical key distribution (OKD) protects the physical layer of communication links by taking advantage of the inherent noise present in the photodetection process. It allows for efficient generation of a shared random key between two distant…
This study introduces a robust solution for the detection of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks in Internet of Things (IoT) systems, leveraging the capabilities of Graph Convolutional Networks (GCN). By conceptualizing IoT devices…
Uncertainty in discriminating between different received coherent signals is integral to the operation of many free-space optical communications protocols, and is often difficult when the receiver measures a weak signal. Here we design an…
Along with the rapid growth of Industrial Internet-of-Things (IIoT) applications and their penetration into many industry sectors, real-time wireless networks (RTWNs) have been playing a more critical role in providing real-time, reliable…
The increasing demand for advanced services in wireless networks raises the problem for quality of service (QoS) provisioning with proper resource management. In this research, such a provisioning technique for wireless networks is…
Recently, physical layer security in the optical layer has gained significant traction. Security treats in optical networks generally impact the reliability of optical transmission. Linear Network Coding (LNC) can protect from both the…
In this paper, the problem of building a consistent European network state based on the data provided by different Transmission System Operators (TSOs) is addressed. A hierarchical merging procedure is introduced and consists in the…
Driven by the ever-increasing capacity demands, the 50G passive optical network (PON) is maturing gradually. One of the main challenges for the 50G PON is implementing burst-mode digital signal processing (BM-DSP) for the burst upstream…
Current medium access control mechanisms are based on collision avoidance and collided packets are discarded. The recent work on ZigZag decoding departs from this approach by recovering the original packets from multiple collisions. In this…
Recent advances in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have led to many new promissing applications. However data communication between nodes consumes a large portion of the total energy of WSNs. Consequently efficient data aggregation…
The perceived quality of real-time media delivered over IP networks depends on both the rate and burstiness of packet loss. In this paper, we develop a new mathematical model for the residual burstiness of loss under erasure coding. We…
The use of heterogeneous networks with multiple radio access technologies (RATs) is a system concept that both academia and industry are studying. In such system, integrated use of available multiple RATs is essential to achieve beyond…
In this paper we develop network protection strategies against a single link failure in optical networks. The motivation behind this work is the fact that $%70$ of all available links in an optical network suffers from a single link…
This paper proposes a novel method to co-optimize distribution system operation and repair crew routing for outage restoration after extreme weather events. A two-stage stochastic mixed integer linear program is developed. The first stage…
Cascading failure of a power transmission system are initiated by an exogenous event that disable a set of elements (e.g., lines) followed by a sequence of interrelated failures (or more precisely, trips) of overloaded elements caused by…
Industrial cyber-physical systems (ICPS) integrate physical processes with computational and communication technologies in industrial settings. With the support of edge computing technology, it is feasible to schedule large-scale sensors…
MIMO processing techniques in fiber optical communications have been proposed as a promising approach to meet increasing demand for information throughput. In this context, the multiple channels correspond to the multiple modes and/or…
Failures in optical network backbone can lead to major disruption of internet data traffic. Hence, minimizing such failures is of paramount importance for the network operators. Even better, if the network failures can be predicted and…