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Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN) have emerged as a key enabler to fully realize the vision of integrated, intelligent, and ubiquitous connectivity in 6G systems. However, several operational challenges, including severe Doppler effects,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Muhammad Ali Jamshed , Rohit Singh , Malik Muhammad Saad , Aryan Kaushik , Wonjae Shin , Miguel Dajer , Alain Mourad

Quantum satellite communication (QSC) is emerging as a strategic technology for secure global networking and long-distance quantum connectivity. This review prioritizes the major challenges that still hinder large-scale deployment,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Omar Alnaseri , Yassine Himeur , Ahmed Al Asadi , Mohammed A. Ala'anzy , Rida Gadhafi , Shadi Atalla , Wathiq Mansoor

Emerging applications such as networked robotics, intelligent transportation, smart factories, and virtual and augmented reality demand integrated perception and connectivity enabled by wireless communication. This has driven growing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Ming-Chun Lee , Christian Eckrich , Vahid Jamali , Yu-Chih Huang , Arash Asadi , Li-Chun Wang

In this paper we introduce Neural Network Coding(NNC), a data-driven approach to joint source and network coding. In NNC, the encoders at each source and intermediate node, as well as the decoder at each destination node, are neural…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Litian Liu , Amit Solomon , Salman Salamatian , Muriel Medard

With the advent of revolutionary technologies, such as virtualization and softwarization, a novel concept for 5G networks and beyond has been unveiled: Network Slicing. Initially driven by the research community, standardization bodies as…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Lanfranco Zanzi , Antonio Albanese , Vincenzo Sciancalepore , Xavier Costa-Perez

As one of the most promising hotspots in the 6G era, space remote sensing information networks play a key and irreplaceable role in areas such as emergency response and scientific research, and are expected to foster remote sensing data…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Linling Kuang , Jiachen Sun , Jin Zhang , Huanxi Cui , Kai Liu

Distributed software-defined networks (SDN), consisting of multiple inter-connected network domains, each managed by one SDN controller, is an emerging networking architecture that offers balanced centralized control and distributed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Ziyao Zhang , Liang Ma , Kin K. Leung , Franck Le , Sastry Kompella , Leandros Tassiulas

In order to meet the performance/privacy requirements of future data-intensive mobile applications, e.g., self-driving cars, mobile data analytics, and AR/VR, service providers are expected to draw on shared storage/computation/connectivity…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Jiaxiao Zheng , Gustavo de Veciana

To keep up with demand, servers will scale up to handle hundreds of thousands of clients simultaneously. Much of the focus of the community has been on scaling servers in terms of aggregate traffic intensity (packets transmitted per…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Yimeng Zhao , Ahmed Saeed , Mostafa Ammar , Ellen Zegura

Network calculus (NC), particularly its min-plus branch, has been extensively utilized to construct service models and compute delay bounds for time-sensitive networks (TSNs). This paper provides a revisit to the fundamental results. In…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Yuming Jiang

Information-Centric Networking (ICN) has emerged as a paradigm to cope with the lack of built-in security primitives and efficient mechanisms for content distribution of today's Internet. However, deploying ICN in a wireless environment…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Boubakr Nour , Spyridon Mastorakis , Rehmat Ullah , Nicholas Stergiou

Service Function Chaining (SFC) is a networking technique that ensures traffic traverses a predefined sequence of service functions, realizing arbitrary network services through dynamic and efficient communication paths. Inspired by this…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Takanori Hara , Masahiro Sasabe

Near-space communication network (NS-ComNet), as an indispensable component of sixth-generation (6G) and beyond mobile communication systems and the space-air-ground-sea integrated network (SAGSIN), demonstrates unique advantages in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-20 Xinhua Liu , Zhen Gao , Ziwei Wan , Zhonghuai Wu , Tuan Li , Tianqi Mao , Xiao Liang , Dezhi Zheng , Jun Zhang

Minimizing the cost of deploying and operating a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) involves deciding how to partition a budget between competing expenses such as node hardware, energy, and labor. Most commercial network operators account for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-08-11 Kevin Dorling , Geoffrey G. Messier , Stefan Valentin , Sebastian Magierowski

Information Centric Networking (ICN) has been proposed as a new networking paradigm in which the network provides users with content instead communication channels between hosts. The Software Defined Networking (SDN) approach promises to be…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-11-01 Stefano Salsano , Nicola Blefari-Melazzi , Andrea Detti , Giacomo Morabito , Luca Veltri

Datacenters provide cost-effective and flexible access to scalable compute and storage resources necessary for today's cloud computing needs. A typical datacenter is made up of thousands of servers connected with a large network and usually…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Mohammad Noormohammadpour , Cauligi S. Raghavendra

This paper provides a global picture about the deployment of networked processing services for genomic data sets. Many current research make an extensive use genomic data, which are massive and rapidly increasing over time. They are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-27 Gianluca Reali , Mauro Femminella , Emilia Nunzi , Dario Valocchi

Software Defined Networking (SDN) is an emerging technology of efficiently controlling and managing computer networks, such as in data centres, Wide Area Networks (WANs), as well as in ubiquitous communication. In this paper, we explore the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Anees Al-Najjar , Furqan Hameed Khan , Marius Portmann

Recent advancement in the wireless sensor networks has provided a platform to numerous applications in healthcare sector. It has become an active research area due to its large scale potential. This research focuses on the application areas…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-05-18 Ahsan Humayun , Muneeb Niaz , Muhammad Umar , Muhammad Mujahid

Studying information diffusion in SNS (Social Networks Service) has remarkable significance in both academia and industry. Theoretically, it boosts the development of other subjects such as statistics, sociology, and data mining.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Huacheng Li , Chunhe Xia , Tianbo Wang , Sheng Wen , Chao Chen , Yang Xiang