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Multi-access edge computing (MEC) emerges as an essential part of the upcoming Fifth Generation (5G) and future beyond-5G mobile communication systems. It adds computational power towards the edge of cellular networks, much closer to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Bin Han , Vincenzo Sciancalepore , Yihua Xu , Di Feng , Hans D. Schotten

All the routers include a buffer in order to enqueue packets waiting to be transmitted. The behaviour of the routers' buffer is of primary importance when studying network traffic, since it may modify some characteristics, as delay or…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Luis Sequeira , Julian Fernandez-Navajas , Jose Saldana , Luis Casadesus

Networks-on-Chip (NoCs) used in commercial many-core processors typically incorporate priority arbitration. Moreover, they experience bursty traffic due to application workloads. However, most state-of-the-art NoC analytical performance…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Sumit K. Mandal , Raid Ayoub , Michael Kishinevsky , Mohammad M. Islam , Umit Y. Ogras

Parallel programming is emerging fast and intensive applications need more resources, so there is a huge demand for on-chip multiprocessors. Accessing L1 caches beside the cores are the fastest after registers but the size of private caches…

Performance · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Diman Zad Tootaghaj , Farshid Farhat

Motivated by recent concerns that queuing delays in the Internet are on the rise, we conduct a performance evaluation of Compound TCP (C-TCP) in two topologies: a single bottleneck and a multi-bottleneck topology, under different traffic…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Debayani Ghosh , Krishna Jagannathan , Gaurav Raina

In the online packet buffering problem (also known as the unweighted FIFO variant of buffer management), we focus on a single network packet switching device with several input ports and one output port. This device forwards unit-size,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-08-15 Marcin Bienkowski

In networks-on-chip, static routing schemes are favored for their simplicity and predictability, but they cannot effectively balance network load due to the unawareness of runtime load distribution. Q-StaR discovers two factors (topology…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Yang Zhang , Yiren Zhao , Xu Wang , Fengyuan Ren

Networks on Chip is a recent solution paradigm adopted to increase the performance of Multicore designs. The key idea is to interconnect various computation modules (IP cores) in a network fashion and transport packets simultaneously across…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-02-12 P. Ezhumalai , S. Manojkumar , C. Arun , P. Sakthivel , D. Sridharan

Networks-on-Chips (NoCs) recently became widely used, from multi-core CPUs to edge-AI accelerators. Emulation on FPGAs promises to accelerate their RTL modeling compared to slow simulations. However, realistic test stimuli are challenging…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Yee Yang Tan , Felix Staudigl , Lukas Jünger , Anna Drewes , Rainer Leupers , Jan Moritz Joseph

This paper explores the advancement of Vehicular Edge Computing (VEC) as a tailored application of Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) for the automotive industry, addressing the rising demand for real-time processing in connected and autonomous…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Mahsa Paknejad , Parisa Fard Moshiri , Murat Simsek , Burak Kantarci , Hussein T. Mouftah

Edge inference has become more widespread, as its diverse applications range from retail to wearable technology. Clusters of networked resource-constrained edge devices are becoming common, yet no system exists to split a DNN across these…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Arjun Parthasarathy , Bhaskar Krishnamachari

Rising electricity demand and the growing integration of renewables are intensifying congestion in transmission grids. Grid topology optimization through busbar splitting (BuS) and optimal transmission switching can alleviate grid…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Giacomo Bastianel , Dirk Van Hertem , Hakan Ergun , Line Roald

Recent years have seen Kubernetes emerge as a primary choice for container orchestration. Kubernetes largely targets the cloud environment but new use cases require performant, available and scalable orchestration at the edge. Kubernetes…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Andrew Jeffery , Heidi Howard , Richard Mortier

Mobility-on-demand (MoD) ridesharing is a promising way to improve the occupancy rate of personal vehicles and reduce traffic congestion and emissions. Maximizing the number of passengers served and maximizing a profit target are major…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Qian-Ping Gu , Jiajian Leo Liang

The nanoPU is a new networking-optimized CPU designed to minimize tail latency for RPCs. By bypassing the cache and memory hierarchy, the nanoPU directly places arriving messages into the CPU register file. The wire-to-wire latency through…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Stephen Ibanez , Alex Mallery , Serhat Arslan , Theo Jepsen , Muhammad Shahbaz , Nick McKeown , Changhoon Kim

The growing memory footprints of cloud and big data applications mean that data center CPUs can spend significant time waiting for memory. An attractive approach to improving performance in such centralized compute settings is to employ…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Karthik Sankaranarayanan , Chit-Kwan Lin , Gautham Chinya

We show that the performance of relay selection can be improved by employing relays with buffers. Under the idealized assumption that no buffer is full or empty, the best source-relay and the best relay-destination channels can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-03-21 Aissa Ikhlef , Diomidis S. Michalopoulos , Robert Schober

We study the problem of servicing a set of ride requests by dispatching a set of shared vehicles, which is faced by ridesharing companies such as Uber and Lyft. Solving this problem at a large scale might be crucial in the future for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Valentin Buchhold , Peter Sanders , Dorothea Wagner

The behavior of loss-based TCP congestion control algorithms like TCP CUBIC continues to be a challenge in modern cellular networks. Due to the large RLC layer buffers required to deal with short-term changes in channel capacity, the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Lukas Prause , Mark Akselrod

As the Large-scale Language Models (LLMs) continue to scale, the requisite computational power and bandwidth escalate. To address this, we introduce UB-Mesh, a novel AI datacenter network architecture designed to enhance scalability,…