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Network slicing is a pivotal paradigm in wireless networks enabling customized services to users and applications. Yet, intelligent jamming attacks threaten the performance of network slicing. In this paper, we focus on the security aspect…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Shavbo Salehi , Hao Zhou , Medhat Elsayed , Majid Bavand , Raimundas Gaigalas , Yigit Ozcan , Melike Erol-Kantarci

Modern networks support network slicing, which partitions physical infrastructure into virtual slices tailored to different service requirements (for example, high bandwidth or low latency). Optimally allocating users to slices is a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Sagar Sudhakara , Pankaj Rajak

We propose to demonstrate a network slice placement optimization solution based on Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL), referred to as Heuristically-controlled DRL, which uses a heuristic to control the DRL algorithm convergence. The solution…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-28 José Jurandir Alves Esteves , Amina Boubendir , Fabrice Guillemin , Pierre Sens

Network slicing enables multiple virtual networks to be instantiated and customized to meet heterogeneous use case requirements over 5G and beyond network deployments. However, most of the solutions available today face scalability issues…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Farhad Rezazadeh , Lanfranco Zanzi , Francesco Devoti , Hatim Chergui , Xavier Costa-Perez , Christos Verikoukis

We present a hybrid ML-heuristic approach that we name "Heuristically Assisted Deep Reinforcement Learning (HA-DRL)" to solve the problem of Network Slice Placement Optimization. The proposed approach leverages recent works on Deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Jose Jurandir Alves Esteves , Amina Boubendir , Fabrice Guillemin , Pierre Sens

The complexity of emerging sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks has sparked an upsurge in adopting artificial intelligence (AI) to underpin the challenges in network management and resource allocation under strict service level…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Farhad Rezazadeh , Hatim Chergui , Josep Mangues-Bafalluy

Radio access network (RAN) slicing is a key element in enabling current 5G networks and next-generation networks to meet the requirements of different services in various verticals. However, the heterogeneous nature of these services'…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Amine Abouaomar , Afaf Taik , Abderrahime Filali , Soumaya Cherkaoui

Intelligent vehicular systems and smart city applications are the fastest growing Internet of things (IoT) implementations at a compound annual growth rate of 30%. In view of the recent advances in IoT devices and the emerging new breed of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Almuthanna Nassar , Yasin Yilmaz

Network slicing has been considered as one of the key enablers for 5G to support diversified services and application scenarios. This paper studies the distributed network slicing utilizing both the spectrum resource offered by…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Anqi Huang , Yingyu Li , Yong Xiao , Xiaohu Ge , Sumei Sun , Han-Chieh Chao

The paper presents a reinforcement learning solution to dynamic resource allocation for 5G radio access network slicing. Available communication resources (frequency-time blocks and transmit powers) and computational resources (processor…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Yi Shi , Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek

The fifth generation and beyond wireless communication will support vastly heterogeneous services and use demands such as massive connection, low latency and high transmission rate. Network slicing has been envisaged as an efficient…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-02 Fei Song , Jun Li , Chuan Ma , Yijin Zhang , Long Shi , Dushantha Nalin K. Jayakody Li

Network slicing is a well assessed approach enabling virtualization of the mobile core and radio access network (RAN) in the emerging 5th Generation New Radio. Slicing is of paramount importance when dealing with the emerging and diverse…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Lorenzo Bellone , Boris Galkin , Emiliano Traversi , Enrico Natalizio

Network slicing enables operators to efficiently support diverse applications on a common physical infrastructure. The ever-increasing densification of network deployment leads to complex and non-trivial inter-cell interference, which…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Tianlun Hu , Qi Liao , Qiang Liu , Georg Carle

This paper studies the multi-agent resource allocation problem in vehicular networks using non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and network slicing. To ensure heterogeneous service requirements for different vehicles, we propose a network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Zoubeir Mlika , Soumaya Cherkaoui

Network slicing promises to provision diversified services with distinct requirements in one infrastructure. Deep reinforcement learning (e.g., deep $\mathcal{Q}$-learning, DQL) is assumed to be an appropriate algorithm to solve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Chen Qi , Yuxiu Hua , Rongpeng Li , Zhifeng Zhao , Honggang Zhang

With emerging applications such as autonomous driving, smart cities, and smart factories, network slicing has become an essential component of 5G and beyond networks as a means of catering to a service-aware network. However, managing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Fatemeh Lotfi , Fatemeh Afghah

Network slicing in 5G/6G Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) is confronted with mobility and traffic variability. An artificial intelligence (AI)-based digital twin (DT) architecture with deep reinforcement learning (DRL) using Deep deterministic…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Afan Ali , Huseyin Arslan

Network slicing (NS) is a promising technology that supports diverse requirements for next-generation low-latency wireless communication networks. However, the tampering attack is a rising issue of jeopardizing NS service-provisioning. To…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-18 Xin Hao , Phee Lep Yeoh , Changyang She , Yao Yu , Branka Vucetic , Yonghui Li

Network slicing envisions the 5th generation (5G) mobile network resource allocation to be based on different requirements for different services, such as Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Communication (URLLC) and Enhanced Mobile Broadband…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Nien Fang Cheng , Turgay Pamuklu , Melike Erol-Kantarci

With the advent of 5G and the research into beyond 5G (B5G) networks, a novel and very relevant research issue is how to manage the coexistence of different types of traffic, each with very stringent but completely different requirements.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-16 Fabio Saggese , Luca Pasqualini , Marco Moretti , Andrea Abrardo