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Multipathing in communication networks is gaining momentum due to its attractive features of increased reliability, throughput, fault tolerance, and load balancing capabilities. In particular, wireless environments and datacenters are…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-01-25 Sana Habib , Junaid Qadir , Anwaar Ali , Durdana Habib , Ming Li , Arjuna Sathiaseelan

The rapid evolution of communication technologies such as 5G and beyond, rely on optical networks to support the challenging and ambitious requirements that include both capacity and reliability. This chapter begins by giving an overview of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Carmen Mas-Machuca , Lena Wosinska , Marco Ruffini , Jiajia Chen

Sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks evolve from connecting devices to connecting intelligence. The focus turns to Goal-Oriented Communications, where the effectiveness of communication is assessed through task-level objectives over…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Lorenzo Mario Amorosa , Zhan Gao , Tony Chahoud , Yiqun Wu , Lukas Eller , Marco Skocaj , Roberto Verdone

In this paper, we proposed a novel OTSS-assisted optical network architecture for smart-grid communication networks, which has unique requirements for low-latency connections. Illustrative results show that, OTSS can provide extremely…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Zhizhen Zhong , Nan Hua , Zhu Liu , Wenjing Li , Yanhe Li , Xiaoping Zheng

Relying on the flexible-access interconnects to the scalable storage and compute resources, data centers deliver critical communications connectivity among numerous servers to support the housed applications and services. To provide the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Xuwei Xue , Shaojuan Zhang , Bingli Guo , Wei Ji , Rui Yin , Bin Chen , Shanguo Huang

In this paper, we study the influence of technology, traffic properties and price trends on optimized design of a reference IP-over-WDM network with rich underlying fiber topology. In each network node, we investigate the optimal degree of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-08-07 Ulrich Menne , Christian Raack , Roland Wessaly , Daniel Kharitonov

Efficient switching and routing of photons of different wavelengths is a requirement for realizing a quantum internet. Multimode optomechanical systems can solve this technological challenge and enable studies of fundamental science…

Optics · Physics 2020-06-02 David P. Lake , Matthew Mitchell , Barry C. Sanders , Paul E. Barclay

This paper presents the design of scalable quantum networks that utilize optical switches to interconnect multiple quantum processors, facilitating large-scale quantum computing. By leveraging these novel architectures, we aim to address…

Optical nonreciprocity and routing using optocal microcavities draw much atttention in recent years. Here, we report the results of the study on the nonreciprocity and routing using optomechanical multimode interference in an optical…

Optics · Physics 2021-05-19 Hong Yang , Guo-Qing Qin , Hao Zhang , Xuan Mao , Min Wang , Gui-Lu Long

Data center networks are experiencing unprecedented exponential growth, mostly driven by the continuous computing demands in machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms. Within this realm, optical networking offers numerous…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Zhenyun Xie , David Sánchez-Jácome , Luis Torrijos-Morán , Daniel Pérez-López

Fundus photography and Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography (OCT-A) are two commonly used modalities in ophthalmic imaging. With the development of deep learning algorithms, fundus image processing, especially retinal vessel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-07 Weilin Fu , Lennart Husvogt , Stefan Ploner James G. Fujimoto Andreas Maier

Rail-optimized network fabrics have become the de facto datacenter scale-out fabric for large-scale ML training. However, the use of high-radix electrical switches to provide all-to-all connectivity in rails imposes massive power, cost, and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Eric Ding , Chuhan Ouyang , Rachee Singh

Retrieving occlusion relation among objects in a single image is challenging due to sparsity of boundaries in image. We observe two key issues in existing works: firstly, lack of an architecture which can exploit the limited amount of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Panhe Feng , Qi She , Lei Zhu , Jiaxin Li , Lin Zhang , Zijian Feng , Changhu Wang , Chunpeng Li , Xuejing Kang , Anlong Ming

Traditional approaches to interpolate/extrapolate frames in a video sequence require accurate pixel correspondences between images, e.g., using optical flow. Their results stem on the accuracy of optical flow estimation, and could generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Zhe Hu , Yinglan Ma , Lizhuang Ma

With the surge in IoT devices ranging from wearables to smart homes, prompt transmission is crucial. The Age of Information (AoI) emerges as a critical metric in this context, representing the freshness of the information transmitted across…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Aymen Hamrouni , Sofie Pollin , Hazem Sallouha

Recent work showed that hybrid networks, which combine predefined and learnt filters within a single architecture, are more amenable to theoretical analysis and less prone to overfitting in data-limited scenarios. However, their performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Dmitry Minskiy , Miroslaw Bober

Pervasive applications over large-scale, distributed embedded devices and the Internet of Things (IoT) demand precise coordination with the network; for example, several such applications, like collaborative video streaming and live…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Argha Sen , Ayan Zunaid , Soumyajit Chatterjee , Basabdatta Palit , Sandip Chakraborty

Operating Systems are built upon a set of abstractions to provide resource management and programming APIs for common functionality, such as synchronization, communication, protection, and I/O. The process abstraction is the bridge across…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Rodrigo Siqueira , Nelson Lago , Fabio Kon , Dejan Milojičić

U-Net has become one of the state-of-the-art deep learning-based approaches for modern computer vision tasks such as semantic segmentation, super resolution, image denoising, and inpainting. Previous extensions of U-Net have focused mainly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Tiange Xiang , Chaoyi Zhang , Dongnan Liu , Yang Song , Heng Huang , Weidong Cai

Filterless optical transport networks relies on passive optical interconnections between nodes, i.e., on splitters/couplers and amplifiers. While different studies have investigated their design, none of them offer a solution for an optimal…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Brigitte Jaumard , Yan Wang