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With the introduction of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, the automation industry is undergoing significant changes, particularly in improving production efficiency and reducing maintenance costs.…
Time-sensitive networking (TSN) is expected to be a key component of critical machine-type communication networks in areas such as Industry 4.0, robotics and autonomous vehicles. With rising mobility requirements in industrial applications…
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Deterministic communications are essential to meet the stringent delay and jitter requirements of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) services. IIoT increasingly demands wide-area wireless mobility to support Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR)…
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It is well known that biology-inspired self-maintaining algorithms in wireless sensor nodes achieve near optimum time division multiple access (TDMA) characteristics in a decentralized manner and with very low complexity. We extend such…
We consider the sequential transmission of a stream of messages over a block-fading multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) channel. A new message arrives at the beginning of each coherence block, and the decoder is required to output each message…
In this paper, a comprehensive software-defined networking (SDN) based transmission protocol (SDTP) is presented for fifth generation (5G) communication networks, where an SDN controller gathers network state information from the physical…
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This study proposes a novel approach for dynamic load balancing in Software-Defined Networks (SDNs) using a Transformer-based Deep Q-Network (DQN). Traditional load balancing mechanisms, such as Round Robin (RR) and Weighted Round Robin…