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Cooperative UAV networks are becoming increasingly popular in military and civilian applications. Alas, the typical ad-hoc routing protocols, which aim at finding the shortest path, lead to significant performance degradation because of the…
In accommodating the continued explosive growth in Internet traffic, optical core networks have been evolving accordingly thanks to numerous technological and architectural innovations. From an architectural perspective, the adoption of…
This paper proposes a set of technological solutions to transform existing transport systems into more intelligent, interactive systems by utilizing optimization and control methods that can be implemented in the near future. This will…
This paper studies a survivable traffic grooming problem in large-scale optical transport networks under double-link failures (STG2). Each communication demand must be assigned a route for every possible scenario involving zero, one, or two…
Among various aspects in optical network architectures, handling transit traffic at intermediate nodes represents a defining characteristic for classification. In this context, the transition from the first generation of…
Efficient network management in optical backbone networks is crucial for handling continuous traffic growth. In this work, we address the challenges of managing dynamic traffic in C- and C+L-band optical backbone networks while exploring…
Beyond 5G networks are expected to support massive traffic through decentralized solutions and advanced networking mechanisms. This paper aims at contributing towards this vision through the integration of device-centric wireless networks,…
Effective motion planning in high dimensional spaces is a long-standing open problem in robotics. One class of traditional motion planning algorithms corresponds to potential-based motion planning. An advantage of potential based motion…
We study informative path planning (IPP) with travel budgets in cluttered environments, where an agent collects measurements of a latent field modeled as a Gaussian process (GP) to reduce uncertainty at target locations. Graph-based solvers…
Offloading traffic through opportunistic communications has been recently proposed as a way to relieve the current overload of cellular networks. Opportunistic communication can occur when mobile device users are (temporarily) in each…
With the electrification in freight transportation, the availability of fast-charging facilities becomes essential to facilitate en-route charging for freight electric vehicles. Most studies focus on planning charging facilities based on…
Machine learning methods are increasingly adopted in communications problems, particularly those arising in next generation wireless settings. Though seen as a key climate mitigation and societal adaptation enabler, communications related…
In this paper, proactive resource allocation based on user location for point-to-point communication over fading channels is introduced, whereby the source must transmit a packet when the user requests it within a deadline of a single time…
As efficient traffic-management platforms, public vehicle (PV) systems are envisioned to be a promising approach to solving traffic congestions and pollutions for future smart cities. PV systems provide online/dynamic peer-to-peer…
To meet the increasing demand for wireless capacity, future networks are likely to consist of dense layouts of small cells. The number of users in each cell is thus reduced which results in diminished gains from opportunistic scheduling,…
We propose an all-optical networking solution for a wide area network (WAN) based on the notion of multipoint-to-multipoint lightpaths that, for short, we call "multipaths". A multipath concentrates the traffic of a group of source nodes on…
This paper introduces the novel concept of proactive resource allocation in which the predictability of user behavior is exploited to balance the wireless traffic over time, and hence, significantly reduce the bandwidth required to achieve…
Flexible optical network is a promising technology to accommodate high-capacity demands in next-generation networks. To ensure uninterrupted communication, existing lightpath provisioning schemes are mainly done with the assumption of…
The development of next-generation networks is revolutionizing network operators' management and orchestration practices worldwide. The critical services supported by these networks require increasingly stringent performance requirements,…
Future fifth-generation (5G) cellular networks, equipped with energy harvesting devices, are uniquely positioned to closely interoperate with smart grid. New interoperable functionalities are discussed in stochastic two-way energy trading…