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In this paper, we develop a knowledge-assisted deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithm to design wireless schedulers in the fifth-generation (5G) cellular networks with time-sensitive traffic. Since the scheduling policy is a…

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Dynamic spectrum slicing is a critical enabler for 6G Radio Access Networks (RANs), allowing the coexistence of heterogeneous services. However, optimizing resource allocation in dense, interference-limited deployments remains challenging…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Hossein Mohammadi , Seyed Bagher Hashemi Natanzi , Ramak Nassiri , Jamshid Hassanpour , Bo Tang , Vuk Marojevic

Network slicing is one of the major catalysts to turn future telecommunication networks into versatile service platforms. Along with its benefits, network slicing is introducing new challenges in the development of sustainable network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Hnin Pann Phyu , Diala Naboulsi , Razvan Stanica , Gwenael Poitau

Network slicing is a fundamental feature of 5G systems to partition a single network into a number of segregated logical networks, each optimized for a particular type of service, or dedicated to a particular customer or application. The…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-15 K. Koutlia , R. Ferrus , E. Coronado , R. Riggio , F. Casadevall , A. Umbert , J. Perez-Romero

Network slicing is essential for transforming future telecommunication networks into versatile service platforms, but it also presents challenges for sustainable network operations. While meeting the requirements of network slices incurs…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Hnin Pann Phyu , Razvan Stanica , Diala Naboulsi , Gwenael Poitau

Vehicle platooning, one of the advanced services supported by 5G NR-V2X, improves traffic efficiency in the connected intelligent transportation systems (C-ITSs). However, the packet delivery ratio of platoon communication, especially in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Liu Cao , Hao Yin

The rapid growth of heterogeneous and massive wireless connectivity in 6G networks demands intelligent solutions to ensure scalability, reliability, privacy, ultra-low latency, and effective control. Although artificial intelligence (AI)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Eslam Eldeeb , Hirley Alves

Network Slicing (NS) is crucial for efficiently enabling divergent network applications in next generation networks. Nonetheless, the complex Quality of Service (QoS) requirements and diverse heterogeneity in network services entails high…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Chien-Cheng Wu , Vasilis Friderikos , Cedomir Stefanovic

The existing segment routing (SR) methods need to determine the routing first and then use path segmentation approaches to select swap nodes to form a segment routing path (SRP). They require re-segmentation of the path when the routing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Miao Ye , Jihao Zheng , Qiuxiang Jiang , Yuan Huang , Ziheng Wang , Yong Wang

The notions of softwarization and virtualization of the radio access network (RAN) of next-generation (5G) wireless systems are ushering in a vision where applications and services are physically decoupled from devices and network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Salvatore D'Oro , Francesco Restuccia , Alessandro Talamonti , Tommaso Melodia

The advancements of machine learning-based (ML) decision-making algorithms created various research and industrial opportunities. One of these areas is ML-based near-real-time network management applications (xApps) in Open-Radio Access…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Hakan Erdol , Xiaoyang Wang , Robert Piechocki , George Oikonomou , Arjun Parekh

In this article, we study a Radio Resource Allocation (RRA) that was formulated as a non-convex optimization problem whose main aim is to maximize the spectral efficiency subject to satisfaction guarantees in multiservice wireless systems.…

The fog radio access network (F-RAN) is a promising technology in which the user mobile devices (MDs) can offload computation tasks to the nearby fog access points (F-APs). Due to the limited resource of F-APs, it is important to design an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Lingling Zhang , Yanxiang Jiang , Fu-Chun Zheng , Mehdi Bennis , Xiaohu You

The Network Slicing (NS) paradigm enables the partition of physical and virtual resources among multiple logical networks, possibly managed by different tenants. In such a scenario, network resources need to be dynamically allocated…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Federico Mason , Gianfranco Nencioni , Andrea Zanella

Next-generation (NextG) cellular networks are designed to support emerging applications with diverse data rate and latency requirements, such as immersive multimedia services and large-scale Internet of Things deployments. A key enabling…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Deemah H. Tashman , Soumaya Cherkaoui

Novel applications demand high throughput, low latency, and high reliability connectivity and still pose significant challenges to slicing orchestration architectures. The literature explores network slicing techniques that employ canonical…

Artificial intelligence (AI)-driven zero-touch network slicing is envisaged as a promising cutting-edge technology to harness the full potential of heterogeneous 5G and beyond 5G (B5G) communication systems and enable the automation of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Farhad Rezazadeh , Hatim Chergui , Christos Verikoukis

In the past few years, Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has become a valuable solution to automatically learn efficient resource management strategies in complex networks. In many scenarios, the learning task is performed in the Cloud,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Seyyidahmed Lahmer , Federico Chiariotti , Andrea Zanella

Network slicing is an effective 5G concept for improved resource utilization and service scalability tailored to users (UEs) requirements. According to the standardization, 5G system should support UEs through specification of its…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Sharvari Ravindran , Saptarshi Chaudhuri , Jyotsna Bapat , Debabrata Das

In distributed optimization, the practical problem-solving performance is essentially sensitive to algorithm selection, parameter setting, problem type and data pattern. Thus, it is often laborious to acquire a highly efficient method for a…

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