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The integration of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) into Open Radio Access Networks (O-RAN) enhances communication in disaster management and Search and Rescue (SAR) operations by ensuring connectivity when infrastructure fails. However, SAR…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Zaineh Abughazzah , Emna Baccour , Loay Ismail , Amr Mohamed , Mounir Hamdi

Quantum computing networks enable scalable collaboration and secure information exchange among multiple classical and quantum computing nodes while executing large-scale generative AI computation tasks and advanced quantum algorithms.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Minrui Xu , Dusit Niyato , Jiawen Kang , Zehui Xiong , Yuan Cao , Yulan Gao , Chao Ren , Han Yu

The heterogeneous cloud radio access network (Cloud-RAN) provides a revolutionary way to densify radio access networks. It enables centralized coordination and signal processing for efficient interference management and flexible network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Yuanming Shi , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief , Bo Bai , Wei Chen

One of the most challenging services fifth-generation (5G) mobile network is designed to support, is the critical services in-need of very low latency, and/or high reliability. It is now clear that such critical services will also be at the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Ali Esmaeily , Katina Kralevska , Toktam Mahmoodi

Cellular communications are evolving to facilitate the current and expected increasing needs of Quality of Service (QoS), high data rates and diversity of offered services. Towards this direction, Radio Access Network (RAN) virtualization…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-09-01 Georgia Tseliou , Ferran Adelantado , Christos Verikoukis

Advanced wireless networks must support highly dynamic and heterogeneous service demands. Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) architecture enables this flexibility by adopting modular, disaggregated components, such as the RAN Intelligent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Fatemeh Lotfi , Hossein Rajoli , Fatemeh Afghah

Open radio access networks (e.g., O-RAN) facilitate fine-grained control (e.g., near-RT RIC) in next-generation networks, necessitating advanced AI/ML techniques in handling online resource orchestration in real-time. However, existing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Ming Zhao , Yuru Zhang , Qiang Liu , Ahan Kak , Nakjung Choi

Network slicing is a key enabler for 5G to support various applications. Slices requested by service providers (SPs) have heterogeneous quality of service (QoS) requirements, such as latency, throughput, and jitter. It is imperative that…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Muhammad Sulaiman , Mahdieh Ahmadi , Mohammad A. Salahuddin , Raouf Boutaba , Aladdin Saleh

The future mobile network has the complex mission of distributing available radio resources among various applications with different requirements. The radio access network slicing enables the creation of different logical networks by…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Cleverson Nahum , Salvatore D'Oro , Pedro Batista , Cristiano Both , Kleber Cardoso , Aldebaro Klautau , Tommaso Melodia

Open-radio access network (O-RAN) seeks to establish the principles of openness, programmability, automation, intelligence, and hardware-software disaggregation with interoperable and standard-compliant interfaces. It advocates for…

Implications of the advancements in the area of artificial intelligence to the wireless communications is extremely significant, especially in terms of resource management. In this paper, a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)-empowered…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Onur Salan , Burak Çırağ , Onur Sever , İbrahim Hökelek , Ali Görçin , Hakan Ali Çırpan

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

An important novelty of 5G is its role in transforming the industrial production into Industry 4.0. Specifically, Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Communications (URLLC) will, in many cases, enable replacement of cables with wireless connections…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-31 Anders Ellersgaard Kalør , René Guillaume , Jimmy Jessen Nielsen , Andreas Mueller , Petar Popovski

The 5G systems will feature three generic services: enhanced Mobile BroadBand (eMBB), massive Machine-Type Communications (mMTC) and Ultra-Reliable and Low-Latency Communications (URLLC). The diverse requirements of these services in terms…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-13 Eduardo Noboro Tominaga , Hirley Alves , Richard Demo Souza , João Luiz Rebelatto , Matti Latva-Aho

Network slicing has been introduced in 5G/6G networks to address the challenge of providing new services with different and sometimes conflicting requirements. With SDN and NFV technologies being used in the design of 5G and 6G wireless…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Zeinab Sasan , Siavash Khorsandi

Low latency communication is one of the fundamental requirements for 5G wireless networks and beyond. In this paper, a novel approach for joint caching, user scheduling and resource allocation is proposed for minimizing the queuing latency…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Tamoor-ul-Hassan Syed , Samarakoon Sumudu , Bennis Mehdi , Matti Latva-aho

As wireless networks grow to support more complex applications, the Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) architecture, with its smart RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) modules, becomes a crucial solution for real-time network data collection,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Fatemeh Lotfi , Fatemeh Afghah

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) and Open Radio Access Networks (ORAN) are transformative technologies in the development of next-generation wireless communication systems. MEC pushes computational resources closer to end-users, enabling low…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Ryan Barker , Tolunay Seyfi , Fatemeh Afghah

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

Modern RAN operate in highly dynamic and heterogeneous environments, where hand-tuned, rule-based RRM algorithms often underperform. While RL can surpass such heuristics in constrained settings, the diversity of deployments and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Burak Demirel , Yu Wang , Cristian Tatino , Pablo Soldati