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Content caching at the edge nodes is a promising technique to reduce the data traffic in next-generation wireless networks. Inspired by the success of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) in solving complicated control problems, this work…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-22 Chen Zhong , M. Cenk Gursoy , Senem Velipasalar

Collaborative Intrusion Detection Systems (CIDS) are increasingly adopted to counter cyberattacks, as their collaborative nature enables them to adapt to diverse scenarios across heterogeneous environments. As distributed critical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-13 André García Gómez , Ines Rieger , Wolfgang Hotwagner , Max Landauer , Markus Wurzenberger , Florian Skopik , Edgar Weippl

The rapid development of blockchain technology has driven the widespread application of decentralized applications (DApps) across various fields. However, DApps cannot directly access external data and rely on oracles to interact with…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Hengyang Zhang , Shike Li , Hang Bao , Sixing Wu , Jianbin Li

Web3 technologies have experienced unprecedented growth in the last decade, achieving widespread adoption. As various blockchain networks continue to evolve, we are on the cusp of a paradigm shift in which they could provide services…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Khalid Hassan , Amirreza Sokhankhosh , Sara Rouhani

Blockchains enables tamper-proof, ordered logging for transactional data in a decentralized manner over open-access, overlay peer-to-peer networks. In this paper, we propose a decentralized framework of proactive caching in a hierarchical…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Wenbo Wang , Dusit Niyato , Ping Wang , Amir Leshem

With the continuous development of web technology, Web3.0 has attracted a considerable amount of attention due to its unique decentralized characteristics. The digital economy is an important driver of high-quality economic development and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Chuan Chen , Lei Zhang , Yihao Li , Tianchi Liao , Siran Zhao , Zibin Zheng , Huawei Huang , Jiajing Wu

Although the decentralized storage technology based on the blockchain can effectively realize secure data storage on cloud services. However, there are still some problems in the existing schemes, such as low storage capacity and low…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Zijian Zhou , Caimei Wang , Xiaoheng Deng , Jianhao Lu , Qilue Wen , Chen Zhang , Hong Li

This paper proposes a blockchain-secured deep reinforcement learning (BC-DRL) optimization framework for {data management and} resource allocation in decentralized {wireless mobile edge computing (MEC)} networks. In our framework, {we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Xin Hao , Phee Lep Yeoh , Changyang She , Branka Vucetic , Yonghui Li

Load balancing is critical for distributed storage to meet strict service-level objectives (SLOs). It has been shown that a fast cache can guarantee load balancing for a clustered storage system. However, when the system scales out to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Zaoxing Liu , Zhihao Bai , Zhenming Liu , Xiaozhou Li , Changhoon Kim , Vladimir Braverman , Xin Jin , Ion Stoica

Wider coverage and a better solution to a latency reduction in 5G necessitate its combination with multi-access edge computing (MEC) technology. Decentralized deep learning (DDL) such as federated learning and swarm learning as a promising…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Yuwei Sun , Hideya Ochiai , Hiroshi Esaki

The importance of cloud computing has grown over the last years, which resulted in a significant increase of Data Center (DC) network requirements. Virtualisation is one of the key drivers of that transformation and enables a massive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Igor Ivkić , Dominik Thiede , Nicholas Race , Matthew Broadbent , Antonios Gouglidis

The rapid adoption of large language models (LLMs) is pushing AI accelerators toward increasingly powerful and specialized designs. Instead of further complicating software development with deeply hierarchical scratchpad memories (SPMs) and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Zhongchun Zhou , Chengtao Lai , Yuhang Gu , Wei Zhang

Decentralized learning (DL) is an emerging paradigm of collaborative machine learning that enables nodes in a network to train models collectively without sharing their raw data or relying on a central server. This paper introduces Zip-DL,…

Web caches play a crucial role in web performance and scalability. However, detecting cached responses is challenging when web servers do not reliably communicate the cache status through standardized headers. This paper presents a novel…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Matteo Golinelli , Bruno Crispo

Significant latency in global content delivery primarily arises from insufficient terrestrial infrastructure. Deploying space-based content delivery networks within emerging mega-constellations provides an effective means to bridge the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-29 Haoyang Shi , Xing Zhang , Sitong Li , Minghang Li , Xinming Lu , Shaoxiang Xu , Guoquan Wang

With the advent of 5G networks and the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT), Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) are increasingly extending into the network edge. This shift introduces unique challenges, particularly due to the limited cache…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Hoda Torabi , Hamzeh Khazaei , Marin Litoiu

This paper considers a two-hop network architecture known as a combination network, where a layer of relay nodes connects a server to a set of end users. In particular, a new model is investigated where the intermediate relays employ caches…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-14 Ahmed A. Zewail , Aylin Yener

This paper proposes a hierarchical deep reinforcement learning (DRL) framework based on the soft actor-critic (SAC) algorithm for hybrid underlay-overlay cognitive Internet of Things (CIoT) networks with simultaneous wireless information…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-17 Nadia Abdolkhani , Walaa Hamouda

In a secure coded caching system, a central server balances the traffic flow between peak and off-peak periods by distributing some public data to the users' caches in advance. Meanwhile, these data are securely protected against the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Kangning Ma , Shuo Shao

We study the problem of optimizing the cost of content delivery in a cooperative network of caches at end-nodes. The caches could be, for example, within the computers of users downloading videos from websites (such as Netflix, Blockbuster…

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