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Sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks must support heterogeneous services: enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB) requiring 1 Tbps data rates, massive Machine-Type Communications (mMTC) supporting 10 million devices per km, and Ultra-Reliable…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Daniel Benniah John

Open radio access network (ORAN) Alliance offers a disaggregated RAN functionality built using open interface specifications between blocks. To efficiently support various competing services, \textit{namely} enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-18 Fatemeh Kavehmadavani , Van-Dinh Nguyen , Thang X. Vu , Symeon Chatzinotas

The full-scale 6G standardization has attracted considerable recent attention, especially since the first 3GPP-wide 6G workshop held in March 2025. To understand the practical and fundamental values of 6G and facilitate its standardization,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Junyi Jiang , Wei Chen , Xin Guo , Shenghui Song , Ying Jun , Zhang , Zhu Han , Merouane Debbah , Khaled B. Letaief

Large-scale distributed antenna systems with many access points (APs) that serve the users by coherent joint transmission is being considered for 5G-and-beyond networks. The technology is called Cell-free Massive MIMO and can provide a more…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Trinh Van Chien , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

The ubiquitous expansion and transformation of the energy supply system involves large-scale power infrastructure construction projects. In the view of investments of more than a million dollars per kilometre, planning authorities aim to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-02 Nina Wiedemann , David Adjiashvili

Smart Radio Environment (SRE) is a central paradigms in 6G and beyond, where integrating SRE components into the network planning process enables optimized performance for high-frequency Radio Access Network (RAN). This paper presents a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Reza Aghazadeh Ayoubi , Eugenio Moro , Marouan Mizmizi , Dario Tagliaferri , Ilario Filippini , Umberto Spagnolini

The 5G system has finally begun commercialization, and now is the time to start discussing the road map for the 6G system. While the 5G system was designed with a focus on discovering new service types for high speed, low-latency, and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Hyunsoo Kim , Taehyung Kim , Hyejin Kim , Insik Jung , Hakkeon Lee , Hyunmin Seo , Daesik Hong

This white paper explores the road to implementing broadband connectivity in future 6G wireless systems. Different categories of use cases are considered, from extreme capacity with peak data rates up to 1 Tbps, to raising the typical data…

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…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-10-07 Davide Cuda , Raluca-Maria Indre , Esther Le Rouzic , James Roberts

Fifth-generation (5G) systems are increasingly studied as shared communication and computing infrastructure for connected vehicles, roadside edge platforms, and future unmanned-system applications. Yet results from simulators, host-OS…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Ryan Barker , Tolunay Seyfi , Alireza Ebrahimi Dorcheh , Julia Boone , Fatemeh Afghah , Joseph Boccuzzi

The envisioned 6G networks are expected to support extremely high data rates, low-latency, and radically new applications empowered by machine learning. The futuristic 6G networks require a novel framework that can be used to operate,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Muhammad Tariq , Faisal Naeem , H. Vincent Poor

The first 6G standardization efforts are about to start, shaping the new generation of mobile networks. The IMT-2030 extends the IMT-2020 by expanding its usage scenarios to Immersive, Massive, and Hyper-Reliable and Low-Latency…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Federico Tonini , Davide Borsatti , Wint Yi Poe , Riccardo Trivisonno , Walter Cerroni

We propose an integrated architecture combining Software-Defined Wireless Mesh Networks (SDWMN), Direct-to-Mobile (D2M) broadcasting, and Kafka-based hybrid cloud streaming to improve wireless network performance in both urban and rural…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Pavel Malinovskiy

In this paper, the potential benefits of applying non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technique in $K$-tier hybrid heterogeneous networks (HetNets) is explored. A promising new transmission framework is proposed, in which NOMA is adopted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-10 Yuanwei Liu , Zhijin Qin , Maged Elkashlan , Arumugam Nallanathan , Julie A. McCann

The transition towards the sixth-generation (6G) wireless telecommunications networks introduces significant challenges for researchers and industry stakeholders. The 6G technology aims to enhance existing usage scenarios through supporting…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Afsoon Alidadi Shamsabadi , Animesh Yadav , Yasser Gadallah , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Despite numerous advantages, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technique can bring additional interference for the neighboring ultra-dense networks if the power consumption of the system is not properly optimized. While targeting on the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Rukhsana Ruby , Shuxin Zhong , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Kaishun Wu , Victor C. M. Leung

Massive communication is one of key scenarios of 6G where two magnitude higher connection density would be required to serve diverse services. As a promising direction, unsourced multiple access has been proved to outperform significantly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Yifei Yuan , Yuhong Huang , Chunlin Yan , Sen Wang , Shuai Ma , Xiaodong Shen

Wi-Fi networks have long relied on the Enhanced Distributed Channel Access (EDCA) mechanism, allowing stations to compete for transmission opportunities. However, as networks become denser and emerging applications demand lower latency and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Douglas Dziedzorm Agbeve , Andrey Belogaev , Jeroen Famaey

Current network access infrastructures are characterized by heterogeneity, low latency, high throughput, and high computational capability, enabling massive concurrent connections and various services. Unfortunately, this design does not…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Nhu-Ngoc Dao , Quoc-Viet Pham , Ngo Hoang Tu , Tran Thien Thanh , Vo Nguyen Quoc Bao , Demeke Shumeye Lakew , Sungrae Cho

The rapid adoption of large language models and multimodal foundation models has made multimodal data preparation pipelines critical AI infrastructure. These pipelines interleave CPU-heavy preprocessing with accelerator-backed (GPU/NPU/TPU)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Ding Pan , Zhuangzhuang Zhou , Long Qian , Binhang Yuan