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Network, Volume 6, Issue 1

2026 March - 13 articles

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Articles (13)

  • Article
  • Open Access

Forecasting-Aware Digital Twin Calibration for Reliable Multi-Horizon Traffic Prediction

  • Zeyad AlJundi,
  • Taqwa A. Alhaj,
  • Fatin A. Elhaj,
  • Inshirah Idris and
  • Tasneem Darwish

6 March 2026

Digital twin systems are becoming an important tool in intelligent transportation management, as they provide simulation-based environments for monitoring, analyzing, and predicting traffic behavior. However, the predictive performance of traffic dig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
219 Views
20 Pages

Satellite Backhaul for Extending Connectivity in Rural Remote Areas: Deployment and Performance Assessment

  • Souhaima Stiri,
  • Maria Rita Palattella,
  • Juan David Niebles Castano and
  • Christos Politis

24 February 2026

Limited terrestrial network coverage in rural and remote areas constitutes a significant barrier to the digital transformation of the agricultural sector. Smart and precision farming applications, ranging from conventional environmental monitoring sy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
290 Views
32 Pages

Beyond Attention: Hierarchical Mamba Models for Scalable Spatiotemporal Traffic Forecasting

  • Zineddine Bettouche,
  • Khalid Ali,
  • Andreas Fischer and
  • Andreas Kassler

13 February 2026

Traffic forecasting in cellular networks is a challenging spatiotemporal prediction problem due to strong temporal dependencies, spatial heterogeneity across cells, and the need for scalability to large network deployments. Traditional cell-specific...

  • Article
  • Open Access
388 Views
19 Pages

Round-Trip Time Estimation Using Enhanced Regularized Extreme Learning Machine

  • Hassan Rizky Putra Sailellah,
  • Hilal Hudan Nuha and
  • Aji Gautama Putrada

29 January 2026

Reliable Internet connectivity is essential for latency-sensitive services such as video conferencing, media streaming, and online gaming. Round-trip time (RTT) is a key indicator of network performance and is central to setting retransmission timeou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
378 Views
53 Pages

29 January 2026

Network operators increasingly rely on abstracted telemetry (e.g., flow records and time-aggregated statistics) to achieve scalable monitoring of high-speed networks, but this abstraction fundamentally constrains the forensic and security inferences...

  • Article
  • Open Access
197 Views
18 Pages

29 January 2026

Devices equipped with the Global Positioning System (GPS) generate massive volumes of trajectory data on a daily basis, imposing substantial computational, network, and storage burdens. Online trajectory simplification reduces redundant points in a s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
472 Views
22 Pages

14 January 2026

In recent years, with the improvement of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) performance, various applications have been explored. In environments such as disaster areas, where existing infrastructure may be damaged, alternative uplink communication for tr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
441 Views
30 Pages

Securing IoT Networks Using Machine Learning-Resistant Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) on Edge Devices

  • Abdul Manan Sheikh,
  • Md. Rafiqul Islam,
  • Mohamed Hadi Habaebi,
  • Suriza Ahmad Zabidi,
  • Athaur Rahman bin Najeeb and
  • Mazhar Baloch

12 January 2026

The Internet of Things (IoT) has transformed global connectivity by linking people, smart devices, and data. However, as the number of connected devices continues to grow, ensuring secure data transmission and communication has become increasingly ch...

  • Article
  • Open Access
397 Views
25 Pages

Enhanced Wireless Sensor Network Lifetime Using EGWO-Optimized Neural Network Approach

  • Mohamad Nurkamal Fauzan,
  • Rendy Munadi,
  • Sony Sumaryo and
  • Hilal Hudan Nuha

4 January 2026

Efficient clustering is essential for reducing energy consumption and extending the operational lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks. Classical protocols such as LEACH, PEGASIS, HEED, and EEHC frequently exhibit unbalanced energy usage, resulting in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
476 Views
16 Pages

31 December 2025

One of the main sources of entertainment is live video streaming platforms, which allow viewers to watch video streams in real time. However, because of the increasing demand for high quality content, the vulnerability of streaming systems against cy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
581 Views
26 Pages

Adaptive Real-Time Risk and Impact Assessment for 5G Network Security

  • Dionysia Varvarigou,
  • Kostas Lampropoulos,
  • Spyros Denazis and
  • Paris Kitsos

24 December 2025

The expansion of 5G networks has led to larger attack surfaces due to more applications and use cases, more IoT connections, and the distributed 5G system architecture. Existing security frameworks often lack the ability to perform real-time, context...

  • Review
  • Open Access
697 Views
34 Pages

24 December 2025

Underwater networks are crucial for monitoring the marine ecosystem, enabling data collection to support the preservation and protection of natural resources. Among the various technologies available, acoustic and optical communications stand out for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
403 Views
25 Pages

Authentication and Authorisation Method for a Cloud Side Static IoT Application

  • Jose Alvarez,
  • Matheus Santos,
  • David May and
  • Gerard Dooly

19 December 2025

IoT applications are increasingly common, yet they often rely on expensive, externally managed authentication services. This paper introduces a novel, self-contained authentication method for IoT applications which leverages fog computing principles...

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