2026 September - 40 articles
The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) remains the de facto standard for monitoring corporate networks. However, many devices lack support for its latest version, and common administrator misconfigurations expose organizations to severe securi...
Correct packet delivery does not guarantee correct semantic interpretation when endpoint meanings for the same learned codeword diverge. CoSMA DAI is proposed for mismatch detection, protected confirmation, task preservation and semantic repair. Chan...
Frequency-hopping spread spectrum (FHSS) information and communication systems are widely used to enhance the resilience of wireless networks to interference. The effectiveness of traditional algorithms is significantly reduced in the presence of act...
This paper presents a measurement-driven study of end-to-end latency in an indoor private standalone 5G network deployed at TU Wien IFT TEC-Lab. The testbed combines pico radio units, edge computing resources, and a local 5G core to form a campus-sca...
The rapid growth of artificial intelligence applications and digital ecosystems, especially in industry, has highlighted the need for proposing new data centers. Data center siting requires consideration of many different factors including power grid...
Background: Internet of Things (IoT) deployments face complex network dependencies and persistent data limitations that constrain machine learning (ML) intrusion detection systems (IDS). Objective: To synthesise peer-reviewed machine learning IDS res...
Secure programming and secure design are often managed as separate activities, leaving a gap between architectural intent and the implementation that reaches production. This paper presents a structured conceptual synthesis of twenty core publication...
Controller placement in software-defined wide area networks (SD-WANs) is commonly optimized assuming continuously available controllers, leaving the control plane vulnerable to overload and abrupt reassignment after controller unavailability. This pa...
In current state-of-the-art intrusion detection systems (IDSs), models are trained to detect the repetitive behavior of data traffic. This leads to the problem of ignoring rare yet important attacks. To solve the problem stated above, a risk-gated se...
Artificial intelligence (AI) models are increasingly deployed in edge-deployed cyber-physical security systems for tasks encompassing monitoring, threat classification, and automated decision-making. While these models offer robust performance, their...
Direct-to-cell (D2C) non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) based on 5G technology are emerging as a key complement to terrestrial cellular networks, extending connectivity to underserved and remote areas while enabling integration with existing mobile ecos...
Post-quantum cryptography (PQC) is driven by the threat posed by quantum computers, particularly the harvest-now-decrypt-later attack. PQC aims to prepare classical systems and hardware to become resilient against quantum attacks. This research discu...
Distributed offloading systems rely on periodic broadcasts to disseminate server state, yet propagation delays inevitably leave agents operating with stale information at decision time. Staleness is typically viewed as a performance limitation that s...
The growth of cloud services and immersive applications based on extended reality (XR), including Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), and Mixed Reality (MR), imposes increasingly demanding requirements on access networks. The large-scale in...
Antenna selection is investigated as a means of reducing radio-frequency (RF) chain power in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) base stations under realistic channel state information (CSI) impairments. The study is motivated by the mismat...
The growing demand for virtual reality and immersive applications has increased interest in 360° video streaming. When viewing omnidirectional content through a head-mounted display, users observe only a limited portion of the content, i.e., the...
Fast Reroute (FRR) after link failures is essential for carrier-grade Software-Defined Networking (SDN), yet hybrid deployments remain dominated by slow legacy routing convergence. This paper presents two port-state-driven FRR mechanisms for homogene...
Civilian communication systems often fail during armed conflicts, political unrest, and large-scale Internet disruptions—precisely when reliable communication is most needed. This paper presents HERMES, a resilient hybrid communication architec...
Multi-controller deployments in Software-Defined Networking require choosing both the number of controllers and their placement on the topology. Clustering-based methods, particularly k-means, are widely used for this problem, but the topology repres...
Software-defined Networking (SDN) is a promising networking architecture that separates the control and data planes to allow flexible network management. However, the SDN architecture makes networks vulnerable to various security threats, such as Dis...
This paper develops a reliability-oriented resource-allocation framework for a single-cell uplink sparse code multiple access (SCMA) system with fixed low-projection codebook (LPCB) constellation components. Link-level SCMA–message-passing-algo...
Data Centers that implement Software-Defined Networks (SDN) are not required to employ the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP), but network hosts do. Therefore, there is a need to support this protocol without modifying the intrinsic functionality of t...
The convergence of optical burst switching (OBS) and elastic optical networks (EON) offers a promising pathway for 6G IoT backhaul. However, existing solutions treat OBS and EON separately and rely on heuristic resource allocation that fails to meet...
Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) are essential components of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), allowing communication exchanges between vehicles and road infrastructure elements. These networks face challenges from vehicular mobility, inclu...
Smart and sustainable mobility increasingly relies on distributed sensing, low-power communication technologies, and cloud-based ICT platforms. This article presents a comprehensive scientific analysis of the technological foundations of sensitized m...
Blockchain technology has introduced a rapidly expanding range of consensus mechanisms, each designed to satisfy different operational requirements related to security, scalability, decentralization, transaction throughput, and energy efficiency. Sel...
IPv4 fragmentation attacks, including tiny fragment injection, teardrop offset manipulation, and fragment flooding exploit the RFC 791 reassembly process to evade firewalls and network intrusion detection systems (NIDSs). Detection is challenging bec...
As climate and societal challenges intensify, achieving sustainable development requires a holistic approach that balances economic growth with environmental preservation and social equity. The United Nations’ 2030 Agenda outlines 17 Sustainabl...
The recent advances in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) can have a tremendous positive impact on vehicle safety and traffic flow. In VANETs, vehicles communicate wirelessly with each other and with roadside infrastructure nodes to improve awareness...
Modern communication networks require routing protocols that can adapt to dynamic traffic conditions while accounting for topology-based structural risk. Conventional open shortest path first (OSPF) relies on static or linear link cost metrics, which...
The post-quantum signature scheme SQIsign achieves extremely compact public keys and signatures, making it attractive for bandwidth-constrained environments. However, its signing efficiency is limited by the high random failure rate of the ideal-to-i...
Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for privacy-preserving edge intelligence because it enables geographically distributed devices to collaboratively train a shared model without transferring raw data to a central cloud. This...
The internet of things (IoT) has rapidly evolved into a ubiquitous communication paradigm for enabling the deployment of autonomous wireless networks across diverse application domains. However, the limited energy storage capacity and computational r...
IoT networks now handle traffic from billions of devices, and edge nodes are under constant pressure to classify that traffic and dispatch tasks within tight latency deadlines. Most existing systems treat classification and scheduling as two separate...
Long-Range Wide-Area Networks (LoRaWANs) combine long-range and low-power communication, making them a key technology for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. This systematic mapping study provides a comprehensive analysis of research on LoRaWAN ne...
Firewall rule ordering aims to improve packet filtering efficiency while preserving the dependency constraints that guarantee the intended security behavior of the policy. Existing approaches often rely either on local criteria, such as rule frequenc...
Path loss modeling is essential for the design, analysis, and applications (e.g., localization) of low-power wide-area networks (LPWANs). Conventional models typically rely on coarse regional land cover classifications (e.g., urban or suburban), whic...
The deployment of 5G technology represents a significant advancement in telecommunications, offering unprecedented speed, connectivity, and innovation opportunities. However, this progress comes at a significant cost for Public Land Mobile Network (P...
Secure and trustworthy data exchange across distributed data sources remains a major challenge in the health domain, where strict legal, regulatory, and privacy requirements must be satisfied. Data space technologies provide a promising approach to e...
Cyber-physical smart infrastructures integrate sensing devices, communication networks, control components, and service platforms, which makes them vulnerable to malicious activities that may evolve gradually through several attack stages. The object...
