Advances in Routing and Scheduling Technology for Data Communications

Dear Colleagues,

Routing and scheduling technology serves as a building block in various types of networks, such as space–air–ground integrated networks, wireless sensor networks, and data center networks. The efficiency of a routing and scheduling scheme  significantly affects the quality of service (QoS) say delay, jitter, throughput and efficiency of resource utilization. However, the rapid evolution of network technologies and the increasing demand for efficient data transfer and processing makes it challenging to design an efficient routing and scheduling scheme as follows:

• For the terrestrial Internet, researchers only need to take care of the bandwidth and buffer resources in a static topology to design the data delivery schemes. However, some newly emerging networks, i.e., NTN, can have time-varying topologies, and the nodes in such networks often have limited resources (e.g., energy). Traditional schemes might no longer be suitable for such networks with time-varying topologies and limited resources.
• Newly emerging applications require different QoS demands for data delivery from traditional applications. For instance, the VR/AR data delivery tasks can require periodical and high-throughput transmission with deterministic end-to-end delay. Moreover, they need to accept computing services during the transmission.

As such, this Special Issue will explore recent advancements in routing and scheduling technologies, showcasing cutting-edge research and innovative solutions that address current challenges and anticipate future trends. Original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Time-varying routing and scheduling;
• Energy-efficient routing and scheduling;
• Delay deterministic routing and scheduling;
• Scalable routing and scheduling;
• High-throughput routing and scheduling;
• Application-driven routing and scheduling;
• Routing and scheduling for AI;
• Routing and scheduling for VR/AR;
• Robust routing and scheduling;
• Advanced routing and scheduling protocol.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Peng Wang
Dr. Sourav Suman
Dr. Feng Wang
Dr. Shengyu Zhang
Dr. Huiting Yang
Guest Editors

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• routing
• scheduling
• time-varying network
• algorithm design
• protocol design