As advancements in autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) technology unfold, the role of underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) is becoming increasingly pivotal. However, the high energy consumption in these networks can significantly reduce their...
Short-term passenger-flow forecasting at integrated transport hubs requires accurate forecasts with explicit target semantics. This study evaluates long short-term memory (LSTM) and temporal convolutional network (TCN) fusion models using two distinc...
The ease of deployment and the auto-configuration capabilities of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) make them very attractive in different domains like environmental, home automation or heath care applications. The use of multichannel communications in...
Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) is an advance Ethernet paradigm designed to provide low delay, low jitter, and deterministic transmission time. The Cycling Queuing and Forwarding (CQF) mechanism is introduced in TSN as a scheduler to achieve precise...
Wireless sensor networks (WSN) can accurately and timely obtain the production information of crops, and provide data basis for intelligent agriculture. The dynamic crop state and unstable climate environment make it difficult to predict the connecti...
Heavy-duty trucks account for 27% of the European greenhouse gas emissions in the transport sector. To decarbonize road freight transport, the European Union plans to build a fast charging network for trucks. This paper presents two scenarios, coveri...
Static Priority-based Multiple Access (SPMA) is an emerging and promising wireless MAC protocol which is widely used in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) networks. UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) networks, also known as drone networks, refer to a system of...
The imbalanced distribution of shared bikes in the dockless bike-sharing system (a typical example of the resource-sharing system), which may lead to potential customer churn and lost profit, gradually becomes a vital problem for bike-sharing firms a...
Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) has emerged as a critical communication protocol for automotive Ethernet to support the high-bandwidth, real-time, and deterministic transmission requirements of next-generation in-vehicle networks. However, a clear an...
To improve the performance of IEEE 802.11 wireless local area (WLAN) networks, different frame-aggregation algorithms are proposed by IEEE 802.11n/ac standards to improve the throughput performance of WLANs. However, this improvement will also have a...
Efficient toll processing is critical for mitigating traffic congestion and enhancing transportation network efficiency at toll stations. This study explores the Neelamangala Toll Plaza on India’s National Highway 48, employing artificial intelligenc...
Before a programming deadline, many students’ programs queue for a few grading servers. Ordering them by predicted running time cuts the mean wait, but known bounds with predictions hold on average or against an optimum, not per job. We prove a...
In a classical random walk model, a walker moves through a deterministic d-dimensional integer lattice in one step at a time, without drifting in any direction. In a more advanced setting, a walker randomly moves over a randomly configured (non equid...
Congestion in a wireless sensor network causes an increase in the amount of data loss and delays in data transmission. In this paper, we propose a new congestion control technique (ACT, Adaptive Compression-based congestion control Technique) based o...
The dropping function mechanism is known to improve the performance of TCP/IP networks by reducing queueing delays and desynchronizing flows. In this paper, we study yet another positive effect caused by this mechanism, i.e., the reduction in the clu...
Fifth-generation (5G) New Radio (NR) systems are expected to support multiple traffic classes including enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC), and massive machine-type communications (mMTC) at the same ai...
Due to the deficiency of radio spectrum resources caused by the progress in technology, cognitive radio networks (CRNs) have made significant progress. CRNs have two types of users, namely, primary users (PUs) and secondary users (SUs). Considering t...
Packet delay variation (jitter) affects the reliability and perceived quality of real-time IP services, but its models and metrics remain fragmented across layers and technologies. This structured survey synthesizes research published from 1990 throu...
The demand for transportation has increased significantly in recent decades in line with the increasing demand for passenger and freight mobility, especially in urban areas. One of the most negative impacts is the increasing level of traffic congesti...
Resource-constrained Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) nodes cannot fully replace cloud infrastructure, yet existing service placement models treat edge hosting as an all-or-nothing decision. This paper proposes a queueing-theoretic framework for spl...
Disruptions often happen to ports and cause varying degrees of port congestion. This study employs a queueing model to investigate network disruption and the resultant ripple effects in the global transportation system. We first propose an algorithm...
This article proposes a deep reinforcement learning-based hybrid optical–RF communication framework for Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communication (URLLC) networks under dynamic wireless and atmospheric channel conditions. The proposed system int...
Accurate short-term traffic delay prediction is essential for effective intersection management and real-time traffic control. Although deep learning models have shown strong predictive capabilities in traffic forecasting, the influence of input feat...
With the proliferation of low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellites, existing satellite networks need to be enhanced to better handle time-sensitive flows (TSFs). However, the migration of time-sensitive network (TSN) technology to satellite networks is chall...
This paper deals with heterogeneous queues where servers differ not only in service rates but also in operating costs. The classical optimisation problem in queueing systems with heterogeneous servers consists in the optimal allocation of customers b...
For supporting Quality of Service (QoS) in a military network, applications of the triple-metric priority of performance, importance, and urgency as well as autonomous and lightweight implementation are required. In a previous study, we analyzed a Ko...
Ensuring high reliability and low latency poses challenges for numerous applications that require rigid performance guarantees, such as industrial automation and autonomous vehicles. Our research primarily concentrates on addressing the real-time req...
The purpose of constructing onboard observation mission queues is to improve the execution efficiency of onboard tasks and reduce energy consumption, representing a significant challenge in achieving efficient global military reconnaissance and targe...
This study addresses the problem of non-stop passage by vehicles at intersections based on special processing of data from a road camera or video detector. The basic task in this article is formulated as a forecast for the release time of a controlle...
Bufferbloat is one of the leading causes of high data transmission latency and jitter on the Internet, which severely impacts the performance of low-latency interactive applications such as online streaming, cloud-based gaming/applications, Internet...
Urban rail transit encounters supply–demand contradictions during peak hours, seriously affecting passenger experience. Therefore, it is necessary to explore and optimize passenger-flow control strategies for urban rail transit stations during...
The paper presents a proposed queuing model based on Kendall’s notation for the intersection of two streets in Panama City (53 East and 56 East). The proposed model is based on a set of traffic lights that controls the flow of vehicles at the i...
Clock synchronization is one of the popular research topics in Distributed Measurement and Control Systems (DMCSs). In most industrial fields, such as Smart Grid and Flight Test, the highest requirement for synchronization accuracy is 1 μs. IEEE 1...
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have recently gained popularity for a wide spectrum of applications. Monitoring tasks can be performed in various environments. This may be beneficial in many scenarios, but it certainly exhibits new challenges in term...
This paper proposes a modified architecture of the Long-Term Evolution (LTE) mobile network to provide services for the Internet of Things (IoT). This is achieved by allocating a narrow bandwidth and transferring the scheduling functions from the eNo...
Mobile platforms such as high-speed trains and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) experience quasi-periodic variation in link quality as they move through a cellular base-station lattice, so the service rate of their on-board uplink buffer is itself tim...
This paper analyzes the economic feasibility of a business model for multi-Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) and Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs), which is an envisioned scenario in mobile telecommunications markets supported by 5G networks. A...
A fog-based IoT platform model involving three layers, i.e., IoT devices, fog nodes, and the cloud, was proposed using an open Jackson network with feedback. The system performance was analyzed for individual subsystems, and the overall system was ba...
This paper considers a modified Erlang loss system for cognitive wireless networks and related applications. A primary user has pre-emptive priority over secondary users, and the primary customer is lost if upon arrival all the channels are used by o...
Assuming a full market penetration rate of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) would provide an opportunity to remove costly and inefficient traffic lights from intersections, this paper presents a signal-free intersection control system relying...
Due to the unpredictable presence of Non-Cognitive Users (NCUs) in the time and frequency domains, the number of available channels (i.e., channels where no NCUs exist) and corresponding channel indices per Cognitive User (CU) may differ. In this pap...
The objective of this paper is to analyze economic alternatives for the provision of ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) and massive machine-type communication (mMTC) services over a fifth-generation (5G) network. Two business models, a...
The interaction between projects and servers has grown significantly in complexity; thus, applying parallel calculations increases dramatically. However, it should not be ignored that parallel processing gives rise to synchronization constraints and...
In recent years, Internet of Things (IoT) advancements have led to the development of vastly improved remote healthcare services. Scalability, high bandwidth, low latency, and low power consumption are all essential features of the applications that...
This work is devoted to improving a two-level hierarchical queue management method based on priority and balancing under the interaction prediction principle. The lower level of calculations was connected with the problem optimization solution and wa...
We study the throughput and losses of a buffer with stochastically dependent service times. Such dependence occurs not only in packet buffers within TCP/IP networks but also in many other queuing systems. We conduct a comprehensive, time-dependent an...
The Bike Sharing System is a sustainable urban transport solution that consists of a fleet of bikes placed in various stations. Users will be satisfied if they find available bikes at their departure station and free docks at the destination. Despite...
Today’s data centers host a variety of different applications that impose specific requirements for their flows. Applications that generate short flows are usually latency sensitive; they require their flows to be completed as fast as possible....
Mobile edge computing (MEC) must serve rapidly growing populations of latency-critical and energy-constrained devices, yet distributed offloading faces two coupled problems: learned multi-agent policies depend on the arbitrary numerical ordering of e...
In this paper, we present the results of a study of a priority multi-server queuing system with heterogeneous customers arriving according to a marked Markovian arrival process (MMAP), phase-type service times (PH), and a queue with finite capacity....
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