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  • Review
  • Open Access
39 Citations
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29 Pages

Large Language Models Meet Next-Generation Networking Technologies: A Review

  • Ching-Nam Hang,
  • Pei-Duo Yu,
  • Roberto Morabito and
  • Chee-Wei Tan

7 October 2024

The evolution of network technologies has significantly transformed global communication, information sharing, and connectivity. Traditional networks, relying on static configurations and manual interventions, face substantial challenges such as comp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,172 Views
16 Pages

Enhancing Programmability in Next-Generation Networks: An Innovative Simulation Approach

  • Jesús Calle-Cancho,
  • Cristian Cruz-Carrasco,
  • David Cortés-Polo,
  • Jesús Galeano-Brajones and
  • Javier Carmona-Murillo

With the advent of next-generation networks, it is crucial to persist in the research and development of key enabling technologies such as software-defined networking (SDN). This involves assessing prospective network deployments, mechanisms, or idea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
62 Citations
15,977 Views
24 Pages

Quality of Service (QoS) Performance Analysis in a Traffic Engineering Model for Next-Generation Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Tehseen Mazhar,
  • Muhammad Amir Malik,
  • Syed Agha Hassnain Mohsan,
  • Yanlong Li,
  • Inayatul Haq,
  • Sara Ghorashi,
  • Faten Khalid Karim and
  • Samih M. Mostafa

14 February 2023

Quality of Service (QoS) refers to techniques that function on a network to dependably execute high-priority applications and traffic reliably run high-priority applications and traffic even when the network’s capacity is limited. It is expecte...

  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,265 Views
22 Pages

Key Technologies for a Beyond-100G Next-Generation Passive Optical Network

  • Nan Feng,
  • Mingyi Ma,
  • Yinsong Zhang,
  • Xiaochuan Tan,
  • Zhe Li and
  • Shaobo Li

8 October 2023

The explosive development of emerging telecommunication services has stimulated a huge growth in bandwidth demand as people seek universal access to telecommunication networks. In addition, the kinds of services of an existing optical access network...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,718 Views
17 Pages

31 October 2021

Estimating the taxonomic composition of viral sequences in a biological samples processed by next-generation sequencing is an important step in comparative metagenomics. Mapping sequencing reads against a database of known viral reference genomes, ho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
4,816 Views
22 Pages

Energy Efficient UAV Flight Path Model for Cluster Head Selection in Next-Generation Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Syed Kamran Haider,
  • Aimin Jiang,
  • Ahmad Almogren,
  • Ateeq Ur Rehman,
  • Abbas Ahmed,
  • Wali Ullah Khan and
  • Habib Hamam

17 December 2021

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are one of the fundamental infrastructures for Internet of Things (IoTs) technology. Efficient energy consumption is one of the greatest challenges in WSNs because of its resource-constrained sensor nodes (SNs). Cluste...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,751 Views
23 Pages

13 September 2022

Downlink schedulers play a vital part in the current and next-generation wireless networks. The next generation downlink scheduler should satisfy the demand for different requirements, such as dealing with ultra-dense networks and the need to run rea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
1,953 Views
15 Pages

28 August 2023

In this work, we considered the problem of anomaly detection in next-generation cyber-physical systems (NG-CPS). For this, we used a double deep Q-network-enabled framework, where an agent was trained to detect anomalies in the traffic that does not...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
14,192 Views
25 Pages

A Next-Generation Core Network Architecture for Mobile Networks

  • Andrea G. Forte,
  • Wei Wang,
  • Luca Veltri and
  • Gianluigi Ferrari

Over the years, the cellular mobile network has evolved from a wireless plain telephone system to a very complex system providing telephone service, Internet connectivity and many interworking capabilities with other networks. Its air interface perfo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
19,606 Views
21 Pages

5 November 2010

The success of the Content Delivery Networks (CDN) in the recent years has demonstrated the increased benefits of the deployment of some form of “intelligence” within the network. Cloud computing, on the other hand, has shown the benefits of economie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,436 Views
15 Pages

The Role of Optical Transport Networks in 6G and Beyond: A Vision and Call to Action

  • Dimitrios Michael Manias,
  • Abbas Javadtalab,
  • Joe Naoum-Sawaya and
  • Abdallah Shami

As next-generation networks begin to take shape, the necessity of Optical Transport Networks (OTNs) in helping achieve the performance requirements of future networks is evident. Future networks are characterized as being data-centric and are expecte...

  • Review
  • Open Access
59 Citations
14,197 Views
39 Pages

15 February 2022

Network slicing has become a fundamental property for next-generation networks, especially because an inherent part of 5G standardisation is the ability for service providers to migrate some or all of their network services to a virtual network infra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,214 Views
24 Pages

18 July 2019

Integrating cognitive radio into the current power grid is designed to enable smart communication and decisions within the grid. Communication within the grid is not feasible without channel(s) and most studies have emphasized the use of cellular spe...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,802 Views
11 Pages

DSP-Based 40 GB/s Lane Rate Next-Generation Access Networks

  • Jinlong Wei,
  • Ji Zhou,
  • Elias Giacoumidis,
  • Paul A. Haigh and
  • Jianming Tang

30 November 2018

To address the continuous growth in high-speed ubiquitous access required by residential users and enterprises, Telecommunication operators must upgrade their networks to higher data rates. For optical fiber access networks that directly connect end...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,900 Views
19 Pages

Photonic Integrated Circuits for NGPON2 ONU Transceivers (Invited)

  • Cátia Pinho,
  • Francisco Rodrigues,
  • Ana Maia Tavares,
  • Carla Rodrigues,
  • Cláudio Emanuel Rodrigues and
  • António Teixeira

10 June 2020

The development of photonic integrated circuits (PIC) for access network applications, such as passive optical networks (PON), constitutes a very attractive ecosystem due to PON’s potential mass market. The implementation of PIC solutions in th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
11,365 Views
13 Pages

Implementing Value Added Applications in Next Generation Networks

  • Yeh-Chin Ho,
  • Yi-Bing Lin,
  • Ren-Huang Liou and
  • Yuan-Kuang Tu

6 August 2010

One of the major issues in the future Internet is the integration of telecom networks with the Internet. In many countries, large Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are also telecom operators that have been focusing on providing Internet services thro...

  • Review
  • Open Access
35 Citations
12,133 Views
20 Pages

24 June 2021

The rapid improvement of next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies and their application in large-scale cohorts in cancer research led to common challenges of big data. It opened a new research area incorporating systems biology and machine learn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,022 Views
19 Pages

Channel prediction is an effective technology to support adaptive transmission in wireless communication. To solve the difficulty of accurately predicting channel state information (CSI) due to fast time-varying characteristics, a next-generation res...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,328 Views
23 Pages

Thyroid cancer is the most common endocrine cancer. Particularly, papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) accounts for the highest proportion of thyroid cancer. Up to now, there are few researches discussing the pathogenesis and progression mechanisms of PTC...

  • Review
  • Open Access
37 Citations
7,756 Views
50 Pages

Review of Channel Estimation for Candidate Waveforms of Next Generation Networks

  • Owoicho E. Ijiga,
  • Olayinka O. Ogundile,
  • Ayokunle D. Familua and
  • Daniel J. J. Versfeld

The advancement in wireless communication applications encourages the use of effective and efficient channel estimation (CE) techniques because of the varying behaviour of the Rayleigh fading channel. In most cases, the emphasis of most proposed CE s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
98 Citations
10,850 Views
18 Pages

Development and Application of a Next Generation Air Sensor Network for the Hong Kong Marathon 2015 Air Quality Monitoring

  • Li Sun,
  • Ka Chun Wong,
  • Peng Wei,
  • Sheng Ye,
  • Hao Huang,
  • Fenhuan Yang,
  • Dane Westerdahl,
  • Peter K.K. Louie,
  • Connie W.Y. Luk and
  • Zhi Ning

5 February 2016

This study presents the development and evaluation of a next generation air monitoring system with both laboratory and field tests. A multi-parameter algorithm was used to correct for the impact of environmental conditions on the electrochemical sens...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,046 Views
50 Pages

25 February 2022

Retinal neurogenesis is driven by concerted actions of transcription factors, some of which are expressed in a continuum and across several cell subtypes throughout development. While seemingly redundant, many factors diversify their regulatory outco...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,868 Views
24 Pages

4 December 2023

Microorganisms are an important component of global biodiversity and play an important role in plant growth and development and the protection of host plants from various biotic and abiotic stresses. However, little is known about the identities and...

  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
8,703 Views
55 Pages

A Survey on Video Streaming for Next-Generation Vehicular Networks

  • Chenn-Jung Huang,
  • Hao-Wen Cheng,
  • Yi-Hung Lien and
  • Mei-En Jian

As assisted driving technology advances and vehicle entertainment systems rapidly develop, future vehicles will become mobile cinemas, where passengers can use various multimedia applications in the car. In recent years, the progress in multimedia te...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
1,654 Views
24 Pages

Algorithms for Load Balancing in Next-Generation Mobile Networks: A Systematic Literature Review

  • Juan Ochoa-Aldeán,
  • Carlos Silva-Cárdenas,
  • Renato Torres,
  • Jorge Ivan Gonzalez and
  • Sergio Fortes

Background: Machine learning methods are increasingly being used in mobile network optimization systems, especially next-generation mobile networks. The need for enhanced radio resource allocation schemes, improved user mobility and increased through...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,403 Views
19 Pages

20 February 2025

With the advent of NextG wireless networks, the reliance on centralized identity and service management systems poses significant challenges, including limited interoperability, increased privacy vulnerabilities, and the risk of unauthorized tracking...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,736 Views
19 Pages

11 December 2020

Next-generation cellular networks are large-scale systems composed of numerous base stations interacting with many diverse users. One of the main challenges with these networks is their high energy consumption due to the expected number of connected...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
10,775 Views
28 Pages

A Ubiquitous Sensor Network Platform for Integrating Smart Devices into the Semantic Sensor Web

  • David Díaz Pardo de Vera,
  • Álvaro Sigüenza Izquierdo,
  • Jesús Bernat Vercher and
  • Luis Alfonso Hernández Gómez

18 June 2014

Ongoing Sensor Web developments make a growing amount of heterogeneous sensor data available to smart devices. This is generating an increasing demand for homogeneous mechanisms to access, publish and share real-world information. This paper discusse...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,829 Views
16 Pages

28 August 2021

Public safety agencies have been working on the modernization of their communication networks and the enhancement of their mission-critical capabilities with novel technologies and applications. As part of these efforts, migrating from traditional la...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,115 Views
20 Pages

Quantum-Enhanced Security Framework for Next-Generation Space–Terrestrial Networks

  • Chengbin Huang,
  • Jiangang Tong,
  • Shengkai Liao,
  • Jinhua Wang,
  • Fei Zhou,
  • Weiwen Kong,
  • Yan Jiang,
  • Yang Xie,
  • Qianran Wang and
  • Jinhui Li
  • + 1 author

30 November 2025

Advancements in Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) technology facilitate ubiquitous network access for users, whereas satellite-based Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) offers a viable solution for long-distance quantum key exchange in scenarios lacking terre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,595 Views
15 Pages

30 March 2022

The objective of future optical fiber networks is to provide an efficient infrastructure capable of supporting an increasing and variable number of data traffic generated by the diversification of applications with different speed requirements that t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
293 Views
14 Pages

13 January 2026

In light of the recent advances in hollow-core fiber (HCF) design and manufacturing, wide-scale deployments of this fiber type to realize next-generation optical transport networks may become viable in the foreseeable future, with benefits in terms o...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,180 Views
14 Pages

Artificial Intelligence Control Logic in Next-Generation Programmable Networks

  • Mateusz Żotkiewicz,
  • Wiktor Szałyga,
  • Jaroslaw Domaszewicz,
  • Andrzej Bąk,
  • Zbigniew Kopertowski and
  • Stanisław Kozdrowski

2 October 2021

The new generation of programmable networks allow mechanisms to be deployed for the efficient control of dynamic bandwidth allocation and ensure Quality of Service (QoS) in terms of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for delay or loss sensitive Intern...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,454 Views
28 Pages

Complex Networks Analyses of Antibiofilm Peptides: An Emerging Tool for Next-Generation Antimicrobials’ Discovery

  • Guillermin Agüero-Chapin,
  • Agostinho Antunes,
  • José R. Mora,
  • Noel Pérez,
  • Ernesto Contreras-Torres,
  • José R. Valdes-Martini,
  • Felix Martinez-Rios,
  • Cesar H. Zambrano and
  • Yovani Marrero-Ponce

Microbial biofilms cause several environmental and industrial issues, even affecting human health. Although they have long represented a threat due to their resistance to antibiotics, there are currently no approved antibiofilm agents for clinical tr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,517 Views
16 Pages

22 January 2019

With the increasing penetration of Internet of Things devices and distributed energy resources in the next-generation distribution network, the efficient energy management for system operation are facing new challenges. One reason is that the large-s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,979 Views
22 Pages

A PEKS-Based NDN Strategy for Name Privacy

  • Kyi Thar Ko,
  • Htet Htet Hlaing and
  • Masahiro Mambo

Named Data Networking (NDN), where addressable content name is used, is considered as a candidate of next-generation Internet architectures. NDN routers use In-Network cache to replicate and store passing packets to make faster content delivery. Beca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,931 Views
14 Pages

Application of Blockchain Technology in Dynamic Resource Management of Next Generation Networks

  • Michael Xevgenis,
  • Dimitrios G. Kogias,
  • Panagiotis Karkazis,
  • Helen C. Leligou and
  • Charalampos Patrikakis

6 December 2020

With the advent of Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) technologies, the networking infrastructures are becoming increasingly agile in their attempts to offer the quality of services needed by the users, maximi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,588 Views
13 Pages

6 November 2019

The increasing interest in next-generation underwater acoustic communications networks is due to vast investigation of oceans for oceanography, commercial operations in maritime areas, military surveillance, and more. A surface buoy or underwater bas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,055 Views
16 Pages

New Security Improvements in Next-Generation Passive Optical Networks Stage 2

  • Vlastimil Clupek,
  • Tomas Horvath,
  • Petr Munster and
  • Vaclav Oujezsky

18 October 2019

Passive optical networks are currently the most promising solution for access networks. These networks rely on broadcast signal distribution in the downstream direction and unicast signal transmission in the upstream direction. The upstream direction...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,880 Views
17 Pages

6 March 2023

Arguably, 5G and next-generation technology with its key features (specifically, supporting high data rates and high mobility platforms) make it valuable for coping with the emerging needs of medical healthcare. A 5G-enabled portable device receives...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,613 Views
23 Pages

Maritime communication networks are critical for supporting the increasing demands of oceanic and coastal activities, including shipping, fishing, and offshore operations. However, traditional systems face significant challenges in providing reliable...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,612 Views
26 Pages

8 September 2023

The popularity of video services such as video call or video on-demand has made it impossible for people to live without them in their daily lives. It can be anticipated that the explosive growth of vehicular communication owing to the widespread use...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,495 Views
16 Pages

Deducing of Optical and Electronic Domains Based Distortions in Radio over Fiber Network

  • Haoyu Yu,
  • Farman Ali,
  • Shanshan Tu,
  • Hanen Karamti,
  • Ammar Armghan,
  • Fazal Muhammad,
  • Fayadh Alenezi,
  • Khurram Hameed and
  • Nauman Ahmad

12 January 2022

Managing the users multimedia and long-range based demands, the radio over fiber (RoF) mechanism has been introduced recently. RoF mingles the optical and radio communication frameworks to increase mobility and offer high capacity communication netwo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,255 Views
24 Pages

Flexible Hyper-Distributed IoT–Edge–Cloud Platform for Real-Time Digital Twin Applications on 6G-Intended Testbeds for Logistics and Industry

  • Maria Crespo-Aguado,
  • Raul Lozano,
  • Fernando Hernandez-Gobertti,
  • Nuria Molner and
  • David Gomez-Barquero

20 November 2024

This paper presents the design and development of a flexible hyper-distributed IoT–Edge–Cloud computing platform for real-time Digital Twins in real logistics and industrial environments, intended as a novel living lab and testbed for fut...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,036 Views
18 Pages

6G-RUPA: A Flexible, Scalable, and Energy-Efficient User Plane Architecture for Next-Generation Mobile Networks

  • Sergio Giménez-Antón,
  • Eduard Grasa,
  • Jordi Perelló and
  • Andrés Cárdenas

As the global deployment of Fifth Generation (5G) is being well consolidated, the exploration of Sixth Generation (6G) wireless networks has intensified, focusing on novel Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Key Value Indicators (KVIs) that extend...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,102 Views
15 Pages

Quantum Key Distribution Protocol Selector Based on Machine Learning for Next-Generation Networks

  • Ogobuchi Daniel Okey,
  • Siti Sarah Maidin,
  • Renata Lopes Rosa,
  • Waqas Tariq Toor,
  • Dick Carrillo Melgarejo,
  • Lunchakorn Wuttisittikulkij,
  • Muhammad Saadi and
  • Demóstenes Zegarra Rodríguez

29 November 2022

In next-generation networks, including the sixth generation (6G), a large number of computing devices can communicate with ultra-low latency. By implication, 6G capabilities present a massive benefit for the Internet of Things (IoT), considering a wi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
162 Views
47 Pages

26 January 2026

The rapid integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into next-generation wireless systems demands seamless and reliable handover (HO) mechanisms to ensure continuous connectivity. However, frequent topology changes, high mobility, and dynamic ch...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,356 Views
23 Pages

1 November 2018

To support a massive number of connected cars, a novel channel access scheme for next-generation vehicle-to-anything (V2X) systems is proposed in this paper. In the design of the proposed scheme, two essential aspects are carefully considered: backwa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,941 Views
20 Pages

Semantic Predictive Coding with Arbitrated Generative Adversarial Networks

  • Radamanthys Stivaktakis,
  • Grigorios Tsagkatakis and
  • Panagiotis Tsakalides

In spatio-temporal predictive coding problems, like next-frame prediction in video, determining the content of plausible future frames is primarily based on the image dynamics of previous frames. We establish an alternative approach based on their un...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,122 Views
31 Pages

13 June 2024

Offshore wind farms are growing in complexity and size, expanding deeper into maritime environments to capture stronger and steadier wind energy. Like other domains in the energy sector, the wind energy domain is continuing to digitalize its systems...

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