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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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