The continuous increase in network traffic has sharply increased the demand for high-performance packet processing systems. For a high-performance packet processing system based on multi-core processors, the packet scheduling algorithm is critical be...
Network coding techniques are usually applied upon network-layer protocols to improve throughput in wireless networks. In scenarios with multiple unicast sessions, fairness is also an important factor. Therefore, a network coding-aware packet-schedul...
Recently, electromagnetic wireless power transfer (WPT) has emerged as a promising technology for supplying power to multiple terminals. Previous studies have devised packet transmission methods, commonly used in telecommunication, for power analysis...
Deterministic transmission technology is a core key technology that supports deterministic real-time transmission requirements for industrial control in Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN). It requires each network node to have a deterministic forwarding...
Network lifetime and localization are critical design factors for a number of wireless sensor network (WSN) applications. These networks may be randomly deployed and left unattended for prolonged periods of time. This means that node localization is...
With the proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, the function of AI in a sixth generation (6G) environment is likely to come into play on a large scale. Moreover, in recent years, with the rapid advancement in AI technology, the eth...
When working with the Wireless Access in Vehicular Environment (WAVE) protocol stack, the multi-channel operation mechanism of the IEEE 1609.4 protocol may impact the overall network performance, especially when using video streaming applications. In...
With the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) era, a wide array of wireless sensors supporting the IoT have proliferated. As key elements for enabling the IoT, wireless sensor nodes require minimal energy consumption and low device complexity. In p...
Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are networks for gathering data from sensor nodes that have been applied in industry for a long time. In real-time industrial applications with tight latencies, schedulability is one of the most critical issues. Some au...
The simultaneous aggregation of multiple component carriers (CCs) for use by a base station constitutes one of the more promising strategies for providing substantially enhanced bandwidths for packet transmissions in 4th and 5th generation cellular s...
In this paper, error resilience is achieved by adaptive, application-layer rateless channel coding, which is used to protect H.264/Advanced Video Coding (AVC) codec data-partitioned videos. A packetization strategy is an effective tool to control er...
In this work, we consider interference performance under direct data transmission in a heterogeneous network. The heterogeneous network consists of K-tier base stations and users, whose locations follow independent Poisson point processes (PPPs). Pac...
We consider multipath TCP (MPTCP) flows over the data networking dynamics of IEEE 802.11ay for drone surveillance of areas using high-definition video streaming. Mobility-induced handoffs are critical in IEEE 802.11ay (because of the smaller coverage...
This study proposes a method for designing redundant topologies in time-sensitive networking to transmit scheduled traffic (ST) while considering fault tolerance. In general, redundant topologies enhance network fault tolerance and are used in safety...
Real-life implementation of the Internet of Things (IoT) in healthcare requires sufficient quality of service (QoS) to transmit the collected data successfully. However, unsolved challenges in prioritization and congestion issues limit the functional...
The Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Release 16 defines the sensing-based semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) as the resource allocation scheme for Sidelink Mode 2 in New Radio (NR)-based vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication. A well-know...
The latest wireless network technology, Fifth Generation (5G) new radio (NR), is considered to be an emerging wireless network solution for smart grid (SG) communications owing to its ultra-reliable low latency and larger bandwidth properties. Packet...
Long flow detection and load balancing are crucial techniques for data center running and management. However, both of them have been independently studied in previous studies. In this paper, we propose a complete solution called Sonum, which can com...
Over the last decade, the Age of Information has emerged as a key concept and metric for applications where the freshness of sensor-provided data is critical. Limited transmission capacity has motivated research on the design of tractable policies fo...
Ultra-reliable and low-latency communications (uRLLC) has received great attention in the study of wireless communication for it can provide high network performance in terms of reliability and latency. However, the reliability requirements of uRLLC...
The integration of 5G and vertical industries promotes the development of the energy Ethernet while putting forward fine granularity, flexibility, high reliability, and deterministic low-latency service requirements for the smart grid and the ubiquit...
A precision positioning system with energy efficiency is of great necessity for guaranteeing personnel safety in underground mines. The location information of the miners’ should be transmitted to the control center timely and reliably; therefore, a...
The links of low power wireless sensor networks are error prone and the transmission on a wireless link is determined probabilistically by the packet reception rate (PRR) of the link. On the other hand, there is a very strict requirement in the end-t...
The prominence of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications in the future wide area communication networks place various challenges to the cellular technologies such as the Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard, owing to the large number of M2M devices ge...
In Cooperative Vehicle Infrastructure System (CVIS), the roadside unit (RSU) obtains many kinds of monitoring data through observation equipment carried by the RSU. The monitoring data from RSUs are transmitted to an RSU that is connected to the back...
In this paper, a hybrid genetic algorithm implemented in a grid environment to solve hard instances of the flexible flow shop scheduling problem with sequence-dependent setup times is introduced. The genetic algorithm takes advantage of the distribut...
More and more Internet of Things (IoT) wireless devices have been providing ubiquitous services over the recent years. Since most of these devices are powered by batteries, a fundamental trade-off to be addressed is the depleted energy and the achiev...
The rapid growth of not just mobile devices but also Internet of Things (IoT) devices has introduced a new paradigm in mobile networks. This evolution and the continuous need to provide spectrum efficient, high data rates, low latency, and low energy...
Internet-of-things (IoT) is a wide spreading technique that enables intelligence to the everyday objects, however, IoT devices are limited in computation and memory space due to their small physical sizes. As a result, IoT applications generally conn...
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...
Time Slotted Channel Hopping (TSCH) is widely used in the industrial wireless sensor networks due to its high reliability and energy efficiency. Various timeslot and channel scheduling schemes have been proposed for achieving high reliability and ene...
Packet scheduling is key to quality of service (QoS) capabilities of broadband wired and wireless networks. In a heterogeneous traffic environment, a comprehensive QoS packet scheduler must strike a balance between flow fairness and access delay. Man...
Adopting reinforcement learning in the network scheduling area is getting more attention than ever because of its flexibility in adapting to the dynamic changes of network traffic and network status. In this study, a timeslot scheduling algorithm for...
This paper presents a Data-gathering, Dynamic Duty-cycling (D3) protocol for wireless sensor networks. With a proposed duty-cycling MAC of high energy efficiency in D3, a routing scheme is naturally embedded to reduce protocol overhead. A packet can...
The scheduler is a crucial component of the multipath transmission control protocol (MPTCP) that dictates the path that a data packet takes. Schedulers are in charge of delivering data packets in the right order to prevent delays caused by head-of-li...
Fifth-generation and more importantly the forthcoming sixth-generation networks have been given special care for latency and are designed to support low latency applications including a high flexibility New Radio (NR) interface that can be configured...
In-band full-duplex communication offers significant potential to enhance network performance. This paper presents the full-duplex linear transmit delay allocation MAC (FD-LTDA-MAC) protocol for full-duplex based underwater acoustic chain networks (F...
6TiSCH networks adopt the IEEE 802.15.4e-based TSCH protocol to support efficient and reliable communication in low-power and lossy network (LLN) environments. However, under bursty traffic conditions, the traditional minimal scheduling function (MSF...
This paper investigates the use of underwater acoustic sensor networks (UASNs) for subsea asset monitoring. In particular, we focus on the use cases involving the deployment of networks with line topologies, e.g., for monitoring oil and gas pipelines...
In the framework of the space-air-ground-ocean integrated network, the underwater acoustic sensor network (UASN) plays a pivotal role. The design of media access control (MAC) protocols is essential for the UASN to ensure efficient and reliable data...
Preamble sampling-based MAC protocols designed forWireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are aimed at prolonging the lifetime of the nodes by scheduling their times of activity. This scheduling exploits node synchronization to find the right trade-off betwee...
Software-defined networks (SDNs) are computer networks where parameters and devices are configured by software. Recently, artificial intelligence aspects have been used for SDN programs for various applications, including packet classification and fo...
Due to large-scale control problems in 5G access networks, the complexity of radio resource management is expected to increase significantly. Reinforcement learning is seen as a promising solution that can enable intelligent decision-making and reduc...
Age of information (AoI) is an emerging network metric that measures information freshness from an application layer perspective. It can evaluate the timeliness of information in industrial wireless sensor networks (IWSNs). Previous research has prim...
Effective resource scheduling methods in certain scenarios of Industrial Internet of Things are pivotal. In time-sensitive scenarios, Age of Information is a critical indicator for measuring the freshness of data. This paper considers a densely deplo...
Load balancing to alleviate network congestion remains a critical challenge in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs). During route and response scheduling, road side units (RSUs) risk being overloaded beyond their calculated capacity. Despite recent adv...
With the rapid development of mobile networks and devices, real-time video transmission has become increasingly important worldwide. Constrained by the bandwidth limitations of single networks, extensive research has shifted towards video transmissio...
The spectral efficiency of wireless networks can be significantly improved by exploiting spatial multiplexing techniques known as multi-user MIMO. These techniques enable the allocation of multiple users to the same time-frequency block, thus reducin...
In this paper, a novel distributed scheduling scheme for an ad-hoc network is proposed. Specifically, the throughput and the delay of packets with different importance are flexibly adjusted by quantifying the importance as weight factors. In this sch...
The transmission rate between two nodes is usually very low in underwater acoustic networks due to the low available bandwidth of underwater acoustic channels. Therefore, increasing the transmission parallelism among network nodes is one of the most...
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