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View article: 6G Resilience -- White Paper
6G Resilience -- White Paper Open
6G must be designed to withstand, adapt to, and evolve amid prolonged, complex disruptions. Mobile networks' shift from efficiency-first to sustainability-aware has motivated this white paper to assert that resilience is a primary design g…
View article: Toward 6G Optical Fronthaul: A Survey on Enabling Technologies and Research Perspectives
Toward 6G Optical Fronthaul: A Survey on Enabling Technologies and Research Perspectives Open
The anticipated launch of the Sixth Generation (6G) of mobile technology by\n2030 will mark a significant milestone in the evolution of wireless\ncommunication, ushering in a new era with advancements in technology and\napplications. 6G is…
View article: Global Communications Newsletter
Global Communications Newsletter Open
Presents information and current topics of interest to the global communications industry.
View article: 5G Millimeter Wave Network Optimization: Dual Connectivity and Power Allocation Strategy
5G Millimeter Wave Network Optimization: Dual Connectivity and Power Allocation Strategy Open
The fifth generation (5G) of mobile networks utilizing millimeter Wave (mmWave) bands can be considered the leading player in meeting the continuously increasing hunger of the end user demands in the near future. However, 5G networks are c…
View article: Design of Cost-Efficient Optical Fronthaul for 5G/6G Networks: An Optimization Perspective
Design of Cost-Efficient Optical Fronthaul for 5G/6G Networks: An Optimization Perspective Open
Currently, 5G and the forthcoming 6G mobile communication systems are the most promising cellular generations expected to beat the growing hunger for bandwidth and enable the fully connected world presented by the Internet of Everything (I…
View article: Planning a Cost-Effective Delay-Constrained Passive Optical Network for 5G Fronthaul
Planning a Cost-Effective Delay-Constrained Passive Optical Network for 5G Fronthaul Open
With the rapid growth in the telecommunications industry moving towards 5G and beyond (5GB) and the emergence of data-hungry and time-sensitive applications, Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) are faced with a considerable challenge to keep u…
View article: A Survey of Vehicular Network Systems for Road Traffic Management
A Survey of Vehicular Network Systems for Road Traffic Management Open
In this survey, we analyze the proposals of vehicular communication systems in the context of road traffic management. Starting with the definition of communications between vehicles (V2V), vehicles-to-infrastructure (V2I) and vehicles-to-…
View article: Ensuring the QoE-Related Fairness to Reduce the User Abandonment Ratio
Ensuring the QoE-Related Fairness to Reduce the User Abandonment Ratio Open
Nowadays, it is quite a challenge for app owners to keep users engaged with an app. Currently, the level of user abandonment is one of the key parameters that application owners are interested in. To meet these challenges, we conduct an ex…
View article: Disaster resilience of optical networks: State of the art, challenges, and opportunities
Disaster resilience of optical networks: State of the art, challenges, and opportunities Open
For several decades, optical networks, due to their high capacity and long-distance transmission range, have been used as the major communication technology to serve network traffic, especially in the core and metro segments of communicati…
View article: Service-Based Resilience via Shared Protection in Mission-Critical Embedded Networks
Service-Based Resilience via Shared Protection in Mission-Critical Embedded Networks Open
Mission-critical networks, which for example can be found in autonomous cars and avionics, are complex systems with a multitude of interconnected embedded nodes and various service demands. Their resilience against failures and attacks is …
View article: Assessment of Connectivity-Based Resilience to Attacks Against Multiple Nodes in SDNs
Assessment of Connectivity-Based Resilience to Attacks Against Multiple Nodes in SDNs Open
In Software Defined Networks (SDNs), the control plane of a network is decoupled from its data plane. For scalability and robustness, the logically centralized control plane is implemented by physically placing different controllers throug…
View article: Non-Satellite Broadband Maritime Communications for e-Navigation Services
Non-Satellite Broadband Maritime Communications for e-Navigation Services Open
The development of broadband network access technologies available to users on land has triggered a rapid expansion of a diverse range of services provided by terrestrial networks. However, due to limitations of digital communication techn…
View article: A Survey of Fast-Recovery Mechanisms in Packet-Switched Networks
A Survey of Fast-Recovery Mechanisms in Packet-Switched Networks Open
In order to meet their stringent dependability requirements, most modern packet-switched communication networks support fast-recovery mechanisms in the data plane. While reactions to failures in the data plane can be significantly faster c…
View article: High-Power Jamming Attack Mitigation Techniques in Spectrally-Spatially Flexible Optical Networks
High-Power Jamming Attack Mitigation Techniques in Spectrally-Spatially Flexible Optical Networks Open
This work presents efficient connection provisioning techniques mitigating high-power jamming attacks in spectrally-spatially flexible optical networks (SS-FONs) utilizing multicore fibers. High-power jamming attacks are modeled based on t…
View article: Enhancing Resilience of FSO Networks to Adverse Weather Conditions
Enhancing Resilience of FSO Networks to Adverse Weather Conditions Open
Optical wireless networks realized by means of gigabit optical wireless communication (OWC) systems are becoming, in a variety of applications, an important alternative, or a complementary solution, to their fiber-based counterparts. Howev…
View article: eFRADIR: An Enhanced FRAmework for DIsaster Resilience
eFRADIR: An Enhanced FRAmework for DIsaster Resilience Open
This paper focuses on how to increase the availability of a backbone network with minimal cost. In particular, the new framework focuses on resilience against natural disasters and is an evolution of the FRADIR/FRADIR-II framework. It targ…
View article: A Survey of Fast Recovery Mechanisms in the Data Plane
A Survey of Fast Recovery Mechanisms in the Data Plane Open
In order to meet their stringent dependability requirements, most modern communication networks support fast-recovery mechanisms in the data plane. While reactions to failures in the data plane can be significantly faster compared to contr…
View article: A Survey of Fast Recovery Mechanisms in the Data Plane
A Survey of Fast Recovery Mechanisms in the Data Plane Open
In order to meet their stringent dependability requirements, most modern communication networks support fast-recovery mechanisms in the data plane. While reactions to failures in the data plane can be significantly faster compared to contr…
View article: Fast Recovery Mechanisms in the Data Plane
Fast Recovery Mechanisms in the Data Plane Open
In order to meet their stringent dependability requirements, most modern communication networks support fast-recovery mechanisms in the data plane. While reactions to failures in the data plane can be significantly faster compared to contr…
View article: Fundamental Schemes to Determine Disjoint Paths for Multiple Failure Scenarios
Fundamental Schemes to Determine Disjoint Paths for Multiple Failure Scenarios Open
Disjoint path routing approaches can be used to cope with multiple failure scenarios. This can be achieved using a set of k (k > 2) link- (or node-) disjoint path pairs (in single-cost and multi-cost networks). Alternatively, if Shared Ris…
View article: Disaster-Resilient Routing Schemes for Regional Failures
Disaster-Resilient Routing Schemes for Regional Failures Open
Large scale natural disasters can have a profound effect on the telecommunication services in the affected geographical area. Hence, it is important to develop routing approaches that may help in circumventing damaged regional areas of a n…
View article: Reinforced Secure Gossiping Against DoS Attacks in Post-Disaster Scenarios
Reinforced Secure Gossiping Against DoS Attacks in Post-Disaster Scenarios Open
During and after a disaster, the perceived quality of communication networks often becomes remarkably degraded with an increased ratio of packet losses due to physical damages of the networking equipment, disturbance to the radio frequency…
View article: Global Communications Newsletter
Global Communications Newsletter Open
Presents information and current topics of interest to the global communications industry.
View article: [Front cover]
[Front cover] Open
5G will enable a range of new and improved use cases, with new business models across multiple new industries that promises to have a very positive impact in society.From a more technical perspective, the main 5G goals are to deliver huge …
View article: On the Disaster Resiliency within the Context of 5G Networks: The RECODIS Experience
On the Disaster Resiliency within the Context of 5G Networks: The RECODIS Experience Open
Network communications and the Internet pervade our daily activities so deeply that we strongly depend on the availability and quality of the services they provide. For this reason, natural and technological disasters, by affecting network…
View article: netBaltic System – Heterogeneous Wireless Network for Maritime Communications
netBaltic System – Heterogeneous Wireless Network for Maritime Communications Open
In case of maritime communications, we observe a growing interest in deployment of multitask satellite-based solutions and development of new maritime-specific systems intended for improvements in safety of e-navigation. Analysis of differ…
View article: A survey on network resiliency methodologies against weather-based disruptions
A survey on network resiliency methodologies against weather-based disruptions Open
Due to the increasing dependence on network ser- vices of our society, research has recently been concentrating on enhancing traditional protection strategies to withstand large- scale failures, as in case of disaster events. The recently-…
View article: A survey of strategies for communication networks to protect against large-scale natural disasters
A survey of strategies for communication networks to protect against large-scale natural disasters Open
Recent natural disasters have revealed that emergency networks presently cannot disseminate the necessary disaster information, making it difficult to deploy and coordinate relief operations. These disasters have reinforced the knowledge t…