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A Practical Congestion Control Scheme for Named Data Networking Open
Traditional congestion control mechanisms are designed for end-to-end connections and do not fit the Named Data Networking (NDN) architecture, in which content can be retrieved from multiple sources and through multiple paths. To fully exp…
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Multicasting over Emerging 5G Networks: Challenges and Perspectives Open
The number and variety of mobile multicast applications are growing at an unprecedented and unanticipated pace. Mobile network providers are in front of a dramatic increase in multicast traffic load, and this growth is forecasted to contin…
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Programmable Metasurface-Based Multicast Systems: Design and Analysis Open
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Device-to-Device Communications Enabled Energy Efficient Multicast Scheduling in mmWave Small Cells Open
To keep pace with the rapid growth of mobile traffic demands, dense deployment of small cells in millimeter wave (mmWave) bands has become a promising candidate for next generation wireless communication systems. With a greatly increased d…
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Multicast Routing and Distance-Adaptive Spectrum Allocation in Elastic Optical Networks With Shared Protection Open
We consider an elastic all-optical network, where each node is multicast-capable and does not support spectrum conversion. In such a network, for a given set of static multicast demands, we consider distance-adaptive spectrum resource allo…
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A Social-Aware Resource Allocation for 5G Device-to-Device Multicast Communication Open
With the ever-increasing demands for popular content sharing among humans, device-to-device (D2D) multicast communication, as a promising technology to support wireless services within a local area, is introduced in a 5G cellular network. …
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Coding, Multicast, and Cooperation for Cache- Enabled Heterogeneous Small Cell Networks Open
Caching at the wireless edge is a promising approach to dealing with massive content delivery in heterogeneous wireless networks, which have high demands on backhaul. In this paper, a typical cache-enabled small cell network under heteroge…
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BMRF: Bidirectional Multicast RPL Forwarding Open
Nowadays, the transition of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) to Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), in particular to IPv6 over Low power Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPAN), is evident [1]. However, in most commonly used implementatio…
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Novel Protocols for Improving the Performance of ODMRP and EODMRP over Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Open
Due to its simplicity, efficiency, and robustness to mobility, the On-Demand Multicast Routing Protocol (ODMRP) becomes a standout amongst the most broadly utilized multicast routing protocols in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). However, t…
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Optical multicast system for data center networks Open
We present the design and experimental evaluation of an Optical Multicast System for Data Center Networks, a hardware-software system architecture that uniquely integrates passive optical splitters in a hybrid network architecture for fast…
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Cooperative Non-Orthogonal Layered Multicast Multiple Access for Heterogeneous Networks Open
This paper proposes a novel design of cooperative non-orthogonal layered multicast multiple access in a heterogeneous network, where the information is encoded into the messages of high priority (HP) and low priority (LP). Two types of mul…
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Social-Energy-Aware User Clustering for Content Sharing Based on D2D Multicast Communications Open
With the ever-increasing demands for content sharing, device-to-device (D2D) multicast content sharing is becoming a promising technology to improve the quality of local area services. In order to guarantee the implementation of D2D multic…
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Fragmentation-aware service provisioning for advance reservation multicast in SD-EONs Open
In this paper, we study the service provisioning schemes for dynamic advance reservation (AR) multicast requests in elastic optical networks (EONs). We first propose several algorithms that can handle the service scheduling and routing and…
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Roads to Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Services in 5G New Radio Open
Broadcast and multicast represent a key opportunity in 5G for the massive consumption of multimedia services in the near future. These technologies permit to offload an important portion of this traffic in peak demand scenarios where users…
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Joint Dynamic Rate Control and Transmission Scheduling for Scalable Video Multirate Multicast Over Wireless Networks Open
In this paper we consider the time-varying characteristics of practical wireless networks and propose a joint dynamic rate allocation and transmission scheduling optimization scheme for scalable video multirate multicast based on opportuni…
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SpiNNaker: Enhanced multicast routing Open
The human brain is a complex biological neural network characterised by high degrees of connectivity among neurons. Any system designed to simulate large-scale spiking neuronal networks needs to support such connectivity and the associated…
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Improving Energy Efficiency of Multimedia Content Dissemination by Adaptive Clustering and D2D Multicast Open
While achieving desired performance, there exist still many challenges in current cellular networks to support the multimedia content dissemination services. The conventional multimedia transmission schemes tend to serve all multicast grou…
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Distributed Sub-Tree-Based Optical Multicasting Scheme in Elastic Optical Data Center Networks Open
The sub-tree-based optical multicasting scheme provides a spectrum-efficient approach to providing emerging multicast services in optical data center networks. Moreover, multicast services are usually replicated and maintained in multiple …
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Predictive geographic multicast routing protocol in flying ad hoc networks Open
In the past decades, the unmanned aerial systems have been utilized only for military operations. However, recently, the potential uses and applicability of unmanned aerial vehicles (commonly known as drones) in civilian application domain…
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Hardware-Based Evaluation of Scalable and Resilient Multicast With BIER in P4 Open
Traditional IP multicast (IPMC) maintains state per IPMC group in core devices to distribute one-to-many traffic along tree-like structures through the network. This limits its scalability because whenever subscribers of IPMC groups change…
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Efficient Management of Multicast Traffic in Directional mmWave Networks Open
Multicasting is becoming more and more important in the Internet of Things (IoT) and wearable applications (e.g., high definition video streaming, virtual reality gaming, public safety, among others) that require high bandwidth efficiency …
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A New Deep Q-Network Design for QoS Multicast Routing in Cognitive Radio MANETs Open
In this paper, we propose a new deep Q-network (DQN) design for quality-of-service (QoS) multicast routing (DQMR) protocol to establish efficient QoS multicast (EQM) trees in cognitive radio mobile ad hoc networks (CR-MANETs). An EQM tree …
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User‐specific link adaptation scheme for device‐to‐device network coding multicast Open
User‐specific network controlled device‐to‐device (D2D) communication is a promising method to improve the system performance of the future cellular networks. It is a challenging task to realise the optimal link adaptation for D2D reliable…
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NFV-Based Scalable Guaranteed-Bandwidth Multicast Service for Software Defined ISP Networks Open
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Algorithmic Support of Optimization of Multicast Data Transmission in Networks with Dynamic Routing Open
This article describes the optimization process for the multicast tree in the networks with dynamic traffic routing, which is based on the channel state and evaluates each channel. The problem of constructing a multicast connections tree o…
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Multicast routing strategy for SDN-cluster based MANET Open
The energy limitation and frequent movement of the mobile Ad hoc network (MANET) nodes (i.e., devices) make the routing process very difficult. The multicast routing problem is one of the NP-complete problems. Therefore, the need for a new…
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Subband CQI Feedback-Based Multicast Resource Allocation in MIMO-OFDMA Networks Open
Multicast transmission is one of the key enablers toward a more spectral- and energy-efficient distribution of multimedia content in current and envisaged cellular networks. In order to ensure that all users in a multicast group are able t…
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Approaching 6G Use Case Requirements with Multicasting Open
The shift towards 6G networks is expected to be accompanied by an increased capability to support group-oriented services, such as extended reality and holographic communications, in many different contexts, from high-precision manufacturi…
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Multicast On-chip Traffic Analysis Targeting Manycore NoC Design Open
The scalability of Network-on-Chip (NoC) designs has become a rising concern as we enter the many core era. Multicast support represents a particular yet relevant case within this context and has been the focus of different research effort…
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Distributed Cache Placement and User Association in Multicast-Aided Heterogeneous Networks Open
The small cells have been equipped with caching and multicast capabilities to save energy and ease backhaul burden. However, given the increasing diversity of user association in heterogeneous networks, traditional schemes may fail to expl…