Networking and Internet Architecture
Covers all aspects of computer communication networks, including network architecture and design, network protocols, and internetwork standards (like TCP/IP). Also includes topics, such as web caching, that are directly relevant to Internet architecture and performance. Roughly includes all of ACM Subject Class C.2 except C.2.4, which is more likely to have Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing as the primary subject area.
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Bipartite message-passing GNNs outperform AMO and ICD, cutting inference time tenfold and resisting beam squint across 64 subcarriers.
· “Efficient Graph Neural Networks for Multicarrier Wideband Hybrid Beamforming Optimization”
An 868 MHz energy harvesting antenna switches between co‑ and cross‑polarized OOK backscatter to secure BLE sensors.
· “A New Backscattering Dual-Polarized Rectenna for Wireless Power Transfer and IoT Applications”
A coarse grid plus swarm search skips eigenvalue decomposition and grid mismatch, reaching the Cramér-Rao bound at high SNR.
· “Hybrid Continuous DoA Estimation with Shared-Radius Co-Prime Circular Arrays”
CleanCity‑BinSense parameterizes fill‑level sensing to slash waste collection costs in developing‑city deployment.
An AI-native extension of the GSMA Operator Platform balances latency and energy via decentralised multi-agent negotiation.
· “AI-Native Orchestration in the 6G Continuum: Evolving Operator Platforms with Agentic AI”
Proposed architecture interprets natural language intents to automate coordination of external service bookings with internal network…
· “Toward Fully Autonomous 6G Networks: AI-driven Operational Efficiency and Optimization”
Quota-projected four-branch controller improves success, fallback, and delay across five traffic loads with 20 value outputs instead of 625.
· “QoS-Aware RACH Preamble Slicing via Quota-Projected Branching Deep Reinforcement Learning”
Modeling faults as entropy flows powers a diffusion predictor that beats top baselines on faults and KPI accuracy.
6SEVEN reveals that seed choice, dealiasing, and counting rules often outweigh the algorithm itself when comparing predictors.
· “6SEVEN: System for EValuating IPv6 ENumeration algorithms”
Review argues that spatial degrees of freedom from dynamic antenna positioning improve power transfer, beamforming, and robustness.
· “Movable Antennas Enabled Wireless Powered Networks: Principles and Technologies”
Signed neural receivers and learned schedulers operate safely beside vendor code without ever blocking the radio.
· “The OCUDU dApp Platform: An Open Runtime and E3 Interface for Real-Time AI-RAN”
Measured latency shows only in-process ABI meets 100 μs deadline when DU is on air
· “Real-Time dApps for AI-RAN: Measured Interface Requirements for Inline PHY and Slot-Level Control”
Crawl data and simulation: protocol design, not node variety, skews peer visibility — and the network stays connected.
· “How Bitcoin Forms Its Network: Peer-Table Sampling and Structural Properties”
The central claim is that LeCaR-style mixing of LRU and LFU has linear regret ($R^{{LeCaR}}$_T = Ω(T)), even with unbounded history, while…
· “No-Regret Mixing of LRU and LFU with Optimal Switching Cost”
By tying transmit power and sub-bands to each user's imperceptible delay threshold, the method saves radio resources without harming…
· “Perception-Aware Joint Power and Sub-Band Allocation for 6G In-Body Subnetworks”
Allowlist policies can be learned from live traffic without a clean seed — free-text fields remain the precision wall.
· “WAPP: Safe Learning of Positive Security WAF Policies from Live Traffic”
Validates FPGA MU-MIMO beamforming under repeatable, site-specific channels without RF hardware.
· “An FPGA-in-the-Loop Testbed for MU-MIMO OFDM Beamforming over Ray-Traced Wireless Channels”
Vector-quantized encoder reduces task-relevant payloads to 64–256 bits, letting a phased-MIMO radar deliver them with negligible…
· “Enabling Emergency Communication via Semantic Radar-Centric ISAC”
Compact meshes need zero relays; sparse nets can drop relays by dropping loss balance, MILP shows.
· “Measurement-Device Placement in MDI-QKD Networks with Minimal Trusted Relays”
Variable-length prefix coding packs grid and report into one 77-bit reply, doubling pileup efficiency
Closed-form rules pick when fresh-local data beats a delayed global view and how wide a snapshot should reach.
Six-month measurement on Skylo and Tiantong shows access procedure, not data, consumes 56% of energy.
· “Exploring the Initial Performance of NB-IoT NTN over GEO: Measurement and Analysis”
A framework that reasons about operating mechanisms and supports counterfactual 'what-if' queries achieves 98.98% AUROC and outperforms…
Latent scene compression beats JPEG and JPEG 2000 on hazard-relevant quality at 0.06 bits per pixel.
Position diffusion is graph heat flow; the same GNN exposes LoS/NLoS boundaries in indoor radio maps.
SESO-ISAC composes and selects complete end-to-end configurations by balancing latency, reliability, freshness, and quality.
· “SESO-ISAC: Service-Aware End-to-End Sensing Orchestration for 6G ISAC”
Edge apps with dependent subtasks get closed-form delays and a static routing policy that beats dynamic schedulers.
A per-flow packet count, consulted only when a slot is about to be overwritten, lifts F1 from 0.84 to 0.91.
A reinforcement-learning controller decides when cells may sleep, holding service agreements even under bursty traffic.
· “SLA-Safe Energy Control for AI-Native NG-RAN Using Stability-Aware Constrained PPO”
By modeling each interface as a virtual subnode, the method jointly assigns packets to modalities and routes them across the network.
· “Biased Backpressure Routing for Multihop Wireless Networks with Heterogeneous Interfaces”
At 250 GHz the hemispherical design keeps beamwidth steadier and gain higher across the scan.
A city-scale wireless twin built from LiDAR, footprints, and open metadata captures coverage boundaries better than Okumura–Hata, and…
· “HalifaxDT: A Wireless Digital Twin from Open Geospatial Data”
Semantic 4-bit latents with set fusion work across receiver counts and under 50% loss, using only 256 bits per window.
· “Semantic Communication for Distributed Spectrum Monitoring over Unreliable Links”
Per-packet switching between 5G and satellite links gains 57 points over 5G-only routing.
· “SDN-Orchestrated Dual-Path 5G/SATCOM Maritime Communications for Carrier Strike Groups”
GPT-4o picks base stations per user, boosting median throughput without harming weak connections.
· “WIP: Energy-Efficient LLM-Based Serving Cluster Formulation in Cell-Free Massive MIMO”
Per-flow SHAP explanations arrive at 1,953 flows per second, though false positives rise to ~5.8% under random splits.
New decoupled architecture integrates orbital dynamics and quantum decoherence as network-layer attributes for efficient routing evaluation.
· “QUASAR: Quantum Satellite Architecture and Routing Simulator”
A wavelength borrowing architecture for optical spine-leaf data center networks with a tunable borrowing degree B that balances…
· “A Wavelength Borrowing Architecture for Optical Data Center Networks - Extended Version”
Correcting the burst errors single-stage models smooth over also cuts QoE-risk error by up to 87.8 percent.
Sampling-based predictive uncertainty usefully ranks translation risk for LLM-generated network configurations, and parameter-token versus…
· “Uncertainty Signals for Network Intent Translation: Risk Ranking and Ambiguity Localization”
Grazing-incidence peak on drywall, blocked by absorber touch, confirms a new surface-guided path for mmWave signals.
Swap node roles in collectives to avoid congestion, tested on a shared cluster.
· “Tuning Collective Patterns to Alleviate Congestion in Shared AI Clusters”
Cross-layer scheme trades CPU cycles for transmission time, reaching network availability without extra bandwidth.
· “Network Availability Enhancement in Low-Altitude HetNets: A Cross-Layer Design Perspective”
Under realistic traffic, stations revert to random backoff 93% of the time; delay driven by contention window, not collisions.
New metric aligns static balance distribution with dynamic demand, reducing deficits 27% without prediction.
· “Employing the Structural Power to Achieve Supply-Demand Balanced Payment Channel Networks”
A heuristic-seeded reinforcement-learning protocol reaches full-online reliability with a seventh of the interaction budget.
A distributed medium access protocol (PRISM) uses multi-agent deep reinforcement learning to exploit spatial semantic redundancies among…
Adversarial and contrastive alignment replace target labels, fine-tuning, and raw feature transfer in a 44-scenario test.
· “An Adversarial Zero-Shot Learning Approach for Anomaly Detection in Multivariate IoT Traffic Data”
ML model uses standard RSRP reports to estimate downlink signal quality without extra measurement overhead
· “Indirect Estimation of SINR via SSB and CSI-RS RSRP in 5G NR”
Open-source sidecar brings sub-millisecond I/Q samples to portable applications without throughput loss
· “Bringing dApps to OCUDU: An E3 Controller for Real-Time Open RAN Intelligence”
Customizable security per communication flow, with overhead low enough for real-time rolling stock networks
· “SecDT: A Profile-Based Security Layer for TRDP Communications”
LBTS-based scheduling and NS-3 relevance cuts slice execution time by up to 50% with no loss of accuracy.
· “Efficient Co-simulator Integration with Application to Smart Grids”
8-element spatial matched filter yields highest SIR; combining both degrades microcell users.
· “Microcell Hot Spot and Smart Antennas Evaluation in WCDMA Macrocell System”
Experimental testbed shows slice metadata can control bandwidth and priority over WLAN using free5GC and OpenWrt.
· “Integrating Wi-Fi into 3GPP 5G Network Slicing: An Experimental Prototype Study”
Three deployment schemes have a sharp density threshold between disconnected and continuous service.
A clip-then-noise defense restores anonymity with less than 5% accuracy loss.
This work demonstrates factor collapse in passcode-based MFA and shows that 50 Hz accelerometer/gyroscope data can distinguish human from…
· “WiP: Characterizing and Defending Against Mobile-Agent-Driven MFA Automation”
Same 123,000 flows, same features: only the label source changed — conflict fell from 0.4197 to 0.0169.
· “SoK: Where Do Flow Labels Come From? Auditing Label Provenance in Encrypted Traffic Benchmarks”
16 of 18 identity providers transmit persistent IDs on EU sites without user consent.
· “Bridging the Gap: A Longitudinal Analysis of Extended Identifiers in the Post-Cookie Era”
A two-gate validation method reveals that proxy hardware fails to capture real AP speed and network impact under load.
By jointly optimizing beamforming, model depth, and compute frequency, the proposed framework maintains accurate human pose tracking under…
New radio targets alone do not justify 7G; six tests decide whether a post-6G capability earns its own generation.
In a signaling-storm test, two levels of mind-reading recover the correct action where a naive divergence gate fails.
· “Agents That Model Agents: Five Principles Toward a Theory of Mind for 6G Networks”
Learned policy cuts mission steps by 66–82% while meeting 99.6% of communication quality targets.
A LightGBM model trained on distance and wall count lets planners optimise indoor coverage without extra field work.
· “Data-Driven Case Study of gNB Placement Optimization in a Private Indoor 5G Testbed”
Using real sensor data, capping collective perception messages to high-value objects stabilizes packet reception and cuts channel load.
· “The Role of Collective Perception and 5G NR-V2X Sidelink in Road Safety”
A lightweight decision system uses RSSI trends and non-volatile memory to double efficiency for battery-less IoT devices.
· “Mobile Backscatter Communication for the Battery-less Internet of Things”
Server-side Shapley scores set per-modality keep-ratios at matched payload, beating equal splits with no extra uplink.
· “Contribution-Aware Bandwidth Allocation for Multimodal Split Learning”
TriSLA blocks violations before deployment using predictive ML and explainable AI, outperforming reactive methods by 48.8 percentage points.
Flattening 3D road geometry into 2D for V2X propagation simulation can eliminate occlusion intervals, shifting average signal loss by 10 dB…
· “Highly Detailed Simulation for Connected Automated Vehicle Cooperative Driving”
Sentinel-based failover adds only 7 ms per rekey and never drops below post-quantum security.
Two-agent RL framework learns when to send compressed state and how to accept, reject, or offload tasks, achieving the highest on-time…
Lacan puts identifying cryptography at session setup, keeping the data path cheap enough for gigabit forwarding.
A single Lambert-W equation selects the optimal number of diffusion steps for satellite image generation under time-varying solar energy.
A per-thread shared-memory ring buffer keeps BIND9 logging near zero-cost, so attackers can no longer hide in an overwhelming log flood.
SkyShare protects astronomy while preserving satellite coverage, tested on 25 real RAS sites with Starlink data.
· “SkyShare: Constellation-wide Sky Sharing for LEO-Radio Astronomy Coexistence”
RT-NuSIS models spiking neural networks, memristive synapses, and adversarial attacks for cognitive radio experiments.
A cross-layer controller allocates coding redundancy and compute placement by physiological information value, achieving the lowest energy…
Sparse MoE enables a single offline RL model to specialize across heterogeneous configurations without retraining
Under local privacy, two-replicated servers retrieve more symbols per download than classical PIR permits.
· “Local Private Information Retrieval for Graph-Based Replicated Systems”