Networking and Internet Architecture Papers

ALT Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) systems using 5G and beyond signals of opportunity enable joint wireless sensing and communication using shared infrastructure and spectrum resources. While multistatic ISAC can increase sensing coverage with spatially distributed receivers, dense and dynamic clutter can significantly degrade bistatic range and Doppler estimation, leading to errors in target localization and velocity estimation. This paper presents a multistatic ISAC framework with clutter suppression for high-fidelity estimation of target position and velocity. Distributed clutter is modeled with randomly located scatterers with varying Doppler spreads and radar cross sections to capture dense and dynamic clutter effects. A broad range of conventional signal processing baselines are evaluated for clutter suppression, showing limited robustness under strong clutter conditions. To address this limitation, deep learning-based clutter suppression methods are introduced to impro

ALT Research project 6G NeXt is considering true 3D holography as a use case, setting requirements on the communication as well as the computing infrastructure. In a future holographic communication service, clients are widely spread in the network and cooperatively interact with each other. Especially for holographic communication high processing power is required as well. This makes a high-speed distributed backbone computing infrastructure, which realizes the concept of split computing, inevitable. Furthermore, tight integration between processing facilities and wireless networks is required in order to provide an immersive user experience. This paper illustrates true 3D holographic communication and its requirements. Afterward, an appropriate solution approach is elaborated. Here, novel technological approaches are discussed based on a proposed overall communication and computing architecture.

ALT Federated learning traditionally relies on a fixed aggregation rule despite shifting client state and wireless dynamics. We present FedMaJ, a framework that dynamically selects aggregation rules via Majority Judgment voting. During voting rounds, clients evaluate candidate models across performance, resource utilization, channel condition, and fairness metrics. The server adopts the majority-preferred rule and retains it until the next vote, scheduled dynamically based on accuracy trends. Evaluated in over-the-air federated learning with explicit energy and resource cost modeling, synthetic and Fashion-MNIST experiments show that FedMaJ achieves competitive learning performance and superior aggregation-influence fairness. Under extreme-evaluation perturbations, Majority Judgment yields significantly more stable rule selections than mean-based scoring, establishing ordinal voting as a robust control layer for adaptive aggregation.

ALT Emerging intelligent wireless networks increasingly rely on autonomous AI agents to adapt spectrum usage to dynamic and heterogeneous operating conditions. However, collective learning is challenging when agents experience different local interference environments and cannot exchange raw observations due to communication-overhead and privacy constraints. We propose Federated Agentic Spectrum Coordination with Interference Awareness (FASCIA), a federated multi-agent deep reinforcement learning framework for adaptive spectrum coordination. In FASCIA, each network manager acts as an autonomous AI agent that perceives its local interference environment, accumulates experience in a persistent local memory, and learns an adaptive spectrum coordination policy through local interactions. Coordination among agents is achieved through periodic federated aggregation of locally trained models, without exchanging raw sensing data or experience. Since spectrum decisions made by one agent alter the e

ALT Network-wide flooding in mobile multihop networks selects relays from locally maintained topology information. Mobility makes this information outdated, leaving two basic responses: add redundant relays or refresh the topology and re-select relays more frequently. How these mechanisms trade reliability for overhead, however, is not well quantified. We quantify this trade-off on a public trace of 157 vehicles using Optimized Link State Routing version 2 (OLSRv2) and exact minimum-cost relay sets. Twofold coverage increases median relay-cover lifetime by only 2.3x, rather than about an order of magnitude as predicted by an independent-hazard model. The limitation is structural: 43.6 % of two-hop neighbours have only one possible relay, and newly appearing neighbours invalidate existing covers. Moreover, the delivery gain of a second relay falls from 0.061 to 0.016 when relay selection uses instantaneous link state, showing that redundancy mainly compensates for outdated topology informat

ALT Distributed quantum computing (DQC) connects multiple quantum processing units to overcome the scale limits of monolithic hardware. We introduce SeQUeNCe.DQC, a new top-level module within the SeQUeNCe package that compiles monolithic circuits into topology-aware execution plans and coordinates their execution using SeQUeNCe's existing quantum-network modules and protocols. We validate SeQUeNCe.DQC by reproducing a two-node trapped-ion Grover experiment in simulation and comparing success probabilities with the reported 71% benchmark. We then evaluate how compiler strategy, topology, and memory capacity jointly govern distributed circuit execution time and success rate. In these experiments, our hybrid compilers successfully identified mixed TeleGate/TeleData execution plans that outperformed pure gate-teleportation strategies. By capturing the physical overhead of distributed quantum primitives, SeQUeNCe.DQC provides a rigorous platform for co-designing DQC software and hardware archi

ALT Effective coral reef protection and restoration demands continuous, long-term underwater monitoring. However, current solutions largely rely on fragmented, manual labor and costly infrastructure, or are severely limited by constrained battery lifespans. In this paper, we present CoraLive, an ultra-low-power underwater camera system for long-term, continuous coral reef monitoring. CoraLive presents a decoupled underwater-shore co-design that minimizes on-board computation and storage, offloading heavy reconstruction and segmentation tasks to offline shore-side processing. To achieve this, CoraLive introduces a dual-rate sensing scheme combining frequent low-resolution frames with sparse high-fidelity samples and a content-adaptive update mechanism that extracts and stores only compact, task-specific data, eliminating the need to save raw video frames. We implement CoraLive on a custom STM32U575-based dual-camera prototype with device-level computation and storage optimization. Compared

ALT Wireless digital twins enable network policies to be evaluated before deployment, but reproducing channel effects within a running protocol stack requires continuous waveform processing under strict timing constraints. We present MIRAGE, a GPU-accelerated channel emulator that applies propagation effects directly to in-phase and quadrature samples exchanged by software 5G New Radio stacks. MIRAGE combines batched multiuser, multiantenna filtering with timestamped shared-memory transport and radio-driver integrations for OpenAirInterface and OCUDU. External propagation models supply channel responses asynchronously, while versioned buffers ensure consistent coefficients within each processing interval. Experiments on one NVIDIA H100 GPU evaluate waveform accuracy, processing time, channel updates, and full-stack traffic delivery. At 61.44 million samples per second, eight single-antenna links, four two-by-two links, and one four-by-four link meet the tested 0.5 ms bidirectional processi

ALT We study bistatic UAV detection using dual use amplify and forward (AF) relays in satellite aerial ground integrated networks. The target reflects the pilot, payload, and relay noise, allowing the exact finite sample Neyman Pearson detection probability to be derived in noncentral chisquare form under Gaussian payload signaling. The AF cascade introduces a variance signature even without payload transmission and leads to a rate-constrained pilot allocation, distinct relay-power limits, and phase-dependent variance changes under residual direct-path interference. For a decorrelated or suppressed direct path, we further derive a phase-only generalized likelihood ratio test with exact single-integral error probabilities at an assumed target magnitude, the correlated case retains a known-coefficient detection law. A 15-GHz low Earth orbit link budget and Monte Carlo simulations validate the analysis.

ALT The Scalable Matching Model (SMM) is a useful abstraction for reconfigurable datacenter networks. In SMM, a set of n (Top-of-Rack) electrical packet switches is connected via a set of optical circuit switches (OCS), each realizing a p × p matching, where p is the number of ports per switch. In the case when p ≪ n, bounded-degree networks utilize only a small portion of the OCS infrastructure at each point in time, especially when traffic patterns are skewed and bursty. In this work, we propose the Opportunistic Optical Link Scheduling (OOLS), a set of lightweight OCS link scheduling routines, designed to augment bounded-degree reconfigurable network topologies by leveraging idle OCS resources. We evaluate the performance of OOLS in the SMM through simulations, using synthetic and real-world data-center workloads. Our simulation results show that OOLS substantially improves performance, lowering communication costs and boosting throughput.