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Mobile users frequently face significant interruptions in transmission and reception during handovers from one Base Station (BS) to another, resulting in latencies that are incompatible with the stringent requirements of Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Communications (URLLC). To address this, 3GPP introduced a novel handover procedure, called Layer 1/Layer 2 Triggered Mobility (LTM), in Release 18. LTM...Show More
Massive Machine-Type Communications (mMTC) are one of the three main use cases powered by 5G and beyond networks. These are distinguished by the need to serve a large number of devices which are characterized by non-intensive traffic and low energy consumption. While the sporadic nature of the mMTC traffic does not pose an exertion on the efficient operation of the network, multiplexing the traffi...Show More
With the rapid increase in the amount of exchanged traffic over cellular networks, stemming partly from computation-intensive tasks, and the highly mobile nature of the users, mobility management exhibits considerable challenges in next-generation cellular networks. A way to alleviate these problems is by using Software-defined Radio Access Networks (SD-RAN), where a centralized controller with a ...Show More
GSM-R (GSM for Railways) is a 2$G$-based standardized ground-to-train communications system that enabled interoperability across different countries. However, as a 2G-based system, it is nearing its lifetime and therefore, it will be replaced with 5G-based Future Railway Mobile Communications System (FRMCS). FRMCS is expected to bring in new use cases that demand low latency and high reliability. ...Show More
The development of 5G networks has enabled support for a vast number of applications with stringent traffic requirements, both in terms of communication and computation. Furthermore, the proximity of the entities, such as edge servers and User Plane Functions (UPFs) that provide these resources is of paramount importance. However, with the ever-increasing demand from these applications, operators ...Show More
Through using edge computing services, mobile devices can run complex tasks with the help of network-based computing resources. However, servers in the edge cloud are not only constrained to limited resources, but also must make allocation decisions with only limited information available. The clients requesting computing resources may also have limited information about the servers available to t...Show More
Mobility Management in 5G is challenging due to the usage of high frequencies and dense cell deployments. This often results in frequent handovers for users, causing disruptions in transmission and reception and adversely affecting network capacity. The crucial task is to integrate handover decisions with resource allocation, ensuring the target base station guarantees the minimum required user ra...Show More
Navigation and trajectorial estimation of maritime vessels are contingent upon the context of positional accuracy. Even the smallest deviations in the estimation of a given vessel may result in detrimental consequences in terms of economic and ecologic quotients. To ensure an agile and precise environment for maritime vessel positional estimation, preexisting marine radar technologies can be utili...Show More
In our digitized society, emerging applications require highly-performing and flexible networks that can adapt to satisfy varying connectivity needs. P4 as a domain-specific programming language for data plane pipelines introduces the required flexibility through easy-to-use programmability. However, the performance of P4-capable devices is still an open question that has not yet been completely a...Show More
While one of the main features of 5G networks is provisioning very high rates with low (or no) variability to cellular users, it has been shown that this turns out to be very ineffective for operators because it leads to an abundance of unused network resources. Yet, reallocating the unused resources to the same users, after providing them with the same constant rate, increases back the variabilit...Show More
5G networks have emerged as the only viable solution to accomplish a satisfying performance level for various types of services, where each of them has very challenging traffic requirements. One of those services are Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communications (URLLC), which are characterized by the stringent demand to deliver packets within a very short time with high reliability. Besides being suc...Show More
While LTE networks are known to provide relatively high data rates, reaching values as high as tens of Mbps, these rates exhibit considerable variability over time. The rate variability hurts especially the performance of applications and services that require stable data rates, such as real-time video streaming, online gaming, virtual reality, augmented reality, etc. 5G emerged as a solution to t...Show More
Crowdsourcing data collection from a network of mobile devices is useful in various applications. Mobile devices store a large amount of visual data that can aid in different application scenarios. Trained Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) can be deployed on mobile devices to be used in searching for objects of interest. Querying for novel objects, for which models have not been trained yet, pr...Show More
The rising number of connected Internet of Things (IoT) devices in 5G networks and the standardization of the 3GPP reduced capability (RedCap) devices, turn the IoT energy efficiency into a topic of paramount importance for 5G. The design goals and use cases of RedCap devices highlight the need for long device battery life due to the infeasibility of replacing batteries. With the focus emerging on...Show More
The 6th generation of wireless mobile networks is emerging as a paradigm shifting successor to unifying the experience across the physical, digital, and human worlds, pushing boundaries on performance in capacity, throughput, latency, scalability, flexibility, and reliability, while prominently addressing new major factors, including sustainability, security and privacy, as well as digital inclusi...Show More
The possibility of decoupling the operation of control plane from data plane in RANs, which became possible with the introduction of Software-Defined Networks in 5G, brought a paradigm shift in cellular network operation. The key element that enables this is a centralized controller, located away from base stations. This yields increased flexibility in the functioning of cellular networks, resulti...Show More
Competitive demand for network resources has only increased during the emergence of 5G next generation cellular technology. As video streaming accounts for an overwhelming percentage of this demand, the importance of considering the often-neglected Quality of Experience (QoE) metric is essential to ensure network resources are allocated in the most effective manner. Generalized network throughput ...Show More
Signal quality fluctuates significantly due to blockages of Line of Sight, shadowing, and user mobility. This renders mobility management in 5G quite challenging. To improve it, 3GPP introduced Conditional Handover (CHO), which reduces handover failures by preparing target Base Stations in advance. This algorithm adapts to the varying channel conditions and constantly prepares/releases cells, whic...Show More
One of the three types of services supported by 5G networks are Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communications, which are characterized by the stringent requirement to deliver packets within a very short time with a high reliability. Besides being successfully transmitted/received, these data need to be processed as well. To satisfy these strict requirements, one needs to determine both the required da...Show More
Software-Defined Radio Access Networks (SD-RANs) foster the concepts of programmability and flexibility, which are vital for next generation cellular networks. However, SD-RANs render network management and orchestration very challenging. Indeed, related works indicate that when thousands of connected devices are spread across the underlying network, SD-RAN approaches with a single controller beco...Show More
Mobility management in 5G is challenging, and at higher frequencies, a larger number of cells is needed to provide similar coverage to that in 4G. Consequently, Base Stations (BSs) are placed much more densely and users experience frequent handovers, reducing network capacity. Advanced handover techniques are needed in 5G to perform smooth network operation. In this paper, we formulate an optimiza...Show More
The introduction of Software-Defined Radio Access Networks in 5G, whose main feature is the possibility of decoupling the control plane from the data plane, and associating the former with a controller away from base stations, represents a paradigm shift in the way the network resources are allocated. This property provides an increased flexibility in cellular network operation, yielding significa...Show More
5G networks have emerged as the only viable solution to render a satisfying level of performance to different types of services, each of them with very stringent traffic requirements. One of those services are Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communications (URLLC). A use case where these services are especially sensitive are vehicular networks. Therefore, in order to satisfy their traffic requirements,...Show More
Software-Defined Radio Access Networks (SD-RANs), introduced in 5G, represent a paradigm shift in the process of cellular network resource allocation. The decoupling of the control from the data plane, and associating the former with a controller away from Base Stations (BSs), has enabled an increased flexibility in allocating network resources which would lead to performance improvements. However...Show More
Mobility management in 5G, especially at higher frequencies, is challenging because the signal quality fluctuates significantly due to blockages of Line of Sight (LoS), shadowing and user mobility. As a result, users experience frequent handovers, which reduce the network capacity. In order to perform smooth network operation, the decisions when to handover and to which Base Station (BS) a user is...Show More