Air-ground heterogeneous networks for 5G and beyond via integrating high and low altitude platforms

J Qiu, D Grace, G Ding, MD Zakaria… - IEEE Wireless …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
UAVs are expected to be an important complementary component for 5G (and beyond)
communication systems to achieve the goal of global access to the Internet for all. To fully …

Secure software-defined networking communication systems for smart cities: Current status, challenges, and trends

M Rahouti, K Xiong, Y Xin - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Smart city is a transformative and progressive vision that aims to revolutionize infrastructure
systems and public services in an urban area with modern information technologies. Its …

Satellite-terrestrial integrated 6G: An ultra-dense LEO networking management architecture

T Ma, B Qian, X Qin, X Liu, H Zhou… - IEEE Wireless …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the rapid development of low earth orbit (LEO) satellites, the ultra-dense LEO satellite-
terrestrial integrated networking has become a promising paradigm to provide wide …

Holistic service-based architecture for space-air-ground integrated network for 5G-advanced and beyond

X Wang, T Sun, X Duan, D Wang, Y Li… - China …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Service-based Architecture (SBA) is one of the key innovations of 5G architecture that
leverage modularized, self-contained and independent services to provide flexible and …

[HTML][HTML] MEC-empowered non-terrestrial network for 6G wide-area time-sensitive internet of things

C Liu, W Feng, X Tao, N Ge - Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
In the upcoming sixth-generation (6G) era, the demand for constructing a wide-area time-
sensitive Internet of Things (IoT) continues to increase. As conventional cellular …

Task-oriented intelligent networking architecture for the space–air–ground–aqua integrated network

J Liu, X Du, J Cui, M Pan, D Wei - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As one of the most promising networks, the space–air–ground–aqua integrated network
(SAGAIN) has the characteristics of wide coverage and large information capacity, which …

SoftNet: A software defined decentralized mobile network architecture toward 5G

H Wang, S Chen, H Xu, M Ai, Y Shi - IEEE network, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile cloud computing and other new emerging communication paradigms such as mobile
social networking and Internet-of-Things, have brought challenges in flexibility, efficiency …

Software-defined UAV networks for 6G systems: Requirements, opportunities, emerging techniques, challenges, and research directions

MDABS Abir, MZ Chowdhury… - IEEE Open Journal of the …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The ever-increasing demand for wireless communication has driven the development of
innovative technologies to address the issues that conventional communication networks …

Link-level access cloud architecture design based on SDN for 5G networks

P Ameigeiras, JJ Ramos-Munoz, L Schumacher… - IEEE …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The exponential growth of data traffic and connected devices, and the reduction of latency
and costs, are considered major challenges for future mobile communication networks. The …

[HTML][HTML] Toward integrating software defined networks with the Internet of Things: a review

MA Ja'afreh, H Adhami, AE Alchalabi, M Hoda… - Cluster …, 2022 - Springer
Due to the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic, activities in most sectors-be it business,
education or even healthcare-are taking place in an online rather than in an inline style, and …