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SoftAir: Towards to 5G Systems via a Software Defined Network Architecture

Publications

Journals

  • Janakaraj, P., Pinyoanuntapong, P., Wang, P., Lee, M., and Akyildiz, I. F., "Enabling AI-oriented Wireless Network Operating System for Self Driving Wireless Networks," under preparation for journal publication.
     
  • Janakaraj, P., Pinyoanuntapong, P., Lee, M., and Wang, P., "Software-Defined Reinforcement Learning for Delay-Optimal Traffic Engineering," submitted for journal publication, June 2019.
     
  • Rabanimotlagh, A., Janakaraj, P., and Wang, P., "Optimal Crowd-Augmented Spectrum Mapping via an Iterative Bayesian Decision Framework," Ad Hoc Networks, vol. 105, no. 102163, August 2020. [PDF]
     
  • Akyildiz, I. F., Kak, A., and Nie, S.,"6G and Beyond: The Future of Wireless Communications Systems," IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 133995-134030, July 2020. [PDF]
     
  • Kak, A., Kureev, A., Khorov, E., and Akyildiz, I. F., "Radio Access Network Design with Software-Defined Mobility Management," ACM/Springer Journal of Wireless Networks (WINET), vol. 26, pp. 3349-3362, July 2020. [Full Article]
     
  • Akyildiz, I. F. and Kak, A.,"The Internet of Space Things/CubeSats," IEEE Network, vol. 33, no. 5, pp. 212-218, Sept.-Oct. 2019. [PDF]
     
  • Akyildiz, I. F. and Kak, A.,"The Internet of Space Things/CubeSats: A Ubiquitous cyber-physical System for the Connected World," Computer Networks (Elsevier) Journal, vol. 150, pp. 134-149, February 2019. [Full Article]
     
  • Xia, S., Wang, P., and Kwon, H., "Utility-Optimal Wireless Routing in the Presence of Heavy Tails," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 68, no. 1, pp. 780-796, Jan. 2019. [PDF]
     
  • Akyildiz, I. F., Kak, A., Khorov, E., Krasilov, A., and Kureev, A., "ARBAT: A Flexible Network Architecture for QoE-aware Communications in 5G Systems," Computer Networks (Elsevier) Journal, vol. 147, pp. 262-279, December 2018. [Full Article]
     
  • Lin, S.-C., Wang, P., Akyildiz, I. F., and Min, L., "Towards Optimal Network Planning for Software-Defined Networks," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 17, no. 12, pp. 2953-2967, 1 Dec. 2018. [PDF]
     
  • Ercan, A. O., Sunay, M. O., and Akyildiz, I. F. "RF Energy Harvesting and Transfer for Spectrum Sharing Cellular IoT Communications in 5G Systems," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 17, no. 7, pp. 1680-1694, July 2018. [PDF]
     
  • Lin, S.-C., Wang, P., Akyildiz, I. F., and Luo, M., "Delay-Based Maximum Power-Weight Scheduling with Heavy-Tailed Traffic," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 2540-2555, Aug. 2017.  [PDF]
     
  • Akyildiz, I. F., Nie, S., Lin, S.-C., and Chandrasekaran, M."5G Roadmap: 10 Key Enabling Technologies," Computer Networks (Elsevier) Journal, vol. 106, pp. 17-48, September 2016.  [Full Article]
     
  • Lin, S.-C., Wang, P., and Min, L., "Control Traffic Balancing in Software Defined Networks," Computer Networks (Elsevier) Journal, vol. 106, pp. 260-271, September 2016.  [PDF]
     
  • Akyildiz, I.F., Lee, A., Wang, P., Luo, M., and Chou, W. , "Research Challenges for Traffic Engineering in Software Defined Networks," IEEE Network, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 52-58, May-June 2016. [PDF]
     
  • Lin, S.-C., Wang, P., and Min, L., "Jointly Optimized QoS-Aware Virtualization and Routing in Software Defined Networks," Computer Networks (Elsevier), vol. 96, pp. 69-78, February 2016. [PDF]
     
  • Akyildiz, I. F., Lin, S.-C., Wang, P., "Wireless Software-defined Networks (W-SDNs) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) for 5G Cellular Systems: An Overview and Qualitative Evaluation," Computer Network (Elsevier) Journal, vol. 93, Part 1, pp. 66-79, December 2015.  [Full Article]
     
  • Akyildiz, I. F., Wang, P., and Lin, S.-C., "SoftAir: A Software Defined Networking Architecture for 5G Wireless Systems," Computer Network (Elsevier) Journal, vol. 85, pp. 1-18, July 2015.  [PDF]
     

Conferences

  • Janakaraj, P., Pinyoanuntapong, P., Wang, P., and Lee, M., "Towards In-Band Telemetry for Self Driving Wireless Networks," Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM 2020 Network Intelligence Workshop, Toronto, Canada, June 2020.  [PDF]
     
  • Pinyoanuntapong, P., Janakaraj, P., Wang, P., Lee, M., and Chen, C., "FedAir: Towards Multi-hop Federated Learning Over-the-Air," Proc. of IEEE SPAWC 2020, Atlanta, USA, May 2020. [PDF]
     
  • Pinyoanuntapong, P., Lee, M., and Wang, P., "Distributed Multi-Hop Traffic Engineering via Stochastic Policy Gradient Reinforcement Learning," 2019 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Waikoloa, HI, USA, 2019. [PDF]
     
  • Pinyoanuntapong, P., Lee, M., and Wang, P., "Delay-optimal Traffic Engineering through Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning," Proc. IEEE INFOCOM NI workshop 2019, Pairs, France, May 2019. [PDF]
     
  • Kak, A., Guven, E., Ergin, E., and Akyildiz, I. F., "Performance Analysis of SDN-based Internet of Space Things," 2018 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps), Abu Dhabi, UAE, December 2018. [PDF]
     
  • Lee, A., Wang, P., Lin, S.-C., Akyildiz, I. F., and Luo, M., "Dynamic bandwidth allocation in SDN based next generation virtual networks: a deterministic network calculus approach," 2018 Conference on Research in Adaptive and Convergent Systems, Honolulu, Hawaii, October 2018. [PDF]
     
  • Tello-Oquendo, L., Akyildiz, I. F., Lin, S.-C., and Pla, V., "A Software-Defined Networking based Architecture for QoS-Aware IoT Communication in 5G Systems," 2nd International Balkan Conference on Communications and Networking (BalkanCom), Podgorica, Montenegro, June 2018. [PDF]
     
  • Tello-Oquendo, L., Akyildiz, I. F., Lin, S.-C., and Pla, V., "SDN-Based Architecture for Providing Reliable Internet of Things Connectivity in 5G Systems," 17th Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop (MedHocNet), Capri, Italy, June 2018. [PDF]
     
  • Xia, X., Wang , P. "Stochastic Network Utility Maximization in the Presence of Heavy Tails," to appear in IEEE ICC 2017, Pairs, France, May 2017.
     
  • Lin, S.-C. and Akyildiz, I. F., "Dynamic Base Station Formation for Solving NLOS Problem in 5G Millimeter-wave Communication," to appear in IEEE INFOCOM, May 2017.
     
  • Gran, A., Lin, S.-C., and Akyildiz, I. F., "Towards Wireless Infrastructure-as-a-Service (WIaaS) for 5G Software-Defined Cellular Systems," 2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Paris, May 2017.  [PDF]
     
  • Lin, S.-C., Wang, P., Akyildiz, I. F., and Luo, M., "Throughput-Optimal LIFO Policy for Bounded Delay in the Presence of Heavy-Tailed Traffic," 2016 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Washington, DC USA, Dec. 2016.  [PDF]
     
  • Janakaraj, P., Wang, P., and Chen, Z. "Towards Cloud-based Crowd-augmented Spectrum Mapping for Dynamic Spectrum Access," Proc. of ICCCN, Hawaii, USA, August 2016.
     
  • Lin, S.-C., Akyildiz, I. F., Wang, P., and Luo, M., "QoS-Aware Adaptive Routing in Multi-layer Hierarchical Software Defined Networks: A Reinforcement Learning Approach," Proc. of 2016 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC), San Francisco, USA, June 2016, pp. 25-33.  [PDF]
     
  • Wang, P., Luo, M., and Lin, S.-C., "A Framework for QoS-aware Traffic Classication Using Semi-supervised Machine Learning in SDNs," Proc. of 2016 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC), San Francisco, USA, June 2016, pp. 760-765.