Emerging Architectures and Technologies for Evolving Mobile Internet and 6G

A special issue of Future Internet (ISSN 1999-5903). This special issue belongs to the section "Internet of Things".

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School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, Colchester CO4 3SQ, UK
Interests: wireless communications; mobile networks; Internet of Things; mobile edge computing; artificial intelligence; intelligent transport systems
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Universite Paris-Saclay, Saint-Aubin, France
University of Goettingen
School of Cyber Science and Technology, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
Interests: multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO); the Internet of Things (IoT); unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications; space-air-ground integrated networks; physical layer security
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National Key Lab of Communication, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Mobile internet is evolving fast, with trends and exciting advances coming from many domains including mobile devices, mobile computing, and networking. There are increasingly smarter mobile devices with more computing resources and higher intelligence, leading towards human-centric computing, massive machine-to-machine (M2M) connections, edge computing and artificial intelligence, virtualized and software-defined network infrastructure. Innovative mobile Internet technologies and architectures are urgently needed to keep pace with these advances and meet the expectations of emerging advanced mobile internet and 6G cellular network services.

This Special Issue invites papers contributing to the fields of novel architectures for mobile Internet and 6G, with exploitation of the latest advances in mobile communications, mobile networking, and computing technologies, and support for new mobile services of broader importance (such as connected autonomous vehicles and systems, machine learning applications, augmented reality, and virtual reality). It solicits standard papers of original research from academia and industry.

The Topics of Interests include but are not limited to:

  • Novel architectures and protocols for mobility support at Internet protocol stack
  • Mobile networking and computing architectures for 4G/5G, beyond 5G and 6G
  • Mobile network architecture design and management with data analytics and machine learning
  • Design of architectures for joint communication, networking, and computing
  • Software-defined and cloud-assisted mobile networking
  • Network virtualization in mobile Internet architecture
  • Mobile internet architectures and technologies for connected autonomous vehicles, UAV, and intelligent transport systems
  • Mobile internet architecture for massive and low-power IoT access and smart cities
  • Mobile Internet architectures and protocols for mobile edge computing/intelligence, VR/AR
  • Mobile data sensing and fusion for big M2M data
  • Information-centric networking for mobile networks and mobile computing
  • Seamless mobility and mobility prediction-enhanced techniques in heterogeneous networks
  • Future Internet architectures for efficient mobility support
  • Location management, positioning, and data management for wireless and mobile applications
  • Security and privacy technologies such as blockchains for mobile Internet and computing
  • Cognitive network design for mobile systems and applications
  • Social, economic, scalability, and deployment impacts of new mobile internet architectures
  • Field trials, deployment, and evaluation of innovative mobile Internet architectures

Dr. Jianhua He
Dr. Aline Carneiro Viana
Prof. Xiaoming Fu
Prof. Dr. Lin Bai
Prof. Dr. Supeng Leng
Guest Editors

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Investigating and Modeling of Cooperative Vehicle-to-Vehicle Safety Stopping Distance
by Steven Knowles Flanagan, Zuoyin Tang, Jianhua He and Irfan Yusoff
Future Internet 2021, 13(3), 68; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/fi13030068 - 10 Mar 2021
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Dedicated Short-Range Communication (DSRC) or IEEE 802.11p/OCB (Out of the Context of a Base-station) is widely considered to be a primary technology for Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communication, and it is aimed toward increasing the safety of users on the road by sharing information between [...] Read more.
Dedicated Short-Range Communication (DSRC) or IEEE 802.11p/OCB (Out of the Context of a Base-station) is widely considered to be a primary technology for Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communication, and it is aimed toward increasing the safety of users on the road by sharing information between one another. The requirements of DSRC are to maintain real-time communication with low latency and high reliability. In this paper, we investigate how communication can be used to improve stopping distance performance based on fieldwork results. In addition, we assess the impacts of reduced reliability, in terms of distance independent, distance dependent and density-based consecutive packet losses. A model is developed based on empirical measurements results depending on distance, data rate, and traveling speed. With this model, it is shown that cooperative V2V communications can effectively reduce reaction time and increase safety stop distance, and highlight the importance of high reliability. The obtained results can be further used for the design of cooperative V2V-based driving and safety applications. Full article
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Path Segmentation-Based Hybrid Caching in Information-Centric Networks
by Wei Li, Peng Sun and Rui Han
Future Internet 2021, 13(1), 16; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/fi13010016 - 12 Jan 2021
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Information-centric networks (ICNs) have received wide interest from researchers, and in-network caching is an important characteristic of ICN. The management and placement of contents are essential due to cache nodes’ limited cache space and the huge Internet traffic. This paper focuses on coordinating [...] Read more.
Information-centric networks (ICNs) have received wide interest from researchers, and in-network caching is an important characteristic of ICN. The management and placement of contents are essential due to cache nodes’ limited cache space and the huge Internet traffic. This paper focuses on coordinating two cache metrics, namely user access latency and network resource utilization, and proposes a hybrid caching scheme called the path segmentation-based hybrid caching scheme (PSBC). We temporarily divide each data transmit path into a user-edge area and non-edge area. The user-edge area adopts a heuristic caching scheme to reduce user access latency. In contrast, the non-edge area implements caching network content migration and optimization to improve network resource utilization. The simulation results show that the proposed method positively affects both the cache hit ratio and access latency. Full article
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