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Beyond the Edge: An Advanced Exploration of Reinforcement Learning for Mobile Edge Computing, Its Applications, and Future Research Trajectories 超越边缘：强化学习在移动边缘计算中的应用及其未来研究轨迹的高级探索

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IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials Pub Date : 2024-03-31 DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2024.3405075

Ning Yang;Shuo Chen;Haijun Zhang;Randall Berry

{"title":"Beyond the Edge: An Advanced Exploration of Reinforcement Learning for Mobile Edge Computing, Its Applications, and Future Research Trajectories","authors":"Ning Yang;Shuo Chen;Haijun Zhang;Randall Berry","doi":"10.1109/COMST.2024.3405075","DOIUrl":"10.1109/COMST.2024.3405075","url":null,"abstract":"Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) broadens the scope of computation and storage beyond the central network, incorporating edge nodes close to end devices. This expansion facilitates the implementation of large-scale “connected things” within edge networks. The advent of applications necessitating real-time, high-quality service presents several challenges, such as low latency, high data rate, reliability, efficiency, and security, all of which demand resolution. The incorporation of reinforcement learning (RL) methodologies within MEC networks promotes a deeper understanding of mobile user behaviors and network dynamics, thereby optimizing resource use in computing and communication processes. This paper offers an exhaustive survey of RL applications in MEC networks, initially presenting an overview of RL from its fundamental principles to the latest advanced frameworks. Furthermore, it outlines various RL strategies employed in offloading, caching, and communication within MEC networks. Finally, it explores open issues linked with software and hardware platforms, representation, RL robustness, safe RL, large-scale scheduling, generalization, security, and privacy. The paper proposes specific RL techniques to mitigate these issues and provides insights into their practical applications.","PeriodicalId":55029,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials","volume":"27 1","pages":"546-594"},"PeriodicalIF":34.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141185273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Survey on Opportunistic PNT With Signals From LEO Communication Satellites 利用低地轨道通信卫星信号的机会性 PNT 调查

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IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials Pub Date : 2024-03-30 DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2024.3406990

Winfried Stock;Robert T. Schwarz;Christian A. Hofmann;Andreas Knopp

{"title":"Survey on Opportunistic PNT With Signals From LEO Communication Satellites","authors":"Winfried Stock;Robert T. Schwarz;Christian A. Hofmann;Andreas Knopp","doi":"10.1109/COMST.2024.3406990","DOIUrl":"10.1109/COMST.2024.3406990","url":null,"abstract":"Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) is an essential service for modern societies, their industries, and governmental organizations. Mobility, logistics, and agriculture, among others, depend heavily on reliable PNT and will do so even more in the future. However, the predominant Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are highly susceptible to jamming and spoofing, a threat that has increased in the recent years. As a result, there is a growing need for a robust, independent PNT backup system. A promising approach to meet this demand is to use the communication signals of satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) as signals of opportunity (opportunistic LEO-PNT). In recent years, opportunistic LEO-PNT has gained relevance in academic research due to the emergence of megaconstellations. This survey provides an holistic overview of opportunistic LEO-PNT and an exhaustive review of the academic work in the field. Error sources and challenges with respect to the development of operational systems are evaluated, and the state of the art performance is analyzed. System-level strategies to mitigate the error sources and challenges are identified, including the combination of opportunistic LEO-PNT with GNSS or other sensors, or the use of base stations. Future research directions, such as the investigation of non-accuracy related KPIs, the required receiver hardware, or the use in low SNR scenarios, are derived.","PeriodicalId":55029,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials","volume":"27 1","pages":"77-107"},"PeriodicalIF":34.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141182899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Beam Alignment in mmWave V2X Communications: A Survey 毫米波 V2X 通信中的波束对准：调查

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IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials Pub Date : 2024-03-29 DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2024.3383093

Jingru Tan;Tom H. Luan;Wenbo Guan;Yuntao Wang;Haixia Peng;Yao Zhang;Dongmei Zhao;Ning Lu

{"title":"Beam Alignment in mmWave V2X Communications: A Survey","authors":"Jingru Tan;Tom H. Luan;Wenbo Guan;Yuntao Wang;Haixia Peng;Yao Zhang;Dongmei Zhao;Ning Lu","doi":"10.1109/COMST.2024.3383093","DOIUrl":"10.1109/COMST.2024.3383093","url":null,"abstract":"The digital transformation within the automotive industry is accelerating towards an era dominated by autonomous vehicles, with vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications being a fundamental enabler for this advancement. As vehicular networks evolve to meet the complex demands of autonomous driving, traditional communication systems encounter limitations in bandwidth and data transfer rates. Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication emerges as a pivotal solution, offering the extensive bandwidth required for the high data throughput and low latency essential in modern vehicular communications. However, challenges loom, with beam alignment in mmWave V2X becoming a time-consuming process and the mmWave’s blockage effect impeding consistent and reliable vehicular communication links. Therefore, the development of efficient, real-time, and robust beam alignment technology is crucial for mmWave V2X communication. In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey of beam alignment techniques in mmWave V2X communication. We explore various approaches including beam sweeping, angle of arrival (AoA)/angle of direction (AoD) estimation, black-box optimization, and side information. Subsequently, we introduce performance metrics for assessing beam alignment performance and compare the performance of four beam alignment methods under different metrics. Finally, we summarize the future research directions and challenges faced by beam alignment techniques in mmWave V2X communication, offering valuable insights for researchers in this field.","PeriodicalId":55029,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials","volume":"26 3","pages":"1676-1709"},"PeriodicalIF":34.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140329103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Survey on Unified Threat Management (UTM) Systems for Home Networks 家庭网络统一威胁管理 (UTM) 系统调查

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IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials Pub Date : 2024-03-28 DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2024.3382470

Asif Siddiqui;Bhaskar P. Rimal;Martin Reisslein;Yong Wang

{"title":"Survey on Unified Threat Management (UTM) Systems for Home Networks","authors":"Asif Siddiqui;Bhaskar P. Rimal;Martin Reisslein;Yong Wang","doi":"10.1109/COMST.2024.3382470","DOIUrl":"10.1109/COMST.2024.3382470","url":null,"abstract":"Home networks increasingly support important networked applications with limited professional network administration support, while sophisticated attacks pose enormous security risks for networked applications. A Unified Threat Management (UTM) system strives to comprehensively protect a network by providing firewall, intrusion detection and prevention, as well as antibot protection in an integrated, easy-to-configure manner. Previous surveys have extensively covered the individual components of a UTM system, i.e., there is extensive literature on firewall surveys, intrusion detection and prevention surveys, and antibot protection surveys. Importantly, the previous surveys covered these protection services separately, without considering their integration (however, this integration is critical for comprehensive home network protection). In contrast, the present survey covers for the first time home network UTM systems, i.e., the integrated network security services provided by a UTM system for a home network. This UTM survey is organized according to the UTM components, i.e., we comprehensively survey the firewall methods, the intrusion detection and prevention methods, as well as the antibot protection methods that are suitable for a UTM system for a home network. Throughout, we view these methods from the perspective of integration into a UTM system with limited computational resources and limited network administration support. Our survey includes the protection capabilities, as well as the design and deployment aspects and software/hardware limitations of available off-the-shelf and open-source UTM systems. We find that effective integrated home network protection where the UTM system components synergistically support each other while operating with limited computational resources and network administration support still requires extensive future research and development.","PeriodicalId":55029,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials","volume":"26 4","pages":"2459-2509"},"PeriodicalIF":34.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140321893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A Tutorial on Radio System-Level Simulations With Emphasis on 3GPP 5G-Advanced and Beyond 无线电系统级仿真教程，重点介绍 3GPP 5G-Advanced 及其他技术

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IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials Pub Date : 2024-03-27 DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2024.3381669

Klaus I. Pedersen;Roberto Maldonado;Guillermo Pocovi;Enric Juan;Mads Lauridsen;István Z. Kovács;Mads Brix;Jeroen Wigard

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Two Decades of Research Progress in Resource Allocation for PLC Systems: From Core Concepts to Frontiers PLC 系统资源分配研究二十年的进展：从核心概念到前沿领域

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IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials Pub Date : 2024-03-25 DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2024.3380901

Yan F. Coutinho;ândrei Camponogara;Mateus de L. Filomeno;Marcello L. R. de Campos;Andrea M. Tonello;Moisés V. Ribeiro

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Editorial: Second Quarter 2024 IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials 编辑：2024 年第二季度《IEEE 通信概览与教程

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IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials Pub Date : 2024-03-22 DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2024.3396689

Dusit Niyato

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How Can Optical Communications Shape the Future of Deep Space Communications? A Survey 光通信如何塑造深空通信的未来？调查

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IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials Pub Date : 2024-03-21 DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2024.3403873

Sarah Karmous;Nadia Adem;Mohammed Atiquzzaman;Sumudu Samarakoon

{"title":"How Can Optical Communications Shape the Future of Deep Space Communications? A Survey","authors":"Sarah Karmous;Nadia Adem;Mohammed Atiquzzaman;Sumudu Samarakoon","doi":"10.1109/COMST.2024.3403873","DOIUrl":"10.1109/COMST.2024.3403873","url":null,"abstract":"With a large number of deep space (DS) missions anticipated by the end of this decade, reliable and high-capacity DS communications are needed more than ever. Nevertheless, existing technologies are far from meeting such a goal. Improving current systems does not only require engineering leadership, but also, very crucially, investigating potential technologies that overcome the unique challenges of ultra-long DS links. To the best of our knowledge, there has not been any comprehensive surveys of DS communications technologies over the last decade. Free space optical (FSO) is an emerging DS technology, proven to acquire lower communications systems size weight and power (SWaP) and achieve a very high capacity compared to its counterpart radio frequency (RF), the currently used DS technology. In this survey, we discuss the pros and cons of deep space optical communications (DSOC) and review their physical and networking characteristics. Furthermore, we provide, for the first time, thoughtful discussions about implementing orbital angular momentum (OAM) and quantum communications (QC) for DS. We elaborate on how these technologies among other field advances including interplanetary network (IPN) and RF/FSO systems improve reliability, capacity, and security. This paper provides a holistic survey of DSOC technologies gathering 247 fragmented pieces of literature and including novel perspectives aiming to set the stage for more developments in the field.","PeriodicalId":55029,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials","volume":"27 1","pages":"725-747"},"PeriodicalIF":34.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141079062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A Survey on Blockchain Scalability: From Hardware to Layer-Two Protocols 区块链可扩展性调查：从硬件到第二层协议

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IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials Pub Date : 2024-03-18 DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2024.3376252

Gabriel Antonio F. Rebello;Gustavo F. Camilo;Lucas Airam C. de Souza;Maria Potop-Butucaru;Marcelo Dias de Amorim;Miguel Elias M. Campista;Luís Henrique M. K. Costa

{"title":"A Survey on Blockchain Scalability: From Hardware to Layer-Two Protocols","authors":"Gabriel Antonio F. Rebello;Gustavo F. Camilo;Lucas Airam C. de Souza;Maria Potop-Butucaru;Marcelo Dias de Amorim;Miguel Elias M. Campista;Luís Henrique M. K. Costa","doi":"10.1109/COMST.2024.3376252","DOIUrl":"10.1109/COMST.2024.3376252","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the great success of blockchain systems in recent years, blockchains still struggle to provide the same level of latency and throughput as centralized financial systems. The core of this problem lies in the inefficiency of consensus protocols. In this paper, we provide a survey on recent efforts to improve the scalability of blockchains. We focus on layer-two protocols, such as payment channel networks and transaction rollups, which process computations off-chain and only use consensus for dispute resolution. Layer-two protocols are expected to process microtransactions with sub-second latency and reduced fees, allowing blockchains to scale. Much of this work addresses the open challenges of payment channel networks, such as payment routing, channel rebalancing, network design strategies, security and privacy, payment scheduling, congestion control, simulators, and support for light nodes. We also dedicate a section to the existing implementations of smart-contract-based transaction rollups. Our work systematizes the state-of-the-art layer-two protocols, paving the way for future advances.","PeriodicalId":55029,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials","volume":"26 4","pages":"2411-2458"},"PeriodicalIF":34.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140161573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Empowering Cloud Computing With Network Acceleration: A Survey 通过网络加速增强云计算能力：调查

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IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials Pub Date : 2024-03-14 DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2024.3377531

Lorenzo Rosa;Luca Foschini;Antonio Corradi

{"title":"Empowering Cloud Computing With Network Acceleration: A Survey","authors":"Lorenzo Rosa;Luca Foschini;Antonio Corradi","doi":"10.1109/COMST.2024.3377531","DOIUrl":"10.1109/COMST.2024.3377531","url":null,"abstract":"Modern interactive and data-intensive applications must operate under demanding time constraints, prompting a shift toward the adoption of specialized software and hardware network acceleration technologies. This specialization, however, poses significant scalability, flexibility, security, and economic sustainability challenges for application developers. Cloud computing holds the potential to overcome these obstacles by offering the cost-effective option to access specialized acceleration technologies through standard cloud interfaces. Nevertheless, that integration is still challenging for cloud providers. In the cloud, physical resources are hidden behind a virtualization layer, whereas acceleration technologies make applications directly interact with the hardware. To bridge this gap, recent literature explores the possibility of empowering cloud platforms with accelerated networking as a commodity, thus offering the innovative option of Network Acceleration as a Service. This survey reviews these recent research efforts by adopting popular technologies like XDP, DPDK, and RDMA as a reference. To organize the surveyed research in a comprehensive framework, we identify four key aspects that pose critical problems to the integration of acceleration options in cloud computing - access interfaces, virtualization techniques, serviceability, and security - and systematically discuss the associated challenges. Then, we present the issues to be further addressed and outline the most promising research directions for the full integration of network acceleration within next-generation cloud computing platforms.","PeriodicalId":55029,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials","volume":"26 4","pages":"2729-2768"},"PeriodicalIF":34.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10472517","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140135628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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