The Scanning the Literature column provides concise summaries of selected papers that have recently been published in the field of networking. Each summary describes the paper's main idea, methodology, and technical contributions. The purpose of the column is to bring the state of the art of networking research to readers of IEEE Network. Authors are also welcome to recommend their recently published

As requirements for 6G systems start being shaped, we propose the provoking vision that the future generations of mobile networks shall reach beyond their traditional role of enablers for communication services. In fact, mobile networks have an impressive untapped potential for dual use as a pervasive remote sensing platform, which, if duly exploited, can support compelling original applications across

The IoT world is evolving with the latest technology trends, like edge computing, augmented & virtual reality, machine learning, robotics, and 5G. With the digital transformation happening in Industry 4.0, many industries are moving toward private 5G networks. There are massive number (hundreds to thousands) of IoT devices in a single factory depending on the scale of the industry and these factories

The emergence of Web 3.0 marks a historic turning point. It ushers in a new era in the history of the web, one defined by a radical transfer of access, ownership, and governance from today's crop of Internet giants to the Internet's every user. The idea behind Web 3.0 is to create an internet that accurately interprets your input, understands what you convey, and allows complete control over what type

With the standardization of 5G systems, research focus is slowly shifting towards potential designs, use cases, and performance targets for 6G systems. To meet the escalating data demands of mobile devices and to deal with the deluge of data, as well as the high-rate connectivity required by bandwidth-thirsty applications (e.g., space-air-ground-integrated-networks (SAGINs), augmented reality (AR)

The massive deployment of the fifth generation (5G) wireless networks are significantly accelerating the ongoing process of industrial and societal transformation. Disregard many impressive achievements, current scenario-specific, and communication-centric 5G technologies still face many challenges in empowering future applications with diverse requirements under stringent resource constraints. In

With the blooming of Internet-of-Things (IoT), we are witnessing an explosion in the number of IoT terminals, triggering an unprecedented demand for ubiquitous wireless access globally. In this context, the emerging low-Earth-orbit satellites (LEO-SATs) have been regarded as a promising enabler to complement terrestrial wireless networks in providing ubiquitous connectivity and bridging the ever-growing

Multiple access technology plays an important role in communication systems, which can enable different users to access the system efficiently and reliably. However, the conventional multiple access technologies are not suitable for future sixth generation (6G) systems as ultra-high reliability, extremely low latency, and massive connectivity should be supported. Unsourced random access (URA), where

The integrated satellite-terrestrial communication network (ISTCN) has become an important research direction for future sixth-generation mobile networks to meet the communication demands of seamless global coverage and anytime access. In ISTCN, terrestrial terminals and satellite terminals can share the same spectrum resources, so the spectrum resources available to the satellite system are unevenly

The sixth generation (6G) mobile communication systems could serve new multimodal services, such as virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), holographic projection. These new services are accompanied by new demands for intelligence, personalization and collaboration. Semantic communications are increasingly attracting attention due to its potential to support the aforementioned multimodal services

Index modulation multiple access (IMMA) is a promising sixth-generation (6G) technique to prominently improve the spectral efficiency, energy efficiency, system performance, and support massive connectivity, which is considered as a new extension of conventional non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA). In this article, we first introduce the basic principle of IMMA, and then investigate the potential

Smart community networks bring great comfort and convenience for people, but also increase security risks of exposing system vulnerabilities and private data to network intruders. This problem has become more prominent as the ever-increasing zero-day attacks which may escape the existing intrusion detection system (IDS) through unknown vulnerabilities. In this article, to keep up with the continuous

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Presents concise summaries of selected papers that are recently published in the field of networking. Each summary describes the paper's main idea, methodology, and technical contributions. The purpose of the column is to bring the state of the art of networking research to readers of IEEE Network. Authors are also welcome to recommend their recently published work to the column, and papers with novel

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The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), consisting of a large number of self-organized sensors, is one of the prominent representatives of zero touch networks, which will be widely used for information interconnection. With the advancement in intelligent manufacturing, the security of zero touch IIoT becomes a critical issue in various applications. One of the main factors that endanger the normal

The Internet of Things is expected to evolve and create numerous technological advances, paving the road for solutions that were once considered impossible. The Tactile Internet (TI), which is envisioned to enable real-time transmission of haptic and conventional data traffic, is creating that paradigm shift toward control-based communication between end users and machines. Tele-operation, augmented/virtual

The heterogeneity and growing complexity from the evolution of 5G and beyond networks and the development of future IoT networks necessitate the automatic management of these networks. The exacerbated growth of IoT devices and foreseen network complexity deem manual management impractical. Zero touch networks (ZTNs) seems the practical solution to utilize the potential of virtualization by incorporating

With ever increasing complexity and dynamicity of communication networks, intelligent network operation and maintenance has become more important to network operators. With the fast development of artificial intelligence, concepts such as “zero touch,” “intent-based,” “knowledge-defined,” and “self-driving” networks have become well known in the networking community for a great vision of making networks

The idea of the quantum internet is to provide an internet technology that can enable quantum communication between any two points on Earth. Researchers are proposing a theoretically large number of quantum networks, but practically they are still far from reality Yet the aspect of security can not be ignored as it has always remained a crucial aspect of every network or device. In this article, we

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The Internet of Senses (IoS) holds the promise of flawless telepresence-style communication for all human “receptors” and, therefore, blurs the difference of virtual and real environments. We commence by highlighting the compelling use cases empowered by the IoS and also the key network requirements. We then elaborate on how the emerging semantic communications and Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine

Realizing human-like perception is a challenge in open driving scenarios due to corner cases and visual occlusions. To gather knowledge of rare and occluded instances, federated learning assisted connected autonomous vehicle (FLCAV) has been proposed, which leverages vehicular networks to establish federated deep neural networks (DNNs) from distributed data captured by vehicles and road sensors. Without

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Quantum communication researchers have achieved significant progress during the recent decades and quantum networking has shown promise in terms of improving the overall functional benefits of the Internet and enabling applications with no counterpart in the classical world. It is a break-through technology towards the unimaginable future. In a quantum network, the source and destination may be connected

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Quantum communications is a promising technology that will play a fundamental role in the design of future networks. In fact, significant efforts are being undertaken by both the quantum physics and the classical communications communities on developing new architectures, solutions, and practical implementations of quantum communication networks (QCNs). Although these efforts led to various advances

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The Right to be Forgotten gives a data owner the right to revoke their data from an entity storing it. In the context of federated learning, the Right to be Forgotten requires that, in addition to the data itself, any influence of the data on the FL model must disappear, a process we call “federated unlearning.” The most straightforward and legitimate way to implement federated unlearning is to remove

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Nowadays, the classical Internet is mainly envisioned as the underlying communication infrastructure of the Quantum Internet, aimed at providing services such as signaling and coordination messages. However, the interplay between the classical and the quantum Internet is complex and its understanding is pivotal for an effective design of the Quantum Internet protocol stack. The aim of the article is

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In the initial stage of the quantum Internet, most of the practical quantum networks have been deployed relying on diverse individual quantum key distribution (QKD) protocols. However, this single-protocol paradigm cannot fulfill the heterogeneous requirements of the users, hence market-penetration of quantum networks is limited. Given the recent advances in QKD protocols, the next generation quantum

In the coming years, quantum networks will allow quantum applications to thrive thanks to the new opportunities offered by end-to-end entanglement of qubits on remote hosts via quantum repeaters. On a geographical scale, this will lead to the dawn of the quantum internet. While a fullblown deployment is yet to come, the research community is already working on a variety of individual enabling technologies

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Entanglement-based quantum networks can provide unconditionally secure communication by distributing entangled pairs between distant end nodes. To achieve end-to-end entanglement distribution, multiple operations of entanglement swapping in a quantum repeater chain are always required. However, due to the non-determinism of entanglement swapping caused by imperfect physical devices, the execution pattern

Quantum entanglement brings high-speed and inherently privacy-preserving transmission for information communication in quantum networks. The qubit scarcity is an important issue that cannot be ignored in quantum networks due to the limited storage capacity of quantum devices, the short lifespan of qubits, and so on. In this article, we first formulate the qubit competition problem as the Cooperati

A quantum Internet for communicating information encoded in quantum systems over large distances would enable a host of new technologies to be deployed. While exciting progress has been made in small-scale quantum networks, a global quantum Internet will require - like the classical Internet - communicating in a multiple quantum Internet service provider (multi-qISP) setting, with protocols that are

Imagine a Quantum Internet where people can freely establish physically secure communication channels or migrate quantum programs between anywhere in the world. What would it look like? Despite the very exciting recent advances around building prototypes of quantum networks, little is known about how lab-scale prototypes can be expanded into a global infrastructure that is as capacitated, robust, and

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Future communication networks will require increased flexibility, scalability, and data computation capabilities to adequately respond to the growing number of service demands. Advanced mixed-integer network resource optimization models and algorithms are required to meet these requirements. The purpose of this article is to introduce a hybrid quantum-classical computing framework for addressing future

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Entangled photon quantum imaging technology has become very promising for marine imaging due to its high resolution, anti-turbulence, and anti-interference properties. The turbulence and optical attenuation caused by oceanic water would impose severe limitations on conventional imaging equipment. Quantum imaging based on entangled light sources could make it possible to overcome the constraints of

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This work aims to improve the communication security of the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) based on digital twins (DTs). The related technologies of quantum communication are introduced to improve network communication. Firstly, the key DTs technologies in the construction of IIoT are expounded. Also, the characteristics of quantum communication are analyzed. Secondly, a channel encryption scheme

Recently, with the maturity of edge-cloud computing and the large amount of data generated in the edge, we have witnessed an increasing number of applications conducting collaborative learning and data analytics in networked edge systems. On the other end of the spectrum, there are also fast-growing concerns on privacy on using the data in the edge, which belong to diverse owners. Federated learning

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Since intelligent algorithms such as deep learning (DL) have strong expressiveness, flexibility, and scalability for complex problems, some DL-based methods have been applied to Internet architecture-related scenarios, such as congestion control and malicious traffic detection. However, DL-based models have relatively high requirements for resources such as data and computing, and the existing Internet

Satellite communication has made great progress in recent years since it is characterized by wide information coverage and can support diverse types of users, which beneficially fulfills the demand of beyond 5G communications. Besides, mobile edge computing (MEC) technologies energize the edge devices with computational abilities to deal with the majority of training tasks without having to upload