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20162026
most citedSurvey on Multi-Access Edge Computing for Internet of Things Realization

803 citations · 970 across the 71 of their papers we have counts for

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76 papers

cs.NI2026

Toward Mission-Critical ISAC: Reliable Energy-Aware Coordination in UAV Swarms

Masoud Shokrnezhad, Tarik Taleb, Amir Javadpour

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms deployed in mission-critical applications must simultaneously track a mobile aerial target and maintain reliable data links. However, active in…

cs.NI2026

A Semantic-Aware Multiple Access Scheme Leveraging Spatial Redundancy for Uplink-Dominant Network Services

Hamidreza Mazandarani, Masoud Shokrnezhad, Tarik Taleb

The transition toward semantic-aware communication offers a paradigm shift for next-generation mobile networks, promising to decouple information significance from raw data transmi…

cs.NI2026

Conversational Orchestration for Organic 6G

Masoud Shokrnezhad, Tarik Taleb

The Organic 6G vision of a network of networks spanning an edge-cloud continuum complemented by non-terrestrial resources requires, to realize its promise, service provisioning tha…

cs.NI2026

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for SLA-Aware Network Slicing in UAV-Enabled MEC

Mohammad Farhoudi, Zeinab Sasan, Masoud Shokrnezhad +1

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-enabled Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) offers flexible capacity provisioning for heterogeneous network slices, including Hyper-Reliable and Low-Latency C…

cs.NI2026

Exploiting Overlapping Fields of View for Redundancy-Aware Uplink Transmission in Vehicular 6G

Hamidreza Mazandarani, Masoud Shokrnezhad, Tarik Taleb +1

Emerging uplink-dominant 6G use cases, such as cooperative vehicular streaming, require efficient transmission of high-volume visual data over limited wireless resources. While sem…

cs.NI2026

Quality-Aware Personalized AI Service Provisioning in UAV-Assisted 6G Networks

Mohammad Farhoudi, Masoud Shokrnezhad, Tarik Taleb

In sixth-generation (6G) artificial intelligence (AI) services, two quality dimensions should be jointly addressed: conventional quality (e.g., latency) and Quality of AI Services…

cs.NI2026

Beyond Per-Request QoS: Coordinating Industrial Workflows with B5G/6G Network Capabilities

Qize Guo, Bjoern Riemer, Tarik Taleb +3

Beyond-5G (B5G) and 6G networks are expected to enable more complex industrial services, which often operate according to multi-phase workflows with phase-specific communication re…

cs.CR2026

Towards Securing IIoT: An Innovative Privacy-Preserving Anomaly Detector Based on Federated Learning

Samira Kamali Poorazad, Chafika Benzaïd, Tarik Taleb

In the light of the growing connectivity and sensitivity of industrial data, cyberattacks and data breaches are becoming more common in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). To…

cs.DC2026

KPI2KVI: A Multi Agent Workflow for Calculating Key Value Indicators from Service Descriptions

Masoud Shokrnezhad, Tarik Taleb, Yan Chen +1

Key Value Indicators (KVIs) provide a decision oriented view of a service by summarizing how operational performance translates into stakeholder value, risk, and outcomes. However,…

cs.NI2026

Energy Efficient Orchestration in Multiple-Access Vehicular Aerial-Terrestrial 6G Networks

Mohammad Farhoudi, Hamidreza Mazandarani, Masoud Shokrnezhad +2

The proliferation of users, devices, and novel vehicular applications - propelled by advancements in autonomous systems and connected technologies - is precipitating an unprecedent…

cs.NI2026

Toward E2E Intelligence in 6G Networks: An AI Agent-Based RAN-CN Converged Intelligence Framework

Youbin Han, Haneul Ko, Namseok Ko +2

Recent advances in intelligent network control have primarily relied on task-specific Artificial Intelligence (AI) models deployed separately within the Radio Access Network (RAN)…

cs.NI2025

Service Registration, Indexing, Discovery & Selection; An Architectural Survey Toward a GenAI-Driven Future

Mohammad Farhoudi, Masoud Shokrnezhad, Tarik Taleb

The emergence of sixth-generation (6G) networks marks a paradigm shift: by unifying an edge-to-cloud computing continuum with ultra-high-performance networking, 6G will enable capa…

cs.NI2025★ 3 cited

AIORA: An AI-Native Multi-Stakeholder Orchestration Architecture for 6G Continuum

Nuria Molner, Luis Rosa, Fulvio Risso +5

This paper elaborates on a novel AI-native architecture for emerging 6G systems harnessing open APIs, along with supporting mechanisms to empower intelligent and coordinated orches…

cs.NI2025

Deep Learning based Moving Target Defence for Federated Learning against Poisoning Attack in MEC Systems with a 6G Wireless Model

Somayeh Kianpisheh, Tarik Taleb, Jari Iinatti +1

Collaboration opportunities for devices are facilitated with Federated Learning (FL). Edge computing facilitates aggregation at edge and reduces latency. To deal with model poisoni…

cs.NI2025

Adaptive Multiple Access and Service Placement for Generative Diffusion Models

Hamidreza Mazandarani, Mohammad Farhoudi, Masoud Shokrnezhad +1

Generative Diffusion Models (GDMs) have emerged as key components of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), offering unparalleled expressiveness and controllability for comple…

cs.NI2025

Generative Resource Allocation for 6G O-RAN with Diffusion Policies

Salar Nouri, Mojdeh Karbalaeimotaleb, Vahid Shah-Mansouri +1

Dynamic resource allocation in O-RAN is critical for managing the conflicting QoS requirements of 6G network slices. Conventional reinforcement learning agents often fail in this d…

cs.NI2025

Deep Learning Based Service Composition in Integrated Aerial-Terrestrial Networks

Mohammad Farhoudi, Masoud Shokrnezhad, Somayeh Kianpisheh +1

The explosive growth of user devices and emerging applications is driving unprecedented traffic demands, accompanied by stringent Quality of Service (QoS) requirements. Addressing…

cs.NI2025

A Novel Multiple Access Scheme for Heterogeneous Wireless Communications using Symmetry-aware Continual Deep Reinforcement Learning

Hamidreza Mazandarani, Masoud Shokrnezhad, Tarik Taleb

The Metaverse holds the potential to revolutionize digital interactions through the establishment of a highly dynamic and immersive virtual realm over wireless communications syste…

cs.NI2025

Semantic-Aware Dynamic and Distributed Power Allocation: a Multi-UAV Area Coverage Use Case

Hamidreza Mazandarani, Masoud Shokrnezhad, Tarik Taleb

The advancement towards 6G technology leverages improvements in aerial-terrestrial networking, where one of the critical challenges is the efficient allocation of transmit power. A…

cs.NI2025

An Autonomous Network Orchestration Framework Integrating Large Language Models with Continual Reinforcement Learning

Masoud Shokrnezhad, Tarik Taleb

6G networks aim to achieve global coverage, massive connectivity, and ultra-stringent requirements. Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks (SAGINs) and Semantic Communication (SemCom…

cs.NI2024

Distributed Computation Offloading for Energy Provision Minimization in WP-MEC Networks with Multiple HAPs

Xiaoying Liu, Anping Chen, Kechen Zheng +3

This paper investigates a wireless powered mobile edge computing (WP-MEC) network with multiple hybrid access points (HAPs) in a dynamic environment, where wireless devices (WDs) h…

cs.CR2024

Towards Secure Intelligent O-RAN Architecture: Vulnerabilities, Threats and Promising Technical Solutions using LLMs

Mojdeh Karbalaee Motalleb, Chafika Benzaid, Tarik Taleb +3

The evolution of wireless communication systems will be fundamentally impacted by an open radio access network (O-RAN), a new concept defining an intelligent architecture with enha…

cs.NI2024

Fairness-Utilization Trade-off in Wireless Networks with Explainable Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks

Masoud Shokrnezhad, Hamidreza Mazandarani, Tarik Taleb

The effective distribution of user transmit powers is essential for the significant advancements that the emergence of 6G wireless networks brings. In recent studies, Deep Neural N…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Multi-Model based Federated Learning Against Model Poisoning Attack: A Deep Learning Based Model Selection for MEC Systems

Somayeh Kianpisheh, Chafika Benzaid, Tarik Taleb

Federated Learning (FL) enables training of a global model from distributed data, while preserving data privacy. However, the singular-model based operation of FL is open with uplo…