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20242026
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10 papers

eess.SY2026

Process-Aware Cross-Layer Adaptation for O-RAN-Enabled Industrial Systems

Elahe Delavari, Junaid Farooq, M. Majid Butt +1

Wireless networks increasingly support closed-loop industrial applications in which sensed data must be transmitted, processed, and converted into an action before physical process…

cs.NI2026

Temporally Encoded Double DQN for Proactive PRB Allocation in O-RAN Enabled Industrial Networks

Elahe Delavari, Xingqi Wu, Junaid Farooq

Fifth-generation (5G) wireless systems are increasingly adopted in smart manufacturing to support heterogeneous industrial workloads through services such as enhanced Mobile Broadb…

cs.NI2026

Jamming-Resilient PRB Reservation for Latency-Critical O-RAN Network Slicing

Elahe Delavari, Junaid Farooq

Open radio access network (O-RAN) architectures enable near real-time, software-driven control of network slicing through programmable xApps deployed on the near-real-time RAN Inte…

cs.IT2026

Rao-Blackwellized Coverage Estimation in Poisson Networks: A High-Fidelity Hybrid Framework

Sunder Ram Krishnan, Junaid Farooq, Kumar Vijay Mishra +3

While stochastic geometry provides a powerful framework for the analysis of cellular networks, standard Monte Carlo simulations often suffer from slow convergence due to the stocha…

quant-ph2026

Differentiable Architecture Search for Adversarially Robust Quantum Computer Vision

Mohamed Afane, Quanjiang Long, Haoting Shen +4

Current quantum neural networks suffer from extreme sensitivity to both adversarial perturbations and hardware noise, creating a significant barrier to real-world deployment. Exist…

cs.NI2025

Cyber Resilience in Next-Generation Networks: Threat Landscape, Theoretical Foundations, and Design Paradigms

Junaid Farooq, Quanyan Zhu

The evolution of networked systems, driven by innovations in software-defined networking (SDN), network function virtualization (NFV), open radio access networks (O-RAN), and cloud…