Networking and Internet Architecture Papers of the Week

This paper presents Token-as-a-Utility, a model-agnostic architecture integrating inference metering, service-level-aware provisioning, and inter-operator settlement.

We present a trace-driven study of network sensitivity for training and inference workloads at scales up to 4,096 GPUs.

We present Ordered Chaos, an end-host design that preserves enough structure for reliable loss detection without giving up fine-grained multipath routing.

In this paper, we propose a distributed clustering and resource scheduling scheme based on collaborative perception of wireless resources.

In this paper, we measure Starlink maritime connectivity on two cruise ships of different scales, Utopia of the Seas near the Bahamas in December 2025 and Silver Muse in the Adriatic Sea in July 2026, combining UT telemetry, inside-out measurements from a passenger device, and outside-in measurements from cloud servers near Starlink Points of Presence (PoPs).

Abstract In this paper, we present a review of IoUT routing protocols, categorizing them into four groups: geographic, opportunistic, void-handling, and clustering routing protocols.

These findings raise questions about what information SSL can learn from encrypted traffic and how different pretraining mechanisms exploit this information. In this paper, we systematically investigate these questions by examining the sources of learnable information, the effectiveness of contextual pretraining, alternative self-supervision mechanisms, and the limits of representation learning.

This paper proposes Stable Encrypted-Traffic Representation and Online Adaptation (SEROA), a deployment-oriented framework for encryptedtraffic classification in service-aware mobile networks.

This paper presents Networked AI - a networked intelligent system composed of interacting, heterogeneous, and continuously evolving AI agents.

Using mass-attachment signaling storms as a running study, we build a discrete-event Open RAN attach simulator that captures retry amplification, shared-compute contention, and non-instantaneous provisioning, and we propose a three-tier framework in which an orchestrator at the service management and orchestration layer sets a standing policy, a per-site non-real-time agent judges storms and anticipates scheduled crowds, and a deterministic near-real-time loop enforces every decision.

In this paper, we identify two fundamental sources of packet reordering: transient inter-path queueing differences caused by control dynamics, and persistent path-delay differences due to path heterogeneity.

This paper investigates a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) downlink with imperfect eavesdropper channel state information and finite-resolution RIS phases.

We identify a served-but-undelivered denial-of-service (DoS) attack in which rank indicator (RI) inflation induces persistent physical resource block (PRB) starvation.

This tutorial explains how known cellular signals are used to estimate propagation, suppress stationary background, interpret reflected paths, and combine observations from different sites.

In this paper, we study the obstacle-aware maximal exposure path planning problem in heterogeneous sensor fields under truncated omni-directional sensing and line-of-sight occlusion.

Underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) face critical challenges in energy imbalance, connectivity, and data collection due to harsh environments. To address these issues, this paper focuses on the problem is how to achieve energy-balanced data collection in IoT-enabled UWSNs with a mobility-aware mobile edge computing (MEC), named MECEBDC.

We present ARK, a distributed elephant-flow path reservation mechanism.

A hybrid fuzzy logic‐based clustering and Gray Wolf Optimization (GWO) based routing, ECFGWO, called ECFGGO, is proposed in this paper for sustainable and adaptive data transmission in WSNs.

This paper proposes the Clear Human Web, the part of the public web that sites open only to clients a person vouches for.