International Conference on Computing, Networking, and Communications : [proceedings]

Fifth-generation (5G) networks enable ultra-low latency, high bandwidth, and massive connectivity for missioncritical applications. Their microservice-based core requires continuous subsystem-level health monitoring to ensure reliability and performance. Emerging Beyond-5G and 6G architectures integrate AI-driven analytics through the Network Data Analytics Function (NWDAF), enabling predictive assurance and adaptive optimization. However, centralized AI pipelines often accumulate redundant telemetry, increasing inference latency, compute load, and cooling demands-thereby amplifying overall energy consumption. This paper presents LHB-X (Lightweight Heartbreak signaling), a novel engineered sustainable health-bit framework that reduces telemetry overhead while preserving detection fidelity. The Heartbreak Signal denotes a Boolean health-signal bit of subsystem well-being, generated at the source using surprisalbased scoring and refined through adaptive gain feedback from the NWDAF layer. Local edge-side computation ranges from O (m) in structurally concrete subsystems to O (m(3)) in structurally complex correlation modes, while remaining lightweight for typical 5G deployments. Crucially, the exported LHB-X message is fixed-size, ensuring constant-time (O (1)) processing at the NWDAF layer regardless of subsystem structure or count. Comparative evaluation against baseline telemetry (raw, threshold-based, and sampled) demonstrates reduced bandwidth usage, lower CPU utilization, and stable true-positive rates under identical thresholds. By minimizing redundant data transfer, compute cycles, and cooling demands, LHB-X achieves measurable energy gains and supports dynamic, closed-loop optimization via NWDAF. The framework aligns with 6G sustainability goals and provides a deployable path toward efficient, AI-assisted monitoring across 5G/6G, IoT, and cyber-physical systems.

Accurately and continuously assessing cyber risk remains a core challenge in modern network defense. Conventional Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) products rely heavily on observed Indicators of Compromise (IoCs), which provide only partial or lagging visibility into malicious activity. As a result, defenders often lack persistent, data-driven measures of how threat exposure evolves across network entities such as Autonomous Systems (ASes). This paper introduces a probabilistic framework for estimating the security risk of ASes using time-varying latent risk scores derived from network threat intelligence. The method integrates heterogeneous threat signals, including IP reputation measures, observed threat events, and associated severity indicators, within a Bayesian Gaussian Random Walk model that infers a latent risk trajectory for each AS. Evaluation using both synthetic and real-world threat datasets demonstrates that the framework captures meaningful temporal trends, quantifies uncertainty during periods of sparse observation, and provides a continuous view of AS-level threat exposure.

In this paper, we propose a performance metric in order to evaluate the performance of deadline-aware scheduling methods.By using linear programming to find the ideal off-line scheduling and evaluating the performance of real-time scheduling methods based on ideal scheduling, it is possible to clearly identify the differences from the ideal scheduling.This paper proposes a performance metric that focuses on four evaluation metrics and formulates liner programming to determine optimal off-line scheduling for a baseline for evaluating online scheduling algorithm. It also examines optimal scheduling for both known and unknown job occurrence patterns. Additionally, we report the performance evaluation of EDF algorithm, a representative deadline-aware scheduling method, using this metric.

Information-Centric Networking (ICN) has attracted significant attention as a network architecture optimized for efficient and scalable content dissemination. Moving beyond the conventional paradigm of name-based content retrieval, ICN can also support communication patterns associated with services and in-network computation. This paper aims to strengthen ICN by leveraging its core principles and introducing complementary mechanisms to improve efficiency, reliability, and performance within IP-based infrastructures. We present ICNx, an extension of the baseline ICN architecture that incorporates functional capabilities supporting adaptive and coordinated communication for both content delivery and function invocation. The study includes the architectural design and a prototype implementation on the open-source Cefore platform. In addition, a large-scale research initiative under Japan’s JST Moonshot R&D program is discussed as an illustrative use case motivating the proposed design. The results demonstrate the practical feasibility of the approach and highlight the evolving role of ICN, not merely as a content-delivery mechanism, but as a foundational communication substrate for scalable and resilient applications.

This work provides the first unified comparison of DQN, DDPG, PPO, and SAC for 5G NR uplink and downlink modulation control, revealing how core RL design choices uniquely impact physical-layer Quality of Service (QoS). Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) algorithms optimize QoS by dynamically switching modulations in 5G New Radio (NR) systems. Evaluations span both Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) and Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH). Metrics include Bit Error Rate (BER), throughput, latency, and path loss. Results show DDPG consistently outperforms others, offering insights into the role of policy entropy and exploration in wireless control systems.