The COVID-19 pandemic led to the adoption of severe measures to counteract the spread of
the infection. Social distancing and lockdown measures modified people's habits, while the …

With new Low Earth Orbit satellite constellations such as Starlink, satellite-based Internet
access is becoming an alternative to traditional fixed and wireless technologies with …

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many governments imposed lock-downs that forced
hundreds of millions of citizens to stay at home. The implementation of confinement …

The advancements in communication technologies and ubiquitous accessibility to a wide
array of services has opened many challenges. Growing numbers of cyberattacks show that …

Cloud gaming is a class of services that promises to revolutionize the videogame market. It
allows the user to play a videogame with essential equipment while using a remote server …

Content Hypergiants deliver the vast majority of Internet traffic to end users. In recent years,
some have invested heavily in deploying services and servers inside end-user networks …

In the early days of cloud computing, datacenters were sparsely deployed at distant
locations far from end-users with high end-to-end communication latency. However, today's …

Edge computing has gained attention from both academia and industry by pursuing two
significant challenges: 1) moving latency critical services closer to the users, 2) saving …

While the Internet is ubiquitous in most parts of the world today, the dominant network
access technology is gradually shifting from wired to wireless connections. Notably, the ever …

Collective user behavior in social media applications often drives several important online
and offline phenomena linked to the spread of opinions and information. Several studies …