Self-evolving and transformative (SET) protocols

•Packet-level service guaranteed routing [2,3]

•QUIC and MPQUIC for user-centric mobility control [4,5,6,7]

•*-cast with QoS support

•Integrated sensing, computing, storage, communication services

[2] Pu Yang, Tianfang Chang, and Lin Cai. “DDR: Deadline Driven Routing Protocol.” 2024 IEEE INFOCOM, 2024.

[3] P. Seyed Eftetahi, L. Cai, X. Ren, “Delay-Guaranteed Path Selection and Scheduling in IAB Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 2486-2498, Aug. 2025. 

[4] W. Yang, L. Cai, S. Shi, A. Sepahi, J. Pan, “QoS-driven Contextual MAB for MPQUIC Supporting Video Streaming in Mobile Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 3274-3287, April 2025.

[5] W. Yang, L. Cai, S. Shi, J. Pan, “Mobility-Aware Congestion Control for Multipath QUIC in Integrated Terrestrial Satellite Networks,” IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing, vol. 23, no. 12, pp. 11620-11634, Dec. 2024. 

[6] W. Yang, L. Cai, S. Shu, J. Pan, and A. Sepahi, “MAMS: Mobility-Aware Multipath Scheduler for MPQUIC,” IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 3237-3252, Aug. 2024.

[7] S. Shu, W. Yang, J. Pan, and L. Cai, “A Multipath Extension to the QUIC Module for ns-3,” ACM Workshop on NS-3 (WNS3) 2023, Washington, D.C., June 2023.