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We consider the joint source-channel coding problem of sending a Gaussian source on a K-user Gaussian broadcast channel with bandwidth mismatch. A new outer bound to the achievable distortion region is derived using the technique of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-11-22 Chao Tian , Suhas Diggavi , Shlomo Shamai

The problem of establishing out-of-sample bounds for the values of an unkonwn ground-truth function is considered. Kernels and their associated Hilbert spaces are the main formalism employed herein along with an observational model where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Paul Scharnhorst , Emilio T. Maddalena , Yuning Jiang , Colin N. Jones

"The Price of Robustness" by Bertsimas and Sim represented a breakthrough in the development of a tractable robust counterpart of Linear Programming Problems. However, the central modeling assumption that the deviation band of each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-10-24 Christina Büsing , Fabio D'Andreagiovanni

Broadcast networks allow one to model networks of identical nodes communicating through message broadcasts. Their parameterized verification aims at proving a property holds for any number of nodes, under any communication topology, and on…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Nathalie Bertrand , Patricia Bouyer , Anirban Majumdar

In multi-user wireless packet networks interference, typically modeled as packet collision, is the throughput bottleneck. Users become aware of the interference pattern via feedback and use this information for contention resolution and for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Alireza Vahid , Robert Calderbank

The network coding problem asks whether data throughput in a network can be increased using coding (compared to treating bits as commodities in a flow). While it is well-known that a network coding advantage exists in directed graphs, the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Mark Braverman , Zhongtian He

This paper considers a multimessage network where each node may send a message to any other node in the network. Under the discrete memoryless model, we prove the strong converse theorem for any network whose cut-set bound is tight, i.e.,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Silas L. Fong , Vincent Y. F. Tan

We consider the problem of communication over a network containing a hidden and malicious adversary that can control a subset of network resources, and aims to disrupt communications. We focus on omniscient node-based adversaries, i.e., the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-09 Peida Tian , Sidharth Jaggi , Mayank Bakshi , Oliver Kosut

This paper investigates the joint source-channel coding problem of sending a memoryless source over a memoryless broadcast channel. An inner bound and several outer bounds on the admissible distortion region are derived, which respectively…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Lei Yu , Houqiang Li , Weiping Li

The fundamental limit of Semantic Communications (joint source-channel coding) is established when the transmission needs to be kept covert from an external warden. We derive information-theoretic achievability and matching converse results…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Abdelaziz Bounhar , Mireille Sarkiss , Michèle Wigger

Frequency estimation in data streams is one of the classical problems in streaming algorithms. Following much research, there are now almost matching upper and lower bounds for the trade-off needed between the number of samples and the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Shachar Lovett , Jiapeng Zhang

Proving capacity for networks without feedback or cooperation usually involves two fundamental random coding techniques: superposition coding and binning. Although conceptually very different, these two techniques often achieve the same…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-08 Stefano Rini

A function computation problem in directed acyclic networks has been considered in the literature, where a sink node wants to compute a target function with the inputs generated at multiple source nodes. The network links are error-free but…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Cupjin Huang , Zihan Tan , Shenghao Yang , Xuan Guang

In this paper we study the nonasymptotic bounds of a special Joint Source-Channel Coding system with hierarchical source, where an observable source and an unobservable indirect source are required to be reconstructed. Namely, we focus on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Shuo Shao , Chao Qi , Jincheng Dai

A receiver wants to compute a function f of two correlated sources X and Y and side information Z. What is the minimum number of bits that needs to be communicated by each transmitter? In this paper, we derive inner and outer bounds to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Milad Sefidgaran , Aslan Tchamkerten

This work discusses the source broadcasting problem, i.e. transmitting a source to many receivers via a broadcast channel. The optimal rate-distortion region for this problem is unknown. The separation approach divides the problem into two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-21 Uri Mendlovic , Meir Feder

Efficient communication in wireless networks is typically challenged by the possibility of interference among several transmitting nodes. Much important research has been invested in decreasing the number of collisions in order to obtain…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-08-31 Keren Censor-Hillel , Bernhard Haeupler , Nancy Lynch , Muriel Médard

One major open problem in network coding is to characterize the capacity region of a general multi-source multi-demand network. There are some existing computational tools for bounding the capacity of general networks, but their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Michelle Effros , Tracey Ho , Shirin Jalali

Robust optimization methods have shown practical advantages in a wide range of decision-making applications under uncertainty. Recently, their efficacy has been extended to multi-period settings. Current approaches model uncertainty either…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-23 Omid Nohadani , Kartikey Sharma

The following \textit{network computing} problem is considered. Source nodes in a directed acyclic network generate independent messages and a single receiver node computes a target function $f$ of the messages. The objective is to maximize…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Rathinakumar Appuswamy , Massimo Franceschetti , Nikhil Karamchandani , Ken Zeger