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Positioning with one single communication between base stations and user devices can effectively save air time and thus expand the user volume to infinite. However, this usually demands accurate synchronization between base stations.…

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We consider the problem of rate allocation in a fading Gaussian multiple-access channel (MAC) with fixed transmission powers. Our goal is to maximize a general concave utility function of transmission rates over the throughput capacity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-10-08 Ali ParandehGheibi , Atilla Eryilmaz , Asuman Ozdaglar , Muriel Medard

Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols, essential for wireless networks, are typically manually configured. While deep reinforcement learning (DRL)-based protocols enhance task-specified network performance, they suffer from poor…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Renxuan Tan , Rongpeng Li , Fei Wang , Chenghui Peng , Shaoyun Wu , Zhifeng Zhao , Honggang Zhang

This paper presents a TDMA based energy efficient cognitive radio multichannel medium access control (MAC) protocol called ECR-MAC for wireless Ad Hoc Networks. ECR-MAC requires only a single half-duplex radio transceiver on each node that…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-09-28 S. M. Kamruzzaman

Given sensor readings over time from a power grid, how can we accurately detect when an anomaly occurs? A key part of achieving this goal is to use the network of power grid sensors to quickly detect, in real-time, when any unusual events,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Shimiao Li , Amritanshu Pandey , Bryan Hooi , Christos Faloutsos , Larry Pileggi

Vehicular communication systems have been an active subject of research for many years and are important technologies in the 5G and the post-5G era. One important use case is platooning which is seemingly the first step towards fully…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Michail Palaiologos , Jian Luo , Richard A. Stirling-Gallacher , Giuseppe Caire

In this paper, we mainly investigate an integrated system operating under a software defined network (SDN) protocol. SDN is a new networking paradigm in which network intelligence is centrally administered and data is communicated via…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-04 Cheng Tan , Wing Shing Wong , Huanshui Zhang

Motivated by the emerging delay-sensitive applications of the Internet of Things (IoT), there has been a resurgence of interest in developing medium access control (MAC) protocols in a time-slotted framework. The resource-constrained,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Shivam Vinayak Vatsa , Avi Mohan , Anurag Kumar

Terahertz (THz) wireless networks are expected to catalyze the beyond fifth generation (B5G) era. However, due to the directional nature and the line-of-sight demand of THz links, as well as the ultra-dense deployment of THz networks, a…

In a densely deployed distributed wireless network, there may be various types of traffic with differentiated Quality of Service (QoS) requirements. However, when the network is heavily loaded, the collision increases significantly, making…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Ze Liu , Bo Li , Mao Yang , Zhongjiang Yan , Xichan Liu

This paper has been withdrawn by arXiv. arXiv admin note: author list truncated due to disputed authorship and content. This submission repeats large portions of text from this http URL by other authors. Duty cycle mode in WSN improves…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-04-30 Rajeev K. Shakya

Modern multi-access 5G+ networks provide mobile terminals with additional capacity, improving network stability and performance. However, in highly mobile environments such as vehicular networks, supporting multi-access connectivity remains…

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We consider wireless communication networks where network users are subject to critical events such as emergencies and crises. If a critical event occurs to a user, the user needs to send critical traffic as early as possible. However, most…

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CSMA (Carrier Sense Multiple Access), which resolves contentions over wireless networks in a fully distributed fashion, has recently gained a lot of attentions since it has been proved that appropriate control of CSMA parameters guarantees…

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In the context of radio distributed networks, we present a generalized approach for the Medium Access Control (MAC) with fixed congestion window. Our protocol is quite simple to analyze and can be used in a lot of different situations. We…

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Networking protocols are designed through long-time and hard-work human efforts. Machine Learning (ML)-based solutions have been developed for communication protocol design to avoid manual efforts to tune individual protocol parameters.…

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We consider the problem of throughput-optimal broadcast- ing in time-varying wireless networks, whose underlying topology is restricted to Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAG). Previous broadcast algorithms route packets along spanning trees. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-05 Abhishek Sinha , Leandros Tassiulas , Eytan Modiano

The high bandwidth demand of Internet applications has recently driven the need of increasing the residential download speed. A practical solution to the problem has been proposed aggregating the bandwidth of 802.11 Access Points (APs)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-04-04 Domenico Giustiniano , Eduard Goma , Alberto Lopez Toledo , George Athanasiou

Pinching antennas (PAs), a new type of reconfigurable and flexible antenna structures, have recently attracted significant research interest due to their ability to create line-of-sight links and mitigate large-scale path loss. Owing to…

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