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To provide robustness of distributed model predictive control (DMPC), this work proposes a robust DMPC formulation for discrete-time linear systems subject to unknown-but-bounded disturbances. Taking advantage of the structure of certain…
In this paper we provide theoretical and simulation-based study of the delivery delay performance of a number of existing throughput optimal coding schemes and use the results to design a new dynamic rate adaptation scheme that achieves…
We propose a novel strategy for energy-efficient dynamic computation offloading, in the context of edge-computing-aided beyond 5G networks. The goal is to minimize the energy consumption of the overall system, comprising multiple User…
Distributed Opportunistic Scheduling (DOS) techniques have been recently proposed to improve the throughput performance of wireless networks. With DOS, each station contends for the channel with a certain access probability. If a contention…
Dynamic polarization control (DPC) is beneficial for many optical applications. It uses adjustable waveplates to perform automatic polarization tracking and manipulation. Efficient algorithms are essential to realizing an endless…
Economical and environmental concerns necessitate network engineers to focus on energy-efficient access network design. The optical network units (ONUs), being predominantly responsible for the energy consumption of Ethernet Passive Optical…
We consider a wireless broadcast station that transmits packets to multiple users. The packet requests for each user may overlap, and some users may already have certain packets. This presents a problem of broadcasting in the presence of…
Learning under non-smooth objectives remains a fundamental challenge in machine learning, as abrupt changes in conditioning variables can induce highly non-smooth loss landscapes and destabilize optimization. This difficulty is particularly…
We demonstrate and evaluate a fully-blind digital signal processing (DSP) chain for 100G passive optical networks (PONs), and analyze different equalizer topologies based on neural networks with low hardware complexity.
The increasing penetration of converter-interfaced distributed energy resources has brought out the need to develop decentralized criteria that would ensure the small-signal stability of the inter-connected system. Passivity of the D-Q…
Dynamic positron emission tomography (PET) images can reveal the distribution of tracers in the organism and the dynamic processes involved in biochemical reactions, and it is widely used in clinical practice. Despite the high effectiveness…
Internet traffic continues to grow relentlessly, driven largely by increasingly high resolution video content. Although studies have shown that the majority of packets processed by Internet routers are pass-through traffic, they nonetheless…
In this paper, we investigate dynamic channel and rate selection in cognitive radio systems which exploit a large number of channels free from primary users. In such systems, transmitters may rapidly change the selected (channel, rate) pair…
Virtualized Passive Optical Networks (vPONs) offer a promising solution for modern access networks, bringing enhanced flexibility, reduced capital expenditures (CapEx), and support for multi-tenancy. By decoupling network functions from…
A wide array of dynamic bandwidth allocation (DBA) mechanisms have recently been proposed for improving bandwidth utilization and reducing idle times and packets delays in passive optical networks (PONs). The DBA evaluation studies commonly…
Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) leverage manufacturing process imperfections that cause propagation delay discrepancies for the signals traveling along these paths. While PUFs can be used for device authentication and chip-specific key…
The increasing global spread of electric vehicles (EVs) has introduced significant interdependence between transportation and power networks. Most of the previous studies on coupled networks focus on the formation of equilibrium states…
Dynamic graphs, featuring continuously updated vertices and edges, have grown in importance for numerous real-world applications. To accommodate this, graph frameworks, particularly their internal data structures, must support both…
Stability is an important issue in order to characterize the performance of a network, and it has become a major topic of study in the last decade. Roughly speaking, a communication network system is said to be stable if the number of…
Nowadays distributed computing approach has become very popular due to several advantages over the centralized computing approach as it also offers high performance computing at a very low cost. Each router implements some queuing mechanism…