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We extend stochastic network optimization theory to treat networks with arbitrary sample paths for arrivals, channels, and mobility. The network can experience unexpected link or node failures, traffic bursts, and topology changes, and…
Providing performance guarantees is one of the critical objectives of recent and future communication networks, toward which regulations, i.e., constraints on key system parameters, have played an indispensable role. This is the case for…
Motivated by the recent trend of integrating artificial intelligence into the Internet-of-Things (IoT), we consider the problem of scheduling packets from multiple sensing sources to a central controller over a wireless network. Here,…
In small-cell wireless networks where users are connected to multiple base stations (BSs), it is often advantageous to switch off dynamically a subset of BSs to minimize energy costs. We consider two types of energy cost: (i) the cost of…
Service-oriented wireless sensor network(WSN) has been recently proposed as an architecture to rapidly develop applications in WSNs. In WSNs, a query task may require a set of services and may be carried out repetitively with a given…
Flexible optical network is a promising technology to accommodate high-capacity demands in next-generation networks. To ensure uninterrupted communication, existing lightpath provisioning schemes are mainly done with the assumption of…
IEEE 802.11ax as the newest Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANS) standard brings enormous improvements in network throughput, coverage and energy efficiency in densely populated areas. Unlike previous IEEE 802.11 standards where power…
We consider the problem of scheduling packets of different lengths via a directed communication link prone to jamming errors. Dynamic packet arrivals and errors are modelled by an adversary. We focus on estimating relative throughput of…
This paper considers optimization of power and delay in a time-varying wireless link using rateless codes. The link serves a sequence of variable-length packets. Each packet is coded and transmitted over multiple slots. Channel conditions…
WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) technology has emerged in response to the increasing demand for multimedia services in the internet broadband networks. WiMAX standard has defined five different scheduling services to…
Data communication in sensor networks can have timing constraints like end to end deadlines. If the deadlines are not met either a catastrophe can happen in hard real time systems or performance deterioration can occur in soft real time…
To meet the ever-increasing demands on higher throughput and better network delay performance, 60 GHZ networking is proposed as a promising solution for the next generation of wireless communications. To successfully deploy such networks,…
Agile-SD is one of the latest versions of loss-based congestion control algorithm (CCA), which has been proposed to improve the total performance of transmission control protocol (TCP) over high-speed and short-distance networks. It has…
Terahertz wireless backhaul is expected to meet the high-speed backhaul requirements of future ultra-dense networks using millimeter-wave (mmWave) base stations (BSs). In order to achieve higher network capacity with limited resources and…
Wireless network scheduling and control techniques (e.g., opportunistic scheduling) rely heavily on access to Channel State Information (CSI). However, obtaining this information is costly in terms of bandwidth, time, and power, and could…
This paper presents an empirical performance analysis of three project scheduling algorithms dealing with maximizing projects' net present value with unrestricted resources. The selected algorithms, being the most recently cited in the…
We consider the problem of utility optimal scheduling in general \emph{processing networks} with random arrivals and network conditions. These are generalizations of traditional data networks where commodities in one or more queues can be…
In this paper, we consider the problem of energy efficient uplink scheduling with delay constraint for a multi-user wireless system. We address this problem within the framework of constrained Markov decision processes (CMDPs) wherein one…
In this paper, we investigate a novel minimum length scheduling problem to determine the optimal power control, and scheduling for constant and continuous rate models, while considering concurrent transmission of users, energy causality,…
Achieving control stability is one of the key design challenges of scalable Wireless Networked Control Systems (WNCS) under limited communication and computing resources. This paper explores the use of an alternative control concept defined…