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We consider a joint source channel coding (JSCC) problem in which we desire to transmit an arbitrary memoryless source over an arbitrary additive channel. We propose a mismatched coding architecture that consists of Gaussian codebooks for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Lin Zhou , Vincent Y. F. Tan , Mehul Motani

Cross-technology communication (CTC) is a promising technique that enables direct communications among incompatible wireless technologies without needing hardware modification. However, it has not been widely adopted in real-world…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Shumin Yao , Xiaodong Xu , Hao Chen , Yaping Sun , Qinglin Zhao

Communications in highly dynamic channels relying on training-based channel estimation experience a trade-off between increasing channel measurement accuracy by sending more frequent training sequences and increasing data rate by sending…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Duschia Bodet , Muriel Médard , Muralidhar Rangaswamy , Ken Duffy

This paper introduces a deep learning approach to dynamic spectrum access, leveraging the synergy of multi-modal image and spectrum data for the identification of potential transmitters. We consider an edge device equipped with a camera…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek , Aylin Yener , Sennur Ulukus

Decentralized stochastic control problems with local information involve problems where multiple agents and subsystems which are coupled via dynamics and/or cost are present. Typically, however, the dynamics of such couplings is complex and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-03 Zachary Selk , Serdar Yüksel

-We develop a random binning scheme for strong coordination in a network of two nodes separated by a noisy channel, in which the input and output signals have to be coordinated with the source and its reconstruction. In the case of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Giulia Cervia , Laura Luzzi , Maël Le Treust , Matthieu Bloch

A problem of distributed state estimation at multiple agents that are physically connected and have competitive interests is mapped to a distributed source coding problem with additional privacy constraints. The agents interact to estimate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-10 Lalitha Sankar , H. Vincent Poor

Earth observation with small satellites serves a wide range of relevant applications. However, significant advances in sensor technology (e.g., higher resolution, multiple spectrums beyond visible light) in combination with challenging…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Olga Kondrateva , Stefan Dietzel , Björn Scheuermann

This paper studies a large number of homogeneous Markov decision processes where the transition probabilities and costs are coupled in the empirical distribution of states (also called mean-field). The state of each process is not known to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-03 Jalal Arabneydi , Amir G. Aghdam

Energy-harvesting wireless sensor networking is an emerging technology with applications to various fields such as environmental and structural health monitoring. A distinguishing feature of wireless sensors is the need to perform both…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-15 Cristiano Tapparello , Osvaldo Simeone , Michele Rossi

We consider a basic joint communication and sensing setup comprising a transmitter, a receiver and a sensor. The transmitter sends a codeword to the receiver through a discrete memoryless channel, and the receiver is interested in decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Han Wu , Hamdi Joudeh

Inspired by mobile satellite communication systems and the important and prevalent applications of computational tasks, we consider a distributed source coding model for compressing vector-linear functions, which consists of multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Xuan Guang , Xiufang Sun , Ruze Zhang

Current approaches to multi-agent cooperation rely heavily on centralized mechanisms or explicit communication protocols to ensure convergence. This paper studies the problem of distributed multi-agent learning without resorting to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Caroline Wang , Ishan Durugkar , Elad Liebman , Peter Stone

In this paper, we propose a high-efficiency deep joint source-channel coding (JSCC) method for video transmission based on conditional coding with asymmetric context. The conditional coding-based neural video compression requires to predict…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-13 Xuechen Chen , Junting Li , Chuang Chen , Hairong Lin , Yishen Li

We study the problem of reducing the amount of communication in decentralized target tracking. We focus on the scenario where a team of robots are allowed to move on the boundary of the environment. Their goal is to seek a formation so as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Lifeng Zhou , Pratap Tokekar

We consider the fully decentralized machine learning scenario where many users with personal datasets collaborate to learn models through local peer-to-peer exchanges, without a central coordinator. We propose to train personalized models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Valentina Zantedeschi , Aurélien Bellet , Marc Tommasi

Enabling coordination between products from different vendors is a key characteristic of the design philosophy behind future wireless communication networks. As an example, different devices may have different implementations, leading to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-02-05 Piotr Wiecek , Majed Haddad , Oussama Habachi , Yezekael Hayel

We propose a framework for the derivation and evaluation of distributed iterative algorithms for receiver cooperation in interference-limited wireless systems. Our approach views the processing within and collaboration between receivers as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-04-18 Mihai-Alin Badiu , Carles Navarro Manchón , Vasile Bota , Bernard Henri Fleury

In random-access networks, such as the IEEE 802.11 network, different users may transmit their packets simultaneously, resulting in packet collisions. Traditionally, the collided packets are simply discarded. To improve performance,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-09-22 Lu Lu , Soung Chang Liew , Shengli Zhang

An analog source is to be transmitted across a Gaussian channel in more than one channel use per source symbol. This paper derives a lower bound on the asymptotic mean squared error for a strategy that consists of repeatedly quantizing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Marius Kleiner , Bixio Rimoldi