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A hard-deadline, opportunistic scheduling problem in which $B$ bits must be transmitted within $T$ time-slots over a time-varying channel is studied: the transmitter must decide how many bits to serve in each slot based on knowledge of the…
We investigate the scheduling of a common resource between several concurrent users when the feasible transmission rate of each user varies randomly over time. Time is slotted and users arrive and depart upon service completion. This may…
In a bi-directional relay channel, two nodes wish to exchange independent messages over a shared wireless half-duplex channel with the help of relays. Recent work has considered information theoretic limits of the bi-directional relay…
The Gaussian parallel relay network, in which two parallel relays assist a source to convey information to a destination, was introduced by Schein and Gallager. An upper bound on the capacity can be obtained by considering broadcast cut…
Quantize-Map-and-Forward (QMF) relaying has been shown to achieve the optimal diversity-multiplexing trade-off (DMT) for arbitrary slow fading full-duplex networks as well as for the single-relay half-duplex network. A key reason for this…
We investigate the special case of diamond relay comprising a Gaussian channel with identical frequency response from the user to the relays and fronthaul links with limited rate from the relays to the destination. We use the oblivious…
Ever since Tassiulas and Ephremides (1992) proposed the maximum weight scheduling algorithm of throughput-optimality for constrained queueing networks that arise in the context of communication networks, extensive efforts have been devoted…
Motivated by the design of low-complexity low-power coding solutions for the Gaussian relay channel, this work presents an upper bound on the minimum energy-per-bit achievable on the Gaussian relay channel using rank-1 linear relaying. Our…
The virtualization and softwarization of modern computer networks introduces interesting new opportunities for a more flexible placement of network functions and middleboxes (firewalls, proxies, traffic optimizers, virtual switches, etc.).…
The optimal scheduling of interfering links in a dense wireless network with full frequency reuse is a challenging task. The traditional method involves first estimating all the interfering channel strengths then optimizing the scheduling…
In this paper, we study the capacity of the diamond channel. We focus on the special case where the channel between the source node and the two relay nodes are two separate links with finite capacities and the link from the two relay nodes…
Relay nodes are used to improve the throughput, delay and reliability performance of energy harvesting networks by assisting both energy and information transfer between information nodes and access point. Previous studies on radio…
In this paper, we consider a full duplex wireless powered communication network where multiple users with radio frequency energy harvesting capability communicate to an energy broadcasting hybrid access point. We investigate the minimum…
Wireless sensor networks are normally characterized by resource challenged nodes. Since communication costs the most in terms of energy in these networks, minimizing this overhead is important. We consider minimum length node scheduling in…
This paper considers the problem of selecting a subset of nodes in a two-hop wireless network to act as relays in aiding the communication between the source-destination pair. Optimal relay subset selection with the objective of maximizing…
To understand the network response to large-scale physical attacks, we investigate the asymptotic capacity of a half-duplex fading relay network with random node failures when the number of relays $N$ is infinitely large. In this paper, a…
A classical result in undirected wireline networks is the near optimality of routing (flow) for multiple-unicast traffic (multiple sources communicating independent messages to multiple destinations): the min cut upper bound is within a…
In many wireless communication systems, radios are subject to a duty cycle constraint, that is, a radio only actively transmits signals over a fraction of the time. For example, it is desirable to have a small duty cycle in some low power…
We consider a discrete-time linear quadratic Gaussian networked control setting where the (full information) observer and controller are separated by a fixed-rate noiseless channel. The minimal rate required to stabilize such a system has…
In this paper, we investigate the performance analysis of dual hop relaying system consisting of asymmetric Radio Frequency (RF)/Free Optical Space (FSO) links. The RF channels follow a Rayleigh distribution and the optical links are…