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In this paper, we consider CSMA policies for scheduling of multihop wireless networks with one-hop traffic. The main contribution of this paper is to propose Unlocking CSMA (U-CSMA) policy that enables to obtain high throughput with low…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-09-30 Mahdi Lotfinezhad , Peter Marbach

Successive Interference Cancellation (SIC) is a powerful technique for managing interference in wireless networks, yet its optimal deployment in decentralized environments remains a challenge. This study investigates joint power and rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-15 D. Garrido , M. M. Vasconcelos , B. Peleato

This paper considers the problem of distributed optimization over time-varying graphs. For the case of undirected graphs, we introduce a distributed algorithm, referred to as DIGing, based on a combination of a distributed inexact gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-21 Angelia Nedich , Alex Olshevsky , Wei Shi

We propose a distributed algorithm for controlling traffic signals. Our algorithm is adapted from backpressure routing, which has been mainly applied to communication and power networks. We formally prove that our algorithm ensures global…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Tichakorn Wongpiromsarn , Tawit Uthaicharoenpong , Yu Wang , Emilio Frazzoli , Danwei Wang

Distributed estimation and processing in networks modeled by graphs have received a great deal of interest recently, due to the benefits of decentralised processing in terms of performance and robustness to communications link failure…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-11-29 C. T. Healy , R. C. de Lamare

We give efficient algorithms for the fundamental problems of Broadcast and Local Broadcast in dynamic wireless networks. We propose a general model of communication which captures and includes both fading models (like SINR) and graph-based…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Magnus M. Halldorsson , Tigran Tonoyan , Yuexuan Wang , Dongxiao Yu

We propose an algorithm for distributed optimization over time-varying communication networks. Our algorithm uses an optimized ratio between the number of rounds of communication and gradient evaluations to achieve fast convergence. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Bryan Van Scoy , Laurent Lessard

This document serves as supplementary material for our journal submission, providing detailed mathematical proofs and derivations that support the results presented in the main manuscript. Specifically, under a modeling framework that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Xuejun Cheng , Qian Zhang , Yunnuo Xu , Zheng Dong , Ju Liu , Bruno Clerckx

Carrier Sense Multiple Access (CSMA) protocols have been shown to reach the full capacity region for data communication in wireless networks, with polynomial complexity. However, current literature achieves the throughput optimality with an…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-01-16 Hongxing Li , Nitin Vaidya

We study the distributed optimization of transmit strategies in a multiple-input, single-output (MISO) interference channel (IFC). Existing distributed algorithms rely on stricly synchronized update steps by the individual users. They…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-19 Stefan Wesemann , Gerhard Fettweis

In this paper, we consider a general distributed estimation problem in relay-assisted sensor networks by taking into account time-varying asymmetric communications, fading channels and intermittent measurements. Motivated by centralized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-20 Shanying Zhu , Yeng Chai Soh , Lihua Xie

We consider a general class of low complexity distributed scheduling algorithms in wireless networks, maximal scheduling with priorities, where a maximal set of transmitting links in each time slot are selected according to certain…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-12-05 Qiao Li , Rohit Negi

The multiple access scheduling decides how the channel is shared among the nodes in the network. Typical scheduling algorithms aims at increasing the channel utilization and thereby throughput of the network. This paper describes several…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Vijaya Yajnanarayana , Klas E. G. Magnusson , Rasmus Brandt , Satyam Dwivedi , Peter Händel

We consider distributed optimization over orthogonal collision channels in spatial random access networks. Users are spatially distributed and each user is in the interference range of a few other users. Each user is allowed to transmit…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Kobi Cohen , Angelia Nedich , R. Srikant

In this paper a new distributed asynchronous algorithm is proposed for time synchronization in networks with random communication delays, measurement noise and communication dropouts. Three different types of the drift correction algorithm…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-02-05 Milos S. Stankovic , Srdjan S. Stankovic , Karl Henrik Johansson

Opportunistic scheduling (OS) schemes have been proposed previously by the authors for multiuser MIMO-SDMA downlink systems with linear combining. In particular, it has been demonstrated that significant performance improvement can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Man-On Pun , Visa Koivunen , H. Vincent Poor

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…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-05 Wei Cui , Kaiming Shen , Wei Yu

It is well known that for ergodic channel processes the Generalized Max-Weight Matching (GMWM) scheduling policy stabilizes the network for any supportable arrival rate vector within the network capacity region. This policy, however, often…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Mahdi Lotfinezhad , Ben Liang , Elvino S. Sousa

Consider the problem of a multiple access channel in a time dependent environment with a large number of users. In such a system, mostly due to practical constraints (e.g., decoding complexity), not all users can be scheduled together, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Ori Shmuel , Asaf Cohen , Omer Gurewitz

This paper considers a distributed interference avoidance problem employing frequency assignment in the Gaussian interference channel (IC). We divide the common channel into several subchannels and each user chooses the subchannel with less…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-03-23 Zhenhai Jing , Baoming Bai , Xiao Ma , Ying Li