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We study how to scale distributed bandit submodular coordination under realistic communication constraints in bandwidth, data rate, and connectivity. We are motivated by multi-agent tasks of active situational awareness in unknown,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-24 Zirui Xu , Vasileios Tzoumas

As the use of wireless sensor networks increases, the need for (energy-)efficient and reliable broadcasting algorithms grows. Ideally, a broadcasting algorithm should have the ability to quickly disseminate data, while keeping the number of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-07-24 Thomas M. M. Meyfroyt , Sem C. Borst , Onno J. Boxma , Dee Denteneer

In this paper we study the inherent trade-off between time and communication complexity for the distributed consensus problem. In our model, communication complexity is measured as the maximum data throughput (in bits per second) sent…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-10-07 Federico Rossi , Marco Pavone

We consider the problem of constructing distributed overlay networks, where nodes in a reconfigurable system can create or sever connections with nodes whose identifiers they know. Initially, each node knows only its own and its neighbors'…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yi-Jun Chang , Yanyu Chen , Gopinath Mishra

We study asynchronous distributed decision-making for scalable multi-agent bandit submodular maximization. We are motivated by distributed information-gathering tasks in unknown environments and under heterogeneous inter-agent communication…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Pranjal Sharma , Zirui Xu , Vasileios Tzoumas

We consider a distributed computing framework where the distributed nodes have different communication capabilities, motivated by the heterogeneous networks in data centers and mobile edge computing systems. Following the structure of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Nishant Shakya , Fan Li , Jinyuan Chen

In multiple domains, statistical tasks are performed in distributed settings, with data split among several end machines that are connected to a fusion center. In various applications, the end machines have limited bandwidth and power, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Rodney Fonseca , Boaz Nadler

A wireless network operator typically divides the radio spectrum it possesses into a number of subbands. In a cellular network those subbands are then reused in many cells. To mitigate co-channel interference, a joint spectrum and power…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-22 Yasar Sinan Nasir , Dongning Guo

Language model training in distributed settings is limited by the communication cost of gradient exchanges. In this short note, we extend recent work from Malladi et al. (2023), using shared randomness to perform distributed fine-tuning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Eric Zelikman , Qian Huang , Percy Liang , Nick Haber , Noah D. Goodman

This paper investigates the problem of covert communications in a heterogeneous wireless network where multiple communication modalities are used simultaneously. In this setup, a legitimate transmitter sends confidential data to its…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-13 Justin H. Kong , Terrence J. Moore , Fikadu T. Dagefu

Wireless sensor networks consisting of great number of cheap and tiny sensor nodes which are used for military environment controlling, natural events recording, traffic monitoring, robot navigation, and etc. Such a networks encounter with…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-11-23 Marida Dossena

This work shows potentials for rapid self-organisation of sensor networks where nodes collaborate to relay messages to a common data collecting unit (sink node). The study problem is, in the sense of graph theory, to find a shortest path…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-05-20 Reinert Korsnes

Broadcasting concerns the dissemination of a message originating at one node of a network to all other nodes. This task is accomplished by placing a series of calls over the communication lines of the network between neighboring nodes,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Michael J. Dinneen

The proliferation of wireless communications networks over the past decades, combined with the scarcity of the wireless spectrum, have motivated a significant effort towards increasing the throughput of wireless networks. One of the major…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-27 Emeka Abakasanga , Nir Shlezinger , Ron Dabora

This paper focuses on showing time-message trade-offs in distributed algorithms for fundamental problems such as leader election, broadcast, spanning tree (ST), minimum spanning tree (MST), minimum cut, and many graph verification problems.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Robert Gmyr , Gopal Pandurangan

This paper investigates coordination problems over packet-based communication channels. We consider the scenario in which the communication between network nodes is corrupted by unknown-but-bounded noise. We introduce a novel coordination…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Mingming Shi , Pietro Tesi , Claudio De Persis

Motivated by emerging applications in wireless sensor networks and large-scale data processing, we consider distributed optimization over directed networks where the agents communicate their information locally to their neighbors to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-22 Farzad Yousefian

Coordinating the operations of separate wireless systems at the wavelength level can lead to significant improvements in wireless capabilities. We address a fundamental challenge in distributed radio frequency system cooperation -…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-21 Serge R. Mghabghab , Sean M. Ellison , Jeffrey A. Nanzer

Optical wireless communication offers unprecedented communication speeds that can support the massive use of the Internet on a daily basis. In indoor environments, optical wireless networks are usually multi-user multiple-input…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-30 Ahmad Adnan Qidan , Taisir El-Gorashi1 , Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani

This paper studies broadcasting and gossiping algorithms in random and general AdHoc networks. Our goal is not only to minimise the broadcasting and gossiping time, but also to minimise the energy consumption, which is measured in terms of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Petra Berenbrink , Colin Cooper , Zengjian Hu