Related papers: Fairness in Communication for Omniscience
This paper considers the communication for omniscience (CO) problem: A set of users observe a discrete memoryless multiple source and want to recover the entire multiple source via noise-free broadcast communications. We study the problem…
For a group of users in $V$ where everyone observes a component of a discrete multiple random source, the process that users exchange data so as to reach omniscience, the state where everyone recovers the entire source, is called…
This paper studies how to attain fairness in communication for omniscience, where a set of users exchange their observations of a discrete multiple random source to attain omniscience---the state that all users recover the entire source.…
We propose a coalition game model for the problem of communication for omniscience (CO). In this game model, the core contains all achievable rate vectors for CO with sum-rate being equal to a given value. Any rate vector in the core…
Communication for omniscience (CO) refers to the problem where the users in a finite set $V$ observe a discrete multiple random source and want to exchange data over broadcast channels to reach omniscience, the state where everyone recovers…
We consider the fairness in cooperative data exchange (CDE) problem among a set of wireless clients. In this system, each client initially obtains a subset of the packets. They exchange packets in order to reconstruct the entire packet set.…
In Part I, we studied the communication for omniscience (CO) problem and proposed a parametric (PAR) algorithm to determine the minimum sum-rate at which a set of users indexed by a finite set $V$ attain omniscience. The omniscience in CO…
We propose a modified decomposition algorithm (MDA) to solve the asymptotic communication for omniscience (CO) problem where the communication rates could be real or fractional. By starting with a lower estimation of the minimum sum-rate,…
This paper considers how to accurately estimate the minimum sum-rate so as to reduce the complexity of solving cooperative data exchange (CDE) problems. The CDE system contains a number of geographically close clients who send packets to…
For a wide class of multi-user systems, a subset of capacity region which includes the corner points and the sum-capacity facet has a special structure known as polymatroid. Multiaccess channels with fixed input distributions and…
We investigate fast and communication-efficient algorithms for the classic problem of minimizing a sum of strongly convex and smooth functions that are distributed among $n$ different nodes, which can communicate using a limited number of…
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Energy efficient communication technology has attracted much attention due to the explosive growth of energy consumption in current wireless communication systems. In this letter we focus on fairness-based energy efficiency and aim to…
A simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) aided communication system is investigated. A robust joint beamforming design problem under the imperfect channel state information (CSI) is…
Users in millimeter-wave (mmWave) systems often exhibit diverse channel strengths, which can negatively impact user fairness in resource allocation. Moreover, exact channel state information (CSI) may not be available at the transmitter,…
We consider the problem of maximizing the minimum (weighted) value of all components of a vector over a polymatroid. This is a special case of the lexicographically optimal base problem introduced and solved by Fujishige. We give an…
In this work, we consider a sparse code multiple access uplink system, where $J$ users simultaneously transmit data over $K$ subcarriers, such that $J > K$, with a constraint on the power transmitted by each user. To jointly optimize the…
Joint communications and sensing (JCAS) is expected to be a crucial technology for future wireless systems. This paper investigates beamforming design for a multi-user multi-target JCAS system to ensure fairness and balance between…
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The Bayesian persuasion paradigm of strategic communication models interaction between a privately-informed agent, called the sender, and an ignorant but rational agent, called the receiver. The goal is typically to design a (near-)optimal…