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In connected vehicular networks, it is vital to have vehicular nodes that are capable of sensing about surrounding environments and exchanging messages with each other for automating and coordinating purpose. Towards this end, integrated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Yao Liu , Min Li , An Liu , Jianmin Lu , Tony Xiao Han

In this work, we investigate a multi-source multi-cast network with the aid of an arbitrary number of relays, where it is assumed that no direct link is available at each S-D pair. The aim is to find the fundamental limit on the maximal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-05 Z. Chen , P. Fan , K. B. Letaief

Semantic communication is a novel communication paradigm that focuses on conveying the user's intended meaning rather than the bit-wise transmission of source signals. One of the key challenges is to effectively represent and extract the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Jingxuan Chai , Yong Xiao , Guangming Shi

The classical problem in network coding theory considers communication over multicast networks. Multiple transmitters send independent messages to multiple receivers which decode the same set of messages. In this work, computation over…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-18 Changho Suh , Naveen Goela , Michael Gastpar

We consider the problem of coding over the multi-user Interference Channel (IC). It is well-known that aligning the interfering signals results in improved achievable rates in certain setups involving more than two users. We argue that in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-18 F. Shirani , S. S. Pradhan

In a distributed computing system operating according to the map-shuffle-reduce framework, coding data prior to storage can be useful both to reduce the latency caused by straggling servers and to decrease the inter-server communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-22 Jingjing Zhang , Osvaldo Simeone

We consider a mobile edge computing problem, in which mobile users offload their computation tasks to computing nodes (e.g., base stations) at the network edge. The edge nodes compute the requested functions and communicate the computed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-26 Songze Li , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , A. Salman Avestimehr

We consider a heterogeneous network with mobile edge computing, where a user can offload its computation to one among multiple servers. In particular, we minimize the system-wide computation overhead by jointly optimizing the individual…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Quoc-Viet Pham , Tuan LeAnh , Nguyen H. Tran , Choong Seon Hong

We propose an algorithm that aims at minimizing the inter-node communication volume for distributed and memory-efficient tensor contraction schemes on modern multi-core compute nodes. The key idea is to define processor grids that optimize…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Andreas Irmler , Raghavendra Kanakagiri , Sebastian T. Ohlmann , Edgar Solomonik , Andreas Grüneis

In the rapidly evolving research on artificial intelligence (AI) the demand for fast, computationally efficient, and scalable solutions has increased in recent years. The problem of optimizing the computing resources for distributed machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Zulfiya R. Gabidullina , Hamid R. Rabiee

Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) systems have garnered significant attention due to their capability to simultaneously achieve efficient communication and environmental sensing. A core objective in this field is characterizing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Gefei Peng , Youlong Wu

We introduce several notions of reduction in distributed computing, and investigate reduction properties of two fundamental agreement tasks, namely Consensus and Atomic Commitment. We first propose the notion of reduction "a la Karp'', an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Bernadette Charron-Bost

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

Distributed storage systems are mainly justified due to the limited amount of storage capacity and improving the reliability through distributing data over multiple storage nodes. On the other hand, it may happen the data is stored in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-04-15 Soroush Akhlaghi , Abbas Kiani , Mohammad Reza Ghanavati

Networks connecting distributed cloud services through multiple data centers are called cloud networks. These types of networks play a crucial role in cloud computing and a holistic performance evaluation is essential before planning a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Eduardo Hargreaves , Paulo H De Aguiar Rodrigues , Daniel S. Menasché

The multi-user linearly-separable distributed computing problem is considered here, in which $N$ servers help to compute the real-valued functions requested by $K$ users, where each function can be written as a linear combination of up to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Ali Khalesi , Sajad Daei , Marios Kountouris , Petros Elia

Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) is promising to become the foundation of many decentralised systems. However, the unbalanced and unregulated network layout contributes to the inefficiency of DLT especially in the Internet of Things…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Yibin Xu , Yangyu Huang

The presence of embedded electronics and communication capabilities as well as sensing and control in smart devices has given rise to the novel concept of cyber-physical networks, in which agents aim at cooperatively solving complex tasks…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-28 Giuseppe Notarstefano , Ivano Notarnicola , Andrea Camisa

Compute and Forward (CF) is a coding scheme which enables receivers to decode linear combinations of simultaneously transmitted messages while exploiting the linear properties of lattice codes and the additive nature of a shared medium. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Ori Shmuel , Asaf Cohen , Omer Gurewitz

We consider the problem of distributed computation of a target function over a multiple-access channel. If the target and channel functions are matched (i.e., compute the same function), significant performance gains can be obtained by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-28 Nikhil Karamchandani , Urs Niesen , Suhas Diggavi