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This paper investigates fluid antenna systems (FASs) subject to finite-blocklength (FBL) constraints, motivated by the strict reliability-latency and ultra-massive connectivity requirements of future wireless networks. While FAS performance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Zhentian Zhang , Kai-Kit Wong , David Morales-Jimenez , Hao Jiang , Hao Xu , Christos Masouros , Zaichen Zhang , Chan-Byoung Chae

Since some years ago, use of Feedback Control Scheduling Algorithm (FCSA) in the control scheduling co-design of multiprocessor embedded system has increased. FCSA provides Quality of Service (QoS) in terms of overall system performance and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2012-10-11 Oumair Naseer , Rana Atif Ali Khan

The random access methods used for support of machine-type communications (MTC) in current cellular standards are derivatives of traditional framed slotted ALOHA and therefore do not support high user loads efficiently. Motivated by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Nuno K. Pratas , Henning Thomsen , Cedomir Stefanovic , Petar Popovski

License Assisted Access (LAA) LTE (LTE-LAA) is a new type of LTE that aggregates the licensed LTE bands with the unlicensed bands via carrier aggregation. To operate in unlicensed bands, LTE-LAA adopts the listen-before-talk policy and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-12-14 H. R. Lee , H. Kim , H. J. Yang , J. T. Kim , S. K. Baek

Motivated by the need to hide the complexity of the physical layer from performance analysis in a layer 2 protocol, a class of abstract receivers, called Poisson receivers, was recently proposed in [1] as a probabilistic framework for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Tzu-Hsuan Liu , Che-Hao Yu , Yi-Jheng Lin , Cheng-Shang Chang , Duan-Shin Lee

In this paper we introduce a new class of codes for over-loaded synchronous wireless and optical CDMA systems which increases the number of users for fixed number of chips without introducing any errors. Equivalently, the chip rate can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-10-18 P. Pad , F. Marvasti , K. Alishahi , S. Akbari

Coded caching (CC) can transform cache memory at network devices into an active communication resource. Prior studies have shown that CC can significantly enhance the achievable Degrees of Freedom (DoF) in multi-input multi-output (MIMO)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Mohammad NaseriTehrani , MohammadJavad Salehi , Antti Tölli

Several aspects of the problem of asynchronous point-to-point communication without feedback are developed when the source is highly intermittent. In the system model of interest, the codeword is transmitted at a random time within a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-10 Aslan Tchamkerten , Venkat Chandar , Gregory Wornell

The advent of Machine-to-Machine communication has sparked a new wave of interest to random access protocols, especially in application to LTE Random Access (RA). By analogy with classical slotted ALOHA, state-of-the-art models LTE RA as a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Mikhail Vilgelm , Sergio Rueda Linares , Wolfgang Kellerer

This study focuses on (traditional and unsourced) multiple-access communication over a single transmit and multiple ($M$) receive antennas. We assume full or partial channel state information (CSI) at the receiver. It is known that to fully…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Alexander Fengler , Alejandro Lancho , Yury Polyanskiy

In this paper, we study the performance of an uplink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) network under statistical quality of service (QoS) delay constraints, captured through each user s effective capacity (EC). We first propose novel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Mouktar Bello , Arsenia Chorti , Inbar Fijalkow , Wenjuan Yu , Leila Musavian

Federated learning (FL) has attracted increasing attention as a promising approach to driving a vast number of end devices with artificial intelligence. However, it is very challenging to guarantee the efficiency of FL considering the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Wentai Wu , Ligang He , Weiwei Lin , Rui Mao , Carsten Maple , Stephen Jarvis

Synchronous federated learning (FL) scales poorly with the number of clients due to the straggler effect. Algorithms like FedAsync and GeneralizedFedAsync address this limitation by enabling asynchronous communication between clients and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Abdelkrim Alahyane , Céline Comte , Matthieu Jonckheere , Éric Moulines

In practical cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks with distributed and low-cost access points, the asynchronous arrival of signals at the user equipments increases multi-user interference that degrades the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Jiakang Zheng , Jiayi Zhang , Julian Cheng , Victor C. M. Leung , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Bo Ai

Simulated annealing (SA) is a well-known algorithm for solving combinatorial optimization problems. However, the computation time of SA increases rapidly, as the size of the problem grows. Recently, a stochastic simulated annealing (SSA)…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Duckgyu Shin , Naoya Onizawa , Warren J. Gross , Takahiro Hanyu

In decentralized optimization, nodes of a communication network each possess a local objective function, and communicate using gossip-based methods in order to minimize the average of these per-node functions. While synchronous algorithms…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-02 Mathieu Even , Hadrien Hendrikx , Laurent Massoulie

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has been identified as a promising technology for future wireless systems due to its performance gains in spectral efficiency when compared to conventional orthogonal schemes (OMA). This gain can be…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Onel L. A. López , Hirley Alves , Matti Latva-aho

This paper considers the slotted ALOHA protocol in a communication channel shared by N users. It is assumed that the channel has the multiple-packet reception (MPR) capability that allows the correct reception of up to M ($1 \leq M < N$)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-26 Yijin Zhang , Yuan-Hsun Lo , Feng Shu , Jun Li

Identifying the start time of a sequence of symbols received at the receiver, commonly referred to as \emph{frame synchronization}, is a critical task for achieving good performance in digital communications systems employing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-14 Oren Kolaman , Ron Dabora

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