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As quantum key distribution networks grow in size and complexity, resource assignment has become increasingly important. In passive optical networks without wavelength conversion, we need to assign a full route between origin and…

There is a growing interest in discovery of internet topology at the interface level. A new generation of highly distributed measurement systems is currently being deployed. Unfortunately, the research community has not examined the problem…

Many mobile ad hoc network protocols use simple flooding, in order to adapt to changes in time varying network topology. Most of the times, a network-wide flood results in redundant packets and increases network congestion, probability of…

Quantum information science may lead to technological breakthroughs in computing, cryptography and sensing. For the implementation of these tasks, however, complex devices with many components are needed and the quantum advantage may easily…

Energy-efficiency is highly desirable for sensing systems in the Internet of Things (IoT). A common approach to achieve low-power systems is duty-cycling, where components in a system are turned off periodically to meet an energy budget.…

We investigate energy efficient packet scheduling and power allocation problem for the services which require reliable communication to guarantee a certain quality of experience (QoE). We establish links between average transmit power and…

In this paper, a new routing algorithm based on a flooding method is introduced. Flooding techniques have been used previously, e.g. for broadcasting the routing table in the ARPAnet [1] and other special purpose networks [3][4][5].…

In this paper we investigate the exploitation of redundancy when routing actuation data to a discrete-time LTI system connected to the controller via a wireless network affected by packet drops. We assume that actuation packets can be…

We provide a framework for the assignment of multiple robots to goal locations, when robot travel times are uncertain. Our premise is that time is the most valuable asset in the system. Hence, we make use of redundant robots to counter the…

Many complex systems, such as communication networks, display a surprising degree of robustness: while key components regularly malfunction, local failures rarely lead to the loss of the global information-carrying ability of the network.…

In this paper, we propose a new framework named Communication Optimal Transport (CommOT) for computing the rate distortion (RD) function. This work is motivated by observing the fact that the transition law and the relative entropy in…

Redundancy mechanisms such as triple modular redundancy protect safety-critical components by replication and thus improve systems fault tolerance. However, the gained fault tolerance comes along with costs to be invested, e.g., increasing…

The purpose of this work is to develop an algorithmic optimization approach for a capacitated Multi-Commodity flow problem, where the objective is to minimize the total link costs, where the cost of each arc increases convexly with its…

Recently, the existence of considerable amount of redundancy in the Internet traffic has stimulated the deployment of several redundancy elimination techniques within the network. These techniques are often based on either packet-level…

Blind quantum computation allows a user to delegate a computation to an untrusted server while keeping the computation hidden. A number of recent works have sought to establish bounds on the communication requirements necessary to implement…

Optimal decision-making is key to efficient allocation and scheduling of repair resources (e.g., crews) to service affected nodes of large power grid networks. Traditional manual restoration methods are inadequate for modern smart grids…

In modern network design, "efficiency" is often conflated with raw performance metrics like latency or aggregate throughput. This paper proposes a resource-centric definition of efficiency, isolating the hardware cost required to maintain a…

Large communication networks, e.g. Internet of Things (IoT), are known to be vulnerable to co-channel interference. One possibility to address this issue is the use of orthogonal multiple access (OMA) techniques. However, due to a…

In cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks, robust resource allocation is critical to ensure reliable system performance in the presence of channel uncertainties resulting from imperfect channel state information…

Cooperative diversity systems are wireless communication systems designed to exploit cooperation among users to mitigate the effects of multipath fading. In fairly general conditions, it has been shown that these systems can achieve the…