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With distributed machine learning being a prominent technique for large-scale machine learning tasks, communication complexity has become a major bottleneck for speeding up training and scaling up machine numbers. In this paper, we propose…

Redundancy-d (R(d)) is a load balancing method used to route incoming jobs to K servers, each with its own queue. Every arriving job is replicated into 2<=d<=K tasks, which are then routed to d servers chosen uniformly at random. When the…

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In this paper, we propose the Redundancy Reduction Twins Network (RRTN), a redundancy reduction training framework that minimizes redundancy by measuring the cross-correlation matrix between the outputs of the same network fed with…

Recently, a new type of quantum key distribution, called the round-robin differential phase-shift (RRDPS) protocol [Nature 509, 475 (2014)], was proposed, where the security can be guaranteed without monitoring any statistics. In this…

Power systems Unit Commitment (UC) problem determines the generator commitment schedule and dispatch decisions to realize the reliable and economic operation of power networks. The growing penetration of stochastic renewables and demand…

In this paper, we compare the performance of three different cooperative Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) protocols for slow-fading half-duplex orthogonal multiple access multiple relay channel. Channel State Information (CSI) is…

Fault detection and reconfiguration in fault-tolerant converters may complicated and necessitate using all-purpose microprocessors and high-speed sensors to guarantee the satisfactory performance of power converters. Therefore, providing…

We analyze the use of photonic links to enable large-scale fault-tolerant connectivity of locally error-corrected modules based on neutral atom arrays. Our approach makes use of recent theoretical results showing the robustness of surface…

One-way quantum repeaters where loss and operational errors are counteracted by quantum error correcting codes can ensure fast and reliable qubit transmission in quantum networks. It is crucial that the resource requirements of such…

We propose the CLEX supercomputer topology and routing scheme. We prove that CLEX can utilize a constant fraction of the total bandwidth for point-to-point communication, at delays proportional to the sum of the number of intermediate hops…

We present a method for estimating the undetected error rate when a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) is performed on the output of the decoder of short low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. This system is of interest for telecommand links,…

In this paper, we propose RECOUP, a reliable group communication routing protocol for IoT networks. RECOUP efficiently uses a low-overhead cluster-based multicast routing technique on top of the RPL protocol. RECOUP increases the…

We analyze the performance of the type-I automatic repeat request (ARQ) protocol with ultra-reliability constraints. First, we show that achieving a very low packet outage probability by using an open loop setup is a difficult task. Thus,…

In this paper, we develop RCC, the first unified and comprehensive RDMA-enabled distributed transaction processing framework supporting six serializable concurrency control protocols: not only the classical protocols NOWAIT, WAITDIE, and…