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We study a mobile wireless sensor network (MWSN) consisting of multiple mobile sensors or robots. Three key factors in MWSNs, sensing quality, energy consumption, and connectivity, have attracted plenty of attention, but the interaction of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Jun Guo , Hamid Jafarkhani

Consider the single-group multicast beamforming problem, where multiple users receive the same data stream simultaneously from a single transmitter. The problem is NP-hard and all existing algorithms for the problem either find suboptimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-07 Cheng Lu , Ya-Feng Liu

Grid-based storage systems with uniformly shaped loads (e.g., containers, pallets, totes) are commonplace in logistics, industrial, and transportation domains. A key performance metric for such systems is the maximization of space…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Tzvika Geft , Kostas Bekris , Jingjin Yu

The rapid development of medical sensors has increased the interest in Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) applications where physiological data from the human body and its environment is gathered, monitored, and analyzed to take the proper…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Nadine Boudargham , Jacques Bou Abdo , Jacques Demerjian , Christophe Guyeux , Abdallah Makhoul

The purpose of a wireless sensor network (WSN) is to provide the users with access to the information of interest from data gathered by spatially distributed sensors. Generally the users require only certain aggregate functions of this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Jaydip Sen

The penetration of wireless broadband services in remote areas has primarily been limited due to the lack of economic incentives that service providers encounter in sparsely populated areas. Besides, wireless backhaul links like satellite…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-05-29 Ratnesh Kumbhkar , Muhammad Nazmul Islam , Narayan B. Mandayam , Ivan Seskar

We formulate the problem of robots ferrying messages between statically-placed source and sink pairs that they can communicate with wirelessly. We first analyze the capacity region for this problem under both ideal (arbitrarily high…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-08-14 Shangxing Wang , Andrea Gasparri , Bhaskar Krishnamachari

The position of the base station (BS) in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) has a significant impact on network lifetime. This paper suggests a mobile BS positioning algorithm for cluster-based WSNs, which considers both the location and the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Kadir Tohma , İpek Abasıkeleş Turgut , Cuma Celal Korkmaz , Yakup Kutlu

The pinching-antenna systems (PASS), which dynamically activate and relocate the pinching-antennas (PAs) along the dielectric waveguide, offer unprecedented potential for integrated positioning and communication. The multi-waveguide-based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-27 Yaoyu Zhang , Xin Sun , Jun Wang , Tianwei Hou , Anna Li , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan

This work aims to predict channels in wireless communication systems based on noisy observations, utilizing sequence-to-sequence models with attention (Seq2Seq-attn) and transformer models. Both models are adapted from natural language…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-05 Valentina Rizzello , Benedikt Böck , Michael Joham , Wolfgang Utschick

In this paper we are concerned with the problem of data forwarding from a wireless body area network (WBAN) to a gateway when body shadowing affects the ability of WBAN nodes to communicate with the gateway. To solve this problem we present…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Antonios Argyriou , Alberto Caballero Breva , Marc Aoun

Distributed Opportunistic Scheduling (DOS) techniques have been recently proposed to improve the throughput performance of wireless networks. With DOS, each station contends for the channel with a certain access probability. If a contention…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Andres Garcia-Saavedra , Albert Banchs , Pablo Serrano , Joerg Widmer

Broadcasting/multicasting is an efficient mechanism for multimedia communications due to its high spectrum efficiency, which achieves point-to-multipoint transmission on the same radio resources. To satisfy the increasing demands for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Zhengquan Zhang , Zheng Ma , Ming Xiao , Pingzhi Fan

Multicast device-to-device (D2D) transmission is important for applications like local file transfer in commercial networks and is also a required feature in public safety networks. In this paper we propose a tractable baseline multicast…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Xingqin Lin , Rapeepat Ratasuk , Amitava Ghosh , Jeffrey G. Andrews

A non-regenerative dual-hop wireless system based on a distributed space-time coding strategy is considered. It is assumed that each relay retransmits an appropriately scaled space-time coded version of its received signal. The main goal of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Jamshid Abouei , Hossein Bagheri , Amir K. Khandani

A challenging problem in multi-band multi-cell self-organized wireless systems, such as multi-channel Wi-Fi networks, femto/pico cells in 3G/4G cellular networks, and more recent wireless networks over TV white spaces, is of distributed…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-02-15 I-Hong Hou , Piyush Gupta

Average consensus algorithms can be implemented over wireless sensor networks (WSN), where global statistics can be computed using communications among sensor nodes locally. Simple execution, robustness to global topology changes due to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-09-23 Sateeshkrishna Dhuli , Kumar Gaurav , Y. N. Singh

Anycast is an internet addressing protocol where multiple hosts share the same IP-address. A popular architecture for modern Content Distribution Networks (CDNs) for geo-replicated HTTP-services consists of multiple layers of proxy nodes…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Abhishek Sinha , Pradeepkumar Mani , Jie Liu , Ashley Flavel , David A. Maltz

This paper investigates resource allocation for simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) downlink systems based on a non-linear energy harvesting model. The resource allocation algorithm design is formulated as a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Elena Boshkovska , Alexander Koelpin , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Nikola Zlatanov , Robert Schober

Devices in a device-to-device (D2D) network operating in sub-THz frequencies require knowledge of the spatial channel that connects them to their peers. Acquiring such high dimensional channel state information entails large overhead, which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-23 Fernando Pedraza , Jan Christian Hauffen , Fabian Jaensch , Shuangyang Li , Giuseppe Caire