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Scheduling to avoid packet collisions is a long-standing challenge in networking, and has become even trickier in wireless networks with multiple senders and multiple receivers. In fact, researchers have proved that even {\em perfect}…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Steffen Bondorf , Binbin Chen , Jonathan Scarlett , Haifeng Yu , Yuda Zhao

We introduce a novel network-adaptive algorithm that is suitable for alleviating network packet losses for low-latency interactive communications between a source and a destination. Our network-adaptive algorithm estimates in real-time the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Salma Emara , Silas L. Fong , Baochun Li , Ashish Khisti , Wai-Tian Tan , Xiaoqing Zhu , John Apostolopoulos

Pliable index coding considers a server with m messages, and n clients where each has as side information a subset of the messages. We seek to minimize the number of transmissions the server should make, so that each client receives (any)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-22 Linqi Song , Christina Fragouli

Coded distributed computing (CDC), proposed by Li \emph{et al.}, offers significant potential for reducing the communication load in MapReduce computing systems. In cascaded CDC with $K$ nodes, $N$ input files, and $Q$ output functions,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Mingming Zhang , Youlong Wu , Minquan Cheng , Dianhua Wu

Due to stringent constraints on resources, it may be infeasible to acquire the current channel state information at the transmitter in energy harvesting communication systems. In this paper, we optimize an energy harvesting transmitter,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-17 Rajshekhar Vishweshwar Bhat , Mehul Motani , Teng Joon Lim

The evolution of 5G and Beyond networks has enabled new applications with stringent end-to-end latency requirements, but providing reliable low-latency service with high throughput over public wireless networks is still a significant…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Andrea Bedin , Federico Chiariotti , Stepan Kucera , Andrea Zanella

Network coding is known to improve the throughput and the resilience to losses in most network scenarios. In a practical network scenario, however, the accurate modeling of the traffic is often too complex and/or infeasible. The goal is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-08-25 Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Amir H. Banihashemi

Multi-resolution codes enable multicast at different rates to different receivers, a setup that is often desirable for graphics or video streaming. We propose a simple, distributed, two-stage message passing algorithm to generate network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-18 MinJi Kim , Daniel Lucani , Xiaomeng Shi , Fang Zhao , Muriel Medard

In this paper, we consider the problem of scheduling real-time traffic in wireless networks under a conflict-graph interference model and single-hop traffic. The objective is to guarantee that at least a certain fraction of packets of each…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Christos Tsanikidis , Javad Ghaderi

Future quantum technologies such as quantum communication, quantum sensing, and distributed quantum computation, will rely on networks of shared entanglement between spatially separated nodes. In this work, we provide improved…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-02 Stav Haldar , Pratik J. Barge , Sumeet Khatri , Hwang Lee

Risk Limiting Dispatch (RLD) was proposed recently as a mechanism that utilizes information and market recourse to reduce reserve capacity requirements, emissions and achieve other system operator objectives. It induces a set of simple…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-12-04 Junjie Qin , Han-I Su , Ram Rajagopal

We consider the problem of data exchange by a group of closely-located wireless nodes. In this problem each node holds a set of packets and needs to obtain all the packets held by other nodes. Each of the nodes can broadcast the packets in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Salim El Rouayheb , Alex Sprintson , Parastoo Sadeghi

In this paper, downlink delivery of popular content is optimized with the assistance of wireless cache nodes. Specifically, the requests of one file is modeled as a Poisson point process with finite lifetime, and two downlink transmission…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-04 Bojie Lv , Lexiang Huang , Rui Wang

We consider a monitoring application where sensors periodically report data to a common receiver in a time division multiplex fashion. The sensors are constrained by the limited and unpredictable energy availability provided by Energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-29 Chiara Pielli , Cedomir Stefanovic , Petar Popovski , Michele Zorzi

Passive network tomography uses end-to-end observations of network communication to characterize the network, for instance to estimate the network topology and to localize random or adversarial glitches. Under the setting of linear network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Hongyi Yao , Sidharth Jaggi , Minghua Chen

Recently, network coding technique has emerged as a promising approach that supports reliable transmission over wireless loss channels. In existing protocols where users have no interest in considering the encoded packets they had in coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-09-16 Zhiheng Zhou , Liang Zhou , Yuanquan Tan , Xing Wang

Coded caching is a technique that leverages locally cached contents at the end users to reduce the network's peak-time communication load. Coded caching has been shown to achieve significant performance gains with a centralized placement…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Yinbin Ma , Daniela Tuninetti

Multi-hop networks become popular network topologies in various emerging Internet of things applications. Batched network coding (BNC) is a solution to reliable communications in such networks with packet loss. By grouping packets into…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Hoover H. F. Yin , Shenghao Yang , Qiaoqiao Zhou , Lily M. L. Yung , Ka Hei Ng

The conventional theory of linear network coding (LNC) is only over acyclic networks. Convolutional network coding (CNC) applies to all networks. It is also a form of LNC, but the linearity is w.r.t. the ring of rational power series rather…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-26 Qifu Tyler Sun , Shuo-Yen Robert Li

Lateral predictive coding (LPC) is a simple theoretical framework to appreciate feature detection in biological neural circuits. Recent theoretical work [Huang et al., Phys.Rev.E 112, 034304 (2025)] has successfully constructed optimal LPC…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-23 Guanghui Cai , Zhen-Ye Huang , Weikang Wang , Hai-Jun Zhou