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Mission critical data dissemination in massive Internet of things (IoT) networks imposes constraints on the message transfer delay between devices. Due to low power and communication range of IoT devices, data is foreseen to be relayed over…

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Massive MIMO is a leading technology to connect very large numbers of energy constrained nodes, as it offers both extensive spatial multiplexing and large array gain. A challenge resides in partitioning the many nodes into groups that can…

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This paper investigates the problem of distributed nonblocking supervisory control for timed discrete-event systems (DESs). The distributed supervisors communicate with each other over networks subject to nondeterministic communication…

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The Internet of Things (IoT) is becoming a part of everyday life through its various sensing devices that collect valuable information. The huge number of interconnected heterogeneous IoT devices poses immense challenges, and network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Mohamed Ali Zormati , Hicham Lakhlef

In this paper, we propose a Meta-IoT system to achieve ubiquitous deployment and pervasive sensing for future Internet of Things (IoT). In such a system, sensors are composed of dedicated meta-materials whose frequency response of wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-06 Xu Liu , Jingzhi Hu , Hongliang Zhang , Boya Di , Lingyang Song

In distributed Software-Defined Networking (SDN), distributed SDN controllers require synchronization to maintain a global network state. Despite the availability of synchronization policies for distributed SDN architectures, most policies…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Ioannis Panitsas , Akrit Mudvari , Leandros Tassiulas

In this article, we study algorithms for dynamic networks with asynchronous start, i.e., each node may start running the algorithm in a different round. Inactive nodes transmit only heartbeats, which contain no information but can be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Bernadette Charron-Bost , Shlomo Moran

In a decentralized Internet of Things (IoT) network, a fusion center receives information from multiple sensors to infer a public hypothesis of interest. To prevent the fusion center from abusing the sensor information, each sensor…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Meng Sun , Wee Peng Tay

Sidechain techniques improve blockchain scalability and interoperability, providing decentralized exchange and cross-chain collaboration solutions for Internet of Things (IoT) data across various domains. However, current state-of-the-art…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Lingxiao Yang , Xuewen Dong , Zhiguo Wan , Sheng Gao , Wei Tong , Di Lu , Yulong Shen , Xiaojiang Du

This paper studies distributed adaptive estimation over sensor networks with partially unknown source dynamics. We present parallel continuous-time and discrete-time designs in which each node runs a local adaptive observer and exchanges…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-18 Moh Kamalul Wafi , Hamidreza Montazeri Hedesh , Milad Siami

Precise clock synchronization is an important requirement for distributed and networked industrial use cases. As more and more use cases contain mobile devices, clock synchronization has to be performed over wireless communication links. As…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-14 M. Gundall , H. D. Schotten

Despite encryption, the packet size is still visible, enabling observers to infer private information in the Internet of Things (IoT) environment (e.g., IoT device identification). Packet padding obfuscates packet-length characteristics…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Mnassar Alyami , Abdulmajeed Alghamdi , Mohammed Alkhowaiter , Cliff Zou , Yan Solihin

With advancements in computing and communication technologies, the Internet of Things (IoT) has seen significant growth. IoT devices typically collect data from various sensors, such as temperature, humidity, and energy meters. Much of this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Harsha Varun Marisetty , Manik Gupta , Yogesh Simmhan

Accurate clock synchronization is required for collaborative operations among nodes across wireless networks. Compared with traditional layer-by-layer methods, cooperative network synchronization techniques lead to significant improvement…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Yifeng Xiong , Nan Wu , Yuan Shen , Moe Z. Win

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

Use-cases in the Internet of Things (IoT) typically involve a high number of interconnected, heterogeneous devices. Due to the criticality of many IoT scenarios, systems and applications need to be tested thoroughly before rollout. Existing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Markus Toll , Ilja Behnke , Odej Kao

With the emergence of smart cities, Internet of Things (IoT) devices as well as deep learning technologies have witnessed an increasing adoption. To support the requirements of such paradigm in terms of memory and computation, joint and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Emna Baccour , Aiman Erbad , Amr Mohamed , Mounir Hamdi , Mohsen Guizani

The Internet of Things (IoT) interconnects multiple physical devices in large-scale networks. When the 'things' coordinate decisions and act collectively on shared information, feedback is introduced between them. Multiple feedback loops…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 Sebastian Trimpe , Dominik Baumann

In this work, we propose a Multiple Access Control (MAC) protocol for Light-based IoT (LIoT) networks, where the gateway node orchestrates and schedules batteryless nodes duty-cycles based on their location and sleep time. The LIoT concept…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-18 Khojiakbar Botirov , Hazem Sallouha , Sofie Pollin , Marcos Katz

Today's Internet is heavily used for multimedia streaming from cloud backends, while the Internet of Things (IoT) reverses the traditional data flow, with high data volumes produced at the network edge. Information Centric Networking (ICN)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Christopher Scherb , Dennis Grewe , Christian Tschudin