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With the increasing number of user equipment (UE) and data demands, denser access points (APs) are being employed. Resource allocation problems have been extensively researched with interference treated as noise. It is well understood that…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Jing Li , Dongning Guo

We consider the problem of making distributed computations robust to noise, in particular to worst-case (adversarial) corruptions of messages. We give a general distributed interactive coding scheme which simulates any asynchronous…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-27 Keren Censor-Hillel , Ran Gelles , Bernhard Haeupler

In crowded environments, individuals must navigate around other occupants to reach their destinations. Understanding and controlling traffic flows in these spaces is relevant for coordinating robot swarms and designing infrastructure for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Lucy Liu , Justin Werfel , Federico Toschi , L. Mahadevan

In this paper, we consider a network of processors aiming at cooperatively solving mixed-integer convex programs subject to uncertainty. Each node only knows a common cost function and its local uncertain constraint set. We propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-19 Mohammadreza Chamanbaz , Giuseppe Notarstefano , Francesco Sasso , Roland Bouffanais

Due to the short and bursty incoming messages, channel access activities in a wireless random access system are often fractional. The lack of frequent data support consequently makes it difficult for the receiver to estimate and track the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-10-11 Zheng Wang , Jie Luo

We consider the problem of error control in a coded, multicast network, focusing on the scenario where the errors can occur only on a proper subset of the network edges. We model this problem via an adversarial noise, presenting a formal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Allison Beemer , Altan Berdan Kilic , Alberto Ravagnani

Two remote agents with synchronized clocks may use them to act in concert and communicate. This necessitates some means of creating and maintaining synchrony. One method, not requiring any direct interaction between the agents, is to expose…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-20 Benjamin Sorkin , Thomas A. Witten

The secrecy performance of a source-channel model is studied in the context of lossy source compression over a noisy broadcast channel. The source is causally revealed to the eavesdropper during decoding. The fidelity of the transmission to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-24 Eva C. Song , Paul Cuff , H. Vincent Poor

Dynamics of many-qubit systems, that may correspond to computational processing with quantum systems, can be efficiently and generally approximated by a sequence of two- and single-qubit gates. In practical applications, however, a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-06 Joonwoo Bae , Tanmay Singal

We consider computations over networks with multiple broadcast channels that intersect at a single party. Each broadcast link suffers from random bit-flip noise that affects the receivers independently. We design interactive coding schemes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Manuj Mukherjee , Ran Gelles

We study the problem of joint optimization involving coding and control policies for a controlled Markovian sytem over a finite-rate noiseless communication channel. While structural results on the optimal encoding and control have been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Evelyn Hubbard , Liam Cregg , Serdar Yüksel

Most of the existing P2P content distribution schemes implement a random or rarest piece first dissemination procedure to avoid duplicate transmission of the same pieces of data and rare pieces of data occurring in the network. This problem…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-09-10 M Anandaraj , K Selvaraj , P Ganeshkumar , K P Vijayakumar

We consider the problem of generating correlated random variables in a distributed fashion, where communication is constrained to a cascade network. The first node in the cascade observes an i.i.d. sequence $X^n$ locally before initiating…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-10 Sanket Satpathy , Paul Cuff

We consider interactive coding in a setting where $n$ parties wish to compute a joint function of their inputs via an interactive protocol over imperfect channels. We assume that adversarial errors can comprise a $\mathcal{O}(\frac{1}{n})$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-24 Allison Lewko , Ellen Vitercik

Life relies on the efficient performance of molecular codes, which relate symbols and meanings via error-prone molecular recognition. We describe how optimizing a code to withstand the impact of molecular recognition noise may be…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2010-07-26 Tsvi Tlusty

One of the key open problems in network information theory is to obtain the capacity region for the two-user Interference Channel (IC). In this paper, new results are derived for this channel. As a first result, a noisy interference regime…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-08 Reza K. Farsani

We develop elements of a theory of cooperation and coordination in networks. Rather than considering a communication network as a means of distributing information, or of reconstructing random processes at remote nodes, we ask what…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-04-04 Paul Cuff , Haim Permuter , Thomas Cover

A discrete time stochastic feedback control system with a noisy communication channel between the sensor and the controller is considered. The sensor has limited memory. At each time, the sensor transmits encoded symbol over the channel and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Aditya Mahajan , Demosthenis Teneketzis

This work mainly addresses continuous-time multiagent consensus networks where an adverse attacker affects the convergence performances of said protocol. In particular, we develop a novel secure-by-design approach in which the presence of a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-30 Marco Fabris , Daniel Zelazo

We consider the problem of communication over a network containing a hidden and malicious adversary that can control a subset of network resources, and aims to disrupt communications. We focus on omniscient node-based adversaries, i.e., the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-09 Peida Tian , Sidharth Jaggi , Mayank Bakshi , Oliver Kosut