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This paper explores the distributed broadcast problem within the context of network communications, a critical challenge in decentralized information dissemination. We put forth a novel hypergraph-based approach to address this issue,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Qi Cao , Yulin Shao , Fan Yang , Octavia A. Dobre

In the past decade, increasingly network scheduling techniques have been proposed to boost the distributed application performance. Flow-level metrics, such as flow completion time (FCT), are based on the abstraction of flows yet they…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-18 Jiawei Fei , Yang Shi , Qun Huang , Mei Wen

A communication setup is considered where a transmitter wishes to convey a message to a receiver and simultaneously estimates the state of that receiver through a common waveform. The state is estimated at the transmitter by means of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Mehrasa Ahmadipour , Mari Kobayashi , Miche`le Wigger , Giuseppe Caire

Coding theoretic approached have been developed to significantly reduce the communication load in modern distributed computing system. In particular, coded distributed computing (CDC) introduced by Li et al. can efficiently trade…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Nicholas Woolsey , Rong-Rong Chen , Mingyue Ji

Constraint Programming (CP) is a well-established area in AI as a programming paradigm for modelling and solving discrete optimization problems, and it has been been successfully applied to tackle the on-line job dispatching problem in HPC…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Cristian Galleguillos , Zeynep Kiziltan , Ricardo Soto

Coded distributed computing (CDC) introduced by Li et. al. is an effective technique to trade computation load for communication load in a MapReduce framework. CDC achieves an optimal trade-off by duplicating map computations at $r$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Nicholas Woolsey , Rong-Rong Chen , Mingyue Ji

Distributed computing frameworks such as MapReduce and Spark are often used to process large-scale data computing jobs. In wireless scenarios, exchanging data among distributed nodes would seriously suffer from the communication bottleneck…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Youlong Wu , Zhenhao Huang , Kai Yuan , Shuai Ma , Yue Bi

In this paper, the problem of joint transmission and computation resource allocation for a multi-user probabilistic semantic communication (PSC) network is investigated. In the considered model, users employ semantic information extraction…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Zhouxiang Zhao , Zhaohui Yang , Mingzhe Chen , Zhaoyang Zhang , H. Vincent Poor

Linear computation broadcast (LCBC) refers to a setting with $d$ dimensional data stored at a central server, where $K$ users, each with some prior linear side-information, wish to retrieve various linear combinations of the data. For each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Yuhang Yao , Syed A. Jafar

In this paper, we revisit the communication vs. distributed computing trade-off, studied within the framework of MapReduce in [1]. An implicit assumption in the aforementioned work is that each server performs all possible computations on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-26 Yahya H. Ezzeldin , Mohammed Karmoose , Christina Fragouli

An effective packet processing abstraction that leverages software or hardware acceleration techniques can simplify the implementation of high-performance virtual network functions. In this paper, we explore the suitability of SDN switches'…

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Discrete diffusion models are a class of generative models that construct sequences by progressively denoising samples from a categorical noise distribution. Beyond their rapidly growing ability to generate coherent natural language, these…

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In this paper, a novel transmissive reconfigurable meta-surface (RMS) transceiver enabled multi-tier computing network architecture is proposed for improving computing capability, decreasing computing delay and reducing base station (BS)…

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Energy is often the most constrained resource in networks of battery-powered devices, and as devices become smaller, they spend a larger fraction of their energy on communication (transceiver usage) not computation. As an imperfect proxy…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-06 Yi-Jun Chang , Varsha Dani , Thomas P. Hayes , Qizheng He , Wenzheng Li , Seth Pettie

Broadcasting concerns the dissemination of a message originating at one node of a network to all other nodes. This task is accomplished by placing a series of calls over the communication lines of the network between neighboring nodes,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Michael J. Dinneen

This paper is concerned with a compositional approach for constructing abstractions of interconnected discrete-time stochastic control systems. The abstraction framework is based on new notions of so-called stochastic simulation functions,…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-10-02 Abolfazl Lavaei , Sadegh Esmaeil Zadeh Soudjani , Rupak Majumdar , Majid Zamani

This work considers distributed sensing and transmission of sporadic random samples. Lower bounds are derived for the reconstruction error of a single normally or uniformly-distributed finite-dimensional vector imperfectly measured by a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-20 Ayşe Ünsal , Raymond Knopp

We consider the problem of Robust Dynamic Coded Distributed Storage (RDCDS) with partially storage constrained servers where the goal is to enable robust (resilient to server dropouts) and efficient (as measured by the communication costs)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Chen Zhao , Haobo Jia , Zhuqing Jia

An abstraction can be used to relate two structural causal models representing the same system at different levels of resolution. Learning abstractions which guarantee consistency with respect to interventional distributions would allow one…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Fabio Massimo Zennaro , Máté Drávucz , Geanina Apachitei , W. Dhammika Widanage , Theodoros Damoulas