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Although many distributed storage protocols have been introduced, a solution that combines the strongest properties in terms of availability, consistency, fault-tolerance, storage complexity and the supported level of concurrency, has been…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-02-21 Elli Androulaki , Christian Cachin , Dan Dobre , Marko Vukolic

Recent advances in Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents have been propelled by Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), which grants the models access to vast external knowledge bases. Despite RAG's success in improving agent performance,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Shuhang Lin , Zhencan Peng , Lingyao Li , Xiao Lin , Xi Zhu , Yongfeng Zhang

Auditability allows to track operations performed on a shared object, recording who accessed which information. This gives data owners more control on their data. Initially studied in the context of single-writer registers, this work…

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Flash memories intended for SSD and mobile applications need to provide high random I/O performance. This requires using efficient schemes for reading small chunks of data (e.g. 0.5KB - 4KB) from random addresses. Furthermore, in order to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-03-01 Eran Sharon , Idan Alrod

This paper introduces and studies a new model of computation called an Alternating Automatic Register Machine (AARM). An AARM possesses the basic features of a conventional register machine and an alternating Turing machine, but can carry…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Ziyuan Gao , Sanjay Jain , Zeyong Li , Ammar Fathin Sabili , Frank Stephan

Providing connectivity to a massive number of devices is a key challenge in 5G wireless systems. In particular, it is crucial to develop efficient methods for active device identification and message decoding in a multi-cell network with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Pei Yang , Dongning Guo , Hongwen Yang

We prove two new space lower bounds for the problem of implementing a large shared register using smaller physical shared registers. We focus on the case where both the implemented and physical registers are single-writer, which means they…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Yuanhao Wei

Massive machine-type communications (mMTC) or massive access is a critical scenario in the fifth generation (5G) and the future cellular network. With the surging density of devices from millions to billions, unique pilot allocation becomes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Zhentian Zhang , Jian Dang , Zaichen Zhang , Liang Wu , Bingcheng Zhu , Lei Wang

Atomic lock-free multi-word compare-and-swap (MCAS) is a powerful tool for designing concurrent algorithms. Yet, its widespread usage has been limited because lock-free implementations of MCAS make heavy use of expensive compare-and-swap…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Rachid Guerraoui , Alex Kogan , Virendra J. Marathe , Igor Zablotchi

High Energy Physics (HEP) experiments, for example at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, store data at exabyte scale in sets of files. They use a binary columnar data format by the ROOT framework, that also transparently compresses…

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In an anonymous shared memory system, all inter-process communications are via shared objects; however, unlike in standard systems, there is no a priori agreement between processes on the names of shared objects [14,15]. Furthermore, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Gadi Taubenfeld

A conflict-avoiding code (CAC) is a deterministic transmission scheme for asynchronous multiple access without feedback. When the number of simultaneously active users is less than or equal to $w$, a CAC of length $L$ with weight $w$ can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Yuan-Hsun Lo , Tsai-Lien Wong , Kangkang Xu , Yijin Zhang

Open Radio Access Networks (O-RAN) promise flexible 6G network access through disaggregated, software-driven components and open interfaces, but this programmability also increases operational complexity. Multiple control loops coexist…

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A conflict-avoiding code (CAC) of length L and weight w is used for deterministic multiple-access without feedback. When the number of simultaneous active users is less than or equal to w, such a code is able to provide a hard guarantee…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Tsai-Lien Wong , Kangkang Xu , Yuan-Hsun Lo , Kenneth W. Shum , Yijin Zhang

Optical Wireless Communication networks (OWC) has emerged as a promising technology that enables high-speed and reliable communication bandwidth for a variety of applications. In this work, we investigated applying Random Linear Network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Ahmed Ali Hassan , Ahmed Adnan Qidan , Taisir Elgorashi , Jaafar Elmirghani

The effective use of parallel computing resources to speed up algorithms in current multi-core parallel architectures remains a difficult challenge, with ease of programming playing a key role in the eventual success of various parallel…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-09 Arash Farzan , Alejandro López-Ortiz , Patrick K. Nicholson , Alejandro Salinger

Massive machine-type communication (mMTC) has been regarded as one of the most important use scenarios in the fifth generation (5G) and beyond wireless networks, which demands scalable access for a large number of devices. While grant-free…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-18 Xinyu Bian , Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang

Automatic related work generation (RWG) can save people's time and effort when writing a draft of related work section (RWS) for further revision. However, existing methods for RWG always suffer from shallow comprehension due to taking the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Xiaochuan Liu , Ruihua Song , Xiting Wang , Xu Chen

Content addressable memory is popular in intelligent computing systems as it allows parallel content-searching in memory. Emerging CAMs show a promising increase in bitcell density and a decrease in power consumption than pure CMOS…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Yihan Pan , Adrian Wheeldon , Mohammed Mughal , Shady Agwa , Themis Prodromakis , Alexantrou Serb

In this paper, we propose a novel rateless multiple access scheme based on the recently proposed capacity-approaching analog fountain code (AFC). We show that the multiple access process will create an equivalent analog fountain code,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic