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Resource allocation is a fundamental problem in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems, in which devices work together under limited communication bandwidth to complete diverse tasks. This paper proposes a communication-efficient…

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One of the design objectives in distributed storage system is the minimization of the data traffic during the repair of failed storage nodes. By repairing multiple failures simultaneously and cooperatively, further reduction of repair…

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Coded computation techniques provide robustness against straggling workers in distributed computing. However, most of the existing schemes require exact provisioning of the straggling behaviour and ignore the computations carried out by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Emre Ozfatura , Sennur Ulukus , Deniz Gunduz

Coded caching has the potential to greatly reduce network traffic by leveraging the cheap and abundant storage available in end-user devices so as to create multicast opportunities in the delivery phase. In the seminal work by Maddah-Ali…

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Distributed quantum information processing seeks to overcome the scalability limitations of monolithic quantum devices by interconnecting multiple quantum processing nodes via classical and quantum communication. This approach extends the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Johannes Knörzer , Xiaoyu Liu , Benjamin F. Schiffer , Jordi Tura

This work aims to jointly optimize the coding and node selection to minimize the processing time for distributed computing tasks over wireless edge networks. Since the joint optimization problem formulation is NP-hard and nonlinear, we…

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The distributed linearly separable computation problem finds extensive applications across domains such as distributed gradient coding, distributed linear transform, real-time rendering, etc. In this paper, we investigate this problem in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Haoning Chen , Minquan Cheng , Zhenhao Huang , Youlong Wu

Collaborative working is increasingly popular, but it presents challenges due to the need for high responsiveness and disconnected work support. To address these challenges the data is optimistically replicated at the edges of the network,…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-12-12 Stéphane Martin , Mehdi Ahmed-Nacer , Pascal Urso

Combinatorial optimization is considered a promising class of problems in which quantum computers can show significant advantages. However, problems of practical relevance typically have more variables than current or foreseeable quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Mathias Schmid , Naeimeh Mohseni , Michael J. Hartmann

Coded caching systems have been widely studied to reduce the data transmission during the peak traffic time. In practice, two important parameters of a coded caching system should be considered, i.e., the rate which is the maximum amount of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Minquan Cheng , Jie Li , Xiaohu Tang , Ruizhong Wei

Coded computation is a method to mitigate "stragglers" in distributed computing systems through the use of error correction coding that has lately received significant attention. First used in vector-matrix multiplication, the range of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-28 Nuwan Ferdinand , Stark Draper

Consider a mobile edge computing system in which users wish to obtain the result of a linear inference operation on locally measured input data. Unlike the offloaded input data, the model weight matrix is distributed across wireless Edge…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Jingjing Zhang , Osvaldo Simeone

Adaptive model predictive control (MPC) robustly ensures safety while reducing uncertainty during operation. In this paper, a distributed version is proposed to deal with network systems featuring multiple agents and limited communication.…

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We study the problem of computing matrix chain multiplications in a distributed computing cluster. In such systems, performance is often limited by the straggler problem, where the slowest worker dominates the overall computation latency.…

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We consider a distributed source coding system in which several observations are communicated to the decoder using limited transmission rate. The observations must be separately coded. We introduce a robust distributed coding scheme which…

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A cross-layer design along with an optimal resource allocation framework is formulated for wireless fading networks, where the nodes are allowed to perform network coding. The aim is to jointly optimize end-to-end transport layer rates,…

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Maddah-Ali and Niesen (MAN) in 2014 surprisingly showed that it is possible to serve an arbitrarily large number of cache-equipped users with a constant number of transmissions by using coded caching in shared-link broadcast networks. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Kai Wan , Mingyue Ji , Pablo Piantanida , Daniela Tuninetti

We introduce a new and increasingly relevant setting for distributed optimization in machine learning, where the data defining the optimization are unevenly distributed over an extremely large number of nodes. The goal is to train a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Jakub Konečný , H. Brendan McMahan , Daniel Ramage , Peter Richtárik

The classical problem in network coding theory considers communication over multicast networks. Multiple transmitters send independent messages to multiple receivers which decode the same set of messages. In this work, computation over…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-18 Changho Suh , Naveen Goela , Michael Gastpar

We consider a number of fundamental statistical and graph problems in the message-passing model, where we have $k$ machines (sites), each holding a piece of data, and the machines want to jointly solve a problem defined on the union of the…

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