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Till today we dreamt of imperceptible delay in a network. The computer science research grows today faster than ever offering more and more services (computational representational, graphical, intelligent implication etc) to its user. But…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-10-18 Soumen Kanrar , M Siraj

Time delays are a common perturbation in systems with many states, such as networked, distributed, or decentralized systems. Current methods analyzing the stability of large systems with time delay typically produce very conservative…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-10-31 George Armanious , Rick Lind

Railway systems require regular manual maintenance, a large part of which is dedicated to inspecting track deformation. Such deformation might severely impact trains' runtime security, whereas such inspections remain costly for both finance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Yutao Chen , Yu Zhang , Fei Yang

There is growing interest in using public cellular networks for specialized communication applications, replacing standalone sector-specific networks. One such application is transitioning from the aging GSM-R railway network to public 4G…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Saeideh Mansouri , Mohamed Shamekh , Simon Indola , Petri Mahonen

In an effort to improve user satisfaction and transit image, transit service providers worldwide offer delay compensations. Smart card data enables the estimation of passenger delays throughout the network and aid in monitoring service…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-07-30 Panchamy Krishnakumari , Oded Cats , Hans van Lint

In train networks, carefully-chosen delays may be beneficial for certain passengers, who would otherwise miss some connection. Given a simple (directed or undirected) temporal graph and a set of passengers (each specifying a starting…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-11 David C. Kutner , Anouk Sommer

Rather than directly considering the queuing delay of data, this memo focuses on reducing the delay that congestion signals experience within a queue management algorithm, which can be greater than the delay that the data itself experiences…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Bob Briscoe

Recent trends in networking are proposing the use of Machine Learning (ML) techniques for the control and operation of the network. In this context, ML can be used as a computer network modeling technique to build models that estimate the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Albert Mestres , Eduard Alarcón , Yusheng Ji , Albert Cabellos-Aparicio

This paper aims to investigate the effect of acceleration on the discomfort of standing passengers. The acceleration levels from different public rail transport lines such as the mass rapid transits (MRTs) and light rail transits (LRTs) of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Thommen Karimpanal George , Harit Maganlal Gadhia , Ruben S/O Sukumar , John-John Cabibihan

In urban settings, bus transit stands as a significant mode of public transportation, yet faces hurdles in delivering accurate and reliable arrival times. This discrepancy often culminates in delays and a decline in ridership, particularly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Narges Rashvand , Sanaz Sadat Hosseini , Mona Azarbayjani , Hamed Tabkhi

In many countries, a rail network consists of single lines with sidings where interactions between trains occur (meet, pass). In this paper, we study two issues of these networks: first, the scheduling of freight trains in a single line…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-11 Marie Alaghband , Babak Farhang Moghaddam

In networking applications, one often wishes to obtain estimates about the number of objects at different parts of the network (e.g., the number of cars at an intersection of a road network or the number of packets expected to reach a node…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Harshal A. Chaudhari , Michael Mathioudakis , Evimaria Terzi

In matching markets such as kidney exchanges and freight exchanges, delayed matching has been shown to improve overall market efficiency. The benefits of delay are highly sensitive to participants' sojourn times and departure behavior, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Ruiqi Zhou , Donghao Zhu , Houcai Shen

In this work, we consider the case where a source with bursty traffic can adjust the transmission duration in order to increase the reliability. The source is equipped with a queue in order to store the arriving packets. We model the system…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Nikolaos Pappas

Many settings, such as matching riders to drivers in ride-hailing platforms or in-stream video advertising, require handling arrivals over time. In such applications, it is often beneficial to group the arriving orders or requests into…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Akhil Bhimaraju , S. Rasoul Etesami , Lav R. Varshney

Computer network tends to be subjected to the proliferation of mobile demands and increasingly multifarious, therefore it poses a great challenge to guarantee the quality of network service. By designing the model according to different…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Yue Hong Gao , Xiao Hong , Hao Tian Yang , Lu Chen , Xiao Nan Zhang

This paper addresses the issues concerning the rescheduling of a static timetable in case of a disaster encountered in a large and complex railway network system. The proposed approach tries to modify the schedule so as to minimise the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-07-13 Poulami Dalapati , Piyush Agarwal , Animesh Dutta , Swapan Bhattacharya

We investigate the factors contributing to departure and arrival delays at a major international airport and develop predictive models to estimate both the likelihood and duration of delays. Using logistic regression, random forest, and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-01-06 Xavier Lemay , Fabian Bastin

The Big Data analytics are a logical analysis of very large scale datasets. The data analysis enhances an organization and improve the decision making process. In this article, we present Airline Delay Analysis and Prediction to analyze…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Ripon Patgiri , Sajid Hussain , Aditya Nongmeikapam

En-route congestion causes delays in air traffic networks and will become more prominent as air traffic demand will continue to increase yet airspace volume cannot grow. However, most existing studies on flight delay modeling do not…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-30 Yu Lin , Lishuai Li , Pan Ren , Yanjun Wang , W. Y. Szeto