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We consider a transmitter-receiver pair in a slotted-time system. The transmitter observes a dynamic source and sends updates to a remote receiver through an error-free communication channel that suffers a random delay. We consider two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Yutao Chen , Anthony Ephremides

Cryptographic signatures can be used to increase the resilience of distributed systems against adversarial attacks, by increasing the number of faulty parties that can be tolerated. While this is well-studied for consensus, it has been…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Christoph Lenzen , Julian Loss

Clock synchronization is a necessary component in modern distributed systems, especially Wirless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Despite the great effort and the numerous improvements, the existing synchronization schemes do not yet address the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-08-20 Federico Terraneo , Alberto Leva , Silvano Seva , Martina Maggio , Alessandro Vittorio Papadopoulos

Ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) enables ambient Internet of Things (AIoT) devices to achieve ultra-low-power, low-cost, and massive connectivity. Most existing AmBC studies assume ideal synchronization between the backscatter…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Yuxin Li , Guangyue Lu , Yinghui Ye , Zehui Xiong , Liqin Shi

Error estimating coding (EEC) is a standard technique for estimating the number of bit errors during packet transmission over wireless networks. In this paper, we propose OddEEC, a novel EEC scheme. OddEEC is a nontrivial adaptation of a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Huayi Wang , Jingfan Meng , Jun Xu

In this paper, we study the downlink multiuser scheduling problem for systems with simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT). We design optimal scheduling algorithms that maximize the long-term average system throughput…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-26 Maryna Chynonova , Rania Morsi , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

Mobile-edge computing (MEC) emerges as a promising paradigm to improve the quality of computation experience for mobile devices. Nevertheless, the design of computation task scheduling policies for MEC systems inevitably encounters a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Juan Liu , Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

In this paper, we propose a fully distributed algorithm for frequency offsets estimation in decentralized systems. With the proposed algorithm, each node estimates its frequency offsets by local computations and limited exchange of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Jian Du , Yik-Chung Wu

This paper considers a cross-layer optimization problem driven by multi-timescale stochastic exogenous processes in wireless communication networks. Due to the hierarchical information structure in a wireless network, a mixed timescale…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-05-02 Junting Chen , Vincent K. N. Lau

This paper studies the optimal state estimation problem for interconnected systems. Each subsystem can obtain its own measurement in real time, while, the measurements transmitted between the subsystems suffer from random delay. The optimal…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-03 Yan Wang , Junlin Xiong , Zaiyue Yang , Rong Su

A distributed adaptive algorithm to estimate a time-varying signal, measured by a wireless sensor network, is designed and analyzed. One of the major features of the algorithm is that no central coordination among the nodes needs to be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2008-10-22 Carlo Fischione , Alberto Speranzon , Karl H. Johansson , Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

We consider the External Clock Synchronization problem in dynamic sensor networks. Initially, sensors obtain inaccurate estimations of an external time reference and subsequently collaborate in order to synchronize their internal clocks…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-08-11 Ofer Feinerman , Amos Korman

One of the requirements of network slicing in 5G networks is RAN (radio access network) scheduling with rate guarantees. We study a three-time-scale algorithm for maximum sum utility scheduling, with minimum rate constraints. As usual, the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Anurag Kumar , Rajesh Sundaresan

High-precision time synchronization is a vital prerequisite for many modern applications and technologies, including Smart Grids, Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN), and 5G networks. Although the Precision Time Protocol (PTP) can accomplish…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Andreas Finkenzeller , Oliver Butowski , Emanuel Regnath , Mohammad Hamad , Sebastian Steinhorst

Side-channel attacks pose significant challenges to the security of embedded systems, often allowing attackers to circumvent encryption algorithms in minutes compared to the trillions of years required for brute-force attacks. To mitigate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Gabriel Klasson Landin , Truls Jilborg

We have been investigating clock skew compensation immune to floating-point precision loss by taking into account the discrete nature of clocks in digital communication systems; extending Bresenham's line drawing algorithm, we constructed…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Kyeong Soo Kim

The paper investigates the distributed estimation problem under low bit rate communications. Based on the signal-comparison (SC) consensus protocol under binary-valued communications, a new consensus+innovations type distributed estimation…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-25 Jieming Ke , Xiaodong Lu , Yanlong Zhao , Ji-Feng Zhang

LoRaWAN is nowadays one of the most popular protocols for low-power Internet-of-Things communications. Although its physical layer, namely LoRa, has been thoroughly studied in the literature, aspects related to the synchronization of LoRa…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-03 Mathieu Xhonneux , Orion Afisiadis , David Bol , Jérôme Louveaux

Convex relaxations of the optimal finger selection algorithm are proposed for a minimum mean square error (MMSE) Rake receiver in an impulse radio ultra-wideband system. First, the optimal finger selection problem is formulated as an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Sinan Gezici , Mung Chiang , H. Vincent Poor , Hisashi Kobayashi

In this work we investigate energy efficient packet scheduling problem for the loss tolerant applications. We consider slow fading channel for a point to point connection with no channel state information at the transmitter side (CSIT). In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-20 M. Majid Butt , Eduard A. Jorswieck , Nicola Marchetti