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There has been growing interest in increasing the amount of radio spectrum available for unlicensed broad-band wireless access. That includes "prime" spectrum at lower frequencies, which is also suitable for wide area coverage by licensed…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-29 Thanh Nguyen , Hang Zhou , Randall A. Berry , Michael L. Honig , Rakesh Vohra

While the success of large language models (LLMs) increases demand for machine-generated text, current pay-per-token pricing schemes create a misalignment of incentives known in economics as moral hazard: Text-generating agents have strong…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Eden Saig , Ohad Einav , Inbal Talgam-Cohen

This paper investigates the incentives of mobile network operators (MNOs) for acquiring additional spectrum to offer mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) and thereby inviting competition for a common pool of end users (EUs). We consider…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Xingran Chen , Mohammad Hassan Lotfi , Saswati Sarkar

The utilization of unlicensed spectrum presents a promising solution to the issue of spectrum scarcity in densely populated areas, while also offering a cost-effective means to connect underserved regions. In response to this potential,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Karim Saifullin , Hussein Al-Shatri , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

The licensing model for millimeter wave bands has been the subject of considerable debate, with some industry players advocating for unlicensed use and others for traditional geographic area exclusive use licenses. Meanwhile, the massive…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Fraida Fund , Shahram Shahsavari , Shivendra S. Panwar , Elza Erkip , Sundeep Rangan

We propose a novel incentive-based framework for composing energy service requests. An incentive model is designed that considers the context of the providers and consumers to determine rewards for sharing wireless energy. We propose a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Amani Abusafia , Athman Bouguettaya , Sajib Mistry

With wireless network virtualization, Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs) can develop new services on a low-cost platform by leasing virtual resources from mobile network owners. In this paper, we investigate a two-stage spectrum…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-12-29 Yingxiao Zhang , Suzhi Bi , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

This paper studies the resource allocation problem for a heterogeneous network (HetNet) in which the spectrum owned by a macro-cell operator (MCO) can be shared by both unlicensed users (UUs) and licensed users (LUs). We formulate a novel…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-11-16 Pu Yuan , Yong Xiao , Guoan Bi , Liren Zhang

The increasing number of wireless devices operating in unlicensed spectrum motivates the development of intelligent adaptive approaches to spectrum access. We consider decentralized contention-based medium access for base stations (BSs)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Akash Doshi , Srinivas Yerramalli , Lorenzo Ferrari , Taesang Yoo , Jeffrey G. Andrews

Using blockchain technology, it is possible to create contracts that offer a reward in exchange for a trained machine learning model for a particular data set. This would allow users to train machine learning models for a reward in a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-03-01 A. Besir Kurtulmus , Kenny Daniel

Motivated by applications where a system must remain operational via continual procurement of contracts, we study two online contract selection problems under uncertain prices. At each time step, a price drawn from a known distribution is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Qinge Chi , Sebastian Perez-Salazar

Energy prices and net power injection limitations regulate the operations in distribution grids and typically ensure that operational constraints are met. Nevertheless, unexpected or prolonged abnormal events could undermine the grid's…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-29 Guido Cavraro , Joshua Comden , Andrey Bernstein

We study the optimal contract problem in the \emph{combinatorial actions} framework of D\"utting et al.~[FOCS'21], where a principal delegates a project to an agent who chooses a subset of hidden, costly actions, and the resulting reward is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Michal Feldman , Liat Yashin

In this paper, we study how to solve resource allocation problems in ultra-reliable and low-latency communications by unsupervised deep learning, which often yield functional optimization problems with quality-of-service (QoS) constraints.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Chengjian Sun , Chenyang Yang

Coexistence with Wi-Fi is the key issue for unlicensed band LTE. The main coexistence mechanism is Listen-Before-Talk, whereby radio frequency energy is sensed over a short period of time and compared to a threshold. Given the default…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Jonathan Ling , David Lopez-Perez , Mohammad R. Khawer

Ensuring fair co-existence between unlicensed LTE and WiFi networks is currently of major concern to both cellular operators and WiFi providers. Two main unlicensed LTE approaches currently being discussed, namely Carrier Sense Adaptive…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-11-20 Cristina Cano , Douglas J. Leith

Users can now give back energies to the grid using distributed resources. Proper incentive mechanisms are required for such users, also known as prosumers, in order to maximize the sell-back amount while maintaining the retailer's profit.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-14 Diptangshu Sen , Arnob Ghosh

To coexist with Wi-Fi friendly, a standalone long-term evolution network over unlicensed spectrum (LTE-U) under listen-before-talk (LBT) mechanism can only access channel in a random and intermittent way, which results in random and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-10-15 Hangguan Shan , Taojie Qin , Guanding Yu , Lin X. Cai , Yu Cheng , Tony Q. S. Quek

Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) is promising to become the foundation of many decentralised systems. However, the unbalanced and unregulated network layout contributes to the inefficiency of DLT especially in the Internet of Things…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Yibin Xu , Yangyu Huang

Providing minimum quality-of-service (QoS) in crowded wireless communications systems, with high user density, is challenging due to the network structure with limited transmit power budget and resource blocks. Smart resource allocation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Joao Henrique Inacio de Souza , Jose Carlos Marinello , Abolfazl Amiri , Taufik Abrao