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This paper proves an impossibility result for stochastic network utility maximization for multi-user wireless systems, including multiple access and broadcast systems. Every time slot an access point observes the current channel states for…
The multiple access scheduling decides how the channel is shared among the nodes in the network. Typical scheduling algorithms aims at increasing the channel utilization and thereby throughput of the network. This paper describes several…
Energy efficiency is an important design criterion for wireless communications. When parallel frequency channels are used for multiuser transmission, the channel bandwidths and user power are adjusted to maximize the sum information rate…
In this paper we address the problem of joint admission control and resource scheduling for \emph{Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communications} (URLLC). We examine two models: (i) the \emph{continuous}, where all allocated resource blocks…
We consider a joint scheduling-and-power-allocation problem of a downlink cellular system. The system consists of two groups of users: real-time (RT) and non-real-time (NRT) users. Given an average power constraint on the base station, the…
Joint optimization of scheduling and estimation policies is considered for a system with two sensors and two non-collocated estimators. Each sensor produces an independent and identically distributed sequence of random variables, and each…
We study scheduling control of parallel processing networks in which some resources need to simultaneously collaborate to perform some activities and some resources multitask. Resource collaboration and multitasking give rise to…
We consider fairness scheduling in a user-centric cell-free massive MIMO network, where $L$ remote radio units, each with $M$ antennas, serve $K_{\rm tot} \approx LM$ user equipments (UEs). Recent results show that the maximum network sum…
This paper considers a problem where multiple users make repeated decisions based on their own observed events. The events and decisions at each time step determine the values of a utility function and a collection of penalty functions. The…
In this work we consider the problem of downlink resource allocation for proportional fairness of long term received rates of data users and quality of service for real time sessions in an OFDMA-based wireless system. The base station…
We consider scheduling problems in wireless networks with respect to flexible data rates. That is, more or less data can be transmitted per time depending on the signal quality, which is determined by the signal-to-interference-plus-noise…
In this paper, we consider the problem of power efficient uplink scheduling in a Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) system over a fading wireless channel. The objective is to minimize the power expenditure of each user subject to…
In this paper we initiate the study of minimizing power consumption in the broadcast scheduling model. In this setting there is a wireless transmitter. Over time requests arrive at the transmitter for pages of information. Multiple requests…
A hard-deadline, opportunistic scheduling problem in which $B$ bits must be transmitted within $T$ time-slots over a time-varying channel is studied: the transmitter must decide how many bits to serve in each slot based on knowledge of the…
We study the optimal scheduling problem where n source nodes attempt to transmit updates over L shared wireless on/off fading channels to optimize their age performance under energy and age-violation tolerance constraints. Specifically, we…
This thesis focuses on link scheduling in wireless mesh networks by taking into account physical layer characteristics. The assumption made throughout is that a packet is received successfully only if the Signal to Interference and Noise…
This paper focuses on the cross-layer issue of resource allocation for energy efficiency in the uplink of a multiuser MIMO wireless communication system. Assuming that all of the transmitters and the uplink receiver are equipped with…
In this paper we consider energy efficient scheduling in a multiuser setting where each user has a finite sized queue and there is a cost associated with holding packets (jobs) in each queue (modeling the delay constraints). The packets of…
This paper considers max-min fairness for wireless energy transfer in a downlink multiuser communication system. Our resource allocation design maximizes the minimum harvested energy among multiple multiple-antenna energy harvesting…
In order to understand the key merits of multiuser diversity techniques in relay-assisted cellular multihop networks, this paper analyzes the spectral efficiency of opportunistic (i.e., channel-aware) scheduling algorithms over a fading…