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In large-scale Internet of things networks, efficient medium access control (MAC) is critical due to the growing number of devices competing for limited communication resources. In this work, we consider a new challenge in which a set of…

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Movable antenna (MA) has demonstrated great potential in enhancing wireless communication performance. In this paper, we investigate an MA-enabled multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication system with spatial modulation (SM),…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Kaihe Wang , Ran Yang , Lipeng Zhu , Rongyan Xi , Yue Xiu , Zhongpei Zhang

We study a \emph{Plurality-Consensus} process in which each of $n$ anonymous agents of a communication network initially supports an opinion (a color chosen from a finite set $[k]$). Then, in every (synchronous) round, each agent can revise…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-07-28 Luca Becchetti , Andrea Clementi , Emanuele Natale , Francesco Pasquale , Riccardo Silvestri , Luca Trevisan

We consider distributed optimization over a $d$-dimensional space, where $K$ remote clients send coded gradient estimates over an {\em additive Gaussian Multiple Access Channel (MAC)} with noise variance $\sigma_z^2$. Furthermore, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Shubham Jha

Throughput scaling laws of an ad hoc network equipping directional antennas at each node are analyzed. More specifically, this paper considers a general framework in which the beam width of each node can scale at an arbitrary rate relative…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Jangho Yoon , Won-Yong Shin , Sang-Woon Jeon

The energy spectral efficiency maximization (ESEM) problem of a multi-user, multi-relay, multi-cell system is considered, where all the network nodes are equipped with multi-antenna transceivers. To deal with the potentially excessive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-26 Kent Tsz Kan Cheung , Shaoshi Yang , Lajos Hanzo

A node equipped with a multi-beam antenna can achieve a throughput of up to m times as compared to a single-beam antenna, by simultaneously communicating on its m non-interfering beams. However, the existing multi-beam medium access control…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Shivam Garg , Nandini Venkatraman , Elizabeth Serena Bentley , Sunil Kumar

Distributed scientific workflows increasingly span heterogeneous compute clusters, edge resources, and geo-distributed data repositories. In these environments, a centralized orchestrator is an architectural bottleneck -- introducing a…

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Capacity scaling laws are analyzed in an underwater acoustic network with $n$ regularly located nodes on a square. A narrow-band model is assumed where the carrier frequency is allowed to scale as a function of $n$. In the network, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-05-10 Won-Yong Shin , Daniel E. Lucani , Muriel Medard , Milica Stojanovic , Vahid Tarokh

Modern enterprise environments demand intelligent systems capable of handling complex, dynamic, and multi-faceted tasks with high levels of autonomy and adaptability. However, traditional single-purpose AI systems often lack sufficient…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Siyi Wu , Zeyu Wang , Xinyuan Song , Zhengpeng Zhou , Lifan Sun , Tianyu Shi

Dynamic allocation of resources to the \emph{best} link in large multiuser networks offers considerable improvement in spectral efficiency. This gain, often referred to as \emph{multiuser diversity gain}, can be cast as double-logarithmic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-04-19 Ali Tajer , Xiaodong Wang

The design of sensor networks capable of reaching a consensus on a globally optimal decision test, without the need for a fusion center, is a problem that has received considerable attention in the last years. Many consensus algorithms have…

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We address the problem of speech enhancement generalisation to unseen environments by performing two manipulations. First, we embed an additional recording from the environment alone, and use this embedding to alter activations in the main…

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We consider \emph{plurality consensus} in a network of $n$ nodes. Initially, each node has one of $k$ opinions. The nodes execute a (randomized) distributed protocol to agree on the plurality opinion (the opinion initially supported by the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-02-04 Petra Berenbrink , Tom Friedetzky , Peter Kling , Frederik Mallmann-Trenn , Chris Wastell

Capacity scaling laws are analyzed in an underwater acoustic network with $n$ regularly located nodes on a square, in which both bandwidth and received signal power can be limited significantly. A narrow-band model is assumed where the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-03-29 Won-Yong Shin , Daniel E. Lucani , Muriel Medard , Milica Stojanovic , Vahid Tarokh

This paper considers the distributed consensus problem of linear multi-agent systems subject to different matching uncertainties for both the cases without and with a leader of bounded unknown control input. Due to the existence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-12-31 Zhongkui Li , Zhisheng Duan , Frank Lewis

Large-scale distributed training of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on state-of-the-art platforms is expected to be severely communication constrained. To overcome this limitation, numerous gradient compression techniques have been proposed and…

Load balancing plays a critical role in efficiently dispatching jobs in parallel-server systems such as cloud networks and data centers. A fundamental challenge in the design of load balancing algorithms is to achieve an optimal trade-off…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Mark van der Boor , Sem Borst , Johan van Leeuwaarden

Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) is an important index for wireless communications. There are many methods for increasing SNR. In CDMA systems, spreading sequences are used. We consider the frequency-selective wide-sense-stationary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-17 Hirofumi Tsuda , Ken Umeno

Densifying the network and deploying more antennas at each access point are two principal ways to boost the capacity of wireless networks. However, due to the complicated distributions of random signal and interference channel gains,…

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