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In this paper, we deal with the problem of jointly determining the optimal coding strategy and the scheduling decisions when receivers obtain layered data from multiple servers. The layered data is encoded by means of Prioritized Random…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Nikolaos Thomos , Eymen Kurdoglu , Pascal Frossard , Mihaela Van der Schaar

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

This paper is motivated by the observation that the average queueing delay can be decreased by sacrificing power efficiency in wireless communications. In this sense, we naturally wonder what is the minimum queueing delay when the available…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Meng Wang , Juan Liu , Wei Chen , Anthony Ephremides

Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) is an emerging computing paradigm that extends cloud computing to the network edge to support resource-intensive applications on mobile devices. As a crucial problem in MEC, service migration needs to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Jin Wang , Jia Hu , Geyong Min , Qiang Ni , Tarek El-Ghazawi

In the area of full duplex (FD)-enabled small cell networks, limited works have been done on consideration of cache and mobile edge communication (MEC). In this paper, a virtual FD-enabled small cell network with cache and MEC is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-06-30 Zhiyuan Tan , F. Richard Yu , Xi Li , Hong Ji , Victor C. M. Leung

Communication scheduling aims to reduce communication bottlenecks in data parallel training (DP) by maximizing the overlap between computation and communication. However, existing schemes fall short due to three main issues: (1) hard data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Lin Meng , Yuzhong Sun

The exponential growth of multimedia data traffic in 6G networks poses unprecedented challenges for immersive communication, where ultra-high-definition, multi-quality streaming must be delivered on demand while minimizing network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Zien Wang , Xiucheng Wang , Nan Cheng , Wenchao Xu , Wei Quan , Ruijin Sun , Conghao Zhou

Fifth generation mobile communication systems (5G) have to accommodate both Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communication (URLLC) and enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB) services. While, eMBB applications support high data rates, URLLC services aim…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Homa Nikbakht , Michèle Wigger , Malcolm Egan , Shlomo Shamai , Jean-Marie Gorce , H. Vincent Poor

Tradeoff in diversity, multiplexing, and delay in multihop MIMO relay networks with ARQ is studied, where the random delay is caused by queueing and ARQ retransmission. This leads to an optimal ARQ allocation problem with per-hop delay or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-01-06 Yao Xie , Andrea Goldsmith

We address the problem of efficient data gathering in a wireless network through multi-hop communication. We focus on the objective of minimizing the maximum flow time of a data packet. We prove that no polynomial time algorithm for this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Vincenzo Bonifaci , Peter Korteweg , Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela , Leen Stougie

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

We consider stochastic convex optimization problems, where several machines act asynchronously in parallel while sharing a common memory. We propose a robust training method for the constrained setting and derive non asymptotic convergence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Rotem Zamir Aviv , Ido Hakimi , Assaf Schuster , Kfir Y. Levy

In this paper, we study the distributed computational capabilities of device-to-device (D2D) networks. A key characteristic of D2D networks is that their topologies are reconfigurable to cope with network demands. For distributed computing,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Junghoon Kim , Taejoon Kim , Morteza Hashemi , Christopher G. Brinton , David J. Love

In this work, we propose a cross-layer framework for optimizing user association, packet offloading rates, and bandwidth allocation for Mission-Critical Internet-of-Things (MC-IoT) services with short packets in Mobile Edge Computing (MEC)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Changyang She , Yifan Duan , Guodong Zhao , Tony Q. S. Quek , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

Coflow is a prominent network abstraction for modeling communication patterns in data centers. Since coflow scheduling in large-scale data centers is $\mathcal{NP}$-hard, this paper investigates this problem within heterogeneous parallel…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Chi-Yeh Chen

In heterogeneous networks, achieving congestion avoidance is difficult because the congestion feedback from one subnetwork may have no meaning to source on other other subnetworks. We propose using changes in round-trip delay as an implicit…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 R. Jain

This paper considers the problem of reducing the broadcast decoding delay of wireless networks using instantly decodable network coding (IDNC) based device-to-device (D2D) communications. In a D2D configuration, devices in the network can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-22 Ahmed Douik , Sameh Sorour , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri , Hong-Chuan Yang , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Many systems exhibit a mixture of continuous and discrete dynamics. We consider a family of mixed-integer non-convex non-linear optimisation problems obtained in discretisations of optimal control of such systems. For this family, a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-23 Jorn Baayen , Jakub Marecek

In this paper, the Multi-stage Edge Server Upgrade (M-ESU) is proposed as a new network planning problem, involving the upgrading of an existing multi-access edge computing (MEC) system through multiple stages (e.g., over several years).…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Endar Suprih Wihidayat , Sieteng Soh , Kwan-Wu Chin , Duc-son Pham

To ensure the low end-to-end (E2E) delay for tactile internet, short frame structures will be used in 5G systems. As such, transmission errors with finite blocklength channel codes should be considered to guarantee the high reliability…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Changyang She , Chenyang Yang , Tony Q. S. Quek