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Conventional high-altitude platforms (HAPs) face challenges in achieving continuous all-weather operation due to intermittent photovoltaic power generation, limited energy storage capacity, and high mission loads resulting from functional…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-19 Peng Wang , Eros Kuikel , Jia Ye , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

The increasing demand for sensing, collecting, transmitting, and processing vast amounts of data poses significant challenges for resource-constrained mobile users, thereby impacting the performance of wireless networks. In this regard,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Yaoqi Yang , Hongyang Du , Zehui Xiong , Dusit Niyato , Abbas Jamalipour , Zhu Han

In this study, we investigate the resource management challenges in next-generation mobile crowdsensing networks with the goal of minimizing task completion latency while ensuring coverage performance, i.e., an essential metric to ensure…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Yaru Fu , Yue Zhang , Zheng Shi , Yongna Guo , Yalin Liu

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

Our work contributes to aiding requesters in deploying collaborative tasks in crowdsourcing. We initiate the study of recommending deployment strategies for collaborative tasks to requesters that are consistent with deployment parameters…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Dong Wei , Senjuti Basu Roy , Sihem Amer-Yahia

This paper considers an energy-limited cognitive relay network where a secondary transmitter (ST) assists to forward the traffic from a primary transmitter (PT) to a primary receiver (PR), in exchange for serving its own secondary receiver…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-30 Ruijin Sun , Ying Wang , Zhongyu Miao , Xinshui Wang

Due to the limited resource capacity of edge servers and the high purchase costs of edge resources, service providers are facing the new challenge of how to take full advantage of the constrained edge resources for Internet of Things (IoT)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Lujie Tang , Minxian Xu , Chengzhong Xu , Kejiang Ye

The wide spread of mobile devices has enabled a new paradigm of innovation called Mobile Crowdsourcing (MCS) where the concept is to allow entities, e.g., individuals or local authorities, to hire workers to help from the crowd of connected…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Aymen Hamrouni , Hakim Ghazzai , Turki Alelyani , Yehia Massoud

This paper investigates a wireless powered mobile edge computing (WP-MEC) network with multiple hybrid access points (HAPs) in a dynamic environment, where wireless devices (WDs) harvest energy from radio frequency (RF) signals of HAPs, and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Xiaoying Liu , Anping Chen , Kechen Zheng , Kaikai Chi , Bin Yang , Tarik Taleb

Path planning under wireless performance constraints is a complex challenge in robot navigation. However, naively incorporating such constraints into classical planning algorithms often incurs prohibitive search costs. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Aladin Djuhera , Amin Seffo , Vlad C. Andrei , Holger Boche , Walid Saad

We introduce the novel concept of Spatial Predictive Control (SPC) to solve the following problem: given a collection of agents (e.g., drones) with positional low-level controllers (LLCs) and a mission-specific distributed cost function,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Andreas Brandstätter , Scott A. Smolka , Scott D. Stoller , Ashish Tiwari , Radu Grosu

In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), the base station (BS) is a critical sensor node whose failure causes severe data losses. Deploying multiple fixed BSs improves the robustness, yet requires all BSs to be installed with large batteries and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-09-17 Runwei Zhang , Francois Ingelrest , Guillermo Barrenetxea , Patrick Thiran , Martin Vetterli

Wireless power transfer (WPT) technology enables a cost-effective and sustainable energy supply in wireless networks. However, the broadcast nature of wireless signals makes them non-excludable public goods, which leads to potential…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Meng Zhang , Jianwei Huang , Rui Zhang

In this paper, we study how to determine concurrent transmissions and the transmission power level of each link to maximize spectrum efficiency and minimize energy consumption in a wireless ad hoc network. The optimal joint transmission…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Kamal Rahimi Malekshan , Weihua Zhuang

Relay-enabled backscatter communication (BC) is an intriguing paradigm to alleviate energy shortage and improve throughput of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. Most of the existing works focus on the resource allocation that considered the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Rui Xu , Liqin Shi , Yinghui Ye , Haijian Sun , Gan Zheng

This paper extends the classical network calculus to spatial scenarios, focusing on wireless networks with differentiated services and varying transmit power levels. Building on a spatial network calculus, a prior extension of network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Yi Zhong , Xiaohang Zhou , Ke Feng

In this paper, a novel cluster-based approach for maximizing the energy efficiency of wireless small cell networks is proposed. A dynamic mechanism is proposed to group locally-coupled small cell base stations (SBSs) into clusters based on…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-11-30 Sumudu Samarakoon , Mehdi Bennis , Walid Saad , Matti Latva-aho

Mobile crowdsensing (MCS) is a promising distributed sensing paradigm for future wireless networks, where MCS platforms (MCSPs) recruit mobile units (MUs) through monetary incentives for sensing data collection. While most existing studies…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Sumedh J. Dongare , Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas , Andrea Ortiz , Walid Saad , Anja Klein

In this paper, we consider a wireless powered mobile edge computing (MEC) network, where the distributed energy-harvesting wireless devices (WDs) are powered by means of radio frequency (RF) wireless power transfer (WPT). In particular, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Suzhi Bi , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

Mobile crowdsensing (MCS) is a new paradigm of sensing by taking advantage of the rich embedded sensors of mobile user devices. However, the traditional server-client MCS architecture often suffers from the high operational cost on the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Changkun Jiang , Lin Gao , Lingjie Duan , Jianwei Huang