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The emergence of large-scale wireless networks with partially-observable and time-varying dynamics has imposed new challenges on the design of optimal control policies. This paper studies efficient scheduling algorithms for wireless…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Quang Minh Nguyen , Eytan Modiano

The increasing interest for ubiquitous networking, and the tremendous popularity gained by IEEE 802.11 Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) in recent years, is leading to very dense deployments where high levels of channel contention may…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Maddalena Nurchis , Boris Bellalta

It has been well established that wireless network coding can significantly improve the efficiency of multi-hop wireless networks. However, in a stochastic environment some of the packets might not have coding pairs, which limits the number…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Yu-Pin Hsu , Navid Abedini , Natarajan Gautam , Alex Sprintson , Srinivas Shakkottai

We show how to utilize machine learning approaches to improve sliding window algorithms for approximate frequency estimation problems, under the ``algorithms with predictions'' framework. In this dynamic environment, previous…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Rana Shahout , Ibrahim Sabek , Michael Mitzenmacher

The data collected by autonomous vehicle (AV) sensors such as LiDAR and cameras is crucial for creating high-definition (HD) maps to provide higher accuracy and enable a higher level of automation. Nevertheless, offloading this large volume…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Jeffrey Redondo , Nauman Aslam , Juan Zhang , Zhenhui Yuan

Hybrid light fidelity (LiFi) and wireless fidelity (WiFi) networks (HLWNets) are an emerging indoor wireless communication paradigm, which combines the advantages of the capacious optical spectra of LiFi and ubiquitous coverage of WiFi.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-11 Han Ji , Xiping Wu

The problem of finding an optimal sensing schedule for a mobile device that encounters an intermittent WiFi access opportunity is considered. At any given time, the WiFi is in any of the two modes, ON or OFF, and the mobile's incentive is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-29 Abhinav Kumar , Rahul Vaze , Sibi Raj B Pillai , Aditya Gopalan

The IEEE 802.11 backoff algorithm is very important for controlling system throughput over contentionbased wireless networks. For this reason, there are many studies on wireless network performance focus on developing backoff algorithms.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-01-05 Hatm Alkadeki , Xingang Wang , Michael Odetayo

We study the necessity of predictive information in a class of queueing admission control problems, where a system manager is allowed to divert incoming jobs up to a fixed rate, in order to minimize the queueing delay experienced by the…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Kuang Xu

This article investigates the problem of dynamic spectrum access for canonical wireless networks, in which the channel states are time-varying. In the most existing work, the commonly used optimization objective is to maximize the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-31 Yuhua Xu , Jinlong Wang , Qihui Wu , Jianchao Zheng , Liang Shen , Alagan Anpalagan

This paper describes a new approach for allocating resources to video streaming traffic. Assuming that the future channel state can be predicted for a certain time, we minimize the fraction of the bandwidth consumed for smooth streaming by…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2013-04-11 Sanam Sadr , Stefan Valentin

Recently designed cross-layer contention based synchronous MAC protocols like the PRMAC protocol, for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) enable a node to schedule multi-hop transmission of multiple data packets in a cycle. However, these…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-09-07 Ripudaman Singh , Brijesh Kumar Rai , Sanjay Kumar Bose

We consider the design of wireless queueing network control policies with particular focus on combining stability with additional application-dependent requirements. Thereby, we consequently pursue a cost function based approach that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-19 Martin Kasparick , Gerhard Wunder

In this paper, we consider contention resolution algorithms that are augmented with predictions about the network. We begin by studying the natural setup in which the algorithm is provided a distribution defined over the possible network…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Seth Gilbert , Calvin Newport , Nitin Vaidya , Alex Weaver

Admission control as a mechanism for providing QoS requires an accurate description of the requested flow as well as already admitted flows. Since 802.11 WLAN capacity is shared between flows belonging to all stations, admission control…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Preetam Patil , Varsha Apte

Energy management is a crucial challenge in wireless sensor networks. To date, many techniques have been proposed to reduce energy consumption. Duty cycle methods reduce the energy consumption of wireless sensor networks since energy…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Mahta Moezzi , Parsa Emamdadi

We present and evaluate a procedure that utilizes mobility and throughput prediction to prefetch video streaming data in integrated cellular and WiFi networks. The effective integration of such heterogeneous wireless technologies will be…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-10-24 Vasilios A. Siris , Maria Anagnostopoulou , Dimitris Dimopoulos

The emergence of smart Wi-Fi APs (Access Point), which are equipped with huge storage space, opens a new research area on how to utilize these resources at the edge network to improve users' quality of experience (QoE) (e.g., a short…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2017-03-13 Wen Hu , Yichao Jin , Yonggang Wen , Zhi Wang , Lifeng Sun

Network traffic model is a critical problem for urban applications, mainly because of its diversity and node density. As wireless sensor network is highly concerned with the development of smart cities, careful consideration to traffic…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-06-23 Trista Lin , Hervé Rivano , Frédéric Le Mouël

This paper investigates two strategies to reduce the communication delay in future wireless networks: traffic dispersion and network densification. A hybrid scheme that combines these two strategies is also considered. The probabilistic…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-03-15 Guang Yang , Ming Xiao , H. Vincent Poor