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In a distributed storage system based on erasure coding, an important problem is the \emph{repair problem}: If a node storing a coded piece fails, in order to maintain the same level of reliability, we need to create a new encoded piece and…
Network reconstruction is the task of inferring the unseen interactions between elements of a system, based only on their behavior or dynamics. This inverse problem is in general ill-posed, and admits many solutions for the same…
Transmission system operators face a variety of discrete operational decisions, such as switching of branches and/or devices. Incorporating these decisions into optimal power flow (OPF) results in mixed-integer non-linear programming…
Distributed model predictive control (MPC) has been proven a successful method in regulating the operation of large-scale networks of constrained dynamical systems. This paper is concerned with cooperative distributed MPC in which the…
Filterless optical transport networks relies on passive optical interconnections between nodes, i.e., on splitters/couplers and amplifiers. While different studies have investigated their design, none of them offer a solution for an optimal…
This paper proposes an algorithm to efficiently solve multistage stochastic programs with block separable recourse where each recourse problem is a multistage stochastic program with stage-wise independent uncertainty. The algorithm first…
Optimal Power Flow (OPF) can be modeled as a non-convex Quadratically Constrained Quadratic Program (QCQP). Our purpose is to solve OPF to global optimality. To this end, we specialize the Mixed-Integer Quadratic Convex Reformulation method…
Mixed-integer optimization problems arise in a wide range of control applications. Benders decomposition is a widely used algorithm for solving such problems by decomposing them into a mixed-integer master problem and a continuous…
This paper deals with a distributed Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) set-up arising in several control applications. Agents of a network aim to minimize the sum of local linear cost functions subject to both individual constraints…
In coding for distributed storage systems, efficient data reconstruction and repair through accessing a predefined number of arbitrarily chosen storage nodes is guaranteed by regenerating codes. Traditionally, code parameters, specially the…
Constraint-based metabolic models can be used to investigate the intracellular physiology of microorganisms. These models couple genes to reactions, and typically seek to predict metabolite fluxes that optimize some biologically important…
We consider integer programming problems with bounded general-integer variables belonging to the general class of network flow problems. For those, we computationally investigate the effect on mixed-integer linear programming (MIP) solvers…
This paper studies the coordinated beamforming (CoBF) design for the multiple-input single-output interference channel, provided that only channel distribution information is known to the transmitters. The problem under consideration is a…
This paper investigates the distributed computation of the well-known linear matrix equation in the form of $AXB = F$, with the matrices A, B, X, and F of appropriate dimensions, over multi-agent networks from an optimization perspective.…
In this paper, we address the power allocation problem for a decode and forward (DF) relay system, where a massive multiple-input-multiple-output (mMIMO) multi-carrier (MC) base station (BS) node communicates with a MC single antenna node…
This paper proposes a fully decentralized model predictive control (MPC) framework with control barrier function (CBF) constraints for safety-critical trajectory planning in multi-robot legged systems. The incorporation of CBF constraints…
Semantic communication is a promising technology for next-generation wireless networks. However, the out-of-distribution (OOD) problem, where a pre-trained machine learning (ML) model is applied to unseen tasks that are outside the…
In this paper, multi-stream transmission in interference networks aided by multiple amplify-and-forward (AF) relays in the presence of direct links is considered. The objective is to minimize the sum power of transmitters and relays by…
This paper introduces a novel distributed optimization framework for large-scale AC Optimal Power Flow (OPF) problems, offering both theoretical convergence guarantees and rapid convergence in practice. By integrating smoothing techniques…
Blind deconvolution and demixing is the problem of reconstructing convolved signals and kernels from the sum of their convolutions. This problem arises in many applications, such as blind MIMO. This work presents a separable approach to…