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Exchange of crucial and confidential information leads to the unprecedented attention on the security problem in wireless networks. Though the security has been studied in a number of works, the joint optimization of the physical layer…
One key challenge in designing resilient large-scale wireless ad hoc networks is to understand how random node failures affect fundamental network performance. In this work, we show that both network capacity and delay scale as…
Source delay, the time a packet experiences in its source node, serves as a fundamental quantity for delay performance analysis in networks. However, the source delay performance in highly dynamic mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) is still…
The classical definition of network delay has been recently augmented by the concept of information timeliness, or Age of Information (AoI). We analyze the network delay and the AoI in a multi-hop satellite network that relays status…
In this paper, a novel delay-independent control structure for a networked control system (NCS) is proposed, where packet-based control strategies with predictor-based and dual-rate control techniques are integrated. The control solution is…
In this paper, we aim to establish the connection between Age of Information (AoI) in network theory, information uncertainty in information theory, and detection delay in time series analysis. We consider a dynamic system whose state…
Let $X_1,X_2,\ldots $ be independent random variables observed sequentially and such that $X_1,\ldots,X_{\theta-1}$ have a common probability density $p_0$, while $X_\theta,X_{\theta+1},\ldots $ are all distributed according to $p_1\neq…
Assuming a network of infinite extent, several researchers have analyzed small-cell networks using a Poisson point process (PPP) location model, leading to simple analytic expressions. The general assumption has been that these results…
We investigate the statistics of the number of time slots $T$ that it takes a packet to travel through a chain of wireless relays. Derivations are performed assuming an interference model for which interference possesses spatiotemporal…
Wireless sensor networks have been increasingly used for real-time surveillance over large areas. In such applications, it is important to support end-to-end delay constraints for packet deliveries even when the corresponding flows require…
We study the estimation of average effects in nonlinear panel data models with fixed effects when the time dimension $T$ is only moderately large. Our approach, called approximate operator inversion (AOI), offers a new perspective on bias…
Zero packet loss with bounded latency is necessary for many applications, such as industrial control networks, automotive Ethernet, and aircraft communication systems. Traditional networks cannot meet the such strict requirement, and thus…
Tandem queueing networks are widely used to model systems where services are provided in sequential stages. In this study, we assume that each station in the tandem system operates under a general renewal process. Additionally, we assume…
We describe a non-cooperative interference alignment (IA) technique which allows an opportunistic multiple input multiple output (MIMO) link (secondary) to harmlessly coexist with another MIMO link (primary) in the same frequency band.…
We study the scaling properties of a georouting scheme in a wireless multi-hop network of $n$ mobile nodes. Our aim is to increase the network capacity quasi linearly with $n$ while keeping the average delay bounded. In our model, mobile…
We introduce a general framework for the mean-field analysis of large-scale load-balancing networks with general service distributions. Specifically, we consider a parallel server network that consists of N queues and operates under the…
Predicting performance-related behavior of the underlying network structure becomes more and more indispensable in terms of the aspired application outcome quality. However, the reliable forecast of QoS metrics like packet transfer delay in…
In this work, we consider the case where a source with bursty traffic can adjust the transmission duration in order to increase the reliability. The source is equipped with a queue in order to store the arriving packets. We model the system…
Exponential backoff (EB) is a widely adopted collision resolution mechanism in many popular random-access networks including Ethernet and wireless LAN (WLAN). The prominence of EB is primarily attributed to its asymptotic throughput…
Interference alignment (IA) has attracted enormous research interest as it achieves optimal capacity scaling with respect to signal to noise ratio on interference networks. IA has also recently emerged as an effective tool in engineering…