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We consider the classical online scheduling problem P||C_{max} in which jobs are released over list and provide a nearly optimal online algorithm. More precisely, an online algorithm whose competitive ratio is at most (1+\epsilon) times…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-02-19 Lin Chen , Deshi Ye , Guochuan Zhang

Consider a network where a wireless base station (BS) connects multiple source-destination pairs. Packets from each source are generated according to a renewal process and are enqueued in a single-packet queue that stores only the freshest…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Zhuoyi Zhao , Igor Kadota

This paper investigates an information update system in which a mobile device monitors a physical process and sends status updates to an access point (AP). A fundamental trade-off arises between the timeliness of the information maintained…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Yu-Pin Hsu , Yi-Hsuan Tseng

In this work, we study how to optimally manage the freshness of information updates sent from a source node to a destination via a channel. A proper metric for data freshness at the destination is the age-of-information, or simply age,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-24 Yin Sun , Elif Uysal-Biyikoglu , Roy D. Yates , C. Emre Koksal , Ness B. Shroff

In this work, a wireless broadcast network with a base station (BS) sending random time-sensitive information updates to multiple users with interference constraints is considered. The Age of Synchronization (AoS), namely the amount of time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Haoyue Tang , Jintao Wang , Zihan Tang , Jian Song

In Internet of Things (IoTs), the freshness of system status information is crucial for real-time monitoring and decision-making. This paper studies the transmission scheduling problem in wireless monitoring systems, where information…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Yuchong Zhang , Yi Cao , Xianghui Cao

In applications such as remote estimation and monitoring, update packets are transmitted by power-constrained devices using short-packet codes over wireless networks. Therefore, networks need to be end-to-end optimized using information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Sudarsanan A. K. , Vineeth B. S. , Chandra R. Murthy

We consider a parallel system of $m$ identical machines prone to unpredictable crashes and restarts, trying to cope with the continuous arrival of tasks to be executed. Tasks have different computational requirements (i.e., processing time…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-03-21 Elli Zavou , Antonio Fernández Anta

The multiple access scheduling decides how the channel is shared among the nodes in the network. Typical scheduling algorithms aims at increasing the channel utilization and thereby throughput of the network. This paper describes several…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Vijaya Yajnanarayana , Klas E. G. Magnusson , Rasmus Brandt , Satyam Dwivedi , Peter Händel

A wireless system with multiple channels is considered, where each channel has several transmission states. A user learns about the instantaneous state of an available channel by transmitting a control packet in it. Since probing all…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-04-11 Sudipto Guha , Kamesh Munagala , Saswati Sarkar

The freshness of real-time status processing of time-sensitive information is crucial for several applications, including healthcare monitoring and autonomous vehicles. This freshness is considered in this paper for the system where…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Chanikarn Nikunram , Wasin Meesena , Stephen John Turner , Sucha Supittayapornpong

We consider multiuser scheduling in wireless networks with channel variations and flow-level dynamics. Recently, it has been shown that the MaxWeight algorithm, which is throughput-optimal in networks with a fixed number users, fails to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-08-17 Shihuan Liu , Lei Ying , R. Srikant

In this paper, we present an efficient resource allocation with user discrimination framework for 5G Wireless Systems to allocate multiple carriers resources among users with elastic and inelastic traffic. Each application running on the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-08-24 Haya Shajaiah , Ahmed Abdelhadi , Charles Clancy

We consider coded caching over the fading broadcast channel, where the users, equipped with a memory of finite size, experience asymmetric fading statistics. It is known that a naive application of coded caching over the channel at hand…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Richard Combes , Asma Ghorbel , Mari Kobayashi , Sheng Yang

In 2005 Li et al. gave a phi-competitive deterministic online algorithm for scheduling of packets with agreeable deadlines with a very interesting analysis. This is known to be optimal due to a lower bound by Hajek. We claim that the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-02-03 Łukasz Jeż

Internet of Things (IoT) has emerged as one of the key features of the next generation wireless networks, where timely delivery of status update packets is essential for many real-time IoT applications. To provide users with context-aware…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Chao Xu , Howard H. Yang , Xijun Wang , Tony Q. S. Quek

A hard-deadline, opportunistic scheduling problem in which $B$ bits must be transmitted within $T$ time-slots over a time-varying channel is studied: the transmitter must decide how many bits to serve in each slot based on knowledge of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-07-01 Juyul Lee , Nihar Jindal

Many systems necessitate frequent and consistent updates of a specific information. Often this information is updated regularly, where an old packet becomes completely obsolete in the presence of a new packet. In this context, we consider a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Shiksha Singhal , Veeraruna Kavitha , Vidya Shankar

Online decision-making in the presence of uncertain future information is abundant in many problem domains. In the critical problem of energy generation scheduling for microgrids, one needs to decide when to switch energy supply between a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-20 Ali Menati , Sid Chi-Kin Chau , Minghua Chen

The notion of age of information (AoI) has become an important performance metric in network and control systems. Information freshness, represented by AoI, naturally arises in the context of caching. We address optimal scheduling of cache…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Ghafour Ahani , Di Yuan