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We combine the well known Shortest Paths (SP) problem and the Bottleneck Paths (BP) problem to introduce a new problem called the Shortest Paths for All Flows (SP-AF) problem that has relevance in real life applications. We first solve the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-21 Tong-Wook Shinn , Tadao Takaoka

Effective congestion control for data center networks is becoming increasingly challenging with a growing amount of latency sensitive traffic, much fatter links, and extremely bursty traffic. Widely deployed algorithms, such as DCTCP and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Prateesh Goyal , Preey Shah , Kevin Zhao , Georgios Nikolaidis , Mohammad Alizadeh , Thomas E. Anderson

We consider the problem of designing an overlay network and routing mechanism that permits finding resources efficiently in a peer-to-peer system. We argue that many existing approaches to this problem can be modeled as the construction of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 James Aspnes , Zoe Diamadi , Gauri Shah

The derivation of upper bounds on data flows' worst-case traversal times is an important task in many application areas. For accurate bounds, model simplifications should be avoided even in large networks. Network Calculus (NC) provides a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Fabien Geyer , Alexander Scheffler , Steffen Bondorf

In the decremental single-source shortest paths problem, the goal is to maintain distances from a fixed source $s$ to every vertex $v$ in an $m$-edge graph undergoing edge deletions. In this paper, we conclude a long line of research on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Aaron Bernstein , Maximilian Probst Gutenberg , Thatchaphol Saranurak

We develop the optimal economical caching schemes in cache-enabled heterogeneous networks, while delivering multimedia video services with personalized viewing qualities to mobile users. By applying scalable video coding (SVC), each video…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Xuewei Zhang , Tiejun Lv , Yuan Ren , Wei Ni , Norman C. Beaulieu , Y. Jay Guo

Motivated by the problem of discrete-parameter simulation optimization (DPSO) of queueing systems, we consider the problem of embedding the discrete parameter space into a continuous one so that descent-based continuous-space methods could…

Performance · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Neha Karanjkar , Madhav P. Desai , Shalabh Bhatnagar

This paper considers the network slicing (NS) problem which attempts to map multiple customized virtual network requests to a common shared network infrastructure and allocate network resources to meet diverse service requirements. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Wei-Kun Chen , Zheyu Wu , Rui-Jin Zhang , Ya-Feng Liu , Yu-Hong Dai , Zhi-Quan Luo

Service Function Chains (SFCs) are one of the key enablers in providing programmable computer networks, paving the way for network autonomy. However, this also introduces new challenges, such as resource allocation and optimisation related…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Theviyanthan Krishnamohan , Paul Harvey

Given a set of discrete probability distributions, the minimum entropy coupling is the minimum entropy joint distribution that has the input distributions as its marginals. This has immediate relevance to tasks such as entropic causal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Spencer Compton , Dmitriy Katz , Benjamin Qi , Kristjan Greenewald , Murat Kocaoglu

To address memory and computation resource limitations for hardware-oriented acceleration of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), we present a computation flow, stacked filters stationary flow (SFS), and a corresponding data encoding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Yuechao Gao , Nianhong Liu , Sheng Zhang

In this paper, we develop a theory of new classes of discrete convex functions, called L-extendable functions and alternating L-convex functions, defined on the product of trees. We establish basic properties for optimization: a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-19 Hiroshi Hirai

Wireless network virtualization enables multiple virtual wireless networks to coexist on shared physical infrastructure. However, one of the main challenges is the problem of assigning the physical resources to virtual networks in an…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-05-18 Jonathan van de Belt , Hamed Ahmadi , Linda E. Doyle

We examine the minimum entropy coupling problem, where one must find the minimum entropy variable that has a given set of distributions $S = \{p_1, \dots, p_m \}$ as its marginals. Although this problem is NP-Hard, previous works have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Spencer Compton

Computing classical centrality measures such as betweenness and closeness is computationally expensive on large-scale graphs. In this work, we introduce an efficient force layout algorithm that embeds a graph into a low-dimensional space,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Alexander Kolpakov , Igor Rivin

Graph embedding is a powerful method in parallel computing that maps a guest network $G$ into a host network $H$. The performance of an embedding can be evaluated by certain parameters, such as the dilation, the edge congestion and the…

This work discusses tensor network embeddings, which are random matrices ($S$) with tensor network structure. These embeddings have been used to perform dimensionality reduction of tensor network structured inputs $x$ and accelerate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-27 Linjian Ma , Edgar Solomonik

We study an entropic optimal transport problem in which the transport plan is penalized by a nonlinear convex functional acting on the coupling. We establish existence, uniqueness, and uniform a priori bounds for minimizers, and we show…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-15 Anna Kazeykina , Zhenjie Ren , Xiaozhen Wang , Yufei Zhang

This paper presents the design and analysis of parallel approximation algorithms for facility-location problems, including $\NC$ and $\RNC$ algorithms for (metric) facility location, $k$-center, $k$-median, and $k$-means. These problems…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-06-11 Guy E. Blelloch , Kanat Tangwongsan

This article considers the problem of delay optimal bundling of the input symbols into transmit packets in the entry point of a wireless sensor network such that the link delay is minimized under an arbitrary arrival rate and a given…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Abolfazl Razi , Fatemeh Afghah , Ali Abedi