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Distributed opportunistic scheduling (DOS) protocols are proposed for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) ad-hoc networks with contention-based medium access. The proposed scheduling protocols distinguish themselves from other existing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Man-On Pun , Weiyan Ge , Dong Zheng , Junshan Zhang , H. Vincent Poor

In this paper, we design a resource allocation framework for the delay-sensitive Multi-User MIMO (MU-MIMO) broadcast system with limited feedback. Considering the scarcity and interrelation of the transmit power and feedback bandwidth, it…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-06 Xiaoming Chen , Zhaoyang Zhang , Chau Yuen

We consider a dynamic server allocation problem over parallel queues with randomly varying connectivity and server switchover delay between the queues. At each time slot the server decides either to stay with the current queue or switch to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-03-06 Güner D. Celik , Long B. Le , Eytan Modiano

The feasibility of practical in-band full-duplex radios has recently been demonstrated experimentally. One way to leverage full-duplex in a network setting is to enable three-node full-duplex, where a full- duplex access point (AP)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-09-01 Shih-Ying Chen , Ting-Feng Huang , Kate Ching-Ju Lin , H. -W. Peter Hong , Ashutosh Sabharwal

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

Recent proposals to simplify the operation of the IoT include the use of Information Centric Networking (ICN) paradigms. While this is promising, several challenges remain. In this paper, our core contributions (a) leverage ICN…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-08-08 Oliver Hahm , Cédric Adjih , Emmanuel Baccelli , Thomas C. Schmidt , Matthias Wählisch

It is well known that biology-inspired self-maintaining algorithms in wireless sensor nodes achieve near optimum time division multiple access (TDMA) characteristics in a decentralized manner and with very low complexity. We extend such…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-05-18 Dujdow Buranapanichkit , Yiannis Andreopoulos

This work is motivated by the need of collecting fresh data from power-constrained sensors in the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) network. A recently proposed metric, the Age of Information (AoI) is adopted to measure data freshness…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Haoyue Tang , Jintao Wang , Linqi Song , Jian Song

In large-scale Internet of things networks, efficient medium access control (MAC) is critical due to the growing number of devices competing for limited communication resources. In this work, we consider a new challenge in which a set of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Lorenzo Mario Amorosa , Zhan Gao , Roberto Verdone , Petar Popovski , Deniz Gündüz

A new congestion and delay control algorithm named QUIC Delay Control (QUIC-DC) is proposed for controlling not only congestion but also the queueing delay encountered along the forward communication path. The core idea is to estimate the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Saverio Mascolo , Andrea Vittorio Balillo , Gioacchino Manfredi , Davide D'Agostino , Luca De Cicco

This paper designs traffic signal control policies for a network of signalized intersections without knowing the demand and parameters. Within a model predictive control (MPC) framework, control policies consist of an algorithm that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-17 Zhexian Li , Ketan Savla

We analyze the problem of scheduling in wireless networks to meet end-to-end service guarantees, defined by instantaneous throughput and hard packet deadlines. Using a network slicing model to decouple the queueing dynamics between flows,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Nicholas Jones , Eytan Modiano

Real-time video demands quality-of-service (QoS) guarantees such as delay bounds for end-user satisfaction. Furthermore, the tolerable delay varies depending on the use case such as live streaming or two-way video conferencing. Due to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Amin Abdel Khalek , Constantine Caramanis , Robert W. Heath

Control of multihop Wireless networks in a distributed manner while providing end-to-end delay requirements for different flows, is a challenging problem. Using the notions of Draining Time and Discrete Review from the theory of fluid…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Ashok Krishnan K. S. , Vinod Sharma

For a closed-loop system, which has a contention-based multiple access network on its sensor link, the Medium Access Controller (MAC) may discard some packets when the traffic on the link is high. We use a local state-based scheduler to…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-01-25 Chithrupa Ramesh , Henrik Sandberg , Karl H. Johansson

Driven by the rapid development of wireless communication system, more and more vehicular services can be efficiently supported via vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications. In order to allocate radio resource with the reasonable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Haojun Yang , Long Zhao , Lei Lei , Kan Zheng

A coflow is a collection of parallel flows belonging to the same job. It has the all-or-nothing property: a coflow is not complete until the completion of all its constituent flows. In this paper, we focus on optimizing \emph{coflow-level…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Qingkai Liang , Eytan Modiano

In this paper, we propose a hybrid medium access control protocol (H-MAC) for wireless sensor networks. It is based on the IEEE 802.11's power saving mechanism (PSM) and slotted aloha, and utilizes multiple slots dynamically to improve…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-07-15 S. Mehta , K. S. Kwak

Feasibility of using unlicensed spectrum for ultra reliable low latency communications (URLLC) is still a question for beyond 5G wireless networks. Low latency access to the channel and efficiently sharing spectrum among the multiple users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Irshad A. Meer , Woong-Hee Lee , Mustafa Ozger , Cicek Cavdar , Ki Won Sung

We consider unreliable multi-hop networks serving multiple flows in which packets not delivered to their destination nodes by their deadlines are dropped. We address the design of policies for routing and scheduling packets that optimize…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Rahul Singh , P. R. Kumar