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As a core technology of intelligent transportation systems, vehicular ad-hoc networks support latency-sensitive services such as safety warning and cooperative perception via vehicle-to-everything communications. However, their highly…

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In this paper, we examine the influence of communication latency on performance of networked control systems. Even though distributed control architectures offer advantages in terms of communication, maintenance costs, and scalability, it…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Luca Ballotta , Mihailo R. Jovanović , Luca Schenato

Despite significant advances on distributed continuous-time optimization of multi-agent networks, there is still lack of an efficient algorithm to achieve the goal of distributed optimization at a pre-specified time. Herein, we design a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-23 Jialing Zhou , Yuezu Lv , Changyun Wen , Guanghui Wen

We consider the distributed optimization problem, where a group of agents work together to optimize a common objective by communicating with neighboring agents and performing local computations. For a given algorithm, we use tools from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-11 Bryan Van Scoy , Laurent Lessard

Semantic communication is a new paradigm that aims at providing more efficient communication for the next-generation wireless network. It focuses on transmitting extracted, meaningful information instead of the raw data. However, deep…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Yang Li , Xinyu Zhou , Jun Zhao

Multipath communication not only allows improved throughput but can also be used to leverage different path characteristics to best fulfill each application's objective. In particular, certain delay-sensitive applications, such as real time…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-07-06 Laurent Chuat , Adrian Perrig , Yih-Chun Hu

The idea of a collective intelligence behind the complex natural structures built by organisms suggests that the organization of social networks is selected so as to optimize problem-solving competence at the group-level. Here we study the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-09-19 José F. Fontanari , Francisco A. Rodrigues

Resource-constrained systems are prevalent in communications. Such a system is composed of many components but only some of them can be allocated with resources such as time slots. According to the amount of information about the system,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-02 Albert Y. S. Lam , Yanhui Geng , Victor O. K. Li

Communication of signals among nodes in a complex network poses fundamental problems of efficiency and cost. Routing of messages along shortest paths requires global information about the topology, while spreading by diffusion, which…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-06-19 Andrea Avena-Koenigsberger , Xiaoran Yan , Artemy Kolchinsky , Martijn van den Heuvel , Patric Hagmann , Olaf Sporns

A number of problems in communication systems demand the distributed allocation of network resources in order to provide better services, sampling and distribution methods. The solution to these issues is becoming more challenging due to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pablo Echenique , Jesus Gomez-Gardenes , Yamir Moreno , Alexei Vazquez

Transmission line theory enables the bottom up study of networks based on wireline infrastructures. This technique is here applied to a simulator that brings together powerline communication networks with small radio cells ones in a hybrid…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-03-08 Francesco Marcuzzi , Andrea M. Tonello

We propose an algorithm for distributed optimization over time-varying communication networks. Our algorithm uses an optimized ratio between the number of rounds of communication and gradient evaluations to achieve fast convergence. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Bryan Van Scoy , Laurent Lessard

This paper presents a topology optimization framework for structural problems subjected to transient loading. The mechanical model assumes a linear elastic isotropic material, infinitesimal strains, and a dynamic response. The optimization…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-05-05 Reza Behrou , James K. Guest

This work addresses the challenge of minimizing the energy consumption of a wireless communication network by joint optimization of the base station transmit power and the cell activity. A mixed-integer nonlinear optimization problem is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Florian Bahlke , Marius Pesavento

While highly directional communications may offer considerable improvements in the link data rate and over-the-air latency of high-end wearable devices, the system-level capacity trade-offs call for separate studies with respect to the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Asad Ali , Olga Galinina , Sergey Andreev

The stability and the predictability of a computer network algorithm's performance are as important as the main functional purpose of networking software. However, asserting or deriving such properties from the finite state machine…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-06-07 Massimo Monti , Pierre Imai , Christian Tschudin

Power distribution in remote communities often depends on off-grid microgrids. In order to address the reliability challenges for these microgrids, we develop a mathematical model for topology design, capacity planning, and operation of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-07 Sreenath Chalil Madathil , Harsha Nagarajan , Russell Bent , Scott J. Mason , Sandra D. Eksioglu , Mowen Lu

We analyze the convergence rate of various momentum-based optimization algorithms from a dynamical systems point of view. Our analysis exploits fundamental topological properties, such as the continuous dependence of iterates on their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-13 Michael Muehlebach , Michael I. Jordan

This work presents a novel semantic transmission framework in wireless networks, leveraging the joint processing technique. Our framework enables multiple cooperating base stations to efficiently transmit semantic information to multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Xumin Pu , Tiantian Lei , Wanli Wen , Qianbin Chen

We study the scalability of consensus-based distributed optimization algorithms by considering two questions: How many processors should we use for a given problem, and how often should they communicate when communication is not free?…

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