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Femtocells are recognized effective for improving network coverage and capacity, and reducing power consumption due to the reduced range of wireless transmissions. Although highly appealing, a plethora of challenging problems need to be…

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In this paper, we consider a distributed stochastic optimization problem where the goal is to minimize the time average of a cost function subject to a set of constraints on the time averages of related stochastic processes called…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-11 B. N. Bharath , P. Vaishali

Determinantal Point Processes (DPPs) are probabilistic models that arise in quantum physics and random matrix theory and have recently found numerous applications in computer science. DPPs define distributions over subsets of a given ground…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-25 L. Elisa Celis , Amit Deshpande , Tarun Kathuria , Damian Straszak , Nisheeth K. Vishnoi

While the reversibility of multidimensional cellular automata is undecidable and there exists a criterion for determining if a multidimensional linear cellular automaton is reversible, there are only a few results about the reversibility…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Chih-Hung Chang , Hasan Akın

The matching problem between two adjacency matrices can be formulated as the NP-hard quadratic assignment problem (QAP). Previous work on semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxations to the QAP have produced solutions that are often tight in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-29 Jose F. S. Bravo Ferreira , Yuehaw Khoo , Amit Singer

We study the problem of scheduling $n$ independent moldable tasks on $m$ processors that arises in large-scale parallel computations. When tasks are monotonic, the best known result is a $(\frac{3}{2}+\epsilon)$-approximation algorithm for…

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We study the Telephone Broadcasting problem in graphs with restricted structure. Given a designated source in an undirected graph, the goal is to disseminate a message to all vertices in the minimum number of rounds, where in each round…

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Probing the ability of automata networks to solve decision problems has received a continuous attention in the literature, and specially with the automata reaching the answer by distributed consensus, i.e., their all taking on a same state,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Eurico Ruivo , Pedro Paulo Balbi , Kévin Perrot , Marco Montalva-Medel , Eric Goles

$ \newcommand{\Z}{\mathbb{Z}} \newcommand{\eps}{\varepsilon} \newcommand{\cc}[1]{\mathsf{#1}} \newcommand{\NP}{\cc{NP}} \newcommand{\problem}[1]{\mathrm{#1}} \newcommand{\BDD}{\problem{BDD}} $Bounded Distance Decoding $\BDD_{p,\alpha}$ is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Huck Bennett , Chris Peikert

To attain the targeted data rates of next generation cellular networks requires dense deployment of small cells in addition to macro cells which provide wide coverage. Dynamic radio resource management is crucial to the success of such…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Fei Teng , Dongning Guo

The Promise Constraint Satisfaction Problem (PCSP for short) is a generalization of the well-studied Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP). The PCSP has its roots in such classic problems as the Approximate Graph Coloring and the…

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We consider the problem of long term power allocation in dense wireless networks. The framework considered in this paper is of interest for machine-type communications (MTC). In order to guarantee an optimal operation of the system while…

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We study cellular automata with respect to a new communication complexity problem: each of two players know half of some finite word, and must be able to tell whether the state of the central cell will follow a given evolution, by…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-18 Eric Goles , Pierre Guillon , Ivan Rapaport

A Cellular Automata (CA) is a computing model of complex System using simple rule. In CA the problem space into number of cell and each cell can be one or several final state. Cells are affected by neighbours' to the simple rule. Cellular…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-06-15 Debasis Das , Abhishek Ray

We investigate distributed classical and quantum approaches for the survivable network design problem (SNDP), sometimes called the generalized Steiner problem. These problems generalize many complex graph problems of interest, such as the…

In this work, pseudorandom sequence generators based on finite fields have been analyzed from the point of view of their cryptographic application. In fact, a class of nonlinear sequence generators has been modelled in terms of linear…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-05-12 Amparo Fuster-Sabater , Pino Caballero-Gil

The complexity of cellular automata is traditionally measured by their computational capacity. However, it is difficult to choose a challenging set of computational tasks suitable for the parallel nature of such systems. We study the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Barbora Hudcová , Tomáš Mikolov

The field of constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) studies homomorphism problems between relational structures where the target structure is fixed. Classifying the complexity of these problems has been a central quest of the field,…

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The objective is to find a Cellular Automata rule that can form a 2D point pattern with a maximum number of points (1-cells). Points are not allowed to touch each other, they have to be separated by 0-cells, and every 0-cell can find at…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Rolf Hoffmann

We establish new connections between percolation, bootstrap percolation, probabilistic cellular automata and deterministic ones. Surprisingly, by juggling with these in various directions, we effortlessly obtain a number of new results in…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Ivailo Hartarsky