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In this paper, we consider bidirectional relaying between two diffusion-based molecular transceivers (bio-nodes). As opposed to existing literature, we incorporate the effect of direct diffusion links between the nodes and leverage it to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Maryam Khalid , Momin Uppal

We consider the problem of decentralized hypothesis testing under communication constraints in a topology where several peripheral nodes are arranged in tandem. Each node receives an observation and transmits a message to its successor, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-19 Alla Tarighati , Joakim Jalden

Interferometry provides one of the possible routes to ultra-high angular resolution for X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy. Sub-micro-arc-second angular resolution, necessary to achieve objectives such as imaging the regions around the event…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-31 G. K. Skinner , J. F. Krizmanic

Wireless optical communications (WOC) has carriers up to several hundred terahertz, which offers several advantages, such as ultrawide bandwidth and no electromagnetic interference. Conventional WOC that uses light transmitters such as…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-28 Mingliang Xiong , Qingwen Liu , Gang Wang , Georgios B. Giannakis , Chuan Huang

This paper studies the outage probability minimization problem for a multiple relay network with energy harvesting constraints. The relays are hybrid nodes used for simultaneous wireless information and power transfer from the source radio…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 M. Majid Butt , Adnan Nasir , Amr Mohamed , Mohsen Guizani

Data from radio interferometers provide a substantial challenge for statisticians. It is incomplete, noise-dominated and originates from a non-trivial measurement process. The signal is not only corrupted by imperfect measurement devices…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-11 Philipp Arras , Jakob Knollmüller , Henrik Junklewitz , Torsten A. Enßlin

Reminiscent of the parity function in network coding for the butterfly network, it is shown that forwarding an even/odd indicator bit for a scalar quantization of a relay observation recovers 1 bit of information at the two destinations in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-09-10 Peyman Razaghi , Giuseppe Caire

Interstellar communications are achievable with gram-scale spacecraft using swarm techniques introduced herein if an adequate energy source, clocks and a suitable communications protocol exist. The essence of our approach to the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-14 T. Marshall Eubanks , W. Paul Blase , Andreas Hein , Adam Hibberd , Robert G. Kennedy

In a bi-directional relay channel, a pair of nodes wish to exchange independent messages over a shared wireless half-duplex channel with the help of relays. Recent work has mostly considered information theoretic limits of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-02-02 Sang Joon Kim , Besma Smida , Natasha Devroye

Towards the upcoming 6G wireless networks, integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has been identified as one of the typical usage scenarios. To further enhance the performance of ISAC, increasing the number of antennas as well as array…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Hongqi Min , Chao Feng , Ruoguang Li , Yong Zeng

We study the capacity region of a deterministic 4-node network, where 3 nodes can only communicate via the fourth one. However, the fourth node is not merely a relay since it can exchange private messages with all other nodes. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-09 Ahmed A. Zewail , Y. Mohasseb , M. Nafie , H. EL Gamal

A linear mesh network is considered in which a single user per cell communicates to a local base station via a dedicated relay (two-hop communication). Exploiting the possibly relevant inter-cell channel gains, rate splitting with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-10-16 O. Simeone , O. Somekh , Y. Bar-Ness , H. V. Poor , S. Shamai

We consider a wireless network comprising $n$ nodes located within a circular area of radius $R$, which are participating in a decentralized learning algorithm to optimize a global objective function using their local datasets. To enable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Navid Naderializadeh

We introduce novel diffusion based adaptive estimation strategies for distributed networks that have significantly less communication load and achieve comparable performance to the full information exchange configurations. After local…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-02-06 Muhammed O. Sayin , Suleyman S. Kozat

Ambient backscatter is an intriguing wireless communication paradigm that allows small devices to compute and communicate by using only the power they harvest from radio-frequency (RF) signals in the air. Ambient backscattering devices…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Donatella Darsena , Giacinto Gelli , Francesco Verde

Beam steering is one of the main challenges in energy-efficient and high-speed infrared light communication. To date, active beam-steering schemes based on a spatial light modulator (SLM) or micro-electrical mechanical system (MEMS) mirror,…

Device-to-device (D2D) communication enables us to spread information in the local area without infrastructure support. In this paper, we focus on information spreading in mobile wireless networks where all nodes move around. The source…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-06-04 Jinho Choi , Seung Min Yu , Seong-Lyun Kim

In some communication networks, such as passive RFID systems, the energy used to transfer information between a sender and a recipient can be reused for successive communication tasks. In fact, from known results in physics, any system that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 P. Popovski , A. M. Fouladgar , O. Simeone

We address the problem of a multi-user relay network, where multiple single-antenna node pairs want to exchange information by using a multiple antenna relay node. Due to the half-duplex constraint of the relay, the exchange of information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-12-23 Aydin Sezgin , Holger Boche , Amir Salman Avestimehr

A fundamental problem in wireless sensor networks is to connect a given set of sensors while minimizing the \emph{receiver interference}. This is modeled as follows: each sensor node corresponds to a point in $\mathbb{R}^d$ and each…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-07-01 Yves Brise , Kevin Buchin , Dustin Eversmann , Michael Hoffmann , Wolfgang Mulzer