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Future networks are expected to connect an enormous number of nodes wirelessly using wide-band transmission. This brings great challenges. To avoid collecting a large amount of data from the massive number of nodes, computation over…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Fangzhou Wu , Li Chen , Nan Zhao , Yunfei Chen , F. Richard Yu , Guo Wei

We propose a novel decomposition framework for the distributed optimization of Difference Convex (DC)-type nonseparable sum-utility functions subject to coupling convex constraints. A major contribution of the paper is to develop for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-23 Alberth Alvarado , Gesualdo Scutari , Jong-Shi Pang

Within the framework of the augmented Lagrangian (AL), we propose a novel distributed optimization method, termed Distributed Augmented Lagrangian Decomposition (DALD), and provide a rigorous convergence proof for its standard version. To…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Wenyou Guo , Ting Qu , Hainan Huang , Yafeng Wei

As software may be used by multiple users, caching popular software at the wireless edge has been considered to save computation and communications resources for mobile edge computing (MEC). However, fetching uncached software from the core…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Wanli Wen , Ying Cui , Tony Q. S. Quek , Fu-Chun Zheng , Shi Jin

Distributed optimization, where the computations are performed in a localized and coordinated manner using multiple agents, is a promising approach for solving large-scale optimization problems, e.g., those arising in model predictive…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-07 Wentao Tang , Prodromos Daoutidis

This paper studies distributed online convex optimization with time-varying coupled constraints, motivated by distributed online control in network systems. Most prior work assumes a separability condition: the global objective and coupled…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Zhaoye Pan , Haozhe Lei , Fan Zuo , Zilin Bian , Tao Li

In this paper we consider a general, challenging distributed optimization set-up arising in several important network control applications. Agents of a network want to minimize the sum of local cost functions, each one depending on a local…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Ivano Notarnicola , Giuseppe Notarstefano

This paper studies a constrained optimization problem over networked systems with an undirected and connected communication topology. The algorithm proposed in this work utilizes singular perturbation, dynamic average consensus, and saddle…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-24 Phuong Huu Hoang , Hyo-Sung Ahn

Optimal transport has been used extensively in resource matching to promote the efficiency of resources usages by matching sources to targets. However, it requires a significant amount of computations and storage spaces for large-scale…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-10 Rui Zhang , Quanyan Zhu

This work is concerned with integrated sensing, communication, and computation (ISCC) in uplink orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems, wherein multiple devices perform target sensing and over-the-air computation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Biao Dong , Bin Cao , Qinyu Zhang

Due to its high communication efficiency, over-the-air computation (AirComp) has been expected to carry out various computing tasks in the next-generation wireless networks. However, up to now, most applications of AirComp are explored in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-14 Xin Xie , Cunqinq Hua , Jianan Hong , Yuejun Wei

With the explosive growth of data and wireless devices, federated learning (FL) over wireless medium has emerged as a promising technology for large-scale distributed intelligent systems. Yet, the urgent demand for ubiquitous intelligence…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-09 Chenxi Zhong , Huiyuan Yang , Xiaojun Yuan

This paper investigates the problem of model aggregation in federated learning systems aided by multiple reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs). The effective integration of computation and communication is achieved by over-the-air…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Wanli Ni , Yuanwei Liu , Zhaohui Yang , Hui Tian , Xuemin Shen

In this paper, we propose a novel distributed algorithm for consensus optimization over networks and a robust extension tailored to deal with asynchronous agents and packet losses. Indeed, to robustly achieve dynamic consensus on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Guido Carnevale , Nicola Bastianello , Giuseppe Notarstefano , Ruggero Carli

We propose a distributed optimization method for solving a distributed model predictive consensus problem. The goal is to design a distributed controller for a network of dynamical systems to optimize a coupled objective function while…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-12-07 Tyler H. Summers , John Lygeros

Coded distributed computing (CDC) is a new technique proposed with the purpose of decreasing the intense data exchange required for parallelizing distributed computing systems. Under the famous MapReduce paradigm, this coded approach has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Federico Brunero , Petros Elia

This paper investigates a fluid antenna (FA) array-enhanced over-the-air computation (AirComp) system in the presence of hardware impairments (HWIs), exploiting the new degrees of freedom offered by reconfigurable antenna positioning. To…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-08 Zilong Li , Jianxin Dai , Zhaohui Yang , Zhaoyang Zhang , Kai-Kit Wong , Zhiyang Li , Shunkuan Cheng

Federated learning (FL) has been considered a promising privacy preserving distributed edge learning framework. Over-the-air computation (AirComp) leveraging analog transmission enables the aggregation of local updates directly over-the-air…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-06 Lorenz Bielefeld , Paul Zheng , Oner Hanay , Yao Zhu , Yulin Hu , Anke Schmeink

Motivated by machine learning applications in networks of sensors, internet-of-things (IoT) devices, and autonomous agents, we propose techniques for distributed stochastic convex learning from high-rate data streams. The setup involves a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-11 Matthew Nokleby , Waheed U. Bajwa

This paper studies a class of distributed optimization problems with coupled equality constraints in networked systems. Many existing distributed algorithms rely on solving local subproblems via the $\operatorname{argmin}$ operator in each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Chenyang Qiu , Zongli Lin