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Clock synchronization is a necessary component in modern distributed systems, especially Wirless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Despite the great effort and the numerous improvements, the existing synchronization schemes do not yet address the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-08-20 Federico Terraneo , Alberto Leva , Silvano Seva , Martina Maggio , Alessandro Vittorio Papadopoulos

Unpredictable sensor-to-estimator delays fundamentally distort what matters for wireless remote state estimation: not just freshness, but how delay interacts with sensor informativeness and energy efficiency. In this paper, we present a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Nho-Duc Tran , Aamir Mahmood , Mikael Gidlund

In this paper, we consider a hierarchical distributed multi-task learning (MTL) system where distributed users wish to jointly learn different models orchestrated by a central server with the help of a layer of multiple relays. Since the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Haoyang Hu , Songze Li , Minquan Cheng , Youlong Wu

We propose an asynchronous, decentralized algorithm for consensus optimization. The algorithm runs over a network in which the agents communicate with their neighbors and perform local computation. In the proposed algorithm, each agent can…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-06 Tianyu Wu , Kun Yuan , Qing Ling , Wotao Yin , Ali H. Sayed

The proliferation of GPS-enabled devices has led to the development of numerous location-based services. These services need to process massive amounts of spatial data in real-time. The current scale of spatial data cannot be handled using…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Anas Daghistani , Walid G. Aref , Arif Ghafoor , Ahmed R. Mahmood

Reconfigurable optical topologies are emerging as a promising technology to improve the efficiency of datacenter networks. This paper considers the problem of scheduling opportunistic links in such reconfigurable datacenters. We study the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Janardhan Kulkarni , Stefan Schmid , Paweł Schmidt

In this article, we introduce an adaptive online model update algorithm designed for predictive control applications in networked systems, particularly focusing on power distribution systems. Unlike traditional methods that depend on…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-18 Vivek Khatana , Chin-Yao Chang , Wenbo Wang

Sharing a common clock signal among the nodes is crucial for communication in synchronized networks. This work presents a heartbeat-based synchronization scheme for body-worn nodes. The principles of this coordination technique combined…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Robin Benarrouch , Ali Moin , Flavien Solt , Antoine Frappé , Andreia Cathelin , Andreas Kaiser , Jan Rabaey

In this paper, we consider decentralized federated learning (FL) over wireless networks, where over-the-air computation (AirComp) is adopted to facilitate the local model consensus in a device-to-device (D2D) communication manner. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Yandong Shi , Yong Zhou , Yuanming Shi

Precise localization is one key element of the Internet of Things (IoT). Especially concepts for position estimation when Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are unavailable have moved into the focus. One crucial component for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Thomas Maul , Sebastian Klob , Joerg Robert

Many machine learning algorithms have been developed under the assumption that data sets are already available in batch form. Yet in many application domains data is only available sequentially overtime via compute nodes in different…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-10 Alfredo Garcia , Luochao Wang , Jeff Huang , Lingzhou Hong

Training of large language models (LLMs) is typically distributed across a large number of accelerators to reduce training time. Since internal states and parameter gradients need to be exchanged at each and every single gradient step, all…

Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites play an essential role in intelligent Earth observation by leveraging artificial intelligence models. However, limited onboard memory and excessive inference delay prevent the practical deployment of large…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Songge Zhang , Wen Wu , Liang Li , Ye Wang , Xuemin , Shen

We analyze convergence of decentralized cooperative online estimation algorithms by a network of multiple nodes via information exchanging in an uncertain environment. Each node has a linear observation of an unknown parameter with randomly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-08 Jiexiang Wang , Tao Li , Xiwei Zhang

The development of online algorithms to track time-varying systems has drawn a lot of attention in the last years, in particular in the framework of online convex optimization. Meanwhile, sparse time-varying optimization has emerged as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-03 Sophie M. Fosson

A fully-asynchronous network with one target sensor and a few anchors (nodes with known locations) is considered. Localization and synchronization are traditionally treated as two separate problems. In this paper, localization and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-07 Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri , Geert Leus , Alle-Jan van der Veen

The rapid growth in mobile broadband usage and increasing subscribers have made it crucial to ensure reliable network performance. As mobile networks grow more complex, especially during peak hours, manual collection of Key Performance…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Nooruddin Noonari , Daniel Corujo , Rui L. Aguiar , Francisco J. Ferrao

This paper focuses on a multi-agent zeroth-order online optimization problem in a federated learning setting for target tracking. The agents only sense their current distances to their targets and aim to maintain a minimum safe distance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Ege C. Kaya , M. Berk Sahin , Abolfazl Hashemi

Distributed cloud environments hosting data-intensive applications often experience slowdowns due to network congestion, asymmetric bandwidth, and inter-node data shuffling. These factors are typically not captured by traditional host-level…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Sankalpa Timilsina , Susmit Shannigrahi

Federated Learning (FL) is an emerging domain in the broader context of artificial intelligence research. Methodologies pertaining to FL assume distributed model training, consisting of a collection of clients and a server, with the main…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Bhargav Ganguly , Vaneet Aggarwal