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Constrained submodular set function maximization problems often appear in multi-agent decision-making problems with a discrete feasible set. A prominent example is the problem of multi-agent mobile sensor placement over a discrete domain.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-02 Navid Rezazadeh , Solmaz S. Kia

Secure aggregation is a fundamental primitive in privacy-preserving distributed learning systems, where an aggregator aims to compute the sum of users' inputs without revealing individual data. In this paper, we study a multi-server secure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Zhou Li , Xiang Zhang , Kai Wan , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire

In this paper, we study a class of set cover problems that satisfy a special property which we call the {\em small neighborhood cover} property. This class encompasses several well-studied problems including vertex cover, interval cover,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-12-30 Archita Agarwal , Venkatesan T. Chakaravarthy , Anamitra R. Choudhury , Sambuddha Roy , Yogish Sabharwal

This paper investigates the enumeration, rate region computation, and hierarchy of general multi-source multi-sink hyperedge networks under network coding, which includes multiple network models, such as independent distributed storage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-22 Congduan Li , Steven Weber , John MacLaren Walsh

The structure of IP addresses observed in Internet traffic plays a critical role for a wide range of networking problems of current interest. For example, modern network telemetry systems that take advantage of existing data plane…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Chris Misa , Ram Durairajan , Arpit Gupta , Reza Rejaie , Walter Willinger

We consider distributed optimization over orthogonal collision channels in spatial random access networks. Users are spatially distributed and each user is in the interference range of a few other users. Each user is allowed to transmit…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Kobi Cohen , Angelia Nedich , R. Srikant

We consider the problem of data storage in a geographically distributed (or geo-distributed) network of servers (or nodes) where inter-node communication incurs certain round-trip delays. Every node serves a set of users who can request any…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-11 Srivathsa Acharya , P. Vijay Kumar , Viveck R. Cadambe

The asynchronous capacity region of memoryless multiple-access channels is the union of certain polytopes. It is well-known that vertices of such polytopes may be approached via a technique called successive decoding. It is also known that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ninoslav Marina , Bixio Rimoldi

This paper studies an important rate allocation problem that arises in many networked and distributed systems: steady-state traffic rate allocation from multiple sources to multiple service nodes when both (i) the access-path delay on each…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Tamoghna Sarkar , Bhaskar Krishnamachari

We consider a distributed server system consisting of a large number of servers, each with limited capacity on multiple resources (CPU, memory, disk, etc.). Jobs with different rewards arrive over time and require certain amounts of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Konstantinos Psychas , Javad Ghaderi

This paper is concerned with a rate-distortion theory for sequences of i.i.d. random variables with general distribution supported on general sets including manifolds and fractal sets. Manifold structures are prevalent in data science,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Erwin Riegler , Günther Koliander , Helmut Bölcskei

Fundamental rate-distortion-perception (RDP) trade-offs arise in applications requiring maintained perceptual quality of reconstructed data, such as neural image compression. When compressed data is transmitted over public communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Gustaf Åhlgren , Onur Günlü

We consider a problem of coding for computing, where the decoder wishes to estimate a function of its local message and the source message at the encoder within a given distortion. We show that the rate-distortion function can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Deheng Yuan , Tao Guo , Bo Bai , Wei Han

We study a problem of scheduling real-time traffic with hard delay constraints in an unreliable wireless channel. Packets arrive at a constant rate to the network and have to be delivered within a fixed number of slots in a fading wireless…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-12-19 Easwar Vivek Mangipudi , Venkatesh Ramaiyan

Many algorithms for ranked data become computationally intractable as the number of objects grows due to the complex geometric structure induced by rankings. An additional challenge is posed by partial rankings, i.e. rankings in which the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Michelangelo Conserva , Marc Peter Deisenroth , K S Sesh Kumar

In this paper, we consider the service caching and the computing resource allocation in edge computing (EC) enabled networks. We introduce a random service caching design considering multiple types of latency sensitive services and the base…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Mingun Kim , Hewon Cho , Ying Cui , Jemin Lee

We present a distributed algorithm for joint power control, routing and scheduling in multihop wireless networks. The algorithm also provides for Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees, namely, end-to-end mean delay guarantees and hard…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-12-28 Ashok Krishnan K. S. , Vinod Sharma

This paper considers max-min fair rate allocation and routing in energy harvesting networks where fairness is required among both the nodes and the time slots. Unlike most previous work on fairness, we focus on multihop topologies and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-06-10 Jelena Marasevic , Cliff Stein , Gil Zussman

Today's data centers have an abundance of computing resources, hosting server clusters consisting of as many as tens or hundreds of thousands of machines. To execute a complex computing task over a data center, it is natural to distribute…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Qian Yu , Songze Li , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , A. Salman Avestimehr

An achievable rate region is obtained for a primary multiple access network coexisting with a secondary link of one transmitter and a corresponding receiver. The rate region depicts the sum primary rate versus the secondary rate and is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-18 John Tadrous , Mohammed Nafie