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We optimize the throughput of a single cell multiuser orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system with proportional data rate fairness among the users. The concept is to support mobile users with different levels of service. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-08 Mirza Golam Kibria , Shan Lin

In this paper, we present a novel approach for robust optimal resource allocation with joint carrier aggregation to allocate multiple carriers resources optimally among users with elastic and inelastic traffic in cellular networks. We use…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-07-07 Haya Shajaiah , Ahmed Abdelhadi , T. Charles Clancy

The rapid expansion of global cloud wide-area networks (WANs) has posed a challenge for commercial optimization engines to efficiently solve network traffic engineering (TE) problems at scale. Existing acceleration strategies decompose TE…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Zhiying Xu , Francis Y. Yan , Rachee Singh , Justin T. Chiu , Alexander M. Rush , Minlan Yu

We study an online version of the max-min fair allocation problem for indivisible items. In this problem, items arrive one by one, and each item must be allocated irrevocably on arrival to one of $n$ agents, who have additive valuations for…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Yasushi Kawase , Hanna Sumita

Pareto-optimality plays a central role in evaluating the efficiency of solutions to allocation problems, such as house allocation, school choice, and kidney exchange. We introduce a general linear programming problem subject to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Bart van Rossum , Twan Dollevoet

Fair graph clustering is crucial for ensuring equitable representation and treatment of diverse communities in network analysis. Traditional methods often ignore disparities among social, economic, and demographic groups, perpetuating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Sina Baharlouei , Sadra Sabouri

In this paper, we study a joint bandwidth allocation and path selection problem via solving a multi-objective minimization problem under the path cardinality constraints, namely MOPC. Our problem formulation captures various types of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 Jinxin Wang , Fan Zhang , Zhonglin Xie , Gong Zhang , Zaiwen Wen

We study a fair resource scheduling problem, where a set of interval jobs are to be allocated to heterogeneous machines controlled by agents. Each job is associated with release time, deadline, and processing time such that it can be…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Bo Li , Minming Li , Ruilong Zhang

User association, the problem of assigning each user device to a suitable base station, is increasingly crucial as wireless networks become denser and serve more users with diverse service demands. The joint optimization of user association…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-14 Jonggyu Jang , Hyeonsu Lyu , David J. Love , Hyun Jong Yang

With the tremendous increase of the Internet traffic, achieving the best performance with limited resources is becoming an extremely urgent problem. In order to address this concern, in this paper, we build an optimization problem which…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-02-23 Li Rui , Xia Yongxiang , Tse K Chi

Allocation of scarce healthcare resources under limited logistic and infrastructural facilities is a major issue in the modern society. We consider the problem of allocation of healthcare resources like vaccines to people or hospital beds…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Aadityan Ganesh , Prajakta Nimbhorkar , Pratik Ghosal , Vishwa Prakash HV

In millimeterWave wireless networks the rapidly varying wireless channels demand fast and dynamic resource allocation mechanisms. This challenge is hereby addressed by a distributed approach that optimally solves the fundamental resource…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-07-30 Yuzhe Xu , George Athanasiou , Carlo Fischione , Leandros Tassiulas

We investigate the online fair allocation problem with sequentially arriving items under various input models, with the goal of balancing fairness and efficiency. We propose the unconstrained PACE (Pacing According to Current Estimated…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Zongjun Yang , Luofeng Liao , Yuan Gao , Christian Kroer

We study the problem of allocating indivisible items to agents with additive valuations, under the additional constraint that bundles must be connected in an underlying item graph. Previous work has considered the existence and complexity…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Ayumi Igarashi , Dominik Peters

This paper considers max-min fairness for wireless energy transfer in a downlink multiuser communication system. Our resource allocation design maximizes the minimum harvested energy among multiple multiple-antenna energy harvesting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-08 Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

Resource allocation and scheduling are a common problem in various distributed systems. Although widely studied, the state-of-the-art solutions either do not scale or lack the expressive power to capture the most complex instances of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Rajpreet Singh , Novak Boškov , Aditya Gudal , Manzoor A. Khan

Wireless access through a large distributed network of low-complexity infrastructure nodes empowered with cooperation and coordination capabilities, is an emerging radio architecture, candidate to deal with the mobile data capacity crunch.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-04 Antonis G. Gotsis , Angeliki Alexiou

Recent experimental studies confirm the prevalence of the widely known performance anomaly problem in current Wi-Fi networks, and report on the severe network utility degradation caused by this phenomenon. Although a large body of work…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-05-20 Paul Patras , Andres Garcia-Saavedra , David Malone , Douglas J. Leith

We consider the allocation of limited resources to heterogeneous customers who arrive in an online fashion. We would like to allocate the resources "fairly", so that no group of customers is marginalized in terms of their overall service…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Will Ma , Pan Xu , Yifan Xu

We study the max-min fair allocation problem in which a set of $m$ indivisible items are to be distributed among $n$ agents such that the minimum utility among all agents is maximized. In the restricted setting, the utility of each item $j$…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-11-28 T-H. Hubert Chan , Zhihao Gavin Tang , Xiaowei Wu