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In this paper, the problem of distributed opportunistic channel access in wireless relaying is investigated. A relay network with multiple source-destination pairs and multiple relays is considered. All the source nodes contend through a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Zhou Zhang , Hai Jiang

We consider resource allocation problems in multi-user wireless networks, where the goal is to optimize a network-wide utility function subject to constraints on the ergodic average performance of users. We demonstrate how a state-augmented…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-24 Yigit Berkay Uslu , Navid NaderiAlizadeh , Mark Eisen , Alejandro Ribeiro

It is well known that opportunistic scheduling algorithms are throughput optimal under dynamic channel and network conditions. However, these algorithms achieve a hypothetical rate region which does not take into account the overhead…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Mehmet Karaca , Tansu Alpcan , Ozgur Ercetin

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

We propose a data-based method to solve a multi-stage stochastic optimal power flow (OPF) problem based on limited information about forecast error distributions. The framework explicitly combines multi-stage feedback policies with any…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-29 Yi Guo , Kyri Baker , Emiliano Dall'Anese , Zechun Hu , Tyler H. Summers

The ski rental problem is a canonical model for online decision-making under uncertainty, capturing the fundamental trade-off between repeated rental costs and a one-time purchase. While classical algorithms focus on worst-case competitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Jihwan Kim , Chenglin Fan

We introduce a novel data-driven method to mitigate the risk of cascading failures in delayed discrete-time Linear Time-Invariant (LTI) systems. Our approach involves formulating a distributionally robust finite-horizon optimal control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-19 Guangyi Liu , Arash Amini , Vivek Pandey , Nader Motee

High communication costs create a major bottleneck for distributed resource allocation over unbalanced directed networks. Conventional dual gradient tracking methods, while effective for problems on unbalanced digraphs, rely on periodic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Xiayan Xu , Xiaomeng Chen , Dawei Shi , Ling Shi

With the emergence of fluid antenna (FA) in wireless communications, the capability to dynamically adjust port positions offers substantial benefits in spatial diversity and spectrum efficiency, which are particularly valuable for mobile…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-25 Ying Ju , Mingdong Li , Haoyu Wang , Lei Liu , Youyang Qu , Mianxiong Dong , Victor C. M. Leung , Chau Yuen

Pinching-antenna technology has lately showcased its promising capability for reconfiguring wireless propagation environments, especially in high-frequency communication systems like millimeter-wave and terahertz bands. By dynamically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Ming Zeng , Xianbin Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Zhiguo Ding , George K. Karagiannidis , H. Vincent Poor

We aim to achieve keyless covert communication with a positive-rate in Rayleigh block-fading channels. Specifically, the transmitter and the legitimate receiver are assumed to have either causal or non-causal knowledge of the \ac{CSI} for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yubo Zhang , Hassan ZivariFard , Xiaodong Wang

Distributed optimization for resource allocation problems is investigated and a sub-optimal continuous-time algorithm is proposed. Our algorithm has lower order dynamics than others to reduce burdens of computation and communication, and is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-13 Shu Liang , Xianlin Zeng , Guanpu Chen , Yiguang Hong

We propose a data-driven method to solve a stochastic optimal power flow (OPF) problem based on limited information about forecast error distributions. The objective is to determine power schedules for controllable devices in a power…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-22 Yi Guo , Kyri Baker , Emiliano Dall'Anese , Zechun Hu , Tyler Summers

We consider coded caching over the fading broadcast channel, where the users, equipped with a memory of finite size, experience asymmetric fading statistics. It is known that a naive application of coded caching over the channel at hand…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Richard Combes , Asma Ghorbel , Mari Kobayashi , Sheng Yang

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) technology is crucial for next-generation underwater networks. However, covering multiple users and targets and balancing sensing and communication performance in complex underwater acoustic (UWA)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Wei Men , Longfei Zhao , Yong Liang Guan , Xiangwang Hou , Yong Ren , Dusit Niyato

In this paper, we consider uplink transmissions involving multiple users communicating with a base station over a fading channel. We assume that the base station does not coordinate the transmissions of the users and hence the users employ…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2009-08-25 Nitin Salodkar , Abhay Karandikar

This paper studies the problem of congestion control and scheduling in ad hoc wireless networks that have to support a mixture of best-effort and real-time traffic. Optimization and stochastic network theory have been successful in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-12-13 Juan Jose Jaramillo , R. Srikant

In this work, we address the delay optimal scheduling problem for wireless transmission with fixed modulation over multi-state fading channels. We propose a stochastic scheduling policy which schedules the source to transmit with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-18 Juan Liu , Wei Chen , Khaled B. Letaief

In this paper, we develop optimal energy scheduling algorithms for $N$-user fading multiple-access channels with energy harvesting to maximize the channel sum-rate, assuming that the side information of both the channel states and energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Zhe Wang , Vaneet Aggarwal , Xiaodong Wang

Fluid approximation is a widely used approach for solving two-stage stochastic optimization problems, with broad applications in service system design such as call centers and healthcare operations. However, replacing the underlying random…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Can Er , Mo Liu