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We consider a cooperative Gaussian interference channel in which each receiver must decode its intended message locally, with the help of cooperation either at the receivers side or at the transmitter side. In the case of receiver…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-07 Vasilis Ntranos , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , Giuseppe Caire

We study distributed optimization in a cooperative multi-agent setting, where agents have to agree on the usage of shared resources and can communicate via a time-varying network to this purpose. Each agent has its own decision variables…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-20 Alessandro Falsone , Kostas Margellos , Simone Garatti , Maria Prandini

We consider the distributed channel access problem for a system consisting of multiple control subsystems that close their loop over a shared wireless network. We propose a distributed method for providing deterministic channel access…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Tahmoores Farjam , Henk Wymeersch , Themistoklis Charalambous

The emergence of the Internet-of-Things and cyber-physical systems necessitates the coordination of access to limited communication resources in an autonomous and distributed fashion. Herein, the optimal design of a wireless sensing system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-26 Xu Zhang , Marcos M. Vasconcelos , Wei Cui , Urbashi Mitra

In this paper the study of the cognitive interference channel with a common message, a variation of the classical cognitive interference channel in which the cognitive message is decoded at both receivers. We derive the capacity for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-07 Stefano Rini , Carolin Huppert

This paper proposes decentralized resource-aware coordination schemes for solving network optimization problems defined by objective functions which combine locally evaluable costs with network-wide coupling components. These methods are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-04 Priyank Srivastava , Guido Cavraro , Jorge Cortes

Subsystems that are coupled due to dynamics and costs arise naturally in various communication applications. In many such applications the control actions are shared between different control stations giving rise to a \emph{control sharing}…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2012-08-09 Aditya Mahajan

This work is concerned with the problem of distributed resource allocation in continuous-time setting but with discrete-time communication over infinitely jointly connected and balanced digraphs. We provide a passivity-based perspective for…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Lanlan Su , Mengmou Li , Vijay Gupta , Graziano Chesi

Communication overhead is one of the major performance bottlenecks in large-scale distributed computing systems, in particular for machine learning applications. Conventionally, compression techniques are used to reduce the load of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Songze Li , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , A. Salman Avestimehr

The increase in distributed energy resources and flexible electricity consumers has turned TSO-DSO coordination strategies into a challenging problem. Existing decomposition/decentralized methods apply divide-and-conquer strategies to trim…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-17 Juan Miguel Morales , Salvador Pineda , Yury Dvorkin

We have shown that entanglement assisted stochastic strategies allow access to strategic measures beyond the classically correlated measures accessible through passive common randomness, and thus attain a quantum advantage in decentralised…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-06 Shashank A. Deshpande , Ankur A. Kulkarni

In this paper, we study distributed channel triggering mechanisms for wireless networked control systems (WNCSs) for conventional and smart sensors, i.e., sensors without and with computational power, respectively. We first consider the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-08 Tahmoores Farjam , Themistoklis Charalambous

In this paper, we study unconstrained distributed optimization strongly convex problems, in which the exchange of information in the network is captured by a directed graph topology over digital channels that have limited capacity (and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-12 Apostolos I. Rikos , Wei Jiang , Themistoklis Charalambous , Karl H. Johansson

For reliable transmission across a noisy communication channel, classical results from information theory show that it is asymptotically optimal to separate out the source and channel coding processes. However, this decomposition can fall…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Kristy Choi , Kedar Tatwawadi , Aditya Grover , Tsachy Weissman , Stefano Ermon

Distributed control algorithms are known to reduce overall computation time compared to centralized control algorithms. However, they can result in inconsistent solutions leading to the violation of safety-critical constraints. Inconsistent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Julius Beerwerth , Maximilian Kloock , Bassam Alrifaee

In this article, we investigate strategic information transmission over a noisy channel. This problem has been widely investigated in Economics, when the communication channel is perfect. Unlike in Information Theory, both encoder and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Mael Le Treust , Tristan Tomala

We study a class of cooperative multi-agent optimization problems, where each agent is associated with a local action vector and a local cost, and the goal is to cooperatively find the joint action profile that minimizes the average of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-24 Yujie Tang , Zhaolin Ren , Na Li

In this article we consider the problems of distributed detection and estimation in wireless sensor networks. In the first part, we provide a general framework aimed to show how an efficient design of a sensor network requires a joint…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-07-08 Sergio Barbarossa , Stefania Sardellitti , Paolo Di Lorenzo

Distributed high dimensional mean estimation is a common aggregation routine used often in distributed optimization methods. Most of these applications call for a communication-constrained setting where vectors, whose mean is to be…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-28 Harsh Vardhan , Arya Mazumdar

We consider a basic joint communication and sensing setup comprising a transmitter, a receiver and a sensor. The transmitter sends a codeword to the receiver through a discrete memoryless channel, and the receiver is interested in decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Han Wu , Hamdi Joudeh