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Network utility maximization (NUM) is a general framework for designing distributed optimization algorithms for large-scale networks. An economic challenge arises in the presence of strategic agents' private information. Existing studies…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Meng Zhang , Deepanshu Vasal

The rate and security of quantum communications between users placed at arbitrary points of a quantum communication network depend on the structure of the network, on its extension and on the nature of the communication channels. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-20 Lorenzo Cirigliano , Valentina Brosco , Claudio Castellano , Claudio Conti , Laura Pilozzi

Quantum convolutional neural networks (QCNNs) represent a promising approach in quantum machine learning, paving new directions for both quantum and classical data analysis. This approach is particularly attractive due to the absence of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-06 Changwon Lee , Israel F. Araujo , Dongha Kim , Junghan Lee , Siheon Park , Ju-Young Ryu , Daniel K. Park

In this paper, we consider the network utility maximization problem with various user priorities via jointly optimizing user association, load distribution and power control in a load-coupled heterogeneous network. In order to tackle the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Zhaohui Yang , Wei Xu , Jianfeng Shi , Hao Xu , Ming Chen

Convex optimization problems arise naturally in quantum information theory, often in terms of minimizing a convex function over a convex subset of the space of hermitian matrices. In most cases, finding exact solutions to these problems is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-26 Mark W. Girard , Gilad Gour , Shmuel Friedland

This paper is concerned with the resource allocation in a multi-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided network for providing enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) services for user equipments. Different from most of the existing network resource…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Xing Xi , Xianbin Cao , Peng Yang , Jingxuan Chen , Dapeng Wu

Variational quantum algorithms constitute one of the most widespread methods for using current noisy quantum computers. However, it is unknown if these heuristic algorithms provide any quantum-computational speedup, although we cannot…

QoS-aware networking applications such as real-time streaming and video surveillance systems require nearly fixed average end-to-end delay over long periods to communicate efficiently, although may tolerate some delay variations in short…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-11-02 Mohammad H. Hajiesmaili , Mohammad Sadegh Talebi , Ahmad Khonsari

The quantum internet holds transformative potential for global communication by harnessing the principles of quantum information processing. Despite significant advancements in quantum communication technologies, the efficient distribution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-06 Lamarana Jallow , Majid Iqbal Khan

The optimal allocation of time and energy resources is characterized in a Wireless Powered Communication Network (WPCN) with non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA). We consider two different formulations; in the first one (max-sum), the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-02 Mariam M. N. Aboelwafa , Mohamed A. Abd-Elmagid , Alessandro Biason , Karim G. Seddik , Tamer ElBatt , Michele Zorzi

Quantum federated learning (QFL) combines the robust data processing of quantum computing with the privacy-preserving features of federated learning (FL). However, in large-scale wireless networks, optimizing sum-rate is crucial for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Shaba Shaon , Christopher G. Brinton , Dinh C. Nguyen

Quantum communication can enhance internet technology by enabling novel applications that are provably impossible classically. The successful execution of such applications relies on the generation of quantum entanglement between different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-29 Matthew Skrzypczyk , Stephanie Wehner

In this study, we develop a resource management framework for a quantum virtual private network (qVPN), which involves the sharing of an underlying public quantum network by multiple organizations for quantum entanglement distribution. Our…

Quantum network is a promising platform for many ground-breaking applications that lie beyond the capability of its classical counterparts. Efficient entanglement generation on quantum networks with relatively limited resources such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Changhao Li , Tianyi Li , Yi-Xiang Liu , Paola Cappellaro

Resource allocation of wide-area internet networks is inherently a combinatorial optimization problem that if solved quickly, could provide near real-time adaptive control of internet-protocol traffic ensuring increased network efficacy and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-21 Arthur Witt , Jangho Kim , Christopher Körber , Thomas Luu

Quantum networks enable a number of important applications such as quantum key distribution. The basic function of a quantum network is to enable long-distance quantum entanglement between two remote communication parties. This work focuses…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Shouqian Shi , Chen Qian

We study network utility maximization (NUM) in the context of cellular single station association (SSA) policies, which assigns each mobile user (MU) to a single base station (BS). We measure an SSA policy in terms of the induced…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-10-22 Jeffrey Wildman , Steven Weber

Network quantification (NQ) is the problem of estimating the proportions of nodes belonging to each class in subsets of unlabelled graph nodes. When prior probability shift is at play, this task cannot be effectively addressed by first…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Alessio Micheli , Alejandro Moreo , Marco Podda , Fabrizio Sebastiani , William Simoni , Domenico Tortorella

We introduce a novel algorithm for solving network utility maximization (NUM) problems that arise in resource allocation schemes over networks with known safety-critical constraints, where the constraints form an arbitrary convex and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-21 Berkay Turan , Spencer Hutchinson , Mahnoosh Alizadeh

Optimization drives advances in quantum science and machine learning, yet most generative models aim to mimic data rather than to discover optimal answers to challenging problems. Here we present a variational generative optimization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-19 Lingxia Zhang , Xiaodie Lin , Peidong Wang , Kaiyan Yang , Xiao Zeng , Zhaohui Wei , Zizhu Wang