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This paper presents a general framework to tackle a diverse range of NP-hard charger scheduling problems, optimizing the trajectory of mobile chargers to prolong the life of Wireless Rechargeable Sensor Network (WRSN), a system consisting…
Generative flow networks (GFlowNets), as an emerging technique, can be used as an alternative to reinforcement learning for exploratory control tasks. GFlowNet aims to generate distribution proportional to the rewards over terminating…
Generative Flow Networks (or GFlowNets for short) are a family of probabilistic agents that learn to sample complex combinatorial structures through the lens of "inference as control". They have shown great potential in generating…
Deep learning has been successfully adopted in mobile edge computing (MEC) to optimize task offloading and resource allocation. However, the dynamics of edge networks raise two challenges in neural network (NN)-based optimization methods:…
This paper concerns the problem of multi-object tracking based on the min-cost flow (MCF) formulation, which is conventionally studied as an instance of linear program. Given its computationally tractable inference, the success of MCF…
In the rapidly evolving field of Heterogeneous Multi-access Edge Computing (HMEC), efficient task offloading plays a pivotal role in optimizing system throughput and resource utilization. However, existing task offloading methods often fall…
The capacitated location-routing problem involves determining the depots from a set of candidate capacitated depot locations and finding the required routes from the selected depots to serve a set of customers whereas minimizing a cost…
Graph partitioning, a well studied problem of parallel computing has many applications in diversified fields such as distributed computing, social network analysis, data mining and many other domains. In this paper, we introduce FGPGA, an…
Congestion control research has experienced a significant increase in interest in the past few years, with many purpose-built algorithms being designed with the needs of specific applications in mind. These algorithms undergo limited…
Traditional wired data center networks (DCNs) suffer from cabling complexity, lack flexibility, and are limited by the speed of digital switches. In this paper, we alternatively develop a top-down traffic grooming (TG) approach to the…
Booming time-critical services, such as automated manufacturing and remote operations, stipulate increasing demands for facilitating large-scale Industrial Internet of Things (IoT). Recently, a cycle specified queuing and forwarding (CSQF)…
Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a promising technique for providing low-latency access to services at the network edge. The services are hosted at various types of edge nodes with both computation and communication capabilities. Due to the…
The source distribution in conditional flow matching is a design parameter that can be calibrated to data, not a default isotropic prior. We exploit this in Multi-Fidelity Flow Matching (MFFM), a cascade refinement framework for parametric…
The optimal allocation of channels and power resources plays a crucial role in ensuring minimal interference, maximal data rates, and efficient energy utilisation. As a successful approach for tackling resource management problems in…
Capacity sharing networks are typical heterogeneous communication networks widely applied in information and communications technology (ICT) field. In such networks, resources like bandwidth, spectrum, computation and storage are shared…
LightFDG is an integrated approach to flow detection (FD) and flow grooming (FG) in optical wireless data center networks (DCNs), which is interconnected via wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) based free-space optical (FSO) links. Since…
In this paper, we investigate offline and online algorithms for rufpp, the problem of minimizing the number of rounds required to schedule a set of unsplittable flows of non-uniform sizes on a given path with non-uniform edge capacities.…
With the sharp growth of cloud services and their possible combinations, the scale of data center network traffic has an inevitable explosive increasing in recent years. Software defined network (SDN) provides a scalable and flexible…
In order to coordinate the economy and voltage quality of a meshed AC/VSC-MTDC system, a new corrective security-constrained multi-objective optimal power flow (SC-MOPF) method is presented in this paper. A parallel SC-MOPF model with N-1…
Network slicing (NS) and multi-access edge computing (MEC) are new paradigms which play key roles in 5G and beyond networks. NS allows network operators (NOs) to divide the available network resources into multiple logical NSs for providing…