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Quantifying structural stress in transaction networks requires metrics that capture structural organization beyond transaction volume alone. In this work, we introduce the Inefficiency Metric, a deterministic indicator designed to…

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The quest to understand structure-function relationships in networks across scientific disciplines has intensified. However, the optimal network architecture remains elusive, particularly for complex information processing. Therefore, we…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-03-27 Manish Yadav , Sudeshna Sinha , Merten Stender

The design of fluid channel structures of reactors or separators of chemical processes is key to enhancing the mass transfer processes inside the devices. However, the systematic design of channel topological structures is difficult for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-07 Chenhui Kou , Yuhui Yin , Min Zhu , Shengkun Jia , Yiqing Luo , Xigang Yuana , Lu Lu

Network compression is crucial to making the deep networks to be more efficient, faster, and generalizable to low-end hardware. Current network compression methods have two open problems: first, there lacks a theoretical framework to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Ziqi Zhou , Li Lian , Yilong Yin , Ze Wang

A recent work shows how we can optimize a tree based mode of operation for a rate 1 hash function. In particular, an algorithm and a theorem are presented for selecting a good tree topology in order to optimize both the running time and the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-04-15 Kevin Atighehchi

Consider a network design application where we wish to lay down a minimum-cost spanning tree in a given graph; however, we only have stochastic information about the edge costs. To learn the precise cost of any edge, we have to conduct a…

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The network inference problem consists of reconstructing the edge set of a network given traces representing the chronology of infection times as epidemics spread through the network. This problem is a paradigmatic representative of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-08-14 Bruno Abrahao , Flavio Chierichetti , Robert Kleinberg , Alessandro Panconesi

Energy-efficient computation is an inevitable trend for mobile edge computing (MEC) networks. Resource allocation strategies for maximizing the computation efficiency are critically important. In this paper, computation efficiency…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-12 Fuhui Zhou , Rose Qingyang Hu

Robust optimization is concerned with constructing solutions that remain feasible also when a limited number of resources is removed from the solution. Most studies of robust combinatorial optimization to date made the assumption that every…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-21 David Adjiashvili

Network calculus is an elegant theory which uses envelopes to determine the worst-case performance bounds in a network. Statistical network calculus is the probabilistic version of network calculus, which strives to retain the simplicity of…

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Existing techniques for the cost optimization of water distribution networks either employ meta-heuristics, or try to develop problem-specific optimization techniques. Instead, we exploit recent advances in generic NLP solvers and explore a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-24 Saumya Goyal , Om Damani , Ashutosh Mahajan

The maximum achievable capacity from source to destination in a network is limited by the min-cut max-flow bound; this serves as a converse limit. In practice, link capacities often fluctuate due to dynamic network conditions. In this work,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Rivka Gitik , Alejandro Cohen

Inspired by the Statistical Physics of complex networks, wireless multihop ad hoc communication networks are considered in abstracted form. Since such engineered networks are able to modify their structure via topology control, we search…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-11-11 Wolfram Krause , Jan Scholz , Martin Greiner

We study numerically the cascading failure problem by using artificially created scale-free networks and the real network structure of the power grid. The capacity for a vertex is assigned as a monotonically increasing function of the load…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-09-08 Bing Wang , Beom Jun Kim

A statistically principled way of conducting weighted network analysis is still lacking. Comparison of different populations of weighted networks is hard because topology is inherently dependent on wiring cost, where cost is defined as the…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2015-05-27 Cedric E. Ginestet , Thomas E. Nichols , Ed T. Bullmore , Andrew Simmons

With high throughput networks acquiring a crucial role in supporting data-intensive applications, a variety of data center network topologies have been proposed to achieve high capacity at low cost. While this literature explores a large…

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Consider a communication network to which a sequence of self-interested users come and send requests for data transmission between nodes. This work studies the question of how to guide the path selection choices made by those…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Ying Cao , Siyuan Yu , Xiaoqi Tan , Danny H. K. Tsang

To reduce cost, datacenter network operators are exploring blocking network designs. An example of such a design is a "spine-free" form of a Fat-Tree, in which pods directly connect to each other, rather than via spine blocks. To maintain…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Mingyang Zhang , Jianan Zhang , Rui Wang , Ramesh Govindan , Jeffrey C. Mogul , Amin Vahdat

Current directions in network routing research have not kept pace with the latest developments in network architectures, such as peer-to-peer networks, sensor networks, ad-hoc wireless networks, and overlay networks. A common characteristic…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Leland Smith , Muthukumar Thirunavukkarasu , Srinidhi Varadarajan , Naren Ramakrishnan

In this paper we consider several problems concerning packet routing in distributed systems. Each problem is formulated using terms from Graph Theory and for each problem we present efficient, novel, algorithmic techniques for computing…

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