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We propose a simple timed broadcasting process calculus for modelling wireless network protocols. The operational semantics of our calculus is given in terms of a labelled transition semantics which is used to derive a standard (weak)…

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Semantic communication is emerging as a key paradigm for 6G networks, where the goal is not to perfectly reconstruct bits but to preserve the meaning that matters for a given task. This shift can improve bandwidth efficiency, robustness,…

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This paper explores a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted and semantic-aware wireless network, where multiple semantic users (SUs) transmit semantic information to an access point (AP) using the non-orthogonal multiple access…

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Wireless systems resource allocation refers to perpetual and challenging nonconvex constrained optimization tasks, which are especially timely in modern communications and networking setups involving multiple users with heterogeneous…

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Recent advancements in generative artificial intelligence have introduced groundbreaking approaches to innovating next-generation semantic communication, which prioritizes conveying the meaning of a message rather than merely transmitting…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Achintha Wijesinghe , Weiwei Wang , Suchinthaka Wanninayaka , Songyang Zhang , Zhi Ding

With the emergence of diverse and massive data in the upcoming sixth-generation (6G) networks, the task-agnostic semantic communication system is regarded to provide robust intelligent services. In this paper, we propose a task-agnostic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Shiyao Jiang , Jian Jiao , Xingjian Zhang , Ye Wang , Dusit Niyato , Qinyu Zhang

Wearable Cognitive Assistants (WCA) are anticipated to become a widely-used application class, in conjunction with emerging network infrastructures like 5G that incorporate edge computing capabilities. While prototypical studies of such…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-06-09 M. Olguín Muñoz , R. Klatzky , J. Wang , P. Pillai , M. Satyanarayanan , J. Gross

The fast development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents provides a promising way for the realization of intelligent and customized wireless networks. In this paper, we propose a Wireless Multi-Agent System (WMAS), which can provide…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Jingchen Peng , Dingli Yuan , Boxiang Ren , Jie Fan , Hao Wu , Lu Yang

Future wireless networks demand increasingly powerful intelligence to support sensing, communication, and autonomous decision-making. While scaling laws suggest improving performance by enlarging model capacity, practical edge deployments…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Changyuan Zhao , Jiacheng Wang , Yunting Xu , Geng Sun , Dusit Niyato , Zan Li , Abbas Jamalipour , Dong In Kim

Next-generation wireless deployments are characterized by being dense and uncoordinated, which often leads to inefficient use of resources and poor performance. To solve this, we envision the utilization of completely decentralized…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Francesc Wilhelmi , Cristina Cano , Gergely Neu , Boris Bellalta , Anders Jonsson , Sergio Barrachina-Muñoz

Existing disaggregated databases separate execution and storage layers, enabling independent and elastic scaling of resources. In most cases, this design makes transaction concurrency control (CC) a critical bottleneck, which demands…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Weixing Zhou , Yanfeng Zhang , Xinji Zhou , Zhiyou Wang , Zeshun Peng , Yang Ren , Sihao Li , Huanchen Zhang , Guoliang Li , Ge Yu

In smart cities, bandwidth-constrained Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) often fail to relay mission-critical data in time, compromising real-time decision-making. This highlights the need for faster and more efficient transmission of only…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-15 Poorvi Joshi , Mohan Gurusamy

Metaverse over wireless networks is an emerging use case of the sixth generation (6G) wireless systems, posing unprecedented challenges in terms of its multi-modal data transmissions with stringent latency and reliability requirements.…

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In linear wireless networked control systems whose control is based on the system state's noisy and delayed observations, an accurate functional relationship is derived between the estimation error and the observations' freshness and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-09 He Ma , Shidong Zhou

This paper explores the concept of information importance in multi-modal task-oriented semantic communication systems, emphasizing the need for high accuracy and efficiency to fulfill task-specific objectives. At the transmitter, generative…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-25 Yi Ma , Chunmei Xu , Zhenyu Liu , Siqi Zhang , Rahim Tafazolli

Energy efficiency and security are two critical issues for mobile edge computing (MEC) networks. With stochastic task arrivals, time-varying dynamic environment, and passive existing attackers, it is very challenging to offload computation…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-10 Qun Wang , Han Hu , Haijian Sun , Rose Qingyang Hu

Energy-efficient communication is an important issue in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) consisting of large number of energy-constrained sensor nodes. Indeed, sensor nodes have different energy budgets assigned to data transmission at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-17 Mohammed F. A. Ahmed , Sergiy A. Vorobyov

We consider the problem of cross-layer resource allocation in time-varying cellular wireless networks, and incorporate information theoretic secrecy as a Quality of Service constraint. Specifically, each node in the network injects two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 C. Emre Koksal , Ozgur Ercetin , Yunus Sarikaya

We are living in the era of Big Data and witnessing the explosion of data. Given that the limitation of CPU and I/O in a single computer, the mainstream approach to scalability is to distribute computations among a large number of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Bingbing Rao , Liqiang Wang

Generative foundation AI models have recently shown great success in synthesizing natural signals with high perceptual quality using only textual prompts and conditioning signals to guide the generation process. This enables semantic…

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