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Speeding Up Distributed Machine Learning Using Codes Open
Codes are widely used in many engineering applications to offer robustness against noise. In large-scale systems there are several types of noise that can affect the performance of distributed machine learning algorithms -- straggler nodes…
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Intelligent Reflecting Surface Aided Multigroup Multicast MISO Communication Systems Open
Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has recently been envisioned to offer\nunprecedented massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)-like gains by\ndeploying large-scale and low-cost passive reflection elements. By adjusting\nthe reflec…
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Parallel and Distributed Methods for Constrained Nonconvex Optimization—Part I: Theory Open
In Part I of this paper, we proposed and analyzed a novel algorithmic\nframework for the minimization of a nonconvex (smooth) objective function,\nsubject to nonconvex constraints, based on inner convex approximations. This\nPart II is dev…
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Multicast Multigroup Precoding and User Scheduling for Frame-Based Satellite Communications Open
The present work focuses on the forward link of a broadband multibeam\nsatellite system that aggressively reuses the user link frequency resources.\nTwo fundamental practical challenges, namely the need to frame multiple users\nper transmi…
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Unicast QoS Routing Algorithms for SDN: A Comprehensive Survey and Performance Evaluation Open
A variety of communication networks, such as industrial communication systems, have to provide strict delay guarantees to the carried flows. Fast and close to optimal quality of service (QoS) routing algorithms, e.g., delay-constrained lea…
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Convergence of Satellite and Terrestrial Networks: A Comprehensive Survey Open
The explosive growth of various services boosts the innovation and development in terrestrial communication systems for the implementation of the next generation mobile communication networks. However, simply utilizing limited resources in…
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Radio Resource Management Optimization of Flexible Satellite Payloads for DVB-S2 Systems Open
The increasing demand for high-rate broadcast and multicast services over satellite networks has pushed for the development of high throughput satellites characterized by a large number of beams (e.g., more than 100). This, together with t…
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Symbol-Level and Multicast Precoding for Multiuser Multiantenna Downlink: A State-of-the-Art, Classification, and Challenges Open
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A Practical Congestion Control Scheme for Named Data Networking Open
Traditional congestion control mechanisms are designed for end-to-end connections and do not fit the Named Data Networking (NDN) architecture, in which content can be retrieved from multiple sources and through multiple paths. To fully exp…
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Multicasting over Emerging 5G Networks: Challenges and Perspectives Open
The number and variety of mobile multicast applications are growing at an unprecedented and unanticipated pace. Mobile network providers are in front of a dramatic increase in multicast traffic load, and this growth is forecasted to contin…
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Taming the Latency in Multi-User VR 360°: A QoE-Aware Deep Learning-Aided Multicast Framework Open
Immersive virtual reality (VR) applications require ultra-high data rate and low-latency for smooth operation. Hence in this paper, aiming to improve VR experience in multi-user VR wireless video streaming, a deep-learning aided scheme for…
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Group Key Establishment for Enabling Secure Multicast Communication in Wireless Sensor Networks Deployed for IoT Applications Open
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are a prominent fundamental technology of the Internet of Things (IoTs). Rather than device-to-device communications, group communications in the form of broadcasting and multicasting incur efficient message…
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Enabling the IoT Machine Age With 5G: Machine-Type Multicast Services for Innovative Real-Time Applications Open
The Internet of Things (IoT) will shortly be undergoing a major transformation from a sensor-driven paradigm to one that is heavily complemented by actuators, drones, and robots. The real-time situational awareness of such active systems r…
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NOMA-Aided Joint Radar and Multicast-Unicast Communication Systems Open
The novel concept of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) aided joint radar\nand multicast-unicast communication (Rad-MU-Com) is investigated. Employing the\nsame spectrum resource, a multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) dual-functional\nradar…
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Stochastic Content-Centric Multicast Scheduling for Cache-Enabled Heterogeneous Cellular Networks Open
Caching at small base stations (SBSs) has demonstrated significant benefits in alleviating the backhaul requirement in heterogeneous cellular networks (HetNets). While many existing works focus on what contents to cache at each SBS, an equ…
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Programmable Metasurface-Based Multicast Systems: Design and Analysis Open
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Multimedia Multicast Services in 5G Networks: Subgrouping and Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Techniques Open
The expected growth in mobile video demand over broadband cellular networks is one of the key factors driving the wireless industry to develop the fifth generation of network technology. This scenario is fueling the need for group-oriented…
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5G New Radio for Terrestrial Broadcast: A Forward-Looking Approach for NR-MBMS Open
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DQELR: An Adaptive Deep Q-Network-Based Energy- and Latency-Aware Routing Protocol Design for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks Open
Underwater acoustic sensor networks (UASNs) have become a popular research topic, with research challenges focused on underwater communication techniques. By incorporating long end-to-end latency, high energy consumption and dynamic networ…
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Multimedia Content Delivery for Emerging 5G-Satellite Networks Open
Multimedia content delivery over satellite systems is considered as a promising service in emerging 5G networks. The aim of this paper is to design a novel radio resource management algorithm for efficiently managing multicast multimedia c…
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Point-to-Multipoint Communication Enablers for the Fifth Generation of Wireless Systems Open
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Scalable Content Delivery With Coded Caching in Multi-Antenna Fading Channels Open
We consider the content delivery problem in a fading multi-input single-output channel with cache-aided users. We are interested in the scalability of the equivalent content delivery rate when the number of users, K, is large. Analytical r…
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Throughput-Efficient Super-TDMA MAC Transmission Schedules in Ad Hoc Linear Underwater Acoustic Networks Open
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Scalable Dynamic Multi-Agent Practical Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Consensus in Permissioned Blockchain Open
The permissioned blockchain system has recently become popular in a wide range of scenarios, such as artificial intelligence, financial applications and the Internet of things, due to its dominance in terms of distribution, decentralizatio…
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Antenna Selection and Hybrid Beamforming for Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer in Multi-Group Multicasting Systems Open
In this paper, low-cost alternatives to full digital beamforming, namely, antenna selection and hybrid beamforming, are proposed for simultaneous wireless information and power transfer in a multi-group multicasting scenario. The joint pro…
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Age of information in multihop multicast networks Open
We consider the age of information in a multihop multicast network where there is a single source node sending timesensitive updates to n L end nodes, and L denotes the number of hops. In the first hop, the source node sends updates to n f…
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Demonstration of data-carrying orbital angular momentum-based underwater wireless optical multicasting link Open
One-to-many data information transfer, also known as multicasting, is desired in underwater wireless communications when distributing signal between multiple users. In this paper, by exploiting the space domain (spatial phase structure) of…
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Robust Multigroup Multicast Transmission for Frame-Based Multi-Beam Satellite Systems Open
We investigate robust multigroup multicast transmission for frame-based multi-beam satellite communication systems with full frequency reuse. To mitigate the effect of outdated channel state information (CSI), we first investigate robust m…
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TSNSCHED: Automated Schedule Generation for Time Sensitive Networking Open
Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) is a set of standards enabling high performance de terministic communication using time scheduling. Due to the size of industrial networks, configuring TSN networks is challenging to be done manually. We pre…
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Robust Group Sparse Beamforming for Multicast Green Cloud-RAN With Imperfect CSI Open
In this paper, we investigate the network power minimization problem for the\nmulticast cloud radio access network (Cloud-RAN) with imperfect channel state\ninformation (CSI). The key observation is that network power minimization can\nbe …