Consider a network consisting of one multi-antenna base station (BS) and multiple single-antenna users. With a lot of users awaiting service, the network tends to be congested and the quality of service (QoS) degrades...
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(纸本)9781740523905
Consider a network consisting of one multi-antenna base station (BS) and multiple single-antenna users. With a lot of users awaiting service, the network tends to be congested and the quality of service (QoS) degrades remarkably. This promotes the research on user admission control;i.e., to guarantee QoS, the network serves only a subset of users and rejects the rest. In this paper, we consider a max-min fairness (MMF) problem based on joint admission control and beamforming. In particular, by jointly optimizing the admissible users and the transmit beam formers, we maximize the minimum signal-to-interference-plus-noise-ratio (SINR) of admissible users, such that high QoS and fairness can be guaranteed for them. This problem is essentially NP-hard, and hence we develop a low-complexity iterative deflation algorithm to obtain some efficient approximate solution. In each iteration, we improve the users' SINRs and drop the user with the lowest SINR-to-power ratio, until the given user number is achieved. To facilitate the algorithm implementation, especially in large-scale networks, we further employ the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) to perform per-user optimization. Finally, an efficient distributed algorithm is developed, with each step being solved in closed form.
Deployment of multiple radio access technologies(RATs) at the same cell site enables the system to flexibly support different types of devices and services. Such multi-RAT systems call for an efficient utilization of ...
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Deployment of multiple radio access technologies(RATs) at the same cell site enables the system to flexibly support different types of devices and services. Such multi-RAT systems call for an efficient utilization of the system resources as well as simplified management. In this paper, we take a user-centric approach and let each individual user equipment decide its own access strategy in a multi-RAT system with regulated interference constraints. The formulated problem is a generalized Nash equilibrium(GNE) problem. We show that there always exists a GNE but its uniqueness is not guaranteed. A closed form solution is provided to characterize a special class of the GNEs. We then propose a primal-dual algorithm with detailed convergence analysis for computing a GNE. The proposed algorithm may have practical implications in the design of multi-RAT systems.
This paper presents a randomized (Las Vegas) distributed algorithm that constructs a minimum spanning tree (MST) in weighted networks with optimal (up to polylogarithmic factors) time and message complexity. This algo...
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(纸本)9781450345286
This paper presents a randomized (Las Vegas) distributed algorithm that constructs a minimum spanning tree (MST) in weighted networks with optimal (up to polylogarithmic factors) time and message complexity. This algorithm runs in (O) over tilde (D + root n) time and exchanges (O) over tilde (m) messages (both with high probability), where n is the number of nodes of the network, D is the diameter, and m is the number of edges. This is the first distributed MST algorithm that matches simultaneously the time lower bound of (Omega) over tilde (D + root n) [Elkin, SIAM J. Comput. 2006] and the message lower bound of Omega(m) [Kutten et al., J. ACM 2015], which both apply to randomized Monte Carlo algorithms. The prior time and message lower bounds are derived using two completely different graph constructions;the existing lower bound construction that shows one lower bound does not work for the other. To complement our algorithm, we present a new lower bound graph construction for which any distributed MST algorithm requires both (Omega) over tilde (D + root n) rounds and Omega(m) messages.
This paper presents distributed algorithms for finite-time convex optimization problem of multi-agent systems. The uncertain information comes from the noise corruption or interference in the communication as well as ...
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(纸本)9781509028733
This paper presents distributed algorithms for finite-time convex optimization problem of multi-agent systems. The uncertain information comes from the noise corruption or interference in the communication as well as computation performed by the agents. The objective is to design distributed algorithms so that a team of agents, each with its own private cost function and communicating over an undirected graph, seeks to minimize the sum of local objective functions in a finite time. Specifically, a distributed algorithm with robust consensus strategies is proposed to solve this distributed optimization problem so that the optimal solution can be estimated in a finite time. The developed algorithm is applied to the economic dispatch problem and it shows that under the proposed algorithms, the optimal solution can be achieved in a finite time, while satisfying both the global generation-demand constraints and local generation capacity constraints.
Synchrotron radiation light source facilities are leading the way to ultrahigh resolution X-ray imaging. High resolution imaging is essential to understanding the fundamental structure and interaction of materials at ...
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Synchrotron radiation light source facilities are leading the way to ultrahigh resolution X-ray imaging. High resolution imaging is essential to understanding the fundamental structure and interaction of materials at the smallest length scale possible. Diffraction based methods achieve nanoscale imaging by replacing traditional objective lenses by pixelated area detectors and computational image reconstruction. Among these methods, ptychography is quickly becoming the standard for sub-30 nanometer imaging of extended samples, but at the expense of increasingly high data rates and volumes. This paper presents a new distributed algorithm for solving the ptychographic image reconstruction problem based on automatic differentiation. Input datasets are subdivided between multiple graphics processing units (GPUs);each subset of the problem is then solved either entirely independent of other subsets (asynchronously) or through sharing gradient information with other GPUs (synchronously). The algorithm was evaluated on simulated and real data acquired at the Advanced Photon Source, scaling up to 192 GPUs. The synchronous variant of our method outperformed an existing multi-GPU implementation in terms of accuracy while running at a comparable execution time. (C) 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. Peer-review under responsibility of the scientific committee of the International Conference on Computational Science
With the emergence of big data, designing an efficient distributed algorithm is significantly important. While most existing distributed algorithms consider distributed processing only for commodity computers, this pa...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781509043729
With the emergence of big data, designing an efficient distributed algorithm is significantly important. While most existing distributed algorithms consider distributed processing only for commodity computers, this paper introduces a Computationally Efficient, Dynamic distributed Algorithm (CEDA) for big data processing on a framework that comprises data processing both at the data collection end and data processing at the central server end. The proposed CEDA algorithm works both in low powered nodes and high speed commodity computers. Additionally, it performs sequential and parallel processing based on the amount of data received at the central server. Simulation results demonstrate that the CEDA algorithm achieves processing efficiency in terms of data processing time as compared to traditional distributed algorithms, which do not consider processing data at sensors.
In this paper, we propose a distributed algorithm that relies on a strongly connected (but possibly directed) communication topology to achieve admissible and balanced flows in a given network. More specifically, we c...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781509028733
In this paper, we propose a distributed algorithm that relies on a strongly connected (but possibly directed) communication topology to achieve admissible and balanced flows in a given network. More specifically, we consider a flow network that is described by a digraph (physical topology), each edge of which can admit a flow within a certain interval. The paper proposes and analyzes a distributed iterative algorithm for computing admissible and balanced flows, i.e., flows that are within the given interval at each edge and balance the total inflow and the total out-flow at each node. Unlike previous work that required a communication topology with bidirectional exchanges between pairs of nodes that are physically connected (i.e., nodes that share an edge in the physical topology), the distributed algorithm we propose only requires a communication topology that matches the physical topology (which is, in general, directed). The proposed algorithm allows the nodes to asymptotically (with geometric rate) compute a set of admissible and balanced flows, as long as such solution exists.
Network function virtualization (NFV) represents the latest technology advancement in network service provisioning. Traditional hardware middleboxes are replaced by software programs running on industry standard serve...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781538617915
Network function virtualization (NFV) represents the latest technology advancement in network service provisioning. Traditional hardware middleboxes are replaced by software programs running on industry standard servers and virtual machines, for service agility, flexibility, and cost reduction. NFV users are provisioned with service chains composed of virtual network functions (VNFs). A fundamental problem in NFV service chain provisioning is to satisfy user demands with minimum system-wide cost. We jointly consider two types of cost in this work: nodal resource cost and link delay cost, and formulate the service chain provisioning problem using nonlinear optimization. Through the method of auxiliary variables, we transform the optimization problem into its separable form, and then apply the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) to design scalable and fully distributed solutions. Through simulation studies, we verify the convergence and efficacy of our distributed algorithm design.
This paper studies the distributed variational equilibrium seeking problem for a class of multi-coalition non-cooperative games via a continuous-time algorithm. In the multi-coalition game, there are multiple coalitio...
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In this paper, we address the problem of developing TDMA scheduling algorithm for tree topology WSNs. The data transmissions are organized into periodic data flows that may have opposite directions since they are carr...
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In this paper, we address the problem of developing TDMA scheduling algorithm for tree topology WSNs. The data transmissions are organized into periodic data flows that may have opposite directions since they are carrying sensor and actuator values for feedback control. It is required to determine a periodic and collision-free allocation of the time-slots to the sensor nodes such that the end-to-end deadline of each data flow, as given in time units, is satisfied. The objective is to maximize the lifetime of the network by maximizing the time when the nodes are in the sleep mode. However, the longer the time at which the nodes stay in the sleep mode, the harder is to meet the timeliness requirements of the data flows. To solve the TDMA scheduling problem, we have found an elegant approach to express the end-to-end deadline as an integer number of the length of the schedule period. Moreover, since the distributed algorithms, in compassion with the centralized algorithms, well-suit the scarce resources of the WSNs, we focus on the distributed methods that allow each node in the network to come up with its allocated time-slots in the schedule. The proposed algorithm is based on the graph theory algorithms, namely the distributed shortest path and the distributed topological ordering. Furthermore, it falls into the category of the exact algorithms for tree topology with single-collision domain and in the category of the heuristic algorithms for multiple-collision domains tree topology. (C) 2017, IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) Hosting by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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