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Soliton pair creation in classical wave scattering
We study classical production of soliton-antisoliton pairs from colliding
wave packets in (1+1)-dimensional scalar field model. Wave packets represent
multiparticle states in quantum theory; we characterize them by energy E and
particle number N. Sampling stochastically over the forms of wave packets, we
find the entire region in (E,N) plane which corresponds to classical creation
of soliton pairs. Particle number is parametrically large within this region
meaning that the probability of soliton-antisoliton pair production in
few-particle collisions is exponentially suppressed.Comment: 16 pages, 8 figures, journal version; misprint correcte
Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Vehicular Networks: Taming the Age of Information Tail
While the notion of age of information (AoI) has recently emerged as an
important concept for analyzing ultra-reliable low-latency communications
(URLLC), the majority of the existing works have focused on the average AoI
measure. However, an average AoI based design falls short in properly
characterizing the performance of URLLC systems as it cannot account for
extreme events that occur with very low probabilities. In contrast, in this
paper, the main objective is to go beyond the traditional notion of average AoI
by characterizing and optimizing a URLLC system while capturing the AoI tail
distribution. In particular, the problem of vehicles' power minimization while
ensuring stringent latency and reliability constraints in terms of
probabilistic AoI is studied. To this end, a novel and efficient mapping
between both AoI and queue length distributions is proposed. Subsequently,
extreme value theory (EVT) and Lyapunov optimization techniques are adopted to
formulate and solve the problem. Simulation results shows a nearly two-fold
improvement in terms of shortening the tail of the AoI distribution compared to
a baseline whose design is based on the maximum queue length among vehicles,
when the number of vehicular user equipment (VUE) pairs is 80. The results also
show that this performance gain increases significantly as the number of VUE
pairs increases.Comment: Accepted in IEEE GLOBECOM 2018 with 7 pages, 6 figure
Cross-layer design of multi-hop wireless networks
MULTI -hop wireless networks are usually defined as a collection of nodes
equipped with radio transmitters, which not only have the capability to
communicate each other in a multi-hop fashion, but also to route each others’ data
packets. The distributed nature of such networks makes them suitable for a variety of
applications where there are no assumed reliable central entities, or controllers, and
may significantly improve the scalability issues of conventional single-hop wireless
networks.
This Ph.D. dissertation mainly investigates two aspects of the research issues
related to the efficient multi-hop wireless networks design, namely: (a) network
protocols and (b) network management, both in cross-layer design paradigms to
ensure the notion of service quality, such as quality of service (QoS) in wireless mesh
networks (WMNs) for backhaul applications and quality of information (QoI) in
wireless sensor networks (WSNs) for sensing tasks. Throughout the presentation of
this Ph.D. dissertation, different network settings are used as illustrative examples,
however the proposed algorithms, methodologies, protocols, and models are not
restricted in the considered networks, but rather have wide applicability.
First, this dissertation proposes a cross-layer design framework integrating
a distributed proportional-fair scheduler and a QoS routing algorithm, while using
WMNs as an illustrative example. The proposed approach has significant performance
gain compared with other network protocols. Second, this dissertation proposes
a generic admission control methodology for any packet network, wired and
wireless, by modeling the network as a black box, and using a generic mathematical
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function and Taylor expansion to capture the admission impact. Third, this dissertation
further enhances the previous designs by proposing a negotiation process,
to bridge the applications’ service quality demands and the resource management,
while using WSNs as an illustrative example. This approach allows the negotiation
among different service classes and WSN resource allocations to reach the optimal
operational status. Finally, the guarantees of the service quality are extended to
the environment of multiple, disconnected, mobile subnetworks, where the question
of how to maintain communications using dynamically controlled, unmanned data
ferries is investigated
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