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Graviton Propagation in an Asymmetric Warped Background: Lorentz Violation and the Null Energy Condition
The graviton propagation in an asymmetric background is studied. The
background is a configuration in the six-dimensional Salam-Sezgin model, in
which a 3-form H-field turned on [JHEP 0910(2009)086]. The compact dimensions
form a cylindrical space with branes as boundaries. The background gets
asymmetry due to the H-field and violates the Lorentz symmetry. We derive the
graviton equation in this background and show that it gets massless mode
traveling with superluminal speed. A tower of K-K modes exists with a mass gap.
On the other hand, it is known that breaking the Lorentz symmetry on an
asymmetric background is constrained by the null energy condition. This no-go
theorem doesn't work well in six-dimensional space-times and by this model we
provide a counterexample for which the null energy condition is satisfied while
the Lorentz symmetry is gravitationally violated.Comment: 20 pages, 1 figure. v2: published version, more phenomenological
discussions added, references added, numerical error fixe
Speeding Multicast by Acknowledgment Reduction Technique (SMART)
We present a novel feedback protocol for wireless broadcast networks that
utilize linear network coding. We consider transmission of packets from one
source to many receivers over a single-hop broadcast erasure channel. Our
method utilizes a predictive model to request feedback only when the
probability that all receivers have completed decoding is significant. In
addition, our proposed NACK-based feedback mechanism enables all receivers to
request, within a single time slot, the number of retransmissions needed for
successful decoding. We present simulation results as well as analytical
results that show the favorable scalability of our technique as the number of
receivers, file size, and packet erasure probability increase. We also show the
robustness of this scheme to uncertainty in the predictive model, including
uncertainty in the number of receiving nodes and the packet erasure
probability, as well as to losses of the feedback itself. Our scheme, SMART, is
shown to perform nearly as well as an omniscient transmitter that requires no
feedback. Furthermore, SMART, is shown to outperform current state of the art
methods at any given erasure probability, file size, and numbers of receivers
Interference Alignment via Message-Passing
We introduce an iterative solution to the problem of interference alignment
(IA) over MIMO channels based on a message-passing formulation. We propose a
parameterization of the messages that enables the computation of IA precoders
by a min-sum algorithm over continuous variable spaces -- under this
parameterization, suitable approximations of the messages can be computed in
closed-form. We show that the iterative leakage minimization algorithm of
Cadambe et al. is a special case of our message-passing algorithm, obtained for
a particular schedule. Finally, we show that the proposed algorithm compares
favorably to iterative leakage minimization in terms of convergence speed, and
discuss a distributed implementation.Comment: Submitted to the IEEE International Conference on Communications
(ICC) 201
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