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Papers by Gustavo de Veciana

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2013

Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation

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We propose a data-driven framework to enable the modeling and optimization of human-machine inter... more We propose a data-driven framework to enable the modeling and optimization of human-machine interaction processes, e.g., systems aimed at assisting humans in decision-making or learning, work-load allocation, and interactive advertising. This is a challenging problem for several reasons. First, humans’ behavior is hard to model or infer, as it may reflect biases, long term memory, and sensitivity to sequencing, i.e., transience and exponential complexity in the length of the interaction. Second, due to the interactive nature of such processes, the machine policy used to engage with human may bias possible data-driven inferences. Finally, in choosing machine policies that optimize interaction rewards, one must, on the one hand, avoid being overly sensitive to error/variability in the estimated human model, and on the other, being overly deterministic/predictable which may result in poor human ‘engagement’ in the interaction. To meet these challenges, we propose a robust approach, bas...

2016 14th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), 2016

MmWave based wearable networks will need to function in various environments including possibly h... more MmWave based wearable networks will need to function in various environments including possibly high density settings, e.g., train cars. At such densities one might expect challenges in interference management and/or excessive overheads tracking and jointly scheduling interferers. In this paper we use simple stochastic geometric models to examine the characteristics (number and sensitivity to motion) of "strong interferers" and show that due to blocking they are not monotonic in user density. Indeed, perhaps surprisingly, the most challenging setting appears to arise at "intermediate" user densities. We then propose a simple model to evaluate the performance of current MAC designs based on clustering and hierarchical scheduling. The results exhibit a performance trade-off leading to an optimal cluster size which depends on the directionality of transmissions. More importantly, we show that at high densities the per user throughput is roughly constant, suggesting ...

ICASSP 2021 - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2021

Weak submodular optimization underpins many problems in signal processing and machine learning. F... more Weak submodular optimization underpins many problems in signal processing and machine learning. For such problems, under a cardinality constraint, a simple greedy algorithm is guaranteed to find a solution with a value no worse than 1 − e−γ of the optimal. Given the high cost of queries to large-scale signal processing models, the complexity of GREEDY becomes prohibitive in modern applications. In this work, we study the tradeoff between performance and complexity when one resorts to random sampling strategies to reduce the query complexity of GREEDY. Specifically, we quantify the effect of uniform sampling strategies on the performance through two criteria: (i) the probability of identifying an optimal subset, and (ii) the suboptimality of the solution’s value with respect to the optimal. Building upon this insight, we propose a simple progressive stochastic greedy algorithm, study its approximation guarantees, and consider its applications to dimensionality reduction and feature selection tasks.

Proceedings of 35th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory - TIT, 2005

Proceedings. IEEE INFOCOM '98, the Conference on Computer Communications. Seventeenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Gateway to the 21st Century (Cat. No.98CH36169)

2001 IEEE Workshop on High Performance Switching and Routing (IEEE Cat. No.01TH8552)

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 2021

2019 International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOPT), 2019

This paper focuses on optimizing resource allocation amongst a set of tenants, network slices, su... more This paper focuses on optimizing resource allocation amongst a set of tenants, network slices, supporting dynamic customer loads over a set of distributed resources, e.g., base stations. The aim is to reap the benefits of statistical multiplexing resulting from flexible sharing of ‘pooled’ resources, while enabling tenants to differentiate and protect their performance from one another's load fluctuations. To that end we consider a setting where resources are grouped into Virtual Resource Pools (VRPs) wherein resource allocation is jointly and dynamically managed. Specifically for each VRP we adopt a Share-Constrained Proportionally Fair (SCPF) allocation scheme where each tenant is allocated a fixed share (budget). This budget is to be distributed equally amongst its active customers which in turn are granted fractions of their associated VRP resources in proportion to customer shares. For a VRP with a single resource, this translates to the well known Generalized Processor Sha...

ArXiv, 2020

Network slicing is a key capability for next generation mobile networks. It enables one to cost e... more Network slicing is a key capability for next generation mobile networks. It enables one to cost effectively customize logical networks over a shared infrastructure. A critical component of network slicing is resource allocation, which needs to ensure that slices receive the resources needed to support their mobiles/services while optimizing network efficiency. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to slice-based resource allocation named Guaranteed seRvice Efficient nETwork slicing (GREET). The underlying concept is to set up a constrained resource allocation game, where (i) slices unilaterally optimize their allocations to best meet their (dynamic) customer loads, while (ii) constraints are imposed to guarantee that, if they wish so, slices receive a pre-agreed share of the network resources. The resulting game is a variation of the well-known Fisher market, where slices are provided a budget to contend for network resources (as in a traditional Fisher market), but (unlike a F...

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2019

2011 49th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (Allerton), 2011

This paper considers the design of application-layer opportunistic transport mechanisms for store... more This paper considers the design of application-layer opportunistic transport mechanisms for stored video over a slowly time-varying wireless channel. We focus on two simple key ideas. The first is that video should be transmitted when the channel capacity is high, e.g., exceeds a threshold; by doing so one can exploit temporal diversity in channel variations to reduce the system utilization as well as energy expenditures. Second, such opportunistic transmissions should be coupled with the status of the user's playback buffer to ensure uninterrupted video playback. We explore how to optimize such systems in several scenarios. We start with the single-user anticipative case (i.e. future channel variations are known) and show that a piecewise constant thresholding scheme is optimal, i.e., minimizes the system utilization without playback buffer starvation. This case not only provides a baseline for the best one can do, but may be applicable in cases where users' mobility is known or predictable, allowing the future channel capacity to be anticipated, e.g., based on history or a navigation system. We then study the multiuser case, where one can exploit not only the future temporal but also multiuser diversity. Finally, we consider the multiuser causal scenario(where the future channel is unknown, but statistics might be inferred) and develop a receiver-oriented adaptive opportunistic video transport mechanism using a stochastic approximation approach. Our simulations show that the proposed schemes can achieve an up to 70% reduction in the system utilization.

Proceedings of ICC'97 - International Conference on Communications

In this paper we upper-bound the overflow probability of superpositions of off-line, e.g., stored... more In this paper we upper-bound the overflow probability of superpositions of off-line, e.g., stored video and real-time traffic streams based on deterministic traffic descriptors, e.g., leaky buckets. In the off-line scenario, we compute the empirical envelope function of the cumulative arrivals of a given traffic stream and use this envelope to bound the overflow probability for multiplexing N such streams at a single node. In the real-time scenario, we assume the traffic is policed by a dual leaky bucket and use the parameters of the device to give an upper bound for overflow probability without referring to the traffic statistics

2006 IEEE 63rd Vehicular Technology Conference, 2006

Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Communications ICC '95, 1995

Page 1. ON THE CAPACITY OF MULTI-SERVICE NETWORKS* Ching-fong Su and Gustavo de Veciana ... We st... more Page 1. ON THE CAPACITY OF MULTI-SERVICE NETWORKS* Ching-fong Su and Gustavo de Veciana ... We stress at the outset that the details of this work consider a system with only two QoS classes and fur-ther discussion of multi-dimensional cases can be found in POI. ...