Networks & Optimization

Current research in this area encompasses a broad range of topics covering the theory and practice of networks and optimization for communications and beyond, including distributed computing, data centre networks, stochastic control, reinforcement learning, statistical inference, robotics in cyber physical systems (CPS)

Research Centres

• CISCO Centre for Networked Intelligence 

Research groups

• Autonomous Machines Lab (Prof. Bharadwaj Amrutur)
• Distributed Systems Lab (Prof. Parimal Parag)
• Information Theory Lab (ITL) (Prof. Himanshu Tyagi)
• Learning, Optimization, Control and Automation (Loca) Lab (Prof. Aditya Gopalan)
• Network Engineering Lab (Prof. Anurag Kumar)
• Stochastic Systems, Learning, Control and Optimization Lab (SLCO) (Prof. Rahul Singh)
• Wireless Information Systems Lab (Prof. Rajesh Sundaresan)

Selected Recent Publications

• • R. Jinan, A. Badita, T. P. Bodas, and P. Parag. Load balancing policies without feedback using timed replicas. Performance Evaluation. 162, 102381, Nov 2023. elsevier. paper.
  • A. Krishnan K. S., C. K. Singh, S. T. Maguluri, and P. Parag. Optimal pricing in a single server system. ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems. 8(4):1–32, Dec 2023. acm. paper.
  • R. Jinan, G. Gautam, P. Parag, and V. Aggarwal. Asymptotic analysis of probabilistic scheduling for erasure-coded heterogeneous systems. ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review. 50(4):8–10, Mar 2023. acm. paper.
  • Rahul Singh, Fang Liu, Yin Sun and Ness Shroff, “Multi-Armed Bandits with Dependent Arms,” Machine Learning, November 2023, Volume 113, pages 45–71.
  • Rahul Singh, Abhishek Gupta and Ness Shroff “Learning in Constrained Markov Decision Processes.” IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, March 2023, Volume 10, Issue 1.
  • With S. Jha and P. Mayekar, Fundamental limits of over-the-air optimization: Are analog schemes optimal?, IEEE Journal on Special Area in Information Theory, 2022.
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