A power control scheme for packet-based wireless communication systems is proposed in this paper. The proposed power control scheme aims at minimizing the total number of transmission that a packet needs before it is received successfully over a Rayleigh fading channel subject to two constraints. One is that the transmission power should be greater than zero. The other is imposed by the constra...

Linearized alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) as an extension of ADMM has been widely used to solve linearly constrained problems in signal processing, machine leaning, communications, and many other fields. Despite its broad applications in non-convex optimization, for a great number of non-convex and non-smooth objective functions, its theoretical convergence guarantee is stil...

In this work, we propose a hierarchical distributed model predictive control strategy to operate interconnected microgrids (MGs) with the goal of increasing the overall infeed of renewable energy sources. In particular, we investigate how renewable infeed of MGs can be increased by using a transmission network allowing the exchange of energy. To obtain an model predictive control scheme which i...

In this paper, the problem of Magnetic Resonance (MR) image reconstruction from partial Fourier samples has been considered. To this aim, we leverage the evidence that MR images are sparser than their zero-filled reconstructed ones from incomplete Fourier samples. This information can be used to define an optimization problem which searches for the sparsest possible image conforming with the av...

We consider the class of semi-infinite programming problems which became in recent years a powerful tool for the mathematical modelling of many real-life problems. In this paper, we study an augmented Lagrangian approach to semi-infinite problems and present necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of corresponding augmented Lagrange multipliers. Furthermore, we discuss two particu...

A cross-layer network optimization problem is considered. It involves network and transport layers, treating both routing and flows as decision variables. Due to the nonconvexity of the capacity constraints, when using Lagrangian relaxation method a duality gap causes numerical instability. It is shown that the rescue preserving separability of the problem may be the application of the augmente...

A globally and quadratically convergent primal–dual augmented Lagrangian algorithm for equality constrained optimization Paul Armand & Riadh Omheni To cite this article: Paul Armand & Riadh Omheni (2015): A globally and quadratically convergent primal–dual augmented Lagrangian algorithm for equality constrained optimization, Optimization Methods and Software, DOI: 10.1080/10556788.2015.1025401 ...

A generally nonconvex optimization problem with equality constraints is studied. The problem is introduced as an “inf sup” of a generalized augmented Lagrangian function. A dual problem is defined as the “sup inf’ of the same generalized augmented Lagrangian. Sufftcient conditions are derived for constructing the augmented Lagrangian function such that the extremal values of the primal and dual...

We introduce some approximate optimal solutions and a generalized augmented Lagrangian in nonlinear programming, establish dual function and dual problem based on the generalized augmented Lagrangian, obtain approximate KKT necessary optimality condition of the generalized augmented Lagrangian dual problem, prove that the approximate stationary points of generalized augmented Lagrangian problem...

We define an interconnection network AQn,k which we call the augmented kary n-cube by extending a k-ary n-cube in a manner analogous to the existing extension of an n-dimensional hypercube to an n-dimensional augmented cube. We prove that the augmented k-ary n-cube AQn,k has a number of attractive properties (in the context of parallel computing). For example, we show that the augmented k-ary n...