The fifth generation (5G) system architecture is defined as service-based and the core network functions are described as sets of services accessible through application programming interfaces (API). One of the components of 5G is Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) which provides the open access to radio network functions through API. Using the mobile edge API third party analytics applications ...

This paper studies optimum power control and sum-rate scaling laws for the distributed cognitive uplink. It is first shown that the optimum distributed power control policy is in the form of a threshold based water-filling power control. Each secondary user executes the derived power control policy in a distributed fashion by using local knowledge of its direct and interference channel gains su...

We present an emulation-based controller and transmission policy design procedure for nonlinear wireless networked control systems. The objective is to ensure the stability of closed-loop system, in a stochastic sense, together with given performance, while minimizing average power used communications. designed by emulation, i.e., ignoring network, threshold policies. These policies involve wai...

We argue that joint administration of access polic ies for a dynamic coalition formed by autonomous domains requires that these domains set up a central author ity that distributes threshold attribute certificat es authorizing access to policy objects (e.g., ACLs). Joint author ity over the issuance of such certificates is retai ned by member domains separately holding shares of the central au ...

background: acupuncture is an indispensable part of traditional chinese medicine for relief of pain. the purpose of this study was the immediate & latent of low power laser ga-al-as irradiation applied to acupuncture points on experimental pain threshold. methods: this quasi-experimental study was conducted on seventy adult women ranging from 20 to 40 years old assigned randomly into two groups...

We consider a problem of dynamic scheduling for parallel server systems. With the exception of a few special cases, such stochastic control problems cannot be solved exactly. Here we focus on an approach pioneered by J. M. Harrison that utilizes approximating diffusion control problems. This approach has been very successfully used in the special case when the diffusion control problem can be r...

In this paper we set up a model of interacting drug epidemics by taking the ”direct-product” of variations on a one-dimensional optimal control model that exhibits a so-called DNSS or Skiba threshold. Such a threshold reflects in drug policy the well-established paradigm of ”eradication vs. accommodation”; that is, depending on the initial state, stabilizing a drug market at either a low or a h...

We propose a new policy for virtual path bandwidth allocation in broadband networks. Based on a threshold scheme, our policy handles the inherent tradeoo between bandwidth utilization and processing costs. In each virtual path controller the thresholds are chosen so as to keep bandwidth utilization high, while obtaining a low rate of processing requests. Two novel ideas are used in our threshol...

We present an accelerated algorithm for the solution of static Hamilton-JacobiBellman equations related to optimal control problems. Our scheme is based on a classic policy iteration procedure, which is known to have superlinear convergence in many relevant cases provided the initial guess is sufficiently close to the solution. This limitation often degenerates into a behavior similar to a valu...