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I would like to thank my supervisors, Professor Fabio Fagnani and Professor Giacomo Como for their guidance during my thesis work. I would like to also thank Dr. Mark Jeeninga whose mathematical insight has been of extreme value in writing this thesis.

I dedicate my thesis to my parents, my brother, and my friends for their support during my studies.

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    \textit{Hafez Ghaemi, July 2022}
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\noindent Computational resources for running some of the experiments in this thesis has been provided by hpc@polito (\url{http://www.hpc.polito.it}).
