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The most celebrated and extensively studied model of distributed computing is the {\em message-passing model,} in which each vertex/node of the (distributed network) graph corresponds to a static computational device that communicates with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Ajay D. Kshemkalyani , Manish Kumar , Anisur Rahaman Molla , Gokarna Sharma

Self-evolving agentic artificial intelligence (AI) offers a new paradigm for future wireless systems by enabling autonomous agents to continually adapt and improve without human intervention. Unlike static AI models, self-evolving agents…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Changyuan Zhao , Ruichen Zhang , Jiacheng Wang , Dusit Niyato , Geng Sun , Xianbin Wang , Shiwen Mao , Abbas Jamalipour

We develop distributed algorithms to allocate resources in multi-hop wireless networks with the aim of minimizing total cost. In order to observe the fundamental duplexing constraint that co-located transmitters and receivers cannot operate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Yufang Xi , Edmund M. Yeh

In this paper, the problem of minimizing energy and time consumption for task computation and transmission is studied in a mobile edge computing (MEC)-enabled balloon network. In the considered network, each user needs to process a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-23 Sihua Wang , Mingzhe Chen , Changchuan Yin , Walid Saad , Choong Seon Hong , Shuguang Cui , H. Vincent Poor

Multi-agent embodied tasks have recently been studied in complex indoor visual environments. Collaboration among multiple agents can improve work efficiency and has significant practical value. However, most of the existing research focuses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Xinzhu Liu , Di Guo , Huaping Liu

The success of deployed agents relies on their ability to handle open-ended user requests using their inherent capabilities, not only in solving requests directly but also in effectively leveraging inter-agent communication channels and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Aditya Vema Reddy Kesari , Krishna Reddy Kesari

We study distributed planning for multi-robot systems to provide optimal service to cooperative tasks that are distributed over space and time. Each task requires service by sufficiently many robots at the specified location within the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Yasin Yazicioglu , Raghavendra Bhat , Derya Aksaray

Wireless communication networks are becoming highly virtualized with two-layer hierarchies, in which controllers at the upper layer with tasks to achieve can ask a large number of agents at the lower layer to help realize computation,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Zijie Zheng , Lingyang Song , Zhu Han , Geoffrey Ye Li , H. Vincent Poor

Task allocation using a team or coalition of robots is one of the most important problems in robotics, computer science, operational research, and artificial intelligence. In recent work, research has focused on handling complex objectives…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Haris Aziz , Arindam Pal , Ali Pourmiri , Fahimeh Ramezani , Brendan Sims

To meet the demands for ubiquitous communication and temporary edge computing in 6G networks, aerial mobile edge computing (MEC) networks have been envisioned as a new paradigm. However, dynamic user requests pose challenges for task…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Xin Tang , Qian Chen , Rong Yu , Xiaohuan Li

In multiagent systems, agents often have to rely on other agents to reach their goals, for example when they lack a needed resource or do not have the capability to perform a required action. Agents therefore need to cooperate. Then, some…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Antonis Bikakis , Patrice Caire

Distributed resource allocation is a central task in network systems such as smart grids, water distribution networks, and urban transportation systems. When solving such problems in practice it is often important to have nonasymptotic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-30 Xuyang Wu , Sindri Magnusson , Mikael Johansson

We study distributed optimization in a cooperative multi-agent setting, where agents have to agree on the usage of shared resources and can communicate via a time-varying network to this purpose. Each agent has its own decision variables…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-20 Alessandro Falsone , Kostas Margellos , Simone Garatti , Maria Prandini

We propose a Bayesian method for distributed sequential localization of mobile networks composed of both cooperative agents and noncooperative objects. Our method provides a consistent combination of cooperative self-localization (CS) and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-01 Florian Meyer , Ondrej Hlinka , Henk Wymeersch , Erwin Riegler , Franz Hlawatsch

This paper studies a class of multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) problems where the reward that an agent receives depends on the states of other agents, but the next state only depends on the agent's own current state and action. We…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Xin Liu , Honghao Wei , Lei Ying

Existing approaches to coalition formation often assume that requirements associated with tasks are precisely specified by the human operator. However, prior work has demonstrated that humans, while extremely adept at solving complex…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Anusha Srikanthan , Harish Ravichandar

Now a day's Heterogeneous wireless network is a promising field of research interest. Various challenges exist in this hybrid combination like load balancing, resource management and so on. In this paper we introduce a reliable load…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-02-10 Md. Golam Rabiul Alam , Chayan Biswas , Naushin Nower , Mohammed Shafiul Alam Khan

In this work, we develop a framework that jointly decides on the optimal location of wireless extenders and the channel configuration of extenders and access points (APs) in a Wireless Mesh Network (WMN). Typically, the rule-based…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Erma Perenda , Samurdhi Karunaratne , Ramy Atawia , Haris Gacanin

We consider the problem of collaborative inference in a sensor network with heterogeneous and statistically dependent sensor observations. Each sensor aims to maximize its inference performance by forming a coalition with other sensors and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-20 Hao He , Pramod K. Varshney

In this paper, we aim to find a robust network formation strategy that can adaptively evolve the network topology against network dynamics in a distributed manner. We consider a network coding deployed wireless ad hoc network where source…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Minhae Kwon , Hyunggon Park