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This paper investigates the use of multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) to address distributed channel access in wireless local area networks. In particular, we consider the challenging yet more practical case where the agents…

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MmWaves have been envisioned as a promising direction to provide Gbps wireless access. However, they are susceptible to high path losses and blockages, which directional antennas can only partially mitigate. That makes mmWave networks…

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We study the problem of medium access control in domain of event-driven wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In this kind of WSN, sensor nodes send data to sink node only when an event occurs in the monitoring area. The nodes in this kind of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-05-22 Rajeev K. Shakya , Yatindra Nath Singh , Nishchal K. Verma

-Recent advances in microelectronics have enabled the realization of Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs). However , the massive growth in wireless devices and the push for interconnecting these devices to form an Internet of Things (IoT)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Mohamad Jaafar Ali , Hassine Moungla , Mohamed Younis , Ahmed Mehaoua

This paper studies the interference broadcast channel comprising multiple multi-antenna Base Stations (BSs), each controlling a beyond diagonal Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) and serving multiple single-antenna users. Wideband…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Konstantinos D. Katsanos , Paolo Di Lorenzo , George C. Alexandropoulos

The seamless integration of low-power, miniaturised, invasive/non-invasive lightweight sensor nodes have contributed to the development of a proactive and unobtrusive Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN). A WBAN provides long-term health…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-08-03 Sana Ullah , Bin Shen , S. M. Riazul Islam , Pervez Khan , Shahnaz Saleem , Kyung Sup Kwak

For millimeter wave (mmWave) or Terahertz (THz) communications, by leveraging the high spatial resolution offered by large antenna arrays and the multi-path sparsity of mmWave/THz channels, a novel inter-symbol interference (ISI) mitigation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-08 Jieni Zhang , Yong Zeng , Xiangbin Yu , Shi Jin , Jinhong Yuan , Ying-Chang Liang , Rui Zhang

Wireless cellular communication networks are bandwidth and interference limited. An important means to overcome these resource limitations is the use of multiple antennas. Base stations equipped with a very large (massive) number of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-05 Uri Erez , Amir Leshem

Starting from first principles of wave propagation, we consider a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) representation of a communication system between two spatially-continuous volumes. This is the concept of holographic MIMO…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-30 Luca Sanguinetti , Antonio A. D'Amico , Merouane Debbah

Medical applications have driven many areas of engineering to optimize diagnostic capabilities and convenience. In the near future, wireless body area networks (WBANs) are expected to have widespread impact in medicine. To achieve this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Jihoon Cha , Junil Choi , David J. Love

In wireless ad hoc networks, distributed nodes can collaboratively form an antenna array for long-distance communications to achieve high energy efficiency. In recent work, Ochiai, et al., have shown that such collaborative beamforming can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Athina P. Petropulu , Lun Dong , H. Vincent Poor

Resource allocation in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems needs to be optimized to balance the requirements of the communication and sensing modules considering complicated cross-layer data traffic and queue status in…

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The rapid advancement of low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite communication systems has significantly enhanced global connectivity, offering high-capacity, low-latency services crucial for next-generation applications. However, the dense…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Qianqian Zhang , Ye Hu , Minchae Jung

In this contribution, we consider a two-tiered network and focus on the coexistence between the two tiers at physical layer. We target our efforts on a long term evolution advanced (LTE-A) orthogonal frequency division multiple access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-21 Marco Maso , Merouane Debbah , Lorenzo Vangelista

Interference-aware resource allocation of time slots and frequency channels in single-antenna, halfduplex radio wireless sensor networks (WSN) is challenging. Devising distributed algorithms for such task further complicates the problem.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Panos N. Alevizos , Efthymios A. Vlachos , Aggelos Bletsas

Wireless communications at the chip scale emerge as a interesting complement to traditional wire-based approaches thanks to their low latency, inherent broadcast nature, and capacity to bypass pin constraints. However, as current trends…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Bernat Ollé , Pau Talarn , Albert Cabellos-Aparicio , Filip Lemic , Eduard Alarcón , Sergi Abadal

Due to the scarcity in the wireless spectrum and limited energy resources especially in mobile applications, efficient resource allocation strategies are critical in wireless networks. Motivated by the recent advances in deep reinforcement…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Ziyang Lu , Chen Zhong , M. Cenk Gursoy

In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), the sensed data by sensors need to be gathered, so that one very important application is periodical data collection. There is much effort which aimed at the data collection scheduling algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Ngoc-Tu Nguyen , Bing-Hong Liu , Shao-I Chu , Hao-Zhe Weng

The use of existing network devices as relays has a potential to improve the overall network performance. In this work, we consider a two-hop wireless relay setting, where the channels between the source and relay nodes to the destination…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Mehdi Salehi Heydar Abad , Ozgur Ercetin , Eylem Ekici

The exponential growth of wireless devices and stringent reliability requirements of emerging applications demand fundamental improvements in distributed channel access mechanisms for unlicensed bands. Current Wi-Fi systems, which rely on…

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