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We study the scheduling polices for asymptotically optimal delay in queueing systems with switching overhead. Such systems consist of a single server that serves multiple queues, and some capacity is lost whenever the server switches to…

Performance · Computer Science 2017-01-17 Ping-Chun Hsieh , I-Hong Hou , Xi Liu

In this paper we design and evaluate a Deep-Reinforcement Learning agent that optimizes routing. Our agent adapts automatically to current traffic conditions and proposes tailored configurations that attempt to minimize the network delay.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-09-22 Giorgio Stampa , Marta Arias , David Sanchez-Charles , Victor Muntes-Mulero , Albert Cabellos

The choice of feedback mechanism between delay and packet loss has long been a point of contention in TCP congestion control. This has partly been resolved, as it has become increasingly evident that delay based methods are needed to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Taran Lynn , Dipak Ghosal

The primary goal of reinforcement learning is to develop decision-making policies that prioritize optimal performance without considering risk or safety. In contrast, safe reinforcement learning aims to mitigate or avoid unsafe states. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Zahra Shahrooei , Ali Baheri

In this paper, the trajectory optimization problem for a multi-aerial base station (ABS) communication network is investigated. The objective is to find the trajectory of the ABSs so that the sum-rate of the users served by each ABS is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-02 Behzad Khamidehi , Elvino S. Sousa

This paper proposes a learning algorithm to find a scheduling policy that achieves an optimal delay-power trade-off in communication systems. Reinforcement learning (RL) is used to minimize the expected latency for a given energy constraint…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-11 Yu Zhao , Joohyun Lee , Wei Chen

The present study proposes a novel collaborative traffic engineering scheme for networks of autonomous systems. Backpressure routing principles are used for deriving priority routing rules that optimally stabilize a network, while…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Christos Liaskos , Xenofontas Dimitropoulos , Leandros Tassiulas

The control of a network of signalized intersections is considered. Previous works proposed a feedback control belonging to the family of the so-called back-pressure controls that ensures provably maximum stability given pre-specified…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-04-01 Jean Gregoire , Emilio Frazzoli , Arnaud de La Fortelle , Tichakorn Wongpiromsarn

Due to urbanization and the increase of individual mobility, in most metropolitan areas around the world congestion and inefficient traffic management occur. Highly necessary intelligent traffic control systems, which are able to reduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Simon F. G. Ehlers

The blocking problem naturally arises in transportation systems as multiple vehicles with different itineraries share available resources. In this paper, we investigate the impact of the blocking problem to the waiting time at the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-01-21 Shanyu Zhou , Hulya Seferoglu

We study network response to queries that require computation of remotely located data and seek to characterize the performance limits in terms of maximum sustainable query rate that can be satisfied. The available resources include (i) a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Apostolos Destounis , Georgios S. Paschos , Iordanis Koutsopoulos

Motivated by the growing demand for serving large language model inference requests, we study distributed load balancing for global serving systems with network latencies. We consider a fluid model in which continuous flows of requests…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Santiago R. Balseiro , Vahab S. Mirrokni , Bartek Wydrowski

Backpressure (BP) routing and scheduling is an established resource allocation method for wireless multi-hop networks, noted for its fully distributed operation and maximum queue stability. Recent advances in shortest path-biased BP routing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Zhongyuan Zhao , Yujun Ming , Ananthram Swami , Kevin Chan , Fikadu Dagefu , Santiago Segarra

Lane-changing decisions, which are crucial for autonomous vehicle path planning, face practical challenges due to rule-based constraints and limited data. Deep reinforcement learning has become a major research focus due to its advantages…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Xiaojun Bi , Mingjie He , Yiwen Sun

Applications such as virtual reality and online gaming require low delays for acceptable user experience. A key task for over-the-top (OTT) service providers who provide these applications is sending traffic through the networks to minimize…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Shenghe Xu , Murali Kodialam , T. V. Lakshman , Shivendra S. Panwar

The recent advancements in cloud services, Internet of Things (IoT) and Cellular networks have made cloud computing an attractive option for intelligent traffic signal control (ITSC). Such a method significantly reduces the cost of cables,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-09 Rusheng Zhang , Xinze Zhou , Ozan K. Tonguz

Some multi-path routing algorithm in MANET, simultaneously send information to the destination through several directions to reduce end-to-end delay. In all these algorithms, the sent traffic through a path affects the adjacent path and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-03-08 Hassanali Nasehi , Nastooh Taheri Javan , Amir Bagheri Aghababa , Yasna Ghanbari Birgani

In this paper, we study joint queue-aware and channel-aware scheduling of arbitrarily bursty traffic over multi-state time-varying channels, where the bursty packet arrival in the network layer, the backlogged queue in the data link layer,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-06 Meng Wang , Juan Liu , Wei Chen

The combination of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet-of-Things (IoT), which is denoted as AI-powered Internet-of-Things (AIoT), is capable of processing huge amount of data generated from a large number of devices and handling…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Ying Liu , Lei Liu , Wei-Peng Chen

Rather than directly considering the queuing delay of data, this memo focuses on reducing the delay that congestion signals experience within a queue management algorithm, which can be greater than the delay that the data itself experiences…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Bob Briscoe