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This paper deals with solving distributed optimization problems with equality constraints by a class of uncertain nonlinear heterogeneous dynamic multi-agent systems. It is assumed that each agent with an uncertain dynamic model has limited…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-28 Mohammad Saeed Sarafraz , Mohammad Saleh Tavazoei

Simultaneously information and power transfer in mobile relay networks have recently emerged, where the relay can harvest the radio frequency (RF) energy and then use this energy for data forwarding and system operation. Most of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Zijie Zheng , Lingyang Song , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han

In millimeterWave wireless networks the rapidly varying wireless channels demand fast and dynamic resource allocation mechanisms. This challenge is hereby addressed by a distributed approach that optimally solves the fundamental resource…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-07-30 Yuzhe Xu , George Athanasiou , Carlo Fischione , Leandros Tassiulas

Multi-agent systems often communicate over low-power shared wireless networks in unlicensed spectrum, prone to denial-of-service attacks. We consider the following scenario: multiple pairs of agents communicating strategically over shared…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-01 Xu Zhang , Marcos M. Vasconcelos

In distributed wireless networks, nodes often do not know the topology (network size, connectivity and the channel gains) of the network. Thus, they have to compute their transmission and reception parameters in a distributed fashion. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-21 Vaneet Aggarwal , Salman Avestimehr , Ashutosh Sabharwal

We design a distributed algorithm for learning Nash equilibria over time-varying communication networks in a partial-decision information scenario, where each agent can access its own cost function and local feasible set, but can only…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-11 Mattia Bianchi , Sergio Grammatico

Small cell enchantment is emerging as the key technique for wireless network evolution. One challenging problem for small cell enhancement is how to achieve high data rate with as-low-as-possible control and computation overheads. As a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-02-12 Shuqin Li , Liyu Cai

In large-scale systems there are fundamental challenges when centralised techniques are used for task allocation. The number of interactions is limited by resource constraints such as on computation, storage, and network communication. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Niall Creech , Natalia Criado Pacheco , Simon Miles

This paper aims at distributed multi-agent convex optimization where the communications network among the agents are presented by a random sequence of possibly state-dependent weighted graphs. This is the first work to consider both random…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-31 Seyyed Shaho Alaviani , Atul Kelkar

In multi-agent systems, strong connectivity of the communication network is often crucial for establishing consensus protocols, which underpin numerous applications in decision-making and distributed optimization. However, this connectivity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Guilherme Ramos , Diogo Poças , Sérgio Pequito

Coordinating a fully distributed multi-agent system (MAS) can be challenging when the communication channel has very limited capabilities in terms of sending rate and packet payload. When the MAS has to deal with active obstacles in a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Vincenzo Suriani , Daniele Affinita , Domenico D. Bloisi , Daniele Nardi

We formulate and study the algorithmic mechanism design problem for a general class of resource allocation settings, where the center redistributes the private resources brought by individuals. Money transfer is forbidden. Distinct from the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-24 Qipeng Liu , Yicheng Liu , Pingzhong Tang

Optimal resource allocation is of paramount importance in utilizing the scarce radio spectrum efficiently and provisioning quality of service for miscellaneous user applications, generating hybrid data traffic streams in present-day…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-11-17 Ahmed Abdelhadi , Mo Ghorbanzadeh , Charles Clancy

In this paper, we investigate the distributed convex optimization problem over a multi-agent system with Markovian switching communication networks. The objective function is the sum of each agent's local objective function, which cannot be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-25 Peng Yi , Li Li

Autonomous wireless agents such as unmanned aerial vehicles or mobile base stations present a great potential for deployment in next-generation wireless networks. While current literature has been mainly focused on the use of agents within…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Walid Saad , Zhu Han , Tamer Basar , Merouane Debbah , Are Hjørungnes

This paper presents a distributed optimization scheme over a network of agents in the presence of cost uncertainties and over switching communication topologies. Inspired by recent advances in distributed convex optimization, we propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Saghar Hosseini , Airlie Chapman , Mehran Mesbahi

Distributed learning and adaptation have received significant interest and found wide-ranging applications in machine learning and signal processing. While various approaches, such as shared-memory optimization, multi-task learning, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-03 Pourya Behmandpoor , Marc Moonen , Panagiotis Patrinos

This paper studies distributed resource allocation problem in multi-agent systems, where all the agents cooperatively minimize the sum of their cost functions with global resource constraints over stochastic communication networks. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-27 Tie Ding , Shanying Zhu , Cailian Chen , Xinping Guan

When multiple users share a common link in direct transmission, packet loss and network collision may occur due to the simultaneous arrival of traffics at the source node. To tackle this problem, users may resort to an indirect path: the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-18 Qiong Liu , Chehao Wang , Ce Zheng

Optimal transport is a framework that facilitates the most efficient allocation of a limited amount of resources. However, the most efficient allocation scheme does not necessarily preserve the most fairness. In this paper, we establish a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-01 Jason Hughes , Juntao Chen