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We study the problem of optimizing the cost of content delivery in a cooperative network of caches at end-nodes. The caches could be, for example, within the computers of users downloading videos from websites (such as Netflix, Blockbuster…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-09-11 A. Majumder , Sharad Jaiswal , K. V. M. Naidu , Nisheeth Shrivastava

Coded caching (CC) schemes exploit the cumulative cache memory of the users and simple linear coding to turn unicast traffic (individual file requests) into a multicast transmission. For the originally proposed $K$-user single-server/single…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Kagan Akcay , MohammadJavad Salehi , Giuseppe Caire

Consider media streaming in MIMO interference networks whereby multiple base stations (BS) simultaneously deliver media to their associated users using fixed data rates. The performance is fundamentally limited by the cross-link…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-26 An Liu , Vincent Lau

Multi-agent systems based on large language models, particularly centralized architectures, have recently shown strong potential for complex and knowledge-intensive tasks. However, central agents often suffer from unstable long-horizon…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Ruizhe Zhang , Xinke Jiang , Zhibang Yang , Zhixin Zhang , Jiaran Gao , Yuzhen Xiao , Hongbin Lai , Xu Chu , Junfeng Zhao , Yasha Wang

Next-generation mobile networks are expected to facilitate fast AI model downloading to end users. By caching models on edge servers, mobile networks can deliver models to end users with low latency, resulting in a paradigm called edge…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Guanqiao Qu , Zheng Lin , Fangming Liu , Xianhao Chen , Kaibin Huang

This paper investigates a setup consisting of multiple transmitters serving multiple cache-enabled clients through a linear network, which covers both wired and wireless transmission situations. We investigate decentralized coded caching…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Mohammad Mahmoudi , Mohammad Javad Sojdeh , Seyed Pooya Shariatpanahi

Today's Cloud applications are dominated by composite applications comprising multiple computing and data components with strong communication correlations among them. Although Cloud providers are deploying large number of computing and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Md Hasanul Ferdaus , Manzur Murshed , Rodrigo N. Calheiros , Rajkumar Buyya

We consider the problem of intelligent and efficient resource management framework in mobile edge computing (MEC), which can reduce delay and energy consumption, featuring distributed optimization and efficient congestion avoidance…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Xiaoxiong Zhong , Xinghan Wang , Li Li , Yuanyuan Yang , Yang Qin , Tingting Yang , Bin Zhang , Weizhe Zhang

Caching of popular content during off-peak hours is a strategy to reduce network loads during peak hours. Recent work has shown significant benefits of designing such caching strategies not only to deliver part of the content locally, but…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Nikhil Karamchandani , Urs Niesen , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , Suhas Diggavi

This paper addresses the challenges of high resource dynamism and scheduling complexity in cloud-native database systems. It proposes an adaptive resource orchestration method based on multi-agent reinforcement learning. The method…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Guanzi Yao , Heyao Liu , Linyan Dai

Caching popular content at the wireless edge is recently proposed as a means to reduce congestion at the backbone of cellular networks. The two main actors involved are Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) and Content Providers (CPs). In this…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Jonatan Krolikowski , Anastasios Giovanidis , Marco Di Renzo

The concept of edge caching provision in emerging 5G and beyond mobile networks is a promising method to deal both with the traffic congestion problem in the core network as well as reducing latency to access popular content. In that…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Yantong Wang , Vasilis Friderikos

This work develops effective distributed strategies for the solution of constrained multi-agent stochastic optimization problems with coupled parameters across the agents. In this formulation, each agent is influenced by only a subset of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-15 Sulaiman A. Alghunaim , Ali H. Sayed

Small-cell networks have been proposed to meet the demand of ever growing mobile data traffic. One of the prominent challenges faced by small-cell networks is the lack of sufficient backhaul capacity to connect small-cell base stations…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-07-07 Yang Guan , Yao Xiao , Hao Feng , Chien-Chung Shen , Leonard J. Cimini

We consider in this work Edge Computing (EC) in a multi-tenant environment: the resource owner, i.e., the Network Operator (NO), virtualizes the resources and lets third party Service Providers (SPs - tenants) run their services, which can…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Ayoub Ben-Ameur , Andrea Araldo , Tijani Chahed

This paper presents a network-based multi-agent optimization model for the strategic planning of service facilities in a stochastic and competitive market. We focus on the type of service facilities that are of intermediate nature, i.e.,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Sina Baghali , Julio Deride , Yueyue Fan , Zhaomiao Guo

Communication could potentially be an effective way for multi-agent cooperation. However, information sharing among all agents or in predefined communication architectures that existing methods adopt can be problematic. When there is a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Jiechuan Jiang , Zongqing Lu

Edge caching will play a critical role in facilitating the emerging content-rich applications. However, it faces many new challenges, in particular, the highly dynamic content popularity and the heterogeneous caching configurations. In this…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Tongyu Zong , Chen Li , Yuanyuan Lei , Guangyu Li , Houwei Cao , Yong Liu

Learning to coordinate actions among agents is essential in complicated multi-agent systems. Prior works are constrained mainly by the assumption that all agents act simultaneously, and asynchronous action coordination between agents is…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Jingqing Ruan , Linghui Meng , Xuantang Xiong , Dengpeng Xing , Bo Xu

Large language models are increasingly deployed as complex agentic systems that scale with task complexity. While prior work has extensively explored model- and system-level scaling, algorithm- and task-level scaling remain largely…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Zizhang Luo , Yuhao Luo , Youwei Xiao , Yansong Xu , Runlin Guo , Yun Liang