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Due to the rapid growth of heterogeneous wireless networks (HWNs), where devices with diverse communication technologies coexist, there is increasing demand for efficient and adaptive multi-hop routing with multiple data flows. Traditional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-05 Brian Kim , Justin H. Kong , Terrence J. Moore , Fikadu T. Dagefu

Carrier sense multiple access collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) is the basic scheme upon which access to the shared medium is regulated in many wireless networks. With CSMA/CA a station willing to start a transmission has first to find the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Paolo Ballarini , Benoit Barbot , Nicolas Vasselin

This paper explores the feasibility of leveraging concepts from deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to enable dynamic resource management in Wi-Fi networks implementing distributed multi-user MIMO (D-MIMO). D-MIMO is a technique by which a…

Networking protocols are designed through long-time and hard-work human efforts. Machine Learning (ML)-based solutions have been developed for communication protocol design to avoid manual efforts to tune individual protocol parameters.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Hannaneh Barahouei Pasandi , Tamer Nadeem

Carrier Sense Multiple Access (CSMA) is widely used as a Medium Access Control (MAC) in wireless networks due to its simplicity and distributed nature. This motivated researchers to find CSMA schemes that achieve throughput optimality. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Ali Maatouk , Mohamad Assaad , Anthony Ephremides

In this paper, we apply the Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) technique to improve the massive channel access of a wireless IoT network where solar-powered Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) relay data from IoT devices to remote servers.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Sami Khairy , Prasanna Balaprakash , Lin X. Cai , Yu Cheng

In wireless local area networks (WLANs), a media access protocol arbitrates access to the channel. In current IEEE 802.11 WLANs, carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) is used. Carrier sense multiple access with…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-11-05 Jaume Barcelo , Azadeh Faridi , Boris Bellalta , Gabriel Martorell , David Malone

This paper presents a novel and effective deep reinforcement learning (DRL)-based approach to addressing joint resource management (JRM) in a practical multi-carrier non-orthogonal multiple access (MC-NOMA) system, where hardware…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Shaoyang Wang , Tiejun Lv , Wei Ni , Norman C. Beaulieu , Y. Jay Guo

This paper applies machine learning to optimize the transmission policy of cognitive radio inspired non-orthogonal multiple access (CR-NOMA) networks, where time-division multiple access (TDMA) is used to serve multiple primary users and an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Zhiguo Ding , Robert Schober , H. Vincent Poor

The ability to perform traffic differentiation is a promising feature of the current Medium Access Control (MAC) in Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs). The Enhanced Distributed Channel Access (EDCA) protocol for WLANs proposes up to four…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-05-30 Luis Sanabria-Russo , Boris Bellalta

This paper studies the multi-agent resource allocation problem in vehicular networks using non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and network slicing. To ensure heterogeneous service requirements for different vehicles, we propose a network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Zoubeir Mlika , Soumaya Cherkaoui

By combining the features of CSMA and TDMA, fully decentralised WLAN MAC schemes have recently been proposed that converge to collision-free schedules. In this paper we describe a MAC with optimal long-run throughput that is almost…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-09-19 Minyu Fang , David Malone , Ken R. Duffy , Douglas J. Leith

The problem of resource constrained scheduling in a dynamic and heterogeneous wireless setting is considered here. In our setup, the available limited bandwidth resources are allocated in order to serve randomly arriving service demands,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Apostolos Avranas , Marios Kountouris , Philippe Ciblat

In this paper, we propose a novel adaptive carrier sense multiple access scheme with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) to perform efficient and reliable data transfer with increased throughput across multiple coexisting wireless body area…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-03-18 Samiya M. Shimly , David B. Smith , Samaneh Movassaghi

This paper presents a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) solution for power control in wireless communications, describes its embedded implementation with WiFi transceivers for a WiFi network system, and evaluates the performance with…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Ziad El Jamous , Kemal Davaslioglu , Yalin E. Sagduyu

This paper is focused on code-domain non-orthogonal multiple access (CD-NOMA), which is an emerging paradigm to support massive connectivity for future machine-type wireless networks. We take a comparative approach to study two types of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Zilong Liu , Lie-Liang Yang

The combination of energy harvesting (EH), cognitive radio (CR), and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is a promising solution to improve energy efficiency and spectral efficiency of the upcoming beyond fifth generation network (B5G),…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Zhaoyuan Shi , Xianzhong Xie , Huabing Lu , Helin Yang , Jun Cai , Zhiguo Ding

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

We consider a wireless network where each flow (instead of each link) runs its own CSMA (Carrier Sense Multiple Access) algorithm. Specifically, each flow attempts to access the radio channel after some random time and transmits a packet if…

Performance · Computer Science 2011-02-23 T. Bonald , M. Feuillet

Next-generation wireless networks are poised to benefit significantly from the integration of three key technologies (KTs): Rate-Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA), cell-free architectures, and federated learning. Each of these technologies…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-14 S. Ali Mousavi , Mehdi Monemi , Reza Mohseni , Matti Latva-aho