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Environment sensing and fusion via onboard sensors are envisioned to be widely applied in future autonomous driving networks. This paper considers a vehicular system with multiple self-driving vehicles that is assisted by multi-access edge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Xueyao Zhang , Bo Yang , Xuelin Cao , Zhiwen Yu , George C. Alexandropoulos , Yan Zhang , Merouane Debbah , Chau Yuen

Communication lays the foundation for human cooperation. It is also crucial for multi-agent cooperation. However, existing work focuses on broadcast communication, which is not only impractical but also leads to information redundancy that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Ziluo Ding , Tiejun Huang , Zongqing Lu

Learning communication via deep reinforcement learning (RL) or imitation learning (IL) has recently been shown to be an effective way to solve Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF). However, existing communication based MAPF solvers focus on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Ziyuan Ma , Yudong Luo , Jia Pan

Efforts in this paper seek to combine graph theory with adaptive dynamic programming (ADP) as a reinforcement learning (RL) framework to determine forward-in-time, real-time, approximate optimal controllers for distributed multi-agent…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Rushikesh Kamalapurkar , Huyen Dinh , Patrick Walters , Warren Dixon

Augmenting federated learning (FL) with direct device-to-device (D2D) communications can help improve convergence speed and reduce model bias through rapid local information exchange. However, data privacy concerns, device trust issues, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-09 Satyavrat Wagle , Anindya Bijoy Das , David J. Love , Christopher G. Brinton

In order to collaborate efficiently with unknown partners in cooperative control settings, adaptation of the partners based on online experience is required. The rather general and widely applicable control setting, where each cooperation…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Florian Köpf , Samuel Tesfazgi , Michael Flad , Sören Hohmann

In this paper, we develop a comprehensive analytical framework for cache enabled cellular networks overlaid with coordinated device-to-device (D2D) communication. We follow an approach similar to LTE Direct, where the base station (BS) is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-12-21 Asma Afzal , Syed Ali Raza Zaidi , Des McLernon , Mounir Ghogho

We formulate offloading of computational tasks from a dynamic group of mobile agents (e.g., cars) as decentralized decision making among autonomous agents. We design an interaction mechanism that incentivizes such agents to align private…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Jing Tan , Ramin Khalili , Holger Karl , Artur Hecker

To alleviate the burdens on the fronthaul and reduce the transmit latency, the device-to-device (D2D) communication is presented in cloud radio access networks (C-RANs). Considering dynamic traffic arrivals and time-varying channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Yitao Mo , Mugen Peng , Hongyu Xiang , Yaohua Sun , Xiaodong Ji

In several smart city applications, multiple resources must be allocated among competing agents that are coupled through such shared resources and are constrained --- either through limitations of communication infrastructure or privacy…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Syed Eqbal Alam , Robert Shorten , Fabian Wirth , Jia Yuan Yu

To achieve the potential in providing high throughput for cellular networks by device-to-device (D2D) communications, the interference among D2D links should be carefully managed. In this paper, we propose an opportunistic cooperation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-15 Binqiang Chen , Chenyang Yang , Gang Wang

Semi-decentralized federated learning blends the conventional device to-server (D2S) interaction structure of federated model training with localized device-to-device (D2D) communications. We study this architecture over practical edge…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Rohit Parasnis , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Yun-Wei Chu , Mung Chiang , Christopher G. Brinton

With wireless devices increasingly forming a unified smart network for seamless, user-friendly operations, random access (RA) medium access control (MAC) design is considered a key solution for handling unpredictable data traffic from…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Myeung Suk Oh , Zhiyao Zhang , FNU Hairi , Alvaro Velasquez , Jia Liu

Standard deep reinforcement learning algorithms use a shared representation for the policy and value function, especially when training directly from images. However, we argue that more information is needed to accurately estimate the value…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Roberta Raileanu , Rob Fergus

To integrate high amounts of renewable energy resources, electrical power grids must be able to cope with high amplitude, fast timescale variations in power generation. Frequency regulation through demand response has the potential to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Vincent Mai , Philippe Maisonneuve , Tianyu Zhang , Hadi Nekoei , Liam Paull , Antoine Lesage-Landry

Heterogeneous cellular networks (HCNs) with millimeter wave (mm-wave) communications are considered as a promising technology for the fifth generation mobile networks. Mm-wave has the potential to provide multiple gigabit data rate due to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Yali Chen , Bo Ai , Yong Niu , Ruisi He , Zhangdui Zhong , Zhu Han

In recent years, with the explosive growth of data traffic, communication base stations (BSs) need to serve more and more users. Offloading traffic from BSs has become an efficient way to reduce the burden on BSs. Device-to-Device (D2D)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Shaoyou Ao , Yong Niu , Zhu Han , Bo Ai , Zhangdui Zhong , Ning Wang , Yuanyuan Qiao

Graph-based environments pose unique challenges to multi-agent reinforcement learning. In decentralized approaches, agents operate within a given graph and make decisions based on partial or outdated observations. The size of the observed…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Jannis Weil , Zhenghua Bao , Osama Abboud , Tobias Meuser

In this paper, we study the distributed computational capabilities of device-to-device (D2D) networks. A key characteristic of D2D networks is that their topologies are reconfigurable to cope with network demands. For distributed computing,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Junghoon Kim , Taejoon Kim , Morteza Hashemi , Christopher G. Brinton , David J. Love

This paper presents a trust-based predictive multi-agent consensus protocol that analyses neighbours' anticipation data and makes coordination decisions. Agents in the network share their future predicted data over a finite look-ahead…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-18 Venkatraman Renganathan , Sabyasachi Mondal , Antonios Tsourdos