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The throughput achievable in truncated Hybrid ARQ protocol (HARQ) using incremental redundancy (IR) in analyzed when transmitting over a block-fading channel whose state is unknown at the transmitter. We allow the transmission lengths to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Leszek Szczecinski , Ciro Correa , Luciano Ahumada

We consider the problem of multiple agents sensing and acting in environments with the goal of maximising their shared utility. In these environments, agents must learn communication protocols in order to share information that is needed to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-05-25 Jakob N. Foerster , Yannis M. Assael , Nando de Freitas , Shimon Whiteson

Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) have become a prevalent paradigm for Large Language Model (LLM) applications. However, the complex multi-agent design in MAS introduces unique trustworthiness concerns: adversarial agents can inject misleading…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Chengcan Wu , Zhixin Zhang , Mingqian Xu , Zeming Wei , Meng Sun

While the automotive industry is currently facing a contest among different communication technologies and paradigms about predominance in the connected vehicles sector, the diversity of the various application requirements makes it…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Benjamin Sliwa , Johannes Pillmann , Maximilian Klaß , Christian Wietfeld

We present an approach to reduce the communication required between agents in a Multi-Agent learning system by exploiting the inherent robustness of the underlying Markov Decision Process. We compute so-called robustness surrogate functions…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Daniel Jarne Ornia , Manuel Mazo

The deployment of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for surveillance and monitoring gives rise to the confidential information leakage challenge in both civilian and military environments. The security and covert communication problems for a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Hui-Ming Wang , Yan Zhang , Xu Zhang , Zhetao Li

Learning communication strategies in cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has recently attracted intensive attention. Early studies typically assumed a fully-connected communication topology among agents, which induces high…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Xuefeng Wang , Xinran Li , Jiawei Shao , Jun Zhang

Wireless information and power transfer (WIPT) enables more sustainable and resilient communications owing to the fact that it avoids frequent battery charging and replacement. However, it also suffers from possible information interception…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Xiaoming Chen , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Hsiao-Hwa Chen

We study a cost sharing problem derived from bug bounty programs, where agents gain utility by the amount of time they get to enjoy the cost shared information. Once the information is provided to an agent, it cannot be retracted. The goal,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Mingyu Guo , Yong Yang , Muhammad Ali Babar

Recent studies have shown that introducing communication between agents can significantly improve overall performance in cooperative Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). However, existing communication schemes often require agents to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Sai Qian Zhang , Jieyu Lin , Qi Zhang

Wireless sensor networks have been increasingly used for real-time surveillance over large areas. In such applications, it is important to support end-to-end delay constraints for packet deliveries even when the corresponding flows require…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-04-23 I-Hong Hou

We consider the problem of covert communication over a state-dependent channel when the channel state is available either non-causally, causally, or strictly causally, either at the transmitter alone or at both transmitter and receiver.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Hassan ZivariFard , Matthieu R. Bloch , Aria Nosratinia

In Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning, communication is critical to encourage cooperation among agents. Communication in realistic wireless networks can be highly unreliable due to network conditions varying with agents' mobility, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Diyi Hu , Chi Zhang , Viktor Prasanna , Bhaskar Krishnamachari

This paper studies the synchronization problem of second-order nonlinear multi-agent systems with intermittent communication in the presence of irregular communication delays and possible information loss. The control objective is to steer…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-07 Abdelkader Abdessameud , Ilia G. Polushin , Abdelhamid Tayebi

Covert wireless communication or low probability of detection (LPD) communication that employs the noise or jamming signals as the cover to hide user's information can prevent a warden Willie from discovering user's transmission attempts.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-11 Zhihong Liu , Jiajia Liu , Yong Zeng , Zhuo Ma , Jianfeng Ma , Qiping Huang

In this paper we consider a model of spreading information in heterogeneous systems wherein we have two kinds of objects. Some of them are active and others are passive. Active objects can, if they possess information, share it with an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Jacek Cichoń , Zbigniew Goł\eobbiewski , Marcin Kardas , Marek Klonowski , Filip Zagórski

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) comprises a broad area of research within the field of multi-agent systems. Several recent works have focused specifically on the study of communication approaches in MARL. While multiple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Rafael Pina , Varuna De Silva , Corentin Artaud , Xiaolan Liu

With the rapid advancement of vehicular communication facilities and autonomous driving technologies, connected vehicle platooning has emerged as a promising approach to improve traffic efficiency and driving safety. Reliable…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-22 Yaqi Xu , Yan Shi , Jin Tian , Fanzeng Xia , Tongxin Li , Shanzhi Chen , Yuming Ge

We study the efficiency of the gradient mechanism of message transfer in a $2-d$ communication network of regular nodes and randomly distributed hubs. Each hub on the network is assigned some randomly chosen capacity and hubs with lower…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Satyam Mukherjee , Neelima Gupte

Mixture-of-Agents (MoA) inference can suffer from dense inter-agent communication and low hardware utilization, which jointly inflate serving latency. We present a serving design that targets these bottlenecks through an algorithm-system…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Zijun Wang , Yijiahao Qi , Hanqiu Chen , Zishen Wan , Gongjin Sun , Dongyang Li , Shuyi Pei , Cong Hao