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In this paper we study the online learning problem involving rested and restless multiarmed bandits with multiple plays. The system consists of a single player/user and a set of K finite-state discrete-time Markov chains (arms) with unknown…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-25 Cem Tekin , Mingyan Liu

We address real-time sampling and estimation of autoregressive Markovian sources in dynamic yet structurally similar multi-hop wireless networks. Each node caches samples from others and communicates over wireless collision channels, aiming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Xingran Chen , Navid NaderiAlizadeh , Alejandro Ribeiro , Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti

Multi-armed bandits are extensively used to model sequential decision-making, making them ubiquitous in many real-life applications such as online recommender systems and wireless networking. We consider a multi-agent setting where each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Junghyun Lee , Laura Schmid , Se-Young Yun

The dynamic allocation of spectrum in 5G / 6G networks is critical to efficient resource utilization. However, applying traditional deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is often infeasible due to its immense sample complexity and the safety…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Oluwaseyi Giwa , Tobi Awodunmila , Muhammad Ahmed Mohsin , Ahsan Bilal , Muhammad Ali Jamshed

Multi-access point coordination (MAPC) is a key feature of IEEE 802.11bn, with a potential impact on future Wi-Fi networks. MAPC enables joint scheduling decisions across multiple access points (APs) to improve throughput, latency, and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-28 David Nunez , Francesc Wilhelmi , Maksymilian Wojnar , Katarzyna Kosek-Szott , Szymon Szott , Boris Bellalta

Deep Reinforcement Learning has been shown to be very successful in complex games, e.g. Atari or Go. These games have clearly defined rules, and hence allow simulation. In many practical applications, however, interactions with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Andreas Merentitis , Kashif Rasul , Roland Vollgraf , Abdul-Saboor Sheikh , Urs Bergmann

A multi-access wireless network with N transmitting nodes, each equipped with an energy harvesting (EH) device and a rechargeable battery of finite capacity, is studied. At each time slot (TS) a node is operative with a certain probability,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-05 Pol Blasco , Deniz Gunduz

Next generation networks are expected to be ultradense and aim to explore spectrum sharing paradigm that allows users to communicate in licensed, shared as well as unlicensed spectrum. Such ultra-dense networks will incur significant…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Sumit J Darak , Manjesh K. Hanawal

Reinforcement learning involves decision making in dynamic and uncertain environments and constitutes a crucial element of artificial intelligence. In our previous work, we experimentally demonstrated that the ultrafast chaotic oscillatory…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Makoto Naruse , Takatomo Mihana , Hirokazu Hori , Hayato Saigo , Kazuya Okamura , Mikio Hasegawa , Atsushi Uchida

In recent years, the integration of communication and control systems has gained significant traction in various domains, ranging from autonomous vehicles to industrial automation and beyond. Multi-armed bandit (MAB) algorithms have proven…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-16 Hiba Dakdouk , Mohamed Sana , Mattia Merluzzi

With the development of the 5G and Internet of Things, amounts of wireless devices need to share the limited spectrum resources. Dynamic spectrum access (DSA) is a promising paradigm to remedy the problem of inefficient spectrum utilization…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Xiang Tan , Li Zhou , Haijun Wang , Yuli Sun , Haitao Zhao , Boon-Chong Seet , Jibo Wei , Victor C. M. Leung

The thesis proposes a generalized charging framework for multiple mobile chargers to maximize the network lifetime and ensure target coverage and connectivity in large scale WRSNs. Moreover, a multi-point charging model is leveraged to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Bao Nguyen

We study the problem of decentralized task offloading and load-balancing in a dense network with numerous devices and a set of edge servers. Solving this problem optimally is complicated due to the unknown network information and random…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Mariam Yahya , Alexander Conzelmann , Setareh Maghsudi

Sequential decision-making under uncertainty often involves multiple agents learning which actions (arms) yield the highest rewards through repeated interaction with a stochastic environment. This setting is commonly modeled by cooperative…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-25 Evagoras Makridis , Themistoklis Charalambous

We study the initial beam acquisition problem in millimeter wave (mm-wave) networks from the perspective of best arm identification in multi-armed bandits (MABs). For the stationary environment, we propose a novel algorithm called…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Gourab Ghatak

There has been a growing interest for Wireless Distributed Computing (WDC), which leverages collaborative computing over multiple wireless devices. WDC enables complex applications that a single device cannot support individually. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-10 Yi-Hsuan Kao , Kwame Wright , Bhaskar Krishnamachari , Fan Bai

We consider an ad hoc network where multiple users access the same set of channels. The channel characteristics are unknown and could be different for each user (heterogeneous). No controller is available to coordinate channel selections by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Harshvardhan Tibrewal , Sravan Patchala , Manjesh K. Hanawal , Sumit J. Darak

Motivated by distributed selection problems, we formulate a new variant of multi-player multi-armed bandit (MAB) model, which captures stochastic arrival of requests to each arm, as well as the policy of allocating requests to players. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Hong Xie , Jinyu Mo , Defu Lian , Jie Wang , Enhong Chen

Setting up the future Internet of Things (IoT) networks will require to support more and more communicating devices. We prove that intelligent devices in unlicensed bands can use Multi-Armed Bandit (MAB) learning algorithms to improve…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Rémi Bonnefoi , Lilian Besson , Christophe Moy , Emilie Kaufmann , Jacques Palicot

As cellular networks become denser, a scalable and dynamic tuning of wireless base station parameters can only be achieved through automated optimization. Although the contextual bandit framework arises as a natural candidate for such a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Igor Colin , Albert Thomas , Moez Draief