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With the rapid expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT) and heterogeneous wireless networks, the Age of Information (AoI) has emerged as a critical metric for evaluating the performance of real-time and personalized systems. While…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Fang Liu , Erchao Zhu , Jiedan Tan , Jingwen Tong , Taotao Wang , Shengli Zhang

The exponential proliferation of mobile devices and data-intensive applications in future wireless networks imposes substantial computational burdens on resource-constrained devices, thereby fostering the emergence of over-the-air…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-24 Tuo Wu , Xiazhi Lai , Shihang Lu , Zihao Chen , Xiaotong Zhao , Yuanhao Cui

In this paper, we propose a novel decentralized framework for optimizing the transmission strategy of Irregular Repetition Slotted ALOHA (IRSA) protocol in sensor networks. We consider a hierarchical communication framework that ensures…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Eleni Nisioti , Nikolaos Thomos

Despite technological advancements, the significance of interdisciplinary subjects like complex networks has grown. Exploring communication within these networks is crucial, with traffic becoming a key concern due to the expanding…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Seyed Hassan Yajadda , Farshad Safaei

A number of deep reinforcement-learning (RL) approaches propose to control traffic signals. In this work, we study the robustness of such methods along two axes. First, sensor failures and GPS occlusions create missing-data challenges and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Tianyu Shi , Francois-Xavier Devailly , Denis Larocque , Laurent Charlin

In this paper, we present an adherence-aware reinforcement learning (RL) approach aimed at seeking optimal lane-changing recommendations within a semi-autonomous driving environment to enhance a single vehicle's travel efficiency. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Weihao Sun , Heeseung Bang , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

Emerging 6G industrial networks envision autonomous in-X subnetworks to support efficient and cost-effective short range, localized connectivity for autonomous control operations. Supporting timely transmission of event-driven, critical…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Samira Abdelrahman , Hossam Farag , Gilberto Berardinelli

Deep reinforcement learning in continuous domains focuses on learning control policies that map states to distributions over actions that ideally concentrate on the optimal choices in each step. In multi-agent navigation problems, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Chenning Yu , Hongzhan Yu , Sicun Gao

In many wireless communication networks a common channel is shared by multiple users who must compete to gain access to it. The operation of the network by self-interested and strategic users usually leads to the overuse of the channel…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-16 Luca Canzian , Yuanzhang Xiao , Michele Zorzi , Mihaela van der Schaar

A non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) assisted semi-grant-free (SGF) framework is proposed to enable channel access for grant-free users (GFUs) by using residual resources from grant-based users. Under this framework, the problem of joint…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-18 Yuqin Liu , Mona Jaber , Yan Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan

Internet of things, supported by machine-to-machine (M2M) communications, is one of the most important applications for future 6th generation (6G) systems. A major challenge facing by 6G is enabling a massive number of M2M devices to access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Kan Zheng , Haojun Yang , Xiong Xiong , Jie Mei , Kuan Zhang

Distributed Opportunistic Scheduling (DOS) techniques have been recently proposed to improve the throughput performance of wireless networks. With DOS, each station contends for the channel with a certain access probability. If a contention…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Andres Garcia-Saavedra , Albert Banchs , Pablo Serrano , Joerg Widmer

Optimizing embedded systems, where the optimization of one depends on the state of another, is a formidable computational and algorithmic challenge, that is ubiquitous in real world systems. We study flow networks, where bilevel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-09 Bo Li , David Saad , Chi Ho Yeung

Traffic congestion has lead to an increasing emphasis on management measures for a more efficient utilization of existing infrastructure. In this context, this paper proposes a novel framework that integrates real-time optimization of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 Samarth Gupta , Ravi Seshadri , Bilge Atasoy , A. Arun Prakash , Francisco Pereira , Gary Tan , Moshe Ben-Akiva

We propose an approach based on machine learning to solve two-stage linear adaptive robust optimization (ARO) problems with binary here-and-now variables and polyhedral uncertainty sets. We encode the optimal here-and-now decisions, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Dimitris Bertsimas , Cheol Woo Kim

In the backdrop of an increasingly pressing need for effective urban and highway transportation systems, this work explores the synergy between model-based and learning-based strategies to enhance traffic flow management by use of an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-04 Filippo Airaldi , Bart De Schutter , Azita Dabiri

The management of mixed traffic that consists of robot vehicles (RVs) and human-driven vehicles (HVs) at complex intersections presents a multifaceted challenge. Traditional signal controls often struggle to adapt to dynamic traffic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Dawei Wang , Weizi Li , Lei Zhu , Jia Pan

This paper proposes a novel meta-learning based hyper-parameter optimization framework for wireless network traffic prediction (NTP) models. The primary objective is to accumulate and leverage the acquired hyper-parameter optimization…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Liangzhi Wang , Jie Zhang , Yuan Gao , Jiliang Zhang , Guiyi Wei , Haibo Zhou , Bin Zhuge , Zitian Zhang

In this paper, we investigate unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assisted communication systems that require quasi-balanced data rates in uplink (UL) and downlink (DL), as well as users' heterogeneous traffic. To the best of our knowledge, this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-17 Haiyong Zeng , Xu Zhu , Yufei Jiang , Zhongxiang Wei , Sumei Sun

In this paper, a novel uncoordinated random access (URA) protocol is presented to address the pressing demand for massive connectivity with low access latency in future massive machine type communication (mMTC) scenarios. The proposed URA…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Pengyu Gao , Qu Luo , Jing Zhu , Gaojie Chen , Pei Xiao , Chuan Heng Foh