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Min-max problems are important in multi-agent sequential decision-making because they improve the performance of the worst-performing agent in the network. However, solving the multi-agent min-max problem is challenging. We propose a…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Alexandros E. Tzikas , Jinkyoo Park , Mykel J. Kochenderfer , Ross E. Allen

To enhance the ability for vehicle platoons to respond to emergency scenarios, a platoon distribution reorganization decision-making framework is proposed. This framework contains platoon distribution layer, vehicle cooperative…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Aijing Kong , Chengkai Xu , Xian Wu , Xinbo Chen , Peng Hang

This paper presents a distributed model predictive control (DMPC) algorithm for a heterogeneous platoon using arbitrary communication topologies, provided each vehicle can communicate with a preceding vehicle in the platoon. The proposed…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Michael H. Shaham , Taskin Padir

Facing the trend of merging wireless communications and multi-access edge computing (MEC), this article studies computation offloading in the beyond fifth-generation networks. To address the technical challenges originating from the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Xianfu Chen , Celimuge Wu , Zhi Liu , Ning Zhang , Yusheng Ji

As the automotive industry is developing autonomous driving systems and vehicular networks, attention to truck platooning has increased as a way to reduce costs (fuel consumption) and improve efficiency in the highway. Recent research in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-15 Thiago S. Gomides , Evangelos Kranakis , Ioannis Lambadaris , Yannis Viniotis

The fifth generation and beyond wireless communication will support vastly heterogeneous services and use demands such as massive connection, low latency and high transmission rate. Network slicing has been envisaged as an efficient…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-02 Fei Song , Jun Li , Chuan Ma , Yijin Zhang , Long Shi , Dushantha Nalin K. Jayakody Li

We investigate the problem of distributed training under partial observability, whereby cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning agents (MARL) maximize the expected cumulative joint reward. We propose distributed value decomposition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Guilherme S. Varela , Alberto Sardinha , Francisco S. Melo

This paper studies the problem of distributed beam scheduling for 5G millimeter-Wave (mm-Wave) cellular networks where base stations (BSs) belonging to different operators share the same spectrum without centralized coordination among them.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Xiang Zhang , Shamik Sarkar , Arupjyoti Bhuyan , Sneha Kumar Kasera , Mingyue Ji

In this paper, a novel proximity and load-aware resource allocation for vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication is proposed. The proposed approach exploits the spatio-temporal traffic patterns, in terms of load and vehicles' physical…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-09-14 Muhammad Ikram Ashraf , Mehdi Bennis , Cristina Perfecto , Walid Saad

Multi-agent reinforcement learning tasks put a high demand on the volume of training samples. Different from its single-agent counterpart, distributed value-based multi-agent reinforcement learning faces the unique challenges of demanding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Siyang Wu , Tonghan Wang , Chenghao Li , Yang Hu , Chongjie Zhang

We address the problem of allocating limited resources in a network under persistent yet statistically unknown adversarial attacks. Each node in the network may be degraded, but not fully disabled, depending on its available defensive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Mansoor Davoodi , Setareh Maghsudi

The paper addresses large-scale, convex optimization problems that need to be solved in a distributed way by agents communicating according to a random time-varying graph. Specifically, the goal of the network is to minimize the sum of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Andrea Camisa , Francesco Farina , Ivano Notarnicola , Giuseppe Notarstefano

This paper develops distributed optimization based, platoon centered CAV car following schemes, motivated by the recent interest in CAV platooning technologies. Various distributed optimization or control schemes have been developed for CAV…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-23 Jinglai Shen , Eswar Kumar H. Kammara , Lili Du

This thesis explores a particular class of distributed optimization methods for various separable resource allocation problems, which are of high interest in a wide array of multi-agent settings. A distinctly motivating application for this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-26 Tor Anderson

In this work, we propose a distributed rate allocation algorithm that minimizes the average decoding delay for multimedia clients in inter-session network coding systems. We consider a scenario where the users are organized in a mesh…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Eirina Bourtsoulatze , Nikolaos Thomos , Pascal Frossard

A key issue in the control of distributed discrete systems modeled as Markov decisions processes, is that often the state of the system is not directly observable at any single location in the system. The participants in the control scheme…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-01 Jie Ren , Solmaz Torabi , John MacLaren Walsh

This paper proposes a data-driven distributed voltage control approach based on the spectrum clustering and the enhanced multi-agent deep reinforcement learning (MADRL) algorithm. Via the unsupervised clustering, the whole distribution…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Di Cao , Junbo Zhao , Weihao Hu , Fei Ding , Qi Huang , Zhe Chen

Multi-agent planning in stochastic environments can be framed formally as a decentralized Markov decision problem. Many real-life distributed problems that arise in manufacturing, multi-robot coordination and information gathering scenarios…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-11-02 Claudia V. Goldman , Shlomo Zilberstein

We consider the distributed resource selection problem in Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication in the absence of a base station. Each vehicle autonomously selects transmission resources from a pool of shared resources to disseminate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Alperen Gündogan , H. Murat Gürsu , Volker Pauli , Wolfgang Kellerer

This paper considers resource allocation to achieve max-min fairness in a selection-based orthogonal frequency division multiplexing network wherein source nodes are assisted by fixed decode-and-forward relays. The joint problem of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-12-14 Kianoush Hosseini , Raviraj S. Adve