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Distributed edge learning (DL) is considered a cornerstone of intelligence enablers, since it allows for collaborative training without the necessity for local clients to share raw data with other parties, thereby preserving privacy and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-15 Paul Zheng , Navid Keshtiarast , Pradyumna Kumar Bishoyi , Yao Zhu , Yulin Hu , Marina Petrova , Anke Schmeink

The mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) represent a broad area of study and market interest. They provide a wide set of applications in multiple domains. In that context, the functional and non-functional monitoring of these networks is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Jose Alvarez , Stephane Maag , Fatiha Zaidi

We study asynchronous distributed decision-making for scalable multi-agent bandit submodular maximization. We are motivated by distributed information-gathering tasks in unknown environments and under heterogeneous inter-agent communication…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Pranjal Sharma , Zirui Xu , Vasileios Tzoumas

As wireless communication becomes an ever-more evolving and pervasive part of the existing world, system capacity and Quality of Service (QoS) provisioning are becoming more critically evident. In order to improve system capacity and QoS,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-05-18 Bikramjit Singh

We study the process of multi-agent reinforcement learning in the context of load balancing in a distributed system, without use of either central coordination or explicit communication. We first define a precise framework in which to study…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-11-17 A. Schaerf , Y. Shoham , M. Tennenholtz

Development of many futuristic technologies, such as MANET, VANET, iThings, nano-devices, depend on efficient distributed communication protocols in multi-hop ad hoc networks. A vast majority of research in this area focus on design…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-02-19 Tomasz Jurdzinski , Dariusz R. Kowalski , Grzegorz Stachowiak

In this paper, we design a new smart softwaredefined radio access network (RAN) architecture with important properties like flexibility and traffic awareness for sixth generation (6G) wireless networks. In particular, we consider a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-21 Ali Nouruzi , Atefeh Rezaei , Ata Khalili , Nader Mokari , Mohammad Reza Javan , Eduard A. Jorswieck , Halim Yanikomeroglu

WiFi densification leads to the existence of multiple overlapping coverage areas, which allows user stations (STAs) to choose between different Access Points (APs). The standard WiFi association method makes the STAs select the AP with the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Marc Carrascosa , Boris Bellalta

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

Dynamic dispatching is one of the core problems for operation optimization in traditional industries such as mining, as it is about how to smartly allocate the right resources to the right place at the right time. Conventionally, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Chi Zhang , Philip Odonkor , Shuai Zheng , Hamed Khorasgani , Susumu Serita , Chetan Gupta

We propose a decentralized stochastic control solution for the broadcast message dissemination problem in wireless ad hoc networks with slow fading channels. We formulate the control problem as a dynamic robust game which is well justified…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-06-16 Vesal Hakami , Mehdi Dehghan

The rapid proliferation of wireless systems makes interference management more and more important. This paper presents a novel cognitive coexistence framework, which enables an infrastructure system to reduce interference to ad-hoc or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-12-09 Stefan Geirhofer , Lang Tong , Brian M. Sadler

For a wireless avionics communication system, a Multi-arm bandit game is mathematically formulated, which includes channel states, strategies, and rewards. The simple case includes only two agents sharing the spectrum which is fully studied…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-15 Jingyang Lu , Lun Li , Dan Shen , Genshe Chen , Bin Jia , Erik Blasch , Khanh Pham

We study the sequential resource allocation problem where a decision maker repeatedly allocates budgets between resources. Motivating examples include allocating limited computing time or wireless spectrum bands to multiple users (i.e.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Jinhang Zuo , Carlee Joe-Wong

This paper studies the optimal resource allocation problem within a multi-agent network composed of both autonomous agents and humans. The main challenge lies in the globally coupled constraints that link the decisions of autonomous agents…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-04 Yichen Yao , Ryan Mbagna Nanko , Yue Wang , Xuan Wang

In the first part of this paper, we have studied solely the spectrum sharing aspect of the above problem, and proposed algorithms for the CUs in the single AP network to efficiently share the spectrum. In this second part of the paper, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-11 Mingyi Hong , Alfredo Garcia , Jorge Barrera

While sequential task assignment for a single agent has been widely studied, such problems in a multi-agent setting, where the agents have heterogeneous task preferences or capabilities, remain less well-characterized. We study a…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Qinshuang Wei , Vaibhav Srivastava , Vijay Gupta

The problem of maintaining a wireless communication link between a fixed base station and an autonomous agent by means of a team of mobile robots is addressed in this work. Such problem can be of interest for search and rescue missions in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2013-12-10 Vaibhav Kumar Mehta , Filippo Arrichiello

Distributed learning is the problem of inferring a function in the case where training data is distributed among multiple geographically separated sources. Particularly, the focus is on designing learning strategies with low computational…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-07-22 Simone Scardapane

We model a radar network as an adversarial bandit problem, where the environment pre-selects reward sequences for each of several actions available to the network. This excludes environments which vary rewards in response to the learner's…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-26 William W. Howard , R. M. Buehrer , Anthony Martone