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In cognitive Internet of Things (CIoT) networks, efficient spectrum sharing is essential to address increasing wireless demands. This paper presents a novel deep reinforcement learning (DRL)-based approach for joint cooperative caching and…

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The low-altitude Internet of Things (IoT), supported by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), provides ground sensing networks with advanced real-time monitoring and data collection. To maximize data collection volume from distributed IoT nodes,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Zhenjia Xu , Xiaoling Zhang , Nan Qi , Guangxu Zhu , Xiaojie Li , Luliang Jia

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) exploits the potential of the power domain to enhance the connectivity for the Internet of Things (IoT). Due to time-varying communication channels, dynamic user clustering is a promising method to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Waleed Ahsan , Wenqiang Yi , Zhijin Qin , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan

Multi-user delay constrained scheduling is important in many real-world applications including wireless communication, live streaming, and cloud computing. Yet, it poses a critical challenge since the scheduler needs to make real-time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Pihe Hu , Ling Pan , Yu Chen , Zhixuan Fang , Longbo Huang

Inter-Cell Interference Coordination (ICIC) is a promising way to improve energy efficiency in wireless networks, especially where small base stations are densely deployed. However, traditional optimization based ICIC schemes suffer from…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Yujiao Lu , Hancheng Lu , Liangliang Cao , Feng Wu , Daren Zhu

Massive connectivity for Internet of Things applications is expected to challenge the way access reservation protocols are designed in 5G networks. Since the number of devices and their density are envisioned to be orders of magnitude…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Mikhail Vilgelm , Sergio Rueda Linares , Wolfgang Kellerer

We consider a multichannel random access system in which each user accesses a single channel at each time slot to communicate with an access point (AP). Users arrive to the system at random and be activated for a certain period of time…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-11 Muhammad Sohaib , Jongjin Jeong , Sang-Woon Jeon

This paper proposes a hierarchical deep reinforcement learning (DRL) framework based on the soft actor-critic (SAC) algorithm for hybrid underlay-overlay cognitive Internet of Things (CIoT) networks with simultaneous wireless information…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-17 Nadia Abdolkhani , Walaa Hamouda

Internet of Things (IoT) devices have become increasingly ubiquitous with applications not only in urban areas but remote areas as well. These devices support industries such as agriculture, forestry, and resource extraction. Due to the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Ethan Fettes , Pablo G. Madoery , Halim Yanikomeroglu , Gunes Karabulut-Kurt , Abhishek Naik , Colin Bellinger , Stephane Martel , Khaled Ahmed , Sameera Siddiqui

Recently, we have struck the balance between the information freshness, in terms of age of information (AoI), experienced by users and energy consumed by sensors, by appropriately activating sensors to update their current status in caching…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Chao Xu , Yiping Xie , Xijun Wang , Howard H. Yang , Dusit Niyato , Tony Q. S. Quek

In this paper, we are interested in symbiotic radio networks, in which an Internet-of-Things (IoT) network parasitizes in a primary network to achieve spectrum-, energy-, and infrastructure-efficient communications. Specifically, the BS…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-13 Qianqian Zhang , Ying-Chang Liang , H. Vincent Poor

The rapid growth of Internet of Things (IoT) devices produces massive, heterogeneous data streams, demanding scalable and efficient scheduling in cloud environments to meet latency, energy, and Quality-of-Service (QoS) requirements.…

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The increasing demand for electricity, coupled with the rise in greenhouse gas emissions, necessitates the integration of Renewable Energy Sources (RESs) into power grids. However, the fluctuating nature of RESs introduces new challenges in…

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In this paper, we propose a federated deep reinforcement learning framework to solve a multi-objective optimization problem, where we consider minimizing the expected long-term task completion delay and energy consumption of IoT devices.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Sheyda Zarandi , Hina Tabassum

Massive machine type communication (mMTC) has been identified as an important use case in Beyond 5G networks and future massive Internet of Things (IoT). However, for the massive multiple access in mMTC, there is a serious access preamble…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Gaofeng Cheng , Huan Chen , Pingzhi Fan , Li Li , Li Hao

Massive random access of devices in the emerging Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) brings great challenge to the access control and management. Exploiting the bursting nature of the access requests, sparse active user detection (SAUD) is an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Xiao Tang , Sicong Liu , Xiaojiang Du , Mohsen Guizani

Next generation wireless networks are expected to be extremely complex due to their massive heterogeneity in terms of the types of network architectures they incorporate, the types and numbers of smart IoT devices they serve, and the types…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-14 Abdulmalik Alwarafy , Mohamed Abdallah , Bekir Sait Ciftler , Ala Al-Fuqaha , Mounir Hamdi

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has emerged as a powerful solution for meeting the growing demands for connectivity, reliability, low latency and operational efficiency in advanced networks. However, most research has focused on…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Haiyuan Li , Hari Madhukumar , Peizheng Li , Yuelin Liu , Yiran Teng , Yulei Wu , Ning Wang , Shuangyi Yan , Dimitra Simeonidou

In this paper, we for the first time investigate the random access problem for a delay-constrained heterogeneous wireless network. We begin with a simple two-device problem where two devices deliver delay-constrained traffic to an access…

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