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This paper introduces a decentralized multi-agent reinforcement learning framework enabling structurally heterogeneous teams of agents to jointly discover and acquire randomly located targets in environments characterized by partial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Gabriele Calzolari , Vidya Sumathy , Christoforos Kanellakis , George Nikolakopoulos

With the increasing popularity of electric vehicles, distributed energy generation and storage facilities in smart grid systems, an efficient Demand-Side Management (DSM) is urgent for energy savings and peak loads reduction. Traditional…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-21 Jianwen Sun , Yan Zheng , Jianye Hao , Zhaopeng Meng , Yang Liu

This article investigates the adaptive resource allocation scheme for digital twin (DT) synchronization optimization over dynamic wireless networks. In our considered model, a base station (BS) continuously collects factory physical object…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Haonan Tong , Mingzhe Chen , Jun Zhao , Ye Hu , Zhaohui Yang , Yuchen Liu , Changchuan Yin

The performance of cloud-based small cell networks (C-SCNs) relies highly on a capacity-limited fronthaul, which degrade quality of service when it is saturated. Coded caching is a promising approach to addressing these challenges, as it…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Xiongwei Wu , Qiang Li , Victor C. M. Leung , P. C. Ching

Same-Day Delivery services are becoming increasingly popular in recent years. These have been usually modelled by previous studies as a certain class of Dynamic Vehicle Routing Problem (DVRP) where goods must be delivered from a depot to a…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Elvin Ngu , Leandro Parada , Jose Javier Escribano Macias , Panagiotis Angeloudis

Multi-agent deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has emerged as a promising approach for radio resource allocation (RRA) in cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) networks. However, the multifaceted challenges inherent to multi-agent…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Siyuan Wang , Lei Lei , Pranav Maheshwari , Sam Bellefeuille , Kan Zheng , Dusit Niyato

Network slicing (NS) management devotes to providing various services to meet distinct requirements over the same physical communication infrastructure and allocating resources on demands. Considering a dense cellular network scenario that…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Yan Shao , Rongpeng Li , Bing Hu , Yingxiao Wu , Zhifeng Zhao , Honggang Zhang

Constrained multi-agent reinforcement learning offers the framework to design scalable and almost surely feasible solutions for teams of agents operating in dynamic environments to carry out conflicting tasks. We address the challenges of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-03 Leopoldo Agorio , Sean Van Alen , Santiago Paternain , Miguel Calvo-Fullana , Juan Andres Bazerque

Efficient mission planning for cooperative systems involving Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) requires addressing energy constraints, scalability, and coordination challenges between agents. UAVs excel in…

The collaboration and interaction of multiple robots have become integral aspects of smart manufacturing. Effective planning and management play a crucial role in achieving energy savings and minimising overall costs. This paper addresses…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Ziren Xiao , Ruxin Xiao , Chang Liu , Xinheng Wang

Collaborative autonomous multi-agent systems covering a specified area have many potential applications, such as UAV search and rescue, forest fire fighting, and real-time high-resolution monitoring. Traditional approaches for such coverage…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Xinyu Zhao , Razvan C. Fetecau , Mo Chen

The complexity and nonlinearity of active distribution network (ADN), coupled with the fast-changing renewable energy (RE), necessitate advanced real-time and safe dispatch approach. This paper proposes a complementary reinforcement…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-18 Bohan Zhang , Zhongkai Yi , Ying Xu , Zhenghong Tu

Grid resilience is crucial in light of power interruptions caused by increasingly frequent extreme weather events. Well-designed energy management systems (EMS) have made progress in improving microgrid resilience through the coordination…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Yin Wu , Wei-Yu Chiu , Yuan-Po Tsai , Shangyuan Liu , Weiqi Hua

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) algorithms are widely adopted in tackling complex tasks that require collaboration and competition among agents in dynamic Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). However, learning such tasks from scratch is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Ayesha Siddika Nipu , Siming Liu , Anthony Harris

Small base stations (SBs) of fifth-generation (5G) cellular networks are envisioned to have storage devices to locally serve requests for reusable and popular contents by \emph{caching} them at the edge of the network, close to the end…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-24 Alireza Sadeghi , Fatemeh Sheikholeslami , Antonio G. Marques , Georgios B. Giannakis

Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms can solve complex sequential decision tasks successfully. However, they have a major drawback of having poor sample efficiency which can often be tackled by knowledge reuse. In Multi-Agent…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Ercüment İlhan , Jeremy Gow , Diego Perez-Liebana

This paper investigates a futuristic spectrum sharing paradigm for heterogeneous wireless networks with imperfect channels. In the heterogeneous networks, multiple wireless networks adopt different medium access control (MAC) protocols to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Yiding Yu , Soung Chang Liew , Taotao Wang

Low latency communication is one of the fundamental requirements for 5G wireless networks and beyond. In this paper, a novel approach for joint caching, user scheduling and resource allocation is proposed for minimizing the queuing latency…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Tamoor-ul-Hassan Syed , Samarakoon Sumudu , Bennis Mehdi , Matti Latva-aho

One key challenge for multi-task Reinforcement learning (RL) in practice is the absence of task indicators. Robust RL has been applied to deal with task ambiguity, but may result in over-conservative policies. To balance the worst-case…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Mengdi Xu , Peide Huang , Yaru Niu , Visak Kumar , Jielin Qiu , Chao Fang , Kuan-Hui Lee , Xuewei Qi , Henry Lam , Bo Li , Ding Zhao

Self-organizing networks face challenges from complex parameter interdependencies and conflicting objectives. This study introduces two compositional learning approaches-Compositional Deep Reinforcement Learning (CDRL) and Compositional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Qi Liao , Parijat Bhattacharjee