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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are envisioned to complement the 5G communication infrastructure in future smart cities. Hot spots easily appear in road intersections, where effective communication among vehicles is challenging. UAVs may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Ming Zhu , Xiao-Yang Liu , Anwar Walid

Spectrum allocation in the form of primary channel and bandwidth selection is a key factor for dynamic channel bonding (DCB) wireless local area networks (WLANs). To cope with varying environments, where networks change their configurations…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Sergio Barrachina-Muñoz , Alessandro Chiumento , Boris Bellalta

Multi-armed Bandit (MAB) algorithms identify the best arm among multiple arms via exploration-exploitation trade-off without prior knowledge of arm statistics. Their usefulness in wireless radio, IoT, and robotics demand deployment on edge…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-08 S. V. Sai Santosh , Sumit J. Darak

Autonomous tracking of flying aerial objects has important civilian and defense applications, ranging from search and rescue to counter-unmanned aerial systems (counter-UAS). Ground based tracking requires setting up infrastructure, could…

We introduce a new class of reinforcement learning methods referred to as {\em episodic multi-armed bandits} (eMAB). In eMAB the learner proceeds in {\em episodes}, each composed of several {\em steps}, in which it chooses an action and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Cem Tekin , Mihaela van der Schaar

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technology is becoming more prevalent and more diverse in its application. 5G and beyond networks must enable UAV connectivity. This will require the network operator to consider this new type of user in the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Erika Fonseca , Boris Galkin , Marvin Kelly , Luiz A. DaSilva , Ivana Dusparic

The integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with Internet of Things (IoT) networks offers promising solutions for efficient data collection. However, the limited energy capacity of UAVs remains a significant challenge. In this case,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Geng Sun , Likun Zhang , Jiahui Li , Jing Wu , Jiacheng Wang , Zemin Sun , Changyuan Zhao , Victor C. M. Leung

The usage of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in civil and military applications continues to increase due to the numerous advantages that they provide over conventional approaches. Despite the abundance of such advantages, it is imperative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Ilyes Mrad , Lutfi Samara , Alaa Awad Abdellatif , Abubakr Al-Abbasi , Ridha Hamila , Aiman Erbad

This paper presents the first decentralized method to enable real-world 6-DoF manipulation of a cable-suspended load using a team of Micro-Aerial Vehicles (MAVs). Our method leverages multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) to train an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Jack Zeng , Andreu Matoses Gimenez , Eugene Vinitsky , Javier Alonso-Mora , Sihao Sun

We study the constrained variant of the \emph{multi-armed bandit} (MAB) problem, in which the learner aims not only at minimizing the total loss incurred during the learning dynamic, but also at controlling the violation of multiple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Francesco Emanuele Stradi , Kalana Kalupahana , Matteo Castiglioni , Alberto Marchesi , Nicola Gatti

Flying drones can be used in a wide range of applications and services from surveillance to package delivery. To ensure robust control and safety of drone operations, cellular networks need to provide reliable wireless connectivity to drone…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Yun Chen , Xingqin Lin , Talha Khan , Mohammad Mozaffari

In this paper, we propose a multi-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted integrated sensing, communication, and computation network. Specifically, the treble-functional UAVs are capable of offering communication and edge computing services…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Sicong Peng , Bin Li , Lei Liu , Zesong Fei , Dusit Niyato

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with mounted base stations are a promising technology for monitoring smart farms. They can provide communication and computation services to extensive agricultural regions. With the assistance of a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Anne Catherine Nguyen , Turgay Pamuklu , Aisha Syed , W. Sean Kennedy , Melike Erol-Kantarci

The use of cellular networks for massive machine-type communications (mMTC) is an appealing solution due to the availability of the existing infrastructure. However, the massive number of user equipments (UEs) poses a significant challenge…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-22 Ahmed O. Elmeligy , Ioannis Psaromiligkos , Au Minh

This paper investigates the Restless Multi-Armed Bandit (RMAB) framework under individual penalty constraints to address resource allocation challenges in dynamic wireless networked environments. Unlike conventional RMAB models, our model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Nida Zamir , I-Hong Hou

Beam alignment (BA) is to ensure the transmitter and receiver beams are accurately aligned to establish a reliable communication link in millimeter-wave (mmwave) systems. Existing BA methods search the entire beam space to identify the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-10 Wen Wu , Nan Cheng , Ning Zhang , Peng Yang , Weihua Zhuang , Xuemin , Shen

Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a widely researched area in artificial intelligence that focuses on teaching agents decision-making through interactions with their environment. A key subset includes stochastic multi-armed bandit (MAB) and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-20 Pengjie Zhou , Haoyu Wei , Huiming Zhang

In this paper, we investigate a new multi-armed bandit (MAB) online learning model that considers real-world phenomena in many recommender systems: (i) the learning agent cannot pull the arms by itself and thus has to offer rewards to users…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Tianchen Zhou , Jia Liu , Chaosheng Dong , Jingyuan Deng

Bandit optimization usually refers to the class of online optimization problems with limited feedback, namely, a decision maker uses only the objective value at the current point to make a new decision and does not have access to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Yuriy Dorn , Aleksandr Katrutsa , Ilgam Latypov , Anastasiia Soboleva

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) offers significant advantages in mobility scenarios, mainly due to the elimination of cell boundaries and strong macro diversity. In this paper, we examine the downlink performance of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Ziheng Liu , Jiayi Zhang , Yiyang Zhu , Enyu Shi , Bo Ai