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A fundamental problem in the design of wireless networks is to efficiently schedule transmission in a distributed manner. The main challenge stems from the fact that optimal link scheduling involves solving a maximum weighted independent…

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In wireless multi-hop networks, delay is an important metric for many applications. However, the max-weight scheduling algorithms in the literature typically focus on instantaneous optimality, in which the schedule is selected by solving a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-18 Zhongyuan Zhao , Gunjan Verma , Ananthram Swami , Santiago Segarra

Graph Neural Networks (GNN) exhibit superior performance in graph representation learning, but their inference cost can be high, due to an aggregation operation that can require a memory fetch for a very large number of nodes. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Yaochen Hu , Mai Zeng , Ge Zhang , Pavel Rumiantsev , Liheng Ma , Yingxue Zhang , Mark Coates

The aggressive densification of modern wireless networks necessitates judicious resource allocation to mitigate severe mutual interference. However, classical iterative algorithms remain computationally prohibitive for real-time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Yucheng Sheng , Jiacheng Wang , Le Liang , Hao Ye , Shi Jin

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communication technologies have recently emerged as an attractive solution to meet the exponentially increasing demand on mobile data traffic. Moreover, ultra dense networks (UDNs) combined with mmWave technology…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-25 H. Zhang , S. Huang , C. Jiang , K. Long , V. C. M. Leung , H. Vincent Poor

We propose a learning-based framework for efficient power allocation in ad hoc interference networks under episodic constraints. The problem of optimal power allocation -- for maximizing a given network utility metric -- under instantaneous…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-22 Arindam Chowdhury , Santiago Paternain , Gunjan Verma , Ananthram Swami , Santiago Segarra

Minimizing transmission delay in wireless multi-hop networks is a fundamental yet challenging task due to the complex coupling among interference, queue dynamics, and distributed control. Traditional scheduling algorithms, such as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-10 Boxuan Wen , Junyu Luo

Radio on Free Space Optics (RoFSO), as a universal platform for heterogeneous wireless services, is able to transmit multiple radio frequency signals at high rates in free space optical networks. This paper investigates the optimal design…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-25 Zhan Gao , Mark Eisen , Alejandro Ribeiro

Computational offloading has become an enabling component for edge intelligence in mobile and smart devices. Existing offloading schemes mainly focus on mobile devices and servers, while ignoring the potential network congestion caused by…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Zhongyuan Zhao , Jake Perazzone , Gunjan Verma , Santiago Segarra

The p-persistent CSMA protocol is central to random-access MAC analysis, but predicting saturation throughput in heterogeneous multi-hop wireless networks remains a hard problem. Simplified models that assume a single, shared interference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Faezeh Dehghan Tarzjani , Bhaskar Krishnamachari

This work develops a novel power control framework for energy-efficient power control in wireless networks. The proposed method is a new branch-and-bound procedure based on problem-specific bounds for energy-efficiency maximization that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Bho Matthiesen , Alessio Zappone , Karl-L. Besser , Eduard A. Jorswieck , Merouane Debbah

We consider optimal resource allocation problems under asynchronous wireless network setting. Without explicit model knowledge, we design an unsupervised learning method based on Aggregation Graph Neural Networks (Agg-GNNs). Depending on…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Zhiyang Wang , Mark Eisen , Alejandro Ribeiro

We consider joint beamforming and stream allocation to maximize the weighted sum rate (WSR) for non-coherent joint transmission (NCJT) in user-centric cell-free MIMO networks, where distributed access points (APs) are organized in clusters…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-29 Xi Wang , Xiaotong Zhao , Juncheng Wang , You Li , Qingjiang Shi

We propose an end-to-end framework based on a Graph Neural Network (GNN) to balance the power flows in energy grids. The balancing is framed as a supervised vertex regression task, where the GNN is trained to predict the current and power…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Jonas Berg Hansen , Stian Normann Anfinsen , Filippo Maria Bianchi

In wireless mesh networks such as WLAN (IEEE 802.11s) or WMAN (IEEE 802.11), each node should help to relay packets of neighboring nodes toward gateway using multi-hop routing mechanisms. Wireless mesh networks usually intensively deploy…

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The ever-increasing demand for high-quality and heterogeneous wireless communication services has driven extensive research on dynamic optimization strategies in wireless networks. Among several possible approaches, multi-agent deep…

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We consider a heterogeneous network (HetNet) of base stations (BSs) connected via a backhaul network of routers and wired/wireless links with limited capacity. The optimal provision of such networks requires proper resource allocation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-20 Wei-Cheng Liao , Mingyi Hong , Hamid Farmanbar , Xu Li , Zhi-Quan Luo , Hang Zhang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been shown promising in improving the efficiency of learning communication policies by leveraging their permutation properties. Nonetheless, existing works design GNNs only for specific wireless policies,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-22 Shengjie Liu , Jia Guo , Chenyang Yang

The recent rapid growth in mobile data traffic entails a pressing demand for improving the throughput of the underlying wireless communication networks. Network node deployment has been considered as an effective approach for throughput…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Yifei Yang , Dongmian Zou , Xiaofan He

In massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, hybrid analog-digital (AD) beamforming can be used to attain a high directional gain without requiring a dedicated radio frequency (RF) chain for each antenna element, which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-15 S. Shi , Y. Cai , Q. Hu , B. Champagne , L. Hanzo