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This paper addresses a critical challenge in the high-speed passenger railway industry: designing effective dynamic pricing strategies in the context of competing and cooperating operators. To address this, a multi-agent reinforcement…

Massive MIMO is widely considered as a key enabler of the next generation 5G networks. With a large number of antennas at the Base Station, both spectral and energy efficiencies can be enhanced. Unfortunately, the downlink channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Ali Maatouk , Salah Eddine Hajri , Mohamad Assaad , Hikmet Sari

Real-time dynamic scheduling is a crucial but notoriously challenging task in modern manufacturing processes due to its high decision complexity. Recently, reinforcement learning (RL) has been gaining attention as an impactful technique to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Jaeyeon Jang , Diego Klabjan , Han Liu , Nital S. Patel , Xiuqi Li , Balakrishnan Ananthanarayanan , Husam Dauod , Tzung-Han Juang

We develop two distributed downlink resource allocation algorithms for user-centric, cell-free, spatially-distributed, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks. In such networks, each user is served by a subset of nearby transmitters…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Hussein A. Ammar , Raviraj Adve , Shahram Shahbazpanahi , Gary Boudreau , Kothapalli Venkata Srinivas

Timely delivery of delay-sensitive information over dynamic, heterogeneous networks is increasingly essential for a range of interactive applications, such as industrial automation, self-driving vehicles, and augmented reality. However,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Vincenzo Norman Vitale , Antonia Maria Tulino , Andreas F. Molisch , Jaime Llorca

In this paper, a two-stage intelligent scheduler is proposed to minimize the packet-level delay jitter while guaranteeing delay bound. Firstly, Lyapunov technology is employed to transform the delay-violation constraint into a sequential…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Cheng Zhang , Lan Wei , Ji Fan , Zening Liu , Yongming Huang

In this paper, we study the downlink multi-user scheduling problem for a time-slotted system with simultaneous wireless information and power transfer. In particular, in each time slot, a single user is scheduled to receive information,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-01 Rania Morsi , Diomidis S. Michalopoulos , Robert Schober

This work presents a resource allocation algorithm in K-user, M-subcarrier and NT-antenna systems for on-line scheduling. To exploit temporal diversity and to reduce complexity, the ergodic sum rate is maximized instead of the instantaneous…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-21 Ana I. Pérez-Neira , Pol Henarejos , Velio Tralli , Miguel A. Lagunas

Multi-numerology waveform based 5G New Radio (NR) systems offer great flexibility for different requirements of users and services. Providing fairness between users is not an easy task due to inter-numerology interference (INI) between…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-14 Ahmet Yazar , Hüseyin Arslan

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

In this paper, we develop algorithms for joint user scheduling and three types of mmWave link configuration: relay selection, codebook optimization, and beam tracking in millimeter wave (mmWave) networks. Our goal is to design an online…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Yi Zhang , Robert W. Heath

In this paper, we propose, implement, and test two novel downlink LTE scheduling algorithms. The implementation and testing of these algorithms were in Matlab, and they are based on the use of Reinforcement Learning, more specifically, the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Najem N Sirhan , Manel Martinez-Ramon

Network slicing is a critical technique for 5G communications that covers radio access network (RAN), edge, transport and core slicing.The evolving network architecture requires the orchestration of multiple network resources such as radio…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-02 Hao Zhou , Melike Erol-Kantarci , Vincent Poor

A semi-centralized joint cell muting and user scheduling scheme for interference coordination in a multicell network is proposed under two different temporal fairness criteria. The main principle behind the proposed scheme is that a central…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-07-06 Shahram Shahsavari , Nail Akar , Babak Hossein Khalaj

The two-sided markets such as ride-sharing companies often involve a group of subjects who are making sequential decisions across time and/or location. With the rapid development of smart phones and internet of things, they have…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-28 Chengchun Shi , Runzhe Wan , Ge Song , Shikai Luo , Rui Song , Hongtu Zhu

In this paper, we introduce an approach for application-aware resource block scheduling of elastic and inelastic adaptive real-time traffic in fourth generation Long Term Evolution (LTE) systems. The users are assigned to resource blocks. A…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-05-30 Tugba Erpek , Ahmed Abdelhadi , T. Charles Clancy

Integrating time-frequency resource conversion (TFRC), a new network resource allocation strategy, with call admission control can not only increase the cell capacity but also reduce network congestion effectively. However, the optimal…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Hangguan Shan , Yani Zhang , Weihua Zhuang , Aiping Huang , Zhaoyang Zhang

In this paper, we consider the problem of energy efficient uplink scheduling with delay constraint for a multi-user wireless system. We address this problem within the framework of constrained Markov decision processes (CMDPs) wherein one…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-08-25 Nitin Salodkar , Abhay Karandikar , V. S. Borkar

Reinforcement Learning (RL) in Traffic Signal Control (TSC) faces significant hurdles in real-world deployment due to limited generalization to dynamic traffic flow variations. Existing approaches often overfit static patterns and use…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Sheng-You Huang , Hsiao-Chuan Chang , Yen-Chi Chen , Ting-Han Wei , I-Hau Yeh , Sheng-Yao Kuan , Chien-Yao Wang , Hsuan-Han Lee , I-Chen Wu

This paper investigates the use of multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) to address distributed channel access in wireless local area networks. In particular, we consider the challenging yet more practical case where the agents…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Jiaming Yu , Le Liang , Chongtao Guo , Ziyang Guo , Shi Jin , Geoffrey Ye Li