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Slotted Aloha-based Random Access (RA) techniques have recently regained attention in light of the use of Interference Cancellation (IC) as a mean to exploit diversity created through the transmission of multiple burst copies per packet…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-29 Alessio Meloni , Maurizio Murroni

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

The key challenge in admission control in wireless networks is to strike an optimal trade-off between the blocking probability for new requests while minimizing the dropping probability of ongoing requests. We consider two approaches for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Youri Raaijmakers , Silvio Mandelli , Mark Doll

User selection has become crucial for decreasing the communication costs of federated learning (FL) over wireless networks. However, centralized user selection causes additional system complexity. This study proposes a network intrinsic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Chen Sun , Shiyao Ma , Ce Zheng , Songtao Wu , Tao Cui , Lingjuan Lyu

Various applications of wireless Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications have rekindled the research interest in random access protocols, suitable to support a large number of connected devices. Slotted ALOHA and its derivatives represent a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-08 Cedomir Stefanovic , Petar Popovski

The pursuit of rate maximization in wireless communication frequently encounters substantial challenges associated with user fairness. This paper addresses these challenges by exploring a novel power allocation approach for delay…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-20 Hao Fang , Kai Huang , Hao Ye , Chongtao Guo , Le Liang , Xiao Li , Shi Jin

We consider the problem of energy-efficient point-to-point transmission of delay-sensitive data (e.g. multimedia data) over a fading channel. Existing research on this topic utilizes either physical-layer centric solutions, namely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Nicholas Mastronarde , Mihaela van der Schaar

In future cell-free (or cell-less) wireless networks, a large number of devices in a geographical area will be served simultaneously in non-orthogonal multiple access scenarios by a large number of distributed access points (APs), which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-25 Yasser Al-Eryani , Mohamed Akrout , Ekram Hossain

The anticipated increase in the count of IoT devices in the coming years motivates the development of efficient algorithms that can help in their effective management while keeping the power consumption low. In this paper, we propose an…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Inaam Ilahi , Muhammad Usama , Muhammad Omer Farooq , Muhammad Umar Janjua , Junaid Qadir

In this paper, a network comprising wireless devices equipped with buffers transmitting deadline-constrained data packets over a slotted-ALOHA random-access channel is studied. Although communication protocols facilitating retransmissions…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Nikolaos Nomikos , Themistoklis Charalambous , Yvonne-Anne Pignolet , Nikolaos Pappas

The advent of Machine-to-Machine communication has sparked a new wave of interest to random access protocols, especially in application to LTE Random Access (RA). By analogy with classical slotted ALOHA, state-of-the-art models LTE RA as a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Mikhail Vilgelm , Sergio Rueda Linares , Wolfgang Kellerer

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

We apply deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to design of a networked controller with network delays to complete a temporal control task that is described by a signal temporal logic (STL) formula. STL is useful to deal with a specification…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Junya Ikemoto , Toshimitsu Ushio

Current wireless networks are designed to optimize spectral efficiency for human users, who typically require sustained connections for high-data-rate applications like file transfers and video streaming. However, these networks are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Kirill Andreev , Pavel Rybin , Alexey Frolov

The effect of signals on stability, throughput region, and delay in a two-user slotted ALOHA based random-access system with collisions is considered. This work gives rise to the development of random access G-networks, which can model…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-08 Ioannis Dimitriou , Nikolaos Pappas

WiFi densification leads to the existence of multiple overlapping coverage areas, which allows user stations (STAs) to choose between different Access Points (APs). The standard WiFi association method makes the STAs select the AP with the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Marc Carrascosa , Boris Bellalta

The capacity of wireless networks is fundamentally limited by interference. However, little research has focused on the interference correlation, which may greatly increase the local delay (namely the number of time slots required for a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Yi Zhong , Wenyi Zhang , Martin Haenggi

With the rapid deployment of the Internet of Things (IoT), fifth-generation (5G) and beyond 5G networks are required to support massive access of a huge number of devices over limited radio spectrum radio. In wireless networks, different…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-18 Helin Yang , Zehui Xiong , Jun Zhao , Dusit Niyato , Chau Yuen , Ruilong Deng

Time Reversal (TR) has been proposed as a competitive precoding strategy for low-complexity wireless devices relying on Ultra-WideBand (UWB) signal waveforms. However, when TR is applied for multiple access, the signals received by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-30 A. Mokh , J. de Rosny , G. C. Alexandropoulos , R. Khayatzadeh , M. Kamoun , A. Ourir , A. Tourin , M. Fink

This paper applies machine learning to optimize the transmission policy of cognitive radio inspired non-orthogonal multiple access (CR-NOMA) networks, where time-division multiple access (TDMA) is used to serve multiple primary users and an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Zhiguo Ding , Robert Schober , H. Vincent Poor