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In this paper, a deep learning (DL) framework for the optimization of the resource allocation in multi-channel cellular systems with device-to-device (D2D) communication is proposed. Thereby, the channel assignment and discrete transmit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Woongsup Lee , Robert Schober

Random access (RA) schemes are a topic of high interest in machine-type communication (MTC). In RA protocols, backoff techniques such as exponential backoff (EB) are used to stabilize the system to avoid low throughput and excessive delays.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Muhammad Awais Jadoon , Adriano Pastore , Monica Navarro , Fernando Perez-Cruz

Due to the pervasive diffusion of personal mobile and IoT devices, many ``smart environments'' (e.g., smart cities and smart factories) will be, among others, generators of huge amounts of data. Currently, this is typically achieved through…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Lorenzo Valerio , Andrea Passarella , Marco Conti

This paper introduces a deep reinforcement learning (RL) framework for optimizing the operations of power plants pairing renewable energy with storage. The objective is to maximize revenue from energy markets while minimizing storage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Lucien Werner , Peeyush Kumar

The evolving landscape of the Internet of Things (IoT) has given rise to a pressing need for an efficient communication scheme. As the IoT user ecosystem continues to expand, traditional communication protocols grapple with substantial…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-25 Rafaela Scaciota , Glauber Brante , Richard Souza , Onel Lopez , Septimia Sarbu , Mehdi Bennis , Sumudu Samarakoon

As an enhanced version of massive machine-type communication in 5G, massive communication has emerged as one of the six usage scenarios anticipated for 6G, owing to its potential in industrial internet-of-things and smart metering. Driven…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Yutao Chen , Wei Chen

The design of Wireless Networked Control System (WNCS) requires addressing critical interactions between control and communication systems with minimal complexity and communication overhead while providing ultra-high reliability. This paper…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-20 Hamida Qumber Ali , Amirhassan Babazadeh Darabi , Sinem Coleri

The open radio access network (O-RAN) architecture supports intelligent network control algorithms as one of its core capabilities. Data-driven applications incorporate such algorithms to optimize radio access network (RAN) functions via…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Ahmad M. Nagib , Hatem Abou-Zeid , Hossam S. Hassanein

Content caching at the edge nodes is a promising technique to reduce the data traffic in next-generation wireless networks. Inspired by the success of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) in solving complicated control problems, this work…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-22 Chen Zhong , M. Cenk Gursoy , Senem Velipasalar

In distributed learning, the goal is to perform a learning task over data distributed across multiple nodes with minimal (expensive) communication. Prior work (Daume III et al., 2012) proposes a general model that bounds the communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-04-17 Hal Daume , Jeff M. Phillips , Avishek Saha , Suresh Venkatasubramanian

Clustered cell-free networking paves a new way for enabling scalable joint transmission among access points (APs) by partitioning the whole network into non-overlapping subnetworks. Previous works adopted clustering algorithms, graph…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Ouyang Zhou , Junyuan Wang , Bo Qian , Antonio Pérez Yuste , Yusheng Ji

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

Intelligent omni-surface (IOS) is a promising technique to enhance the capacity of wireless networks, by reflecting and refracting the incident signal simultaneously. Traditional IOS configuration schemes, relying on all sub-channels'…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Xiaowen Ye , Xianghao Yu , Liqun Fu

Towards realizing an intelligent networked society, enabling low-cost low-energy connectivity for things, also known as Internet of Things (IoT), is of crucial importance. While the existing wireless access networks require centralized…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-05 Amin Azari , Mahmoud Abbasi

In Integrated Sensing And Communication (ISAC) systems, estimating the micro-Doppler (mD) spectrogram of a target requires combining channel estimates retrieved from communication with ad-hoc sensing packets, which cope with the sparsity of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-05 Federico Mason , Jacopo Pegoraro

Due to the flexibility and low operational cost, dispatching unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to collect information from distributed sensors is expected to be a promising solution in Internet of Things (IoT), especially for time-critical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Mengjie Yi , Xijun Wang , Juan Liu , Yan Zhang , Bo Bai

To leverage massive distributed data and computation resources, machine learning in the network edge is considered to be a promising technique especially for large-scale model training. Federated learning (FL), as a paradigm of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Hao Chen , Shaocheng Huang , Deyou Zhang , Ming Xiao , Mikael Skoglund , H. Vincent Poor

Age-of-information (AoI) and transmission power are crucial performance metrics in low energy wireless networks, where information freshness is of paramount importance. This study examines a power-limited internet of things (IoT) network…

This paper considers methods for delivering ultra reliable low latency communication (URLLC) to enable mission-critical Internet of Things (IoT) services in wireless environments with unknown channel distribution. The methods rely upon the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Hongsen Peng , Tobias Kallehauge , Meixia Tao , Petar Popovski

Active Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) are a promising technology for 6G wireless networks. This paper investigates a novel hybrid deep reinforcement learning (DRL) framework for resource allocation in a multi-user uplink system…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-29 Mohamed Shalma , Engy Aly Maher , Ahmed El-Mahdy