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The integration of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) into Open Radio Access Networks (O-RAN) enhances communication in disaster management and Search and Rescue (SAR) operations by ensuring connectivity when infrastructure fails. However, SAR…

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This work presents a novel communication framework for decentralized multi-agent systems operating in dynamic network environments. Integrated into a multi-agent reinforcement learning system, the framework is designed to enhance…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Ben McClusky

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

In decentralized multi-agent deep reinforcement learning (MADRL), communication can help agents to gain a better understanding of the environment to better coordinate their behaviors. Nevertheless, communication may involve uncertainty,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Changxi Zhu , Mehdi Dastani , Shihan Wang

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm networks leverage resilient algorithms to restore connectivity from communication network split issues. However, existing graph learning-based approaches face over-aggregation and non-convergence problems…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Huan Lin , Chenguang Zhu , Lianghui Ding , Lin Wang , Feng Yang

Offline reinforcement learning (RL) is an attractive tool for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems, where online exploration is costly and raises safety concerns. In terrain-aware UAV relaying, agents may observe high-dimensional inputs…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Joseanne Viana , Viswak R Balaji , Boris Galkin , Lester Ho , Holger Claussen

Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in Search and rescue operations (SAR) to navigate challenging terrain while maintaining reliable communication with the cellular network is a promising approach. This paper suggests a novel technique…

Recent studies in multi-agent communicative reinforcement learning (MACRL) have demonstrated that multi-agent coordination can be greatly improved by allowing communication between agents. Meanwhile, adversarial machine learning (ML) has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Wanqi Xue , Wei Qiu , Bo An , Zinovi Rabinovich , Svetlana Obraztsova , Chai Kiat Yeo

In this paper, a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) method is proposed to address the problem of UAV navigation in an unknown environment. However, DRL algorithms are limited by the data efficiency problem as they typically require a huge…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Lei He , Nabil Aouf , James F. Whidborne , Bifeng Song

THz band communication technology will be used in the 6G networks to enable high-speed and high-capacity data service demands. However, THz-communication losses arise owing to limitations, i.e., molecular absorption, rain attenuation, and…

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In this letter, we study the energy efficiency (EE) optimisation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) providing wireless coverage to static and mobile ground users. Recent multi-agent reinforcement learning approaches optimise the system's EE…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Babatunji Omoniwa , Boris Galkin , Ivana Dusparic

Highly dynamic mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) are continuing to serve as one of the most challenging environments to develop and deploy robust, efficient, and scalable routing protocols. In this paper, we present DeepCQ+ routing which, in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Saeed Kaviani , Bo Ryu , Ejaz Ahmed , Kevin A. Larson , Anh Le , Alex Yahja , Jae H. Kim

In this paper, we investigate the average achievable data rate (AADR) of the control information delivery from the ground control station (GCS) to unmanned-aerial-vehicle (UAV) under a 3-D channel, which requires ultra-reliable and…

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Learning in multi-agent systems is highly challenging due to several factors including the non-stationarity introduced by agents' interactions and the combinatorial nature of their state and action spaces. In particular, we consider the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-10 Barna Pásztor , Ilija Bogunovic , Andreas Krause

Communication can promote coordination in cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL). Nowadays, existing works mainly focus on improving the communication efficiency of agents, neglecting that real-world communication is much…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Lei Yuan , Feng Chen , Zhongzhang Zhang , Yang Yu

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly being integrated into next-generation networks to enhance communication coverage and network capacity. However, the dynamic and mobile nature of UAVs poses significant security challenges,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Hao Zhang , Fuhui Zhou , Wei Wang , Qihui Wu , Chau Yuen

The fifth and sixth generations of wireless communication networks are enabling tools such as internet of things devices, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and artificial intelligence, to improve the agricultural landscape using a network of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Anne Catherine Nguyen , Turgay Pamuklu , Aisha Syed , W. Sean Kennedy , Melike Erol-Kantarci

Mission planning for a fleet of cooperative autonomous drones in applications that involve serving distributed target points, such as disaster response, environmental monitoring, and surveillance, is challenging, especially under partial…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Michael Elrod , Niloufar Mehrabi , Rahul Amin , Manveen Kaur , Long Cheng , Jim Martin , Abolfazl Razi

In ultra-dense unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks, it is challenging to coordinate the resource allocation and interference management among large-scale UAVs, for providing flexible and efficient service coverage to the ground users…

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