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We consider distributed optimization over orthogonal collision channels in spatial random access networks. Users are spatially distributed and each user is in the interference range of a few other users. Each user is allowed to transmit…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Kobi Cohen , Angelia Nedich , R. Srikant

This paper proposes a multi-agent reinforcement learning based medium access framework for wireless networks. The access problem is formulated as a Markov Decision Process (MDP), and solved using reinforcement learning with every network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Hrishikesh Dutta , Subir Biswas

We propose a distributed spectrum access algorithm for cognitive radio relay networks with multiple primary users (PU) and multiple secondary users (SU). The key idea behind the proposed algorithm is that the PUs negotiate with the SUs on…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-07-04 Siavash Bayat , Raymond H. Y. Louie , Branka Vucetic , Yonghui Li

We develop a framework based on deep reinforce-ment learning (DRL) to solve the spectrum allocation problem inthe emerging integrated access and backhaul (IAB) architecturewith large scale deployment and dynamic environment. The avail-able…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Wanlu Lei , Yu Ye , Ming Xiao

Decentralized cooperative multi-agent deep reinforcement learning (MARL) can be a versatile learning framework, particularly in scenarios where centralized training is either not possible or not practical. One of the critical challenges in…

Because radio spectrum is a finite resource, its usage and sharing is regulated by government agencies. These agencies define policies to manage spectrum allocation and assignment across multiple organizations, systems, and devices. With…

Cognitive ad-hoc networks allow users to access an unlicensed/shared spectrum without the need for any coordination via a central controller and are being envisioned for futuristic ultra-dense wireless networks. The ad-hoc nature of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-31 Rohit Kumar , Shaswat Satapathy , Shivani Singh , Sumit J. Darak

The advancement towards 6G technology leverages improvements in aerial-terrestrial networking, where one of the critical challenges is the efficient allocation of transmit power. Although existing studies have shown commendable performance…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Hamidreza Mazandarani , Masoud Shokrnezhad , Tarik Taleb

We approach autonomous drone-based reforestation with a collaborative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) setup. Agents can communicate as part of a dynamically changing network. We explore collaboration and communication on the back…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Philipp Dominic Siedler

As the scarce spectrum resource is becoming over-crowded, cognitive radios (CRs) indicate great flexibility to improve the spectrum efficiency by opportunistically accessing the authorized frequency bands. One of the critical challenges for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-03-01 Xianfu Chen , Zhifeng Zhao , Honggang Zhang

We consider the problem of multi-user spectrum access in wireless networks. The bandwidth is divided into K orthogonal channels, and M users aim to access the spectrum. Each user chooses a single channel for transmission at each time slot.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-28 Tomer Gafni , Kobi Cohen

The fundamental problem of multiple secondary users contending for opportunistic spectrum access over multiple channels in cognitive radio networks has been formulated recently as a decentralized multi-armed bandit (D-MAB) problem. In a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-04-04 Yi Gai , Bhaskar Krishnamachari

The paper considers a class of multi-agent Markov decision processes (MDPs), in which the network agents respond differently (as manifested by the instantaneous one-stage random costs) to a global controlled state and the control actions of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-06-04 Soummya Kar , Jose' M. F. Moura , H. Vincent Poor

Distributed spectrum access (DSA) is challenging since an individual secondary user often has limited sensing capabilities only. One key insight is that channel recommendation among secondary users can help to take advantage of the inherent…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Xu Chen , Xiaowen Gong , Lei Yang , Junshan Zhang

We consider a typical heterogeneous network (HetNet), in which multiple access points (APs) are deployed to serve users by reusing the same spectrum band. Since different APs and users may cause severe interference to each other, advanced…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Lin Zhang , Ying-Chang Liang

We discuss the problem of decentralized multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) in this work. In our setting, the global state, action, and reward are assumed to be fully observable, while the local policy is protected as privacy by each…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Kuo Li , Qing-Shan Jia

This paper studies the networked multi-agent reinforcement learning (NMARL) problem, where the objective of agents is to collaboratively maximize the discounted average cumulative rewards. Different from the existing methods that suffer…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Pengcheng Dai , Yuanqiu Mo , Wenwu Yu , Wei Ren

We propose a learning-based scheme to investigate the dynamic multi-channel access (DMCA) problem in the fifth generation (5G) and beyond networks with fast time-varying channels wherein the channel parameters are unknown. The proposed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-01 Shaoyang Wang , Tiejun Lv , Xuewei Zhang , Zhipeng Lin , Pingmu Huang

In order to meet the constantly increasing demand by mobile terminals for higher data rates with limited wireless spectrum resource, cognitive radio and spectrum aggregation technologies have attracted much attention due to its capacity in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Yifei Wei , Qiao Li , Xia Gong , Da Guo , Yong Zhang

Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has long been a significant and everlasting research topic in both machine learning and control. With the recent development of (single-agent) deep RL, there is a resurgence of interests in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Kaiqing Zhang , Zhuoran Yang , Tamer Başar