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Distributed medium access control (MAC) protocols are proposed for wireless networks assuming that one-hop peers can periodically exchange a small amount of state information. Each station maintains a state and makes state transitions and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Ka Hung Hui , Dongning Guo , Randall A. Berry

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have become a popular approach for wireless localization based on channel state information (CSI). A common practice is to use the raw CSI in the input and allow the network to learn relevant channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-07 Artan Salihu , Stefan Schwarz , Markus Rupp

Existing studies on federated learning (FL) are mostly focused on system orchestration for static snapshots of the network and making static control decisions (e.g., spectrum allocation). However, real-world wireless networks are…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Payam Abdisarabshali , Kwang Taik Kim , Michael Langberg , Weifeng Su , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour

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

Recent research on joint source channel coding (JSCC) for wireless communications has achieved great success owing to the employment of deep learning (DL). However, the existing work on DL based JSCC usually trains the designed network to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Jialong Xu , Bo Ai , Wei Chen , Ang Yang , Peng Sun , Miguel Rodrigues

The channel estimation (CE) in wireless receivers is one of the most critical and computationally complex signal processing operations. Recently, various works have shown that the deep learning (DL) based CE outperforms conventional minimum…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-16 Syed Asrar ul haq , Varun Singh , Bhanu Teja Tanaji , Sumit Darak

A deep learning (DL)-based power control algorithm that solves the max-min user fairness problem in a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system is proposed. Max-min rate optimization problem in a cell-free massive MIMO…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-23 Nuwanthika Rajapaksha , K. B. Shashika Manosha , Nandana Rajatheva , Matti Latva-aho

In this paper, we investigate the joint optimal sensing and distributed Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol design problem for cognitive radio (CR) networks. We consider both scenarios with single and multiple channels. For each scenario,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-08 Le Thanh Tan , Long Bao Le

This study addresses the challenge of optimal power allocation in stochastic wireless networks by employing a Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) framework. Specifically, we design a Deep Q-Network (DQN) agent capable of learning adaptive…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Marie Diane Iradukunda , Chabi F. Elégbédé , Yaé Ulrich Gaba

Accurate channel knowledge is critical in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), which motivates the use of channel prediction. Machine learning techniques for channel prediction hold much promise, but current schemes are limited in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Hwanjin Kim , Junil Choi , David J. Love

Millimeter wave (mmW) communications at the 60 GHz unlicensed band is seen as a promising approach for boosting the capacity of wireless local area networks (WLANs). If properly integrated into legacy IEEE 802.11 standards, mmW…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Omid Semiari , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis , Merouane Debbah

Inter-Cell Interference Coordination (ICIC) is a promising way to improve energy efficiency in wireless networks, especially where small base stations are densely deployed. However, traditional optimization based ICIC schemes suffer from…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Yujiao Lu , Hancheng Lu , Liangliang Cao , Feng Wu , Daren Zhu

In IEEE 802.11bc, the broadcast mode on wireless local area networks (WLANs), data rate control that is based on acknowledgement (ACK) mechanism similar to the one in the current IEEE 802.11 WLANs is not applicable because ACK mechanism is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-03-04 T. Kanda , Y. Koda , K. Yamamoto , T. Nishio

Wireless sensors networks performance are strictly related to the medium access mechanism. An effective one, require non-conventional paradigms for protocol design due to several constraints. An adequate equilibrium between communication…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-04-27 Lamia Chaari , Lotfi Kamoun

We study downlink (DL) channel estimation in a multi-cell Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system operating in a time-division duplex. The users must know their effective channel gains to decode their received DL data signals.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Amin Ghazanfari , Trinh Van Chien , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

The performance seen by individual clients on a wireless local area network (WLAN) is heavily influenced by the manner in which wireless channel capacity is allocated. The popular MAC protocol DCF (Distributed Coordination Function) used in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Godfrey Tan , John Guttag

This report investigates the application of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithms for dynamic resource allocation in wireless communication systems. An environment that includes a base station, multiple antennas, and user equipment…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Shubham Malhotra , Fnu Yashu , Muhammad Saqib , Dipkumar Mehta , Jagdish Jangid , Sachin Dixit

Resource allocation in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems needs to be optimized to balance the requirements of the communication and sensing modules considering complicated cross-layer data traffic and queue status in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Xiyu Wang , Gilberto Berardinelli , Hei Victor Cheng , Petar Popovski , Ramoni Adeogun

Intelligent wireless networks have long been expected to have self-configuration and self-optimization capabilities to adapt to various environments and demands. In this paper, we develop a novel distributed hierarchical deep reinforcement…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-06 Kaiwen Yu , Chonghao Zhao , Gang Wu , Geoffrey Ye Li

Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Enhanced Collision Avoidance (CSMA/ECA) is a distributed MAC protocol that allows collision-free access to the medium in WLAN. The only difference between CSMA/ECA and the well-known CSMA/CA is that the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-11-29 Jaume Barcelo , Boris Bellalta , Cristina Cano , Anna Sfairopoulou , Miquel Oliver , Kshitiz Verma