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This paper investigates a futuristic spectrum sharing paradigm for heterogeneous wireless networks with imperfect channels. In the heterogeneous networks, multiple wireless networks adopt different medium access control (MAC) protocols to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Yiding Yu , Soung Chang Liew , Taotao Wang

The growing demand for robust, scalable wireless networks in the 5G-and-beyond era has led to the deployment of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) as mobile base stations to enhance coverage in dense urban and underserved rural areas. This…

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Decentralized Multi-agent Learning (DML) enables collaborative model training while preserving data privacy. However, inherent heterogeneity in agents' resources (computation, communication, and task size) may lead to substantial variations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Seyed Mahmoud Sajjadi Mohammadabadi , Lei Yang , Feng Yan , Junshan Zhang

In heterogeneous networks (HetNets), the overlap of small cells and the macro cell causes severe cross-tier interference. Although there exist some approaches to address this problem, they usually require global channel state information,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-16 Kaidi Xu , Nguyen Van Huynh , Geoffrey Ye Li

In this letter, we propose a novel Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning (MADRL) framework for Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol design. Unlike centralized approaches, which rely on a single entity for decision-making, MADRL empowers…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-25 Navid Keshtiarast , Oliver Renaldi , Marina Petrova

As artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled wireless communication systems continue their evolution, distributed learning has gained widespread attention for its ability to offer enhanced data privacy protection, improved resource utilization,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Junjie Wu , Xuming Fang

Networks in the current 5G and beyond systems increasingly carry heterogeneous traffic with diverse quality-of-service constraints, making real-time routing decisions both complex and time-critical. A common approach, such as a heuristic…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Sebastian Racedo , Brigitte Jaumard , Oscar Delgado , Meysam Masoudi

We aim to jointly optimize antenna tilt angle, and vertical and horizontal half-power beamwidths of the macrocells in a heterogeneous cellular network (HetNet). The interactions between the cells, most notably due to their coupled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Eren Balevi , Jeffrey G. Andrews

The stringent requirements of mobile edge computing (MEC) applications and functions fathom the high capacity and dense deployment of MEC hosts to the upcoming wireless networks. However, operating such high capacity MEC hosts can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Md. Shirajum Munir , Nguyen H. Tran , Walid Saad , Choong Seon Hong

Recently, distributed controller architectures have been quickly gaining popularity in Software-Defined Networking (SDN). However, the use of distributed controllers introduces a new and important Request Dispatching (RD) problem with the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Victoria Huang , Gang Chen , Qiang Fu

Multi-agent deep learning (MADL), including multi-agent deep reinforcement learning (MADRL), distributed/federated training, and graph-structured neural networks, is becoming a unifying framework for decision-making and inference in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Nadine Muller , Stefano DeRosa , Su Zhang , Chun Lee Huan

Multi-access edge computing provides localized resources within mobile networks to address the requirements of emerging latency-sensitive and computing-intensive applications. At the edge, dynamic requests necessitate sophisticated resource…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-19 Haiyuan Li , Yuelin Liu , Hari Madhukumar , Amin Emami , Xueqing Zhou , Yulei Wu , Xenofon Vasilakos , Shuangyi Yan , Dimitra Simeonidou

This paper investigates the network load balancing problem in data centers (DCs) where multiple load balancers (LBs) are deployed, using the multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) framework. The challenges of this problem consist of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Zhiyuan Yao , Zihan Ding

This paper studies a class of multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) problems where the reward that an agent receives depends on the states of other agents, but the next state only depends on the agent's own current state and action. We…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Xin Liu , Honghao Wei , Lei Ying

In edge computing systems, autonomous agents must make fast local decisions while competing for shared resources. Existing MARL methods often resume to centralized critics or frequent communication, which fail under limited observability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Andrea Fox , Francesco De Pellegrini , Eitan Altman

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

The development of mobile services has impacted a variety of computation-intensive and time-sensitive applications, such as recommendation systems and daily payment methods. However, computing task competition involving limited resources…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Honghao Gao , Xuejie Wang , Xiaojin Ma , Wei Wei , Shahid Mumtaz

Multi-connectivity involves dynamic cluster formation among distributed access points (APs) and coordinated resource allocation from these APs, highlighting the need for efficient mobility management strategies for users with…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Irshad A. Meer , Karl-Ludwig Besser , Mustafa Ozger , Dominic Schupke , H. Vincent Poor , Cicek Cavdar

Traffic optimization challenges, such as load balancing, flow scheduling, and improving packet delivery time, are difficult online decision-making problems in wide area networks (WAN). Complex heuristics are needed for instance to find…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Shan Sun , Mariam Kiran , Wei Ren

5G New Radio proposes the usage of frequencies above 10 GHz to speed up LTE's existent maximum data rates. However, the effective size of 5G antennas and consequently its repercussions in the signal degradation in urban scenarios makes it a…

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