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This paper presents a game theoretic solution for joint channel allocation and power control in cognitive radio networks analyzed under the physical interference model. The objective is to find a distributed solution that maximizes the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-29 J. R. Gallego , M. Canales , J. Ortin

Modern cellular networks are witnessing an unprecedented evolution from classical, centralized and homogenous architectures into a mix of various technologies, in which the network devices are densely and randomly deployed in a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-02 Tianyu Wang , Lingyang Song , Zhu Han , Walid Saad

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications have been widely accepted as promising technologies to support air-to-ground communications in the forthcoming sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks. This paper proposes a novel air-to-ground…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Xiao Fan , Peiran Wu , Minghua Xia

In this work, we analyze \textit{stochastic coverage schemes} (SCS) for robotic swarms in which the robots randomly attach to a one-dimensional boundary of interest using local communication and sensing, without relying on global position…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-02-09 Ganesh P Kumar , Spring Berman

We propose distributed algorithms to automatically deploy a team of mobile robots to partition and provide coverage of a non-convex environment. To handle arbitrary non-convex environments, we represent them as graphs. Our partitioning and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Joseph W. Durham , Ruggero Carli , Paolo Frasca , Francesco Bullo

This paper develops a decentralized approach to mobile sensor coverage by a multi-robot system. We consider a scenario where a team of robots with limited sensing range must position itself to effectively detect events of interest in a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Walker Gosrich , Siddharth Mayya , Rebecca Li , James Paulos , Mark Yim , Alejandro Ribeiro , Vijay Kumar

Collective decision-making is an essential capability of large-scale multi-robot systems to establish autonomy on the swarm level. A large portion of literature on collective decision-making in swarm robotics focuses on discrete decisions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Mohsen Raoufi , Pawel Romanczuk , Heiko Hamann

This paper presents a game theoretic formulation of a graph traversal problem, with applications to robots moving through hazardous environments in the presence of an adversary, as in military and security scenarios. The blue team of robots…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-01 James Berneburg , Xuan Wang , Xuesu Xiao , Daigo Shishika

This paper presents a potential game approach for distributed cooperative selection of informative sensors, when the goal is to maximize the mutual information between the measurement variables and the quantities of interest. It is proved…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-03-05 Han-Lim Choi , Su-Jin Lee

We study the resource sharing problem in a drone-based wireless network. We consider a distributed control setting under uncertainty (i.e. unavailability of full information). In particular, the drones cooperate in serving the users while…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Vandana Mittal , Setareh Maghsudi , Ekram Hossain

We study a target coverage problem in which a team of sensing agents, operating under limited communication, must collaboratively monitor targets that may be adaptively repositioned by an attacker. We model this interaction as a zero-sum…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-19 Jayanth Bhargav , Zirui Xu , Vasileios Tzoumas , Mahsa Ghasemi , Shreyas Sundaram

A decomposition-based coverage control scheme is proposed for multi-agent, persistent surveillance missions operating in a communication-constrained, dynamic environment. The proposed approach decouples high-level task assignment from…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-02-16 Jeffrey R. Peters , Sean J. Wang , Amit Surana , Francesco Bullo

The deployment of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm-assisted communication networks has become an increasingly vital approach for remediating coverage limitations in infrastructure-deficient environments, with especially pressing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Tianjiao Sun , Ningyan Guo , Haozhe Gu , Yanyan Peng , Zhiyong Feng

In this paper, we develop a task-driven networking framework for Flying Ad-hoc Networks (FANETs), where a coalition-based model is outlined. Firstly, we present a brief survey to show the state-of-the-art studies on the intra-communication…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Dianxiong Liu , Jin Chen , Hong Li , Yang Yang , Lang Ruan , Yuli Zhang , Yuhua Xu

This paper addresses a task allocation problem for a large-scale robotic swarm, namely swarm distribution guidance problem. Unlike most of the existing frameworks handling this problem, the proposed framework suggests utilising local…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Inmo Jang , Hyo-Sang Shin , Antonios Tsourdos

We present an evolutionary game theoretic approach to study node cooperation behavior in wireless ad hoc networks. Evolutionary game theory (EGT) has been used to study the conditions governing the growth of cooperation behavior in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-01-08 Abhik Banerjee , Vincent Gauthier , Houda Labiod , Hossam Afifi

With the blasting increase of wireless data traffic, incumbent wireless service providers (WSPs) face critical challenges in provisioning spectrum resource. Given the permission of unlicensed access to TV white spaces, WSPs can alleviate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-08-09 Feng Zhang , Wenyi Zhang , Qiang Ling

Fleets of networked autonomous vehicles (AVs) collect terabytes of sensory data, which is often transmitted to central servers (the ''cloud'') for training machine learning (ML) models. Ideally, these fleets should upload all their data,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Oguzhan Akcin , Po-han Li , Shubhankar Agarwal , Sandeep Chinchali

One of the crucial problems in robotic swarm-based operation is to search and neutralize heterogeneous targets in an unknown and uncertain environment, without any communication within the swarm. Here, some targets can be neutralized by a…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Nishant Mohanty , Mohitvishnu S. Gadde , Suresh Sundaram , Narasimhan Sundararajan , P. B. Sujit

In this work, we study the social learning problem, in which agents of a networked system collaborate to detect the state of the nature based on their private signals. A novel distributed graphical evolutionary game theoretic learning…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Xuanyu Cao , K. J. Ray Liu